As of right now? I probably read an old post.She's 28, that's strange as well. I was 21 when I went and I felt a little old. Most of the students in the Physics program were fresh out of high school. It's not usually a program you decide to go back to school for after working at Wal Mart for a few years.
First of all I am 27, not that that matters. Here's my life's story:
I struggled in junior high school because of various reasons. I was bullied and also I was understimulated because I learned too quickly and was bored. I attended only a couple of weeks of 7th grade, and none of 8th and 9th. I then received a letter about an opportunity to study a make-up year to get my junior high school diploma, and I took the opportunity. In one year I caught up with three years of school and made excellent grades. Teachers were so impressed they arranged for me to get a scholarship.
In Sweden we apply with junior high grades to senior high and senior high is offered as several distinct programs that focus on a subject area. I chose business and administration and studied that for three years. I did really well and made great grades. Because of the extra year I graduated at age 19.
I then didn't know what to do with my life. I hadn't found that one special thing I was passionate about. And rather than choosing at random, and that would have landed me at architecture or marketing perhaps, I chose to take additional high school level courses and did some science. I did that for a few years. I struggled with math and I failed physics the first time I took it and I made a C and then took it again and made a B. It was difficult.
I then begun working at a nursing home for a few years and became interested in medicine. But there were things in medicine I didn't like, such as misdiagnosis, side-effects of medicines, and other things that were imperfect. I then discovered osteopathic medicine which seemed more promising. So I was about 22 years when I found my passion, osteopathic medicine. I then worked an additional year to save up the money to attend college overseas.
I was 23 when I started my undergraduate degree, pre-medicine and B.S. Chemistry. I am now 27 and doing my fourth year. I had a physics course that is part of the chemistry degree and fell in love with physics and added a second degree in physics and am now headed toward physics instead, which I love even more than medicine. And because of two majors, it will take me five years to graduate from the undergraduate level.
I will be 28 when I graduate with my two undergraduate B.S. degrees.
30 when I graduate with a M.S. degree.
35 when I graduate with a Ph.D.
Actually I am not the only older Physics student. And I would not have done as well if I were younger, because back then I hadn't discovered my passion for physics, and you need a little bit of love to excel at something. And so far I make all A's (
except when a professor hits me with papers and I stop attending that class because I stay away from bullying).
So I haven't worked at Wal Mart. It was a nursing home. And I don't think any of this is strange at all.
It seemed to me that she spoke English like someone who was born and bred in the U.S. How long has she been there?
Wow, thank you. I pick up accents well, but now that I call Sweden they say I have an American accent and I use American syntax. I've been here three years.
