One word. Mantz.
One word. Mantz.
It wasn't so much people started looking young as much as it was me looking old. I look into the mirror and my reflection isn't a young man anymore. Greying beard, bald head, but I don't feel old.
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LOl @ broccoli haircut.
18 is quite young. They're still high school age really.
I've known of people who went to university at 17. In Scotland often people take highers a year younger than the equivalent in other parts of the UK and quite a few start university age 17. I wouldn't like that - going to university a year younger than other people.
I was a year ahead throughout all of primary school and thankfully I redid the final year (although it was hard having to see all of my friends go on to high school) rather than go to high school age 10. It's young enough going to high school at age 11 really.
I think they've always looked young. Some first years have only just turned 18. Still teenagers - they're indistinguishable from high schoolers really. But then you think you're so grown up at that age.
It was probably around 34. Which is about 2 years after I moved into a neighborhood where there weren't many people in their 20s and started having my own kids. I started mostly seeing people 30+ and their kids. It became natural to group the college kids with the other kids. The transition happened much sooner for my wife (before the move and earlier in age since she's 4 years younger than me).
Another thing that made me feel old was telling my kids, "when I was your age they didn't have Smart Phones, Social Media, or the Internet." My 7 year old son replied, "that's because you were born in olden times." LOL
Bumping again. 6 years out of school and don't look or feel any different, never stopped running so I am the same weight I have been since college. I will say though, I do notice some people I went to high school with are really starting to age.
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That must be one of the most reliable signs of getting older. I'd say when I was in college myself to about age 29, college kids looked relatively mature. Now that I am 32, they kinda look like babies, they look indistinguishable from highschool kids.
I was about 29 when I started seeing college athletes like this. That's why all this Parker Valby talk on this board is so creepy. She's a CHILD and people are fawning over her and creeping on her every move.
I suspect a large part of it is whenever trends/styles for clothing, hairstyle, and such have changed enough so as to be noticeably different from what you associate with your own age-group when you were in college. My kid graduated who college in 2011 once told me he felt old after going back to watch an XC meet a few years later and seeing half the guys in man-buns, which hadn't yet become a "thing" in his college years. I coach a high school team so I never stop feeling old, I've seen several decades of style come and go. That side-shaved broccoli-head hair style that's big now makes me feel ridiculously old, and I think it's because I was already in my late 20s in the late 1980s, when a fairly similar "look" was popular the first time.