IDEA help: Going to university at a later age, like 21+, have you ever done it and if so, did you think it was a better idea than going at 18-21? - Help.com

As someone who didn’t enter college right after high school, I can tell you that I feel very regretful because of it. It wasn’t a wise decision on my part. But then again, I realize that being as stubborn as I was at that young age I couldn’t have expected anyone or anything to change my mind about not going to college. If truth be told, I did actually try college for a semester, but I hated it so much that I did not even begin to apply myself to my studies like I should have. I didn’t want to be in a classroom because I’d just emerged from a 12 year experience of being in one - and I was tired of it to say the least. Instead I was more concerned with getting a job. My wish finally came true and I received employment, although it was not what I’d expected at all. The pay was minimum wage and the duties were demeaning and unpleasant. I wasted several years of my life working at unsatisfactory jobs before reality smacked me in the face and I realized that it was in best interest to go to college.

Let me tell you, if I had known then what I know now then I would’ve conceivably had my life together by now.

The positive aspects were all there but I chose to ignore them. When I attended college for a semester around the age of 19, I my hatred for it was so strong that it clouded my vision and therefore I could not see the benefits of going to school. So in answer to your question, yes, my hatred and apathy towards college at that time essentially sealed my fate, so to speak. The only way I would’ve been able to stick out college immediately following high school is if I had the knowledge then that I possess now.

And being the obstinate and naive kid that I was in those days, my only alternative was to learn through experience in order for me to see the error of my ways.

well if you go later you could save some more money and maybe that would make things easier.