<p>I'm considering taking time off between high school and college (maybe travel, maybe work)... How awkward would it be to be a year older than the rest of your class?</p>
<p>they arent gonna know unless you tell them. </p>
<p>20?? totes awkward stay away!!!111</p>
<p>One year really isn't different at all.</p>
<p>One year is nothing. I took a class with someone who had kids my age.</p>
<p>One or two years is going to be nothing, except a little bit when you're 21+ and some of your friends aren't. But then it just means you get to make the beer runs.</p>
<p>take it from someone who did take a year off...it doesn't make any difference...it is not like it is in high school...you are in class with older adults...you can have people taking general ed's with seniors and freshmen mixed, ect...plus, I was able to 'make-up' the year by taking extra credits during the years here (18 instead of usual 14) and still be able to graduate with my same 'class' I would have had going into school</p>
<p>a lot of people here did it and fit in perfectly well. most of them have said they expected to feel way older and awkward and just spend time with people their own age outside of their class, but end up fitting in perfectly well and not noticing the age difference.</p>
<p>I have friends who are even a couple years older who don't seem to mind.</p>
<p>What about younger? I'll be turning 17 right after college starts....</p>
<p>It makes no difference... I took english in 3rd year and everyone else was first year pretty much.</p>
<p>If you go to a larger University with more older students or transfer students, you'll blend right in. But, even at my small school the older students (some as much as 10-15 years older than me) could still blend in to campus life. They just didn't seem as involved in activities.</p>
<p>A year or three is nothing.</p>
<p>won't make any difference... it's all in how you present yourself, so just take the year off and when you go back be a part of campus life and no one will ever be the wiser (nor would they really care anyway)</p>
<p>It's not a HUGE age difference... May '90 for the class of (potentially) 2013. I know it won't be that bad but part of me's a little concerned.</p>
<p>I took Physics II with a student nine years my senior. There's barely any awkwardness. By the time you're 18, even ten years isn't a big deal.</p>
<p>Yea, it's really not that big of a deal. No one will know unless you tell them. There has been so many people I've met this year and not known until much later that they are a year older/younger than their year says.</p>
<p>It's not awkward at all. I have a friend who took a year off like you did. No one could tell the difference until he told us. However, your outlook on life may change after a year off, and that may be a bigger source of difference than any number.</p>