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Going Back to School Looks Different in Midlife

By Bill Wodhams — 2020

University started later for me than most. The opportunity wasn’t available when I was younger—too many siblings in our family, too little money. But I never stopped wondering what university would have been like, what went on behind the tall brick walls of those serious grey buildings. Twenty-plus years later, and I finally had the chance to find out.

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