Adult Learner & Back To School Later Hats

Going back to school as an adult has its own jokes, and these hats wear them. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center puts adult learners at 38% of fall students, so the back row of the lecture hall is crowded with people who have jobs, kids and mortgages. Two badges name the group plainly: NONTRADITIONAL STUDENT and ADULT LEARNER, the two terms people actually search. The sentence designs carry the age-gap comedy. I'M OLDER THAN MY PROFESSOR echoes a University of Washington grad who was nearly twice as old as classmates and older than some instructors, and who called what graduates feel feisty pride. I HAVE A MORTGAGE AND A MIDTERM and ADULT STUDENT I BRING SNACKS AND A BAD BACK cover the logistics. I'M THE ONLY ONE IN CLASS WHO DID THE READING is for the person paying attention. IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO GET A DEGREE borrows the line a UConn Stamford student who enrolled at 40 with four kids still says: it's never too late to go back. THE OLD GUY IN CLASS is a self-given title, taken from how one 38-year-old community college student described himself. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. I'M OLDER THAN MY PROFESSOR and I'M THE ONLY ONE IN CLASS WHO DID THE READING each come in two colorways.