Behind the Curve

This fall I'll be going back to college full time. I will be intermixing, befriending, sharing ideas and experiences with people who are more than ten years my junior. With the amount of credits I've managed to accrue since high skool, I've got enough to be classified as a sophomore. That still means that I'm going to have to take some freshman courses like Math and introductory courses related to my Major/Minor. I've still got some out of the way, but being forced to having to sit with kids who just got out of high skool and being perceived by people as being mentally equal to them...?
How am I going to handle all of this? How will my patience - what little of it I have - pan out? At what time will my ego get in the way and I go off on some cocky 19 year old?
It does comfort me that 1. I'll have my sister there to cheer me on, 2. I'll have the staff there to cheer me on, 3. I'll have the VA people there to help me, and 4. hopefully there'll be some other older students there I can lean on. I mean, I'll be sitting in classes and participating in labs with these people; it doesn't mean I have to go out clubbing with them and be their best friends!
I'm so excited though. When I first moved to Ghent, I used to pretend I was an ODU student and not a lame old Navy girl. Now I can be a real student and get a real job and be a real, normal person.