>24 turning 25 >starting university in a week How badly

>>17554889
Possible, but the odds are arrayed against you.

Just to know: what HAVE you been doing in the past 7 or so years when you could have been in college but weren't?

Better late than never famirino.

I sure hope this move is part of a concrete plan tho. As in, I hope you're positive what you want to do with your degree and shit.

You're not too old to make it work but you can't afford to drift anymore either.

>>17554912
>the odds are arrayed against you
Not OP, but what? I know plenty of people who have started studying in their 20s and 30s and have gone on to do just fine.

OP, it is what you make of it. Your age isn't going to make you unemployable.

>>17554889
Not bad at all. I'm 21 and just started over as a freshman.
I think people like us actually have a huge advantage over the kids fresh out of high school.
After a few years of life experience (especially shitty life experience), it really makes you work fucking HARD, since you know for damn sure that you don't want to spend the rest of your life working some dead-end job you hate.

I feel like i'm a hundred times more focused than the rest around here. They're here to socialize, get drunk, fuck randos, and "experience things", while i'm here to get my fucking degree and then get the hell out ASAP.

>>17554963
The trouble is that half of college is precisely that: the socializing and bonding, rebranded after the fact as "networking." The guy that hammered with the frat bros are going to have a leg up when it comes to applying to that prestigious banking internship because a third of the fraternity alumni are all in finance and can help hook him up.

Degrees alone aren't enough these days. Plenty of graduates out there who can't find things.

>>17554981
>Plenty of graduates out there who can't find things.
That's because they think that having a degree alone will get them a job. They don't have other experience that makes them an all-rounder, they think that a degree is enough

And there is absolutely nothing stopping OP from making friends and socialising with other students who are younger anyway. One of my friends is mid-20s, one just turned 31, I have another two in their late 30s and one in her 40s.

>>17554981
>>17554995
That's why you get a degree in something that doesn't involve schmoozing and glad-handing.
I'm majoring in molecular biology for example, and planning on med school after that.
I also like to code, so i got that in my back pocket if i need it too (in fact, i decided to go back after realizing the programmer's life was not for me).
Not exactly gonna be desperate for a place to work.

Plenty of degrees pretty much do guarantee you a job, it's just that most people don't have what it takes to get them.

>>17555035
>it's just that most people don't have what it takes to get them.
No, it's that they're not interested in the area and they don't think that a 'guaranteed' job is worth a career they'll be miserable in.

For example, I could study engineering, probably do well and essentially be guaranteed a job as a female in STEM, but I'd fucking hate my life, so I chose not to study engineering.

>>17555042
>No, it's that they're not interested in the area and they don't think that a 'guaranteed' job is worth a career they'll be miserable in.
Agreed with that, i did quit programming for a reason after all.
There's a wide range of good degrees though, enough for most people to find a field they can at least vaguely tolerate.