I hear what you all are saying but in real life I am very shy and not assertive. When I am in class at university/college I do not go out of my way to sit with other ppl or start conversations with them. So I stick out like a sore thumb.

In 2010, I will be in a class of 30 women/girls and it will be torture for me. It's like having a cavity filled with no pain killers. I just cannot find any common ground with women under 25 years old at college. In my last program there was a 45 years old lady that acted like she was 20 years old and hung out with the very young girls/women.....not the other ladies that were closer to her age...she ignored them.

I feel like a little kid being forced to go to school to be with her bullies.