It's really hard for me to feel sorry for people who were last of their classmates to turn 21:

[Anonymous]

Depends where you live. My Sept bday boy is always the oldest. Cutoff is Sept 1.

[Anonymous]

Definitely a strange post. My parents wouldn't pay anything for college and I got no aid my first year so I started in January to make money in the fall. Then part way through college I realized I was way behind in payments so I took another semester off while my boyfriend and most of my classmates were enjoying the last semester of senior year. I came back for my senior year, was already 22 and most of my close friends were gone. I figured it out, paid my bills and graduated after making some new friends but with loans and lots of stress over finances.

Oh well, I never asked anyone to feel bad for me and I didn't hold any grudges for those who had it easier. I sometimes felt misunderstood but I was glad to be able to make it work and was proud to have overcome my personal challenges to get a college degree from a very good school. My age at graduation was just shy of 23 and I can tell you it was the LEAST of my concerns. And today it's definitely not on my mind at all.

[Anonymous]

I'm 38 and don't know a single person with a fall birthday who turned 18 after starting college. This post is odd overall, but that in particular struck me as odd.

[Anonymous]

This is a bonkers post. I have a late December birthday, and my parents were given a choice to start me late or early (the cut off was December 31 at the time). They opted for early, but I had several classmates who were a year+ older than me.

While I'm sorry for your experience, I suspect that birthdays that fall anywhere from late fall to July are the primary reason people enter their senior year already legally able to go to the bar. If it matters, while I was 20 going into my senior year because of my "straight path", I ended up having to drop a few required classes to cope with being raped soon after the year started. I had to do an extra term and was 21 going into my super-senior year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being left out is never fun.

Then can't you understand how I felt when I saw all my childhood friends posting pictures of themselves in theirs caps and gowns on facebook while I still had another year to go? Do you not think I felt left out when I saw the friends I made my first freshman year move on without me? The guy who had been valedictorian at my high school invited us on a graduation trip the summer after my junior, assuming we had all graduated. Do you think it was "fun" for me to have to turn it down, not having graduated yet?

[Anonymous]

This is the most bizarre, whiny thread ever. WTH?

[Anonymous]

I had many friends who didn't turn 21 until after college 😅

[Anonymous]

Not everything is about you, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm 38 and don't know a single person with a fall birthday who turned 18 after starting college. This post is odd overall, but that in particular struck me as odd.

I turned 18 in September of my freshman year in college. But who cared? Not me. Strange thread.