Being in college in your 20s sucks. I'm in my 20s, but people in college act like I'm a dinosaur. They seem mortified when they find out my age. People in my classes are polite enough until they get to know me, then if they ask me how old I am (a question I've come to dread), their opinion of me seems to change.

You'd think I was 80 years old or something.

I'm just trying to get a degree so I can get a better job instead of the dead-end ones I've had so far. Not everyone gets that opportunity earlier in life. Why are people so mean?