Going back to school

Im 34 and I think about the same, if you 27, you not too old by far.

 

I'm 24 and just started my first semester of college. It's going pretty good I think. You should at least give it a shot.

 

Do it if you want to

 

I must...

 

I'm 33 and planning on going back to school as well. I'm sick of working crappy minimum wage jobs.

 

I went back to school and it was the best decision I made. Before I did an education and worked later, but there are so miserable conditions (work hard for less money in a oppressive atmosphere), that I later decided making a better graduation.
These schools I visited were not typical schools like in your childhood for example. In my case they were evening schools or night schools. Every student was accrued (some of them also worked beside visiting school) and the most teachers were much more professional then these on a regular school (but also a few dickheads of a teacher were there, you can't avoid it!). For me it was an awesome experience, funny and could take a lot of things from school: now I can communicate with the English language (and have a few Spanish skills too) and after finishing evening school I had the option studying on a university.

And about the age: the most of my old class were much older than me (23, 25, 29 etc.), in a different class someone was over 30 years old! I also knew a man, who was 60 years old, and went to evening school just for fun (he was a cop before and went into retirement. After evening school he wanted to study philosophy, so he told me).
So don't worry about your age! If you want to do it, well, then do it!

 

Pretty much. OP needs to not give a shit what anyone else things and do what he wants to do in this case

 

to that I can only say: hell motherfucking yea!!!

 

If you want to go back to school for a comp sci degree, might I suggest going to a coding bootcamp instead?

Work backwards from your end goal. If your end goal is getting a job as a coder in a tech startup, you could easily get it through a coding bootcamp. No need to waste time and a lot of money on getting a degree. They are becoming more and more outdated nowdays unless you attend a top 5 school for your subject and graduate within that top 1% of your class.