Usually a middle aged person who decides to either
1) go back to
school to get their ass out of Wal-Mart or some other demeaning job that you acquire by having a minimum education level of a high
school diploma
OR
2) want to "enrich" their boring retired lives/spend extra
money taking "interesting" classes to pass the time without actually being a matriculated student.
Senior Scholars usually have no idea how college classes work or how to use the university'
s on line services. Most of them
will want to ask obvious questions in an attempt to show off to the younger crowd and impress the idea that they are still "hip" & "with it". Other characteristics include telling stories about 1) when they were in college, 2) their grandchildren, 3) personal stories completely irrelevant to the
class topic.
1) "Well I'm 58, a vet from dubya-dubya
two and I'm retired now, so I guess I'm a Senior Scholar," (laughs) "Now let me tell you what college was like when I was young. Ten miles in the snow, up-hill both ways.."
2) Senior Scholar: The 46 year old
female office worker who wants to expand her knowledge of the population around her by taking a Developmental Psychology class only to use it as an open forum to discuss her 2 year old daughter
Mandy'
s slow progress.