To think 25 is too old to live in uni halls

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And a house share should be considered rather than halls?

I think I would have found it a bit odd at 18 if there had been 25 year olds in halls, but there are halls for older students which would be more suitable.

Dh did a post grad degree aged 39 and lived in Uni halls during the week with undergrads. He kept himself to himself and came home at weekends...found most of them just ignored him anyway and one stayed in his room smoking weed

@ScotchBunnet

I think I would have found it a bit odd at 18 if there had been 25 year olds in halls, but there are halls for older students which would be more suitable.

Back in 90 when I went at 18, we had a 27 year old with us and she became part of a big group of us who, well did student stuff.

Nobody gave her age a second thought. Taught us how to properly get pissed though!!

I went into halls in my 40s. I was only there Mon - Fri so didn't do much socialising

We had at least 4 people aged 24+ in our corridor in halls. At the time I didn't think anything of it and they become my closest friends. When I was 24 I think I would have been irritated by some of the behaviours of the 18 year olds (myself included) in halls.

However I did live abroad in my late 20s and ended up living with lots of 21yo students which I really enjoyed. They'ed sometimes say i gave them hope seeing you didn't have to settle down and become boring in your 20s. Which made me feel ancient obviously!

We had a 24 year old as a first year at uni. I barely noticed.

I lived in halls at 22/23 but they were students on postgraduate courses. I think there they had also put a couple of slightly older undergraduates in with us too. I loved it having been a bit too shy to enjoy student life whilst doing my degree.

There are lots of different sorts of ‘halls’. It odd at all.

*not odd

@ScotchBunnet

I think I would have found it a bit odd at 18 if there had been 25 year olds in halls, but there are halls for older students which would be more suitable.

Why wouldn't you have just talked to them like, you know, a fellow student? Lots of courses have a mixed intake. 18 year olds really should be capable of making friendships outside their immediate peers

I lived in halls in my 2nd/3rd years because I moved in with some friends I made in first year.
I was 24/25 and they were younger than me but I guess it depends on your attitude. If you go in thinking you’re better/more mature than them/have nothing in common you’re not going to make friends are you.

I went to university when I was 20 and lived in halls in first and last years. So I was 23 in my 3rd years. I would not have noticed if someone was 25 so no I think it is fine

Once you leave school you need to start to adjust to living / working / mixing with people of all ages to prepare you for the working world. I don't see an issue with a 25 year old in halls - it's their choice not the choice of the others that live there.

There was a 58 year old in ours. That was odd

It did not work well in my day- but times have moved on! Anyone over 21 was odd in halls.

Loads of 18 year olds and one much older person isn't always a good mix, even today.

It’s fine . I was in halls 3 times form 18 to 24z there were people in their late 20s.
You seem a bit narrow minded.
I am 42 and have friends from 18 to 80.

There were a couple of 25 year olds in my hall when I was 18 & they just joined in with the rest of us.

What’s your interest in this, OP?

I don’t understand the issue?

I lived in halls in my first year when I was 30. I returned for my third year. I was regarded as a bit exotic, no more than that.

I was a mature student, and I lived in Halls for my first two years at university, then moved out in the third year.

I was at Keele, which is outside Newcastle Under Lyme, so, when I went there, the majority of students lived in campus, because public transport was not great, and most didn’t have cars, so it was more practical.

I enjoyed living in Halls, and it meant I was able to make friends who I could house share with, and didn’t have to go into a house share with strangers, which I would have disliked intensely.

It is horses for courses - some mature students will like being in halls, as I did, and others will prefer house sharing - I don’t think there is an arbitrary cut off age at which it becomes inappropriate.

As an 18 year old I would have been like "huh interesting" and gave it no more thought.

Currently at 26, I can think of nothing more hellish than spending time in halls again with 18 year olds who can't cook or clean or have basic respect for other people's possessions. For me, that was almost everyone I knew in halls. I'd rather pay more to be self contained than having to share kitchen facilities (at a minimum, I also had to share bathrooms) with other people

I was 23 and all first year students were expected to stay in halls on campus, i hated it. I seemed to be housed with very young 18 year old, one was crying cause she'd had her first kiss etc. I didn't suit and left the course and came home. It depends on who you end up with and what your personality is like

DS had a mature student in halls for his first year and no one questioned it. He got on fine with everyone and was seen as just another human being, a more sensible one it turned out with regards to studying though age not always a contributing factor to being sensible!

Yabu. Probably happier in halls for mature students that most(?) unis have though. 18 year olds away from home for the first time would likely be bloody annoying if you were 25 or so.

It's a matter of individual choice, surely? I wouldn't have wanted to live in hall at that age, but can see why others might choose to.

If any 18yo students do find it odd, perhaps they would do well to adopt a more open-minded perspective on life?