The tedious part of war

I'm graduating this month at 31 and my friend, you have made a great decision for yourself! It's incredibly difficult as an adult, but it's going to feel completely worth it when you're at the end. You'll open up a new world of job opportunities, and if you ever have kids or take on a mentor type role for one you will be a living example for them to get through it too. I spent the first two years of college making jokes to my classmates about doing it a decade too late, but now I'm owning it. Those whipper snappers should try doing it alongside a full time job and a kid and a house with a currently flooded basement!

You're going to do great. And, even if you don't do great, all you need to do is PASS. That's okay too!

It gets better

I went back at 35. It was very much worth it. What are you taking, if you don't mind me asking?

If you're doing college at 30 you're probably not stupid, stupid people wouldn't do school at all when afforded the chance to. Unless they already have a position in the industry they wanted to and a degree wouldnt help advance their career enough to warrant the time and money spent

30 is young, you still have at least a good 10-20 years of enjoying your life ahead of you right

Also idk about in the US but in a large part of Europe you get paid to do a graduate degree (or at least a PhD), and the courses are often in English, if you want to you should totally look at Germany or Slovakia/Czechia or Norway/Finland (although I think Norway recently made tuition no longer free for foreigners), or even Panama or Brazil, you can get free college and cheap housing (well, not in Scandinavia, but the rest of the countries). You should be able to get in depending on the major's demand, and they're very nice countries to exist in other than Brazil... although Eastern Europe would probably be a massive culture shock, a lot are pretty "blunt" or "dark" in their mannerisms I guess.