I don't know what it is about me, but everyone says I look so young. Whenever I meet knew people they always ask "What grade are you in" so then I say I'm in college, then they tell me I look so young. It happened a million times.Then in class my professor asked if any body has kids, so then one person said she had a 16 year old, so then my professor was shocked and told her she thought she looked like a 18 year old, she couldn't believe it, it happens to be this lady did look really young.
Anyways, last night in class I was talking to some girls, and they were talking about jobs. So then one asks me what I do. So I said I don't really work but I babysit every day. So then she says to her friend "Who babysits who?" So at first I didn't hear right, so I asked her if she had a baby, so then she said no that I look like a kid so she wanted to know who does the babysitting.
I don't get offended when people think I'm younger than I am. But I wonder what it is about me. But then my father also looked young, when he got married in his 20's he looked like he was bar mitzvah age, so could be genetic. Even now he B"H doesn't have any white hair and he's not bald yet, so I guess at that age it starts to come in handy to look young.
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Sort of the opposite situation, but in my first semester, after elections in 2006, the professor asked the class who voted. Nobody did. He then asks if anyone was just ineligible. Two guys said they weren't citizens, and then he asks me why I couldn't vote. "I'm sixteen." The other frum Jew was seventeen.
ReplyDeleteHe almost had a heart attack, "In all my twenty years of teaching nobody has ever said they were underage to vote. Now, in the same class there are two of you?!"
What's the average age of a first-year college student?
16 does sound young. Did you skip a grade or skip 12th grade?
ReplyDeleteI was in college at 17.
But I think average is 18.
average is 18. i feel old cuz i'm in my first year and i'm 19 (i was in israel last year)
ReplyDeleteo, yea if you take into account a year in Israel then the average age would be 19 for the first year.
ReplyDeleteI did sem locally so I was in both at the same time.
but depending on the class, the average could be older. take for instance, my photography class. i totally bring down the age average by like fifteen years, at least! and alot of nursing classes, esp. the night ones, have alot of older women going back to school
ReplyDeleteyea, thats definitly true, a lot of people also change their majors so then their older.
ReplyDeleteI actually once had a 52 year old in my class for a core. She looked like she was maybe 30. Then she got into a discussion with me. Ends up being she's Jewish but not religious. She was telling me how it was gonna be her job to open the synagogue doors for some service and to show the people where to go or something. It was funny though, cause she said her mother was paying for her college tuition, imagine that.
weird! i wonder if can get my mom to pay for my education that long...although hopefully i won't still be in school at 52....
ReplyDeleteIt probably also depennds on the school. Kingsborough might get many older students (above 35), while Brooklyn is mostly younger (20-30). Touro (depends on the division) is really young, mostly 18-25.
ReplyDeletea23: Kingsborough is only associates so I can't image such old people there. But by BC and Touro that makes sense.
ReplyDeleteFrumcollegegirl: well I don't think she was in school all these years, I mean 30 years thats crazy! lol
The thing is, however, that people need professional-type degrees from Kingsborough, such as Nursing, for example. If they were younger and willing to go for four years to get a BA, they would go elsewhere.
ReplyDeletePeople also always assume I'm younger than I am. I know i've (recently!) been mistaken for a highschooler by quite a few people.
ReplyDeleteMost people think I'm younger than I am also.
ReplyDeleteBut then some weirdo lady at my shul thought I was 30. lol. That was DEFINITLY a 1st though !
lol, actually now that I think about it there were times when people thought I was older, or at least married.
ReplyDeleteOnce when I was crossing the border to Canada I was sitting in the front seat and my father was driving, and the security person thought I was his wife. I guess because usually mothers sit in the front.