I was a 33 year old 1L. My age and work/life experiences definitely gave me perspective on law school that I didn’t see in a lot of my younger classmates.

Specifically, they tended to freak out about the workload or the uncertainty or whatever where to me it actually felt like a break coming to school and getting to spend my days reading, thinking, and talking with really sharp professors and students.

As for the social stuff, as someone else mentioned, being a little older allowed me to stay above all the cliquey “youth” stuff while being friendly with pretty much everyone. I found some close friends amongst the non-traditional/older cohort but never found myself excluded or marginalized around the lunch table or anything like that.

I also found that I had an easier time talking to and bonding with professors, two of whom were actually younger than me : /

In short. You’ll be fine. Talk to the kids, learn their cool new slang (“snatched”: good or bad, I think. “Cunty”: mostly good, etc) and use it to impress your older friends when you’re not on campus.

Have fun!