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.
At around 28 or 29... I stopped drinking which meant that the bar/nightlife scene wasn't something I participated in any longer. After a few months of going to bed at 10 pm even on the weekends, I really looked at that demographic in a new light. If you live for the weekend, you are most likely mentally and emotionally in the state of a child.
Yeah, early to mid 30s. I think it’s a combination of maturing personally and about a decade for style to change drastically. You realize that college students are now another generation.
live laugh love wrote:
If you live for the weekend, you are most likely mentally and emotionally in the state of a child.
Or you really hate your job.
It's not that deep, it's just that at around age 30 you and all of your friends start to look older, and that's the age of face you get use to, then when you see college kids they look "young"
College kids really don't look any younger from generation to generation, you just look older.
I started college coaching at 20 and noticed, for about a decade, that the freshmen were younger every year.
Somewhere around my age 30, they stopped getting younger and were just young.
Lol so you started coaching at a younger age then most college students (18-23)
As a college student if you attended college with a student like the one featured below:
https://cornellsun.com/2020/08/12/cornells-youngest-graduate-sets-out-for-ph-d/
Fresh out of College Lurker wrote:
Lol so you started coaching at a younger age then most college students (18-23)
Yeah, for a while I was coaching some people who were older than I was.
Not a big deal. I know a guy who was an Olympic coach at 20.
For me I think I was early 40s. While running on bike trails near a local university, I was amazed by the number of HS kids also running/walking on it. Eventually realized they were attending the college even though they looked about 14.
You got caught. Admit it. There was no olympic running coach at 20. Sure you will provide the name of a gymnastics coach because they were coaching 17 year olds.
Go run fast wrote:
You got caught. Admit it. There was no olympic running coach at 20. Sure you will provide the name of a gymnastics coach because they were coaching 17 year olds.
What a strange post. Why would I post something that, if it were false, could be so readily disproved?
"...at 20 years old, [Tracy] Sundlun was invited to the 1972 Olympics in Munich as Puerto Rico’s assistant track and field coach — the youngest Olympic coach ever."
https://www.exeter.edu/people/tracy-sundlunAnd pretty much everybody in The Sport knows Tracy.
I wasn't an Olympic coach at 20, just some college coach. No big.
Not the US. Just like pointing out a different sport. No US college has a 20 year old coaching cross country. No US Olympic Track team had a 20 year old coach. You may have been some type of team manager that you have built up over the years in your mind. But until you provide details, nobody believes you.
go run fast wrote:
Not the US. Just like pointing out a different sport. No US college has a 20 year old coaching cross country. No US Olympic Track team had a 20 year old coach. You may have been some type of team manager that you have built up over the years in your mind. But until you provide details, nobody believes you.
Your statement was: "There was no olympic running coach at 20." Tracy Sundlun's experience demonstrates that your statement was incorrect. You said *nothing* about a particular country's being involved. Tracy Sundlun was a 20-year-old American coaching Americans (Puerto Rican Americans) in track and field at the 1972 Olympics.
It may well be the case *now* that there's no 20-year-old coaching college cross-country; you may be right about that. However, it was the case *then* that I was a 20-year-old coaching college t&t/xc, and there were other young people (under 25, if not 20-year-olds) doing the same. No surprise: Things change in the course of almost half a century (which is the time frame involved).
In particular, women's collegiate t&f/xc programs are pretty much standard now. They weren't then (~50 years ago). I ended up starting three; the first was when I was 20.
The athletes whom I coached there certainly believe me, so it is not the case that "nobody" does. (As it happens, rojo also knows me and my work.) Whether *you* believe me does not affect their lives or mine.
I wish you well.
Man this was looking to be an interesting thread ruined by people arguing about if this guy or girl was a 20 year old college coach. Back to the issue at hand, I am 1.5 years out of undergrad and college students still look around the same age to me. In fact, I bet I could live the next 4 years on a college campus and not feel like I look any older. I am curious when the hardcore cutoff point starts though, my cousin is about 10 years older then me, and I know for sure he wouldn’t pass.
Fresh out of College Lurker wrote:
Man this was looking to be an interesting thread ruined by people arguing about if this guy or girl was a 20 year old college coach. Back to the issue at hand, I am 1.5 years out of undergrad and college students still look around the same age to me. In fact, I bet I could live the next 4 years on a college campus and not feel like I look any older. I am curious when the hardcore cutoff point starts though, my cousin is about 10 years older then me, and I know for sure he wouldn’t pass.
You're probably not alone: I think a lot of guys could "pass" as undergrads for quite a while, as long as they aren't developing dad bods. That gut's a real giveaway.
Flip side is that I knew somebody who was 19 or 20--and looked ten years older, easy. She hadn't had a hard life, and took care of herself (she was actually a runner)--just one of those people who look old. Plus my college roommate was a guy with hair all over his body, except almost none on his scalp. He was 17 and people either took him for a grad student or a professor. If you were betting on his age the over/under would be about 30.
When I was inducted into the hall of fame 12 years or so after college, I went to the old bar/nightclub after the dinner that I use to pull a woman a week out of and it was at that moment I realized I was no longer in that group or could I even fake it. I remember looking at women and them looking at me with that look of "um what the hell are you looking at"
Another thing I noticed throughout my time in school is how when I came into college, the seniors and juniors seemed so much older, and I felt looked so much older but when my friends and I got to that age I felt like we didn’t look as old as they did. The same thing happened to me in highschool. I wonder if their is some sort of psychological thing with people, like do you ever see yourself as older? I look at pictures of my friends now and I don’t see that much of a difference between 18- 23 but maybe that’s because I don’t notice since I see them a lot.
Lots of ales don't really physically mature until their 20's. So many HS Seniors still look like kids, they don't start to really look like "men" until midway through college.
Females, much different.
I dont think I really noticed how young collegiate age women looked until I was 40. Until then I just thought they were hot. Now I think they're hot... and too young.
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