Redefining the Midlife Crisis

I wish I were a "professor" so I could conduct "research" on "people".

There is so much wrong with this project that I must make a list:

1. A 50-year-old professor will never experience a typical freshman year, no matter how little contact she allows herself with her previous life and home. I'm betting that she didn't get dragged out to a skeevy dance club, experience her first high/sexual experience/same-sex experience in someone's dorm room, or have to balance her commitment to her high school boyfriend with her crush on a senior.
2. She didn't have a roommate.
3. She didn't have to worry that bad grades or social problems would ruin the next three years of her life.

She did, however, get one thing right. CNN reported: "She told students what she was doing if they asked, but found that most of them didn't, perhaps assuming she was just one of those who return to school at an older age." Or, she just experienced what we all did as freshmen -the discovery that no one else actually cares who you are except you.