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Old 06-15-2014, 01:21 PM
 
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I am having to make a tough decision right now, if I should go back to college for another degree or go to grad school. Even though I am 23, I want to be around 18-22 year olds, make friends with them, and associate more with them.

What I am really asking is, is it possible for a person getting their masters to have the same college experiences as an undergrad and be friends with them?
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Old 06-15-2014, 01:35 PM
 
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I am not gonna lie, as I said in a previous thread of mines, my college experience was a disaster. Had plenty of family issues and I was depressed most of the times because of that and stress.


Luckily, I graduated without any debt.

Now here I am at 23 and what would make me happy is being around a lot of people from the 18-22 age group who want to party, get drunk, hookup, and just live the stereotypical college experience.

Is it possible?

I never lived the experience most kids live in their first 2 years of college and I would give a lot to live that experience.
And get ready to drink.

Let's face it, chances are if you didn't get the stereotypical college experience the first time you won't be cool enough to get it the second time. Don't be the 23 year old creeper who people tolerate clumsily hitting on freshman because he can buy the beer. No one likes that guy.
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Old 06-15-2014, 01:50 PM
 
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I am having to make a tough decision right now, if I should go back to college for another degree or go to grad school. Even though I am 23, I want to be around 18-22 year olds, make friends with them, and associate more with them.

What I am really asking is, is it possible for a person getting their masters to have the same college experiences as an undergrad and be friends with them?
Why not interact with other students your own age, with who you ostensibly would (or should) have more in common with?

As others have said, you'll only look like the creeper who's trying to get the attention of young girls. Aspire to more.

Rather than continue starting new threads about the same thing (there's at least 3 in this forum alone), why not just stick with one thread?
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Old 06-15-2014, 01:55 PM
 
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I can see this being the case, doubt people in grad school know how to have fun.
It doesn't mean that grad people don't know how to have fun, it was just a bad luck of the draw with people that were just anti social. My university is more of a commuter college so everyone just comes to class then leaves afterwards. I am sure other departments are quite different.
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Old 06-15-2014, 01:57 PM
 
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I am having to make a tough decision right now, if I should go back to college for another degree or go to grad school. Even though I am 23, I want to be around 18-22 year olds, make friends with them, and associate more with them.

What I am really asking is, is it possible for a person getting their masters to have the same college experiences as an undergrad and be friends with them?
When I went back to college, I was 25 and luckily for me, I didn't look like it. Still, I had friends that were all ages, some were a few years younger and others were 18. I didn't try to intentially hit on any younger girls and you shouldn't either. Undergrads are typically ignorant of the way the world works around them and there WILL be unnecessary drama. I mean, why would you want to put yourself through all that? I think you should really try to find people that are at least 21 to hang with, less drama, less problems.
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Old 06-15-2014, 02:04 PM
 
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I am having to make a tough decision right now, if I should go back to college for another degree or go to grad school. Even though I am 23, I want to be around 18-22 year olds, make friends with them, and associate more with them.

What I am really asking is, is it possible for a person getting their masters to have the same college experiences as an undergrad and be friends with them?
Not really. That's because their schedules are so vastly different. When I was an undergrad, the grad students were in their own little world; they studied and went to class in different buildings then I did and they lived in different housing then I did.
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Old 06-15-2014, 02:17 PM
 
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What I am really asking is, is it possible for a person getting their masters to have the same college experiences as an undergrad and be friends with them?
As a grad student, you can take senior-level courses for graduate credit, so you'll still be around undergrads. That kind of thing isn't unusual. And some talented undergrads do sometimes take graduate courses. Plus, there are always those campus clubs and activity groups for mixing and mingling, dances, etc.
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Old 06-15-2014, 02:22 PM
 
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Mod note - Yep, another thread has been merged into this one. OP, PLEASE, you are asking the same questions, just continue in one thread.
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Old 06-15-2014, 02:35 PM
 
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When I went back to college, I was 25 and luckily for me, I didn't look like it. Still, I had friends that were all ages, some were a few years younger and others were 18. I didn't try to intentially hit on any younger girls and you shouldn't either. Undergrads are typically ignorant of the way the world works around them and there WILL be unnecessary drama. I mean, why would you want to put yourself through all that? I think you should really try to find people that are at least 21 to hang with, less drama, less problems.
Yep. I don't see the big deal with the op. No 21 or 22 year old is going to know that you are actually 23 unless you tell them. I don't think you look older than those who are a year or two younger than you. Why is it a big deal anyway? In high school I had friends that were 3 years older than me when I was a freshmen. When I was a senior I had friends that were three years younger than me. I don't see the problem. At 23, I would not hang around with anyone over 3 years younger because of a maturity gap.
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Old 06-15-2014, 03:05 PM
 
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I can see this being the case, doubt people in grad school know how to have fun.
I never had any. I didn't even like most of the other grad students and they were way more cliquish than undergrads. More like coworkers.
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