Graduating is never embarassing. Full stop.

Embarassing is thinking about it!

I got my bachelor degrees in nearly 10 years and the master degree in around 5 or 6 years (I was 37), and I'm proud of them!

Anyone has its own life, priorities and problems, an, jist different lives with different availability of time, . And reaching an objective is everything bit not embarassing at all.

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No? Where did you even get that idea?

I have a 31 year old friend finishing up their bachelor's in March.

One of my class mates in college started when he was 27.

I would like to go to grad school in my 40s.

The best time to further your education is right away. The second best time is now.

Personally, the older you are when you do graduate, the more impressive it is.

Not at all. My sister went back to uni and graduated at 34.

No?

Graduating college is not embarrassing at any age. Working to better yourself never is.

Isn't it pretty standard ? Finish high school at 18 + 5 years to get a master is already 23, so 24 would be a year late, that's absolutely fine. Let's say you retook a year to get better ranking, then spend a year as an exchange student abroad but failed due to language issue, it's already graduating at 25. Let alone if you work aside the university which can mean you fail each year once.

No.

That's it.

No mate give it a rest and don't worry about it. People aren't going to know when you started college unless they're looking at your CV or you explicitly tell them, and even then they have no idea what you went through. Could have been working in between years or taking time off for health, it's not really their business.

I myself will be graduating at 24 unless I switch to a quicker program. It feels a bit awkward but only when I look at it through the lens of hateful people who neg all the time.

Far more people graduate outside of the expected range of 21-25 YO than you realise -

• anyone who worked right after highschool but didn't like it,
• anyone sitting a second degree or a conversion degree,
• anyone who served in the army before enrolling.

...but you might not encounter them all that often.

(If you're on a prestigious course you're going to be with a very young cohort who came straight from high school to university, but throughout the countless other courses in the country there will be 25-50 year olds sitting down for their first lectures in the subject. Most of them will elect to study remotely, e.g online or lecture recordings, so you're doubly less likely to encounter them)

University was not created to be an age-bound thing like school. We lose sight of that now that it's been clipped on as a near-mandatory last stretch of the educational conveyer belt.

I graduated at 42.

Was I embarrassed? Why would I be?

No embarrassing is something like shitting yourself in public or what RayGun did at the Olympics.

You are fine.

Only if you don't know that "a lot" is two words.

Do you look down on people who graduate at 34?

Lol literally nobody will care

No one cares, and anyone who does is an idiot

Most people never graduate

If I take the expected route I'm set to graduate at 33. Statistically that gives me 50 more years to put that paper to use.

What could you possibly be doing that a 2 year difference could jeopardize?

Bruh I'm 37 and strongly considering going back to finish my degree. No time like the present.

And a lot of people graduate at 30. Or 60. Life experience and more readiness than you would have had 2 years ago is not a drawback - it's a benefit.

I graduated at 22. And at 27. And at 28. And at 34.

TBH the whole time I was there there were people there older than me, and they often had lots of useful experience that gave them interesting perspectives. Shit is not a race. Quality over quantity.

I graduated at 26. It’s now 4 years later, and I had to literally use a calculator to count how old I was. I say this to emphasize how little I care now, in contrast to how embarrassed I was at the time. I am now in law school at 30. Most of the people around me are 3-5 years younger, and it doesn’t matter at all. Nobody treats me differently or excludes me. Lots of people change careers all of the time. The needs of the economy change and you do your best. Most people aren’t privileged enough to be insulated from the state of the economy. Sometimes people are unemployed, or experiencing health crises, or helping their family. We all have our own issues and run our own race, and it’s better to make progress than be stagnant.

Compared to what? I'd say it's a lot more respectable than flunking out at 23.

I had no money and pretty much was on my own. I had to work full time the entire time I went to undergrad. I loved every minute of it.

It took me 6 years, and in all honesty the first two years were mostly wasted because I was self medicated by being stoned all the time. Once I got my head out of my ass, jettisoned my family’s crazy shit and started taking care of myself and got shit done, good things happened for me.

I was so fucking proud of getting my degree at 24.

So to answer your question FUCK NO!!

No, well done!

Not at all! I was able to graduate at 22, but I knew plenty of people that graduated much older for various reasons (changing majors multiple times, taking a year or two to work and/or help the family, etc).

If anything, it's more "embarrassing" to not graduate once you've started, but as long as you're able to (at least try to) get a job and contribute to society, who cares?

I graduated at 40, never felt embarrassed.

My then-girlfriend and I started our degrees in our 30s - she did it in minimum time, i dropped out after 6 years (mental issues), and we both don't regret any of the time we used to grow mentally.

I'd say anyone young finishing their degree in minimum time did probably not have enough time to immerse themselves in a social environment that is important to LIVE, not run through. There won't be another chance at experiencing such a multicultural, mental stimulating and rich in experiences setting while being young enough to really soak it in.

Nah, fuck that. I'm in college now and am certainly older than my fellow students. At first I was embarrassed but like, you're working on learning to improve you life. It should always be something we strive to do. That doesn't mean academia is the right path for everyone but if thats the path you're walking then walk with your head up regardless of age. You're trying to better yourself.

I got my Associates degree (meant to be a two year degree) at 28. Most of my co-workers don't even have degrees and most of us are making just shy of 6 figure salaries in tech.

I have a friend who didn't complete their BA (meant to be 3-4 years) until they were 29. They manage the prop department and stage techs for a "big deal" live theater and performance center (that industry is small, so can't give more specifics than that).

We're both in our mid-30s, so this wasn't multiple generations ago or anything.

Farther back, my father has no degree and is an accomplished nuclear engineer. Has held leadership positions on numerous engineering regulatory and oversight groups. Tagged along on a business trip with him a few years ago and every morning at the convention space/hotel breakfast, there were around 10 new people each day coming up and going "Hey, are you [name]? Your work on [governing standard] is great!" or something similar. I knew he was good at what he was doing where he worked, but I hadn't realized how well he was known in the wider industry.

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TL;DR- No, it's not embarassing. Success comes in many different forms.

I was closing in on forty before I finally gave up on achieving that. I didn't even go back to school until I was nearly 30.

Now I'm 52 and I definitely won't get the salary boost (if any) for long enough to be worth the cost. And anyway I don't have any more time than I did at any other point in my career and that was the main factor for why I haven't. In fact, I've never worked harder or made as much money or frankly enjoyed myself as much as I have these past few months.

I have, over the course of my career, run into a few jobs that wouldn't consider you without a degree, but they were few and not even the best places to work in IT — looking really fucking hard at you guys, American automakers.

As a European I'd say it is not embarrassing and if you watch the UK University Challenge you'll see lots of people that introduce themselves as having graduated at a later age.

They don't write your age on anything and they don't announce it, so you should be fine.

I didn't graduate til I was 30. No one seemed to care.

It was mildly embarrassing for me to enter grad school below the minimum drinking age. The department organized a social for new students at a bar.

Honestly, it's two years, barely anyone will even notice. There are people who graduate at over 30 and it's no big deal.

No. Graduating at 24 is sooner than I will graduate. Also, at the college I attend, I've had classes with older people in their 30s and 40s. So, it's nothing to be embarrassed about, IMO.

I had apprentices doing a job reorientation in class pushing their 30s.

haven't logged in lemmy for so long, still have no idea why posts like this get so many down votes.