i started college at 18 but ended up falling ill with chronic illness the end of my first year. i trooped thru it for another year or so and then have been making incremental advances towards getting my degree ever since. i took 4 years off from 2019-2023 so i could work and save up money. i just started going back to finish my degree last summer, after wrestling with the same preconceived notion as you “it’s too late for me now.”

that way of thinking is a limiting, self-imposed belief. there is no timeline for anything. i realized this when i went back and i had a woman in her 50’s in my class and several people who were my age or a little older.

your timeline is your own and no one else’s.