As I was walking through the class time change crowds today, me the roly-poly old guy, back pack over shoulder, cell phone in hand, ear buds in ears, trying to feel 20 again, it occurred to me.
With all the stress of Organic and 13 other hours, 4 kids, two jobs, a dog that pees in the house, as pimples break out on my face again after 25 years, I’m one step closer to blending in with my classmates!
Yea!
(made me laugh at myself today, hope it helps at least one other person!)
Crepitus
If you survived 4 kids, my opinion is that you can survive anything.
Your story is hilarious. Keep up the spirit.
Yeah, interview season has lead to a few breakouts for me after ten realatively clear skinned years.
Wait till you see what the first month of med school does to your skin!!!
So yesterday it’s raining, not hard (at least I guess 20 year olds don’t think it’s raining hard.) But hard enough that one of my learned (aged) years takes along an umbrella. So of course I’m the only umbrella floating along in the bouncing sea of hooded young’uns between classes.
Any I feel disenfranchised again and spend the whole hour of Organic zoned out. (okay truthfully, I was probably going to end up zoned out regardless). After class, as I fight my way out through building doorway, umbrella tip leading the way (Into the Valley, Good Men! and Fear No Evil and so on), I break out onto the sidewalk and snap my umbrella open.
Promptly some young thing says “Smart man”! And I beam. As we pass her friend says “Old guy”. 
Though I heard the translation as “he’s too pansy to get wet, cuz he could catch pneumonia and die easy” I’m sure what she really meant was “Only a gentleman of advanced years would have the life experience to bring an umbrella”!
Back to banging my head on the Organic wall. Test in 3 days. I’m totally fubar’ed!
Crepitus
Hey, if it makes you feel better, I’m young, but next semester when I start back to the local state university, I’ll be joining three years worth of kids I taught at a local high school and be running into them. Daily. How about that for awkward??? 
I’m sure you are doing great! You’ll feel better in med school when there are several people who aren’t 22.
I think all students feel like fish out of water the first few weeks of the semester - we Old Pre-meds just can’t hide behind our mall wear and expensive ear buds (okay, we can try, but we look pretty silly). Props to you for putting one foot in front of the other and getting to class anyway. I’ll send you positive vibes as I get weird looks from all my fellow students whom I could have a) babysat or, b) birthed!
I love how I can log into OldPreMeds on any given day and find someone to inspire me like you. Thanks for the laugh. Keep up your hard work 
Crepitis -
I’m sure it was the “life experience” translation…
I get professors making outdated culture references and then commenting “no? Oh, Kate gets it!” yes, I date back to when dinosaurs ruled the earth. Get over it! 
Kate
I love when I wear my Pearl Jam 1996 concert T-Shirt and telling the Trad Students that this T-Shirt is older than them…
…fear is the little death…
Kate
Pixie, you and my husband would get along perfectly! He has every version of Dune available on DVD and in book form and watches them a couple times a year. I often hear about “the spice.” Haha
He who controls the spice…