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How to navigate college as an older veteran student

I have been taking college classes for three years using my GI Bill but I feel like a fraud sitting next to eighteen-year-olds when I have seen more of the world than my professors.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The wisdom earned through extreme experience can feel invisible in academic environments that value different forms of knowledge.

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