各位已经过来大侠们，这年龄还值得出国吗???????????????

bigdogpig

32了，明年入学的时候都33了

现在的情况是，收入税前20万左右，有房无女朋友（刚分）

家里高压让尽快找女朋友，GMAT刚准备一个多月，如无意外 TOP 20

这种情况下还值得折腾吗，各位过来的大侠给给意见啊。复习的时候突然开始很怀疑这个选择 

[此贴子已经被作者于2008-4-7 23:10:51编辑过]

沉香流苏

why not?! you gotta experience a different life when you're still young!!

Actually, you are at your most valuable age-- you've got working experience which young  brats don't have; yet you're not too old to be motivated

 no hesitation okay? just get ur butt over here, ha

沉香流苏

p.s.  33 is not old at all !

I'm recently doing this research for my boss, in which I got the chance to have a look at many academically successful ppl's profiles. To my surprise, many ppl pursued their higher-level degrees when they were at their 30's or 40's.  And my classmates are much older than me actually. Moreover, our university has the benefit for older ppl in our city, which is very very good, that ppl aged over 60 can study here free of tuition! So it struck me that, the United States has a  very good enviroment for a life-time learning, so trust me, you'll never feel old as a student here

hope this helps

bigdogpig

多谢指点和鼓励，我相信读MBA肯定是不错的经历，主要关心的是是否值得的问题：）

akame

我觉得不是值不值得的问题,而是你想要什么样的生活

Bernardbelsc

I am offering my one cent. I am of the same age of you, and I have been in the states for about 5 years. I came here initially for a Ph.D. in biology and get bored. After suffering so many years in a field I dislike, I am very confused about life.  I got a very decent job after graduated from college, which brought me to Japan for about a year, and honestly speaking, I like Japan and most Japanese people. The project was very promising and I was put onto a key position to develop it, however, there was something I could not tell made me uneasy and anxious and cried for a change, even though I had not idea where I wanted to land. I am somewhat an idealist and want to live a life to persue something I considered of eternal value and something far beyond material benefits brought forward by such defined "success" and more convinenience. I intended to study physics or math or even philosophy but my situation won't allow.

I happend to know a very nice American old fellow, who is in his 60s, very open minded, intelligent and well-educated. His father is a reknown lawer and his older brother is a professor of Physics who has visited China and taught in Tsinghua. He himself is nonetheless less successfully as either his father or brother.  He was a hippy and he was too smart to see through all the dirty games played around the so called Nation of Freedom. He turned off his father's offer, as asked him to go to law school and potentially take over the successful family business. He studied physice in believing that physice reveals the final truth of ourselves and of the universe, and got confused by the murky equations and thus decided math is more ture and closer to the nature. Only after obtained a master degree in Math did he realized that math is not omnipotent and could not provide the mecca he had been looking for. By the time he finished his math study, he got a bit interest in computer science at late 70s. Same thing happened to him again, and because of a fight between him and his mentor, he ended up leaving the field without a degree.  However, this should not be taken as a sign of his incomptentcy in computer science skills. Most of his friends of that time in CD field are very successful by now, and they respect his opinions, techinical and strategical, to a great extent.

However, by the April of 2008, his is not in a situation much better off than when he was a hippy.  As confused as always, he has remained jobless for almost 5 years and living in a basement of a almost 100-year-old house.

Everytime I talk with him, I can not help wondering what makes suffering so much such a brilliant human being.  He is kind,gentle,passionate about truth and willing to help even when I had language difficulty to communciate with him.

I once told him my confusion about future and worry of being to late to pursue a life or to serve a purpose I had dreamed of. He is telling me in a decisive tone as never before: " Stop that bull shit and forget about your age, it is nothing. You are as free as a new-born, and only your hesitation can drag you."

Surely, it is the attitude not your environment controls you. Last night, I just watched Shawshanks Redemption again in hope to cheer myself up from a long depression. And this is the lesson I learned and what to share with all you guys and to conclude this lengthy and pointless narrative:" I guess it comes down to a simple choice only, get busy living or get busy dying."

tofreesky

以下是引用Bernardbelsc在2008-4-22 3:55:00的发言：
I am offering my one cent. I am of the same age of you, and I have been in the states for about 5 years. I came here initially for a Ph.D. in biology and get bored. After suffering so many years in a field I dislike, I am very confused about life.  I got a very decent job after graduated from college, which brought me to Japan for about a year, and honestly speaking, I like Japan and most Japanese people. The project was very promising and I was put onto a key position to develop it, however, there was something I could not tell made me uneasy and anxious and cried for a change, even though I had not idea where I wanted to land. I am somewhat an idealist and want to live a life to persue something I considered of eternal value and something far beyond material benefits brought forward by such defined "success" and more convinenience. I intended to study physics or math or even philosophy but my situation won't allow.

I happend to know a very nice American old fellow, who is in his 60s, very open minded, intelligent and well-educated. His father is a reknown lawer and his older brother is a professor of Physics who has visited China and taught in Tsinghua. He himself is nonetheless less successfully as either his father or brother.  He was a hippy and he was too smart to see through all the dirty games played around the so called Nation of Freedom. He turned off his father's offer, as asked him to go to law school and potentially take over the successful family business. He studied physice in believing that physice reveals the final truth of ourselves and of the universe, and got confused by the murky equations and thus decided math is more ture and closer to the nature. Only after obtained a master degree in Math did he realized that math is not omnipotent and could not provide the mecca he had been looking for. By the time he finished his math study, he got a bit interest in computer science at late 70s. Same thing happened to him again, and because of a fight between him and his mentor, he ended up leaving the field without a degree.  However, this should not be taken as a sign of his incomptentcy in computer science skills. Most of his friends of that time in CD field are very successful by now, and they respect his opinions, techinical and strategical, to a great extent.

However, by the April of 2008, his is not in a situation much better off than when he was a hippy.  As confused as always, he has remained jobless for almost 5 years and living in a basement of a almost 100-year-old house.

Everytime I talk with him, I can not help wondering what makes suffering so much such a brilliant human being.  He is kind,gentle,passionate about truth and willing to help even when I had language difficulty to communciate with him.

I once told him my confusion about future and worry of being to late to pursue a life or to serve a purpose I had dreamed of. He is telling me in a decisive tone as never before: " Stop that bull shit and forget about your age, it is nothing. You are as free as a new-born, and only your hesitation can drag you."

Surely, it is the attitude not your environment controls you. Last night, I just watched Shawshanks Redemption again in hope to cheer myself up from a long depression. And this is the lesson I learned and what to share with all you guys and to conclude this lengthy and pointless narrative:" I guess it comes down to a simple choice only, get busy living or get busy dying."

非常赞成，谢谢分享。

生活在于自己！

rhenish

觉得年龄不是考虑的主要因素，关键还是职业规划。

看出国读这个项目对你的职业整体发展能有什么影响，是不是大到足以补偿工作断层的负面影响。

这个问题因职业不同而有不同的答案。

建议谨慎考虑。

jennyliuke

I am 30 now, female, will be 31 next year. Bored with my job in a large company in silicon valley, I came to the US about 8 years ago. Thinking of going to B school next year. Anybody in the area or someone in the same boat as me, please contact me at jen.liu(在) gmail.com

chasegoal

lz,值不值得自己知道，关键是你要什么样子的生活。20万，现在看看不错。如果你往后看20年的话。这些钱，还值这些吗？

人关键的是如何使你的赚钱的能力不贬值