How to Spot an Adult Learner on Campus

• You're the only person sitting in the front row in class.

• The music in the Student Union gives you a headache.

• You think you're the only student in the class who doesn't know what the professor is talking about.

• You can remember when John F. Kennedy was president. 

• You drink coffee in the afternoon.

• You wonder how some people can spend 15 hours in the student union doing nothing.

• You've never played a video game.

• Your favorites shoes are older than most of your classmates.

• You suddenly notice one day that you are asking more questions than the rest of your class combined.

• You don't carry your books in a backpack.

• You talk about painting your living room over spring break while everyone else is talking about Florida.

• You suspect the woman next to you paid more for her jeans than you paid for your first car.

• You're the first one to arrive in class, and the last one to leave.

                                                             from the Chronicle of Higher Education