Studying as a 'mature' isn't funny.

If you have finished your first degree and are thinking of doing Masters immediately, that's a good step. 

But these are some of the challenges you experience. 

1. The campus you knew suddenly feels like primary school.

The moment you are around the school environment, you feel terribly old.( It’s more of a sickly feeling). This is due to the way children are excited about being at campus. Trust that that feeling doesn’t stop in first year! You feel that whoever is looking at you is calculating how many years since you last got in touch with a university.

And yet you are innocent in age. Probably just 1-4years older than most of the kids. 

In addition, the way they dress, mostly color blocking, indeed makes you feel you are in kindergarten. 

2. Lecturers have no respect for you. 

This is especially when they realize you are still a fresh graduate and you have no job. They will treat you like they would freshers. They will try to discourage you forgetting that they are supposed to see you as mature people. The most common things they will tell you are that the course you are doing isn't marketable and you will surely spend 5 years without a job if you pursue it; That everyone gets at least one retake throughout their stay; That you can never finish your research on time; That every week there will be coursework and presentations on which 40% of the marks will base. That 10 marks will be for attendance   they always carry roll call sheets. 

And after all that negative jazz, they remind you to pay your tuition on time so that their salary can also be on time. Yeah, that's how selfish they are.

By the time the day one lecture is done, you are already a school dropout. You already have your worst lecturer, worst moment in life and the most feasible plans for your tuition. But wait, you are probably not sponsoring yourself. So you either be hard core and study or return the tuition and worse still, go back home to doing housework.

3. Lecturers don’t come!

It is astonishing, but, they always have excuses that make a lot of sense. For example, I forgot my coat at home; students might strike; it is my birthday; they want to scrap our allowances; it has rained lice and mice; I can’t find my car; my wife hasn't picked the kids; and the list is endless.

The sad part is, they don’t tell you beforehand that they plan to dodge. They forget you are supposed to be treated maturely, that you are busy and have no time to waste like those undergraduates. It is also costly; So you spend 7k on transport, 2k on the four sumbusas at the canteen and 1k on airtime. These expenses, you realize, would have been avoided and your 10k would be lying neatly in your wallet if these lectures were not irresponsible.

4. It's hard to admit that you are doing your masters.

Did you know that if you admit, it means you are 5-6 years older than your age mates? Yeah, apparently, there’s a misconception that only old people pursue masters degrees.

This doesn’t go well for the ladies. First and foremost, they are supposed to be at least three years younger at any given moment in time, according to some sort of philosophy out there. 

So before you make that brilliant choice, be ready to face all that