Mature Student

Life and growth are never linear

By: Corbett Gildersleve, Opinions Editor Who am I? I’m old. I was a mature student when I started my first degree. My journey has taken many turns since starting at SFU in the mid 2000s when I worked as a security guard and later as a service clerk at the Vancouver campus. In early 2009, I started through the SFU-Zhejiang University dual degree program, spending two years studying computing science in China. It wasn’t easy: I was studying in another language and was 10 years older than my classmates. I struggled with completing my degree because I realized very late…

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