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Old 06-08-2009, 11:30 AM   #53
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Originally Posted by fotze View Post
The guys that were the "mature students" in engineering that I went to school with all seemed to get a hell of a lot more out of the schooling than I was ready to get. I "got through" they learned their brains out. They are all doing extremely well now. That previous experience seems to pole vault those people way past most of the other engineering grads.
Yeah, I remember from my first go round how the mature students actually showed up to school to learn, while I still had a case of the old Do I really have to get up at 8:00. Naive young me, thought wow these old guys seem too smart to have be here, they're able to get decent grades. Sure they were smart enough to learn the material, but they had work ethic and urgency as motivators. Saw it first hand when my wife went back to school 5 years ago too. She was up and at school every day and working at it every day, and did really well.
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