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How age differences affect creative education

I got into a good MFA program but I am thirty-eight and watching twenty-two-year-olds workshop their first stories makes me feel ancient and behind.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Starting or restarting creative education later in life triggers complex feelings about lost time and comparative achievement.

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