Making the transition from warrior to student By Andrew Altizer, Special to the Times Troops transitioning from military to campus life probably will find the change less stressful than it is for the average high school student who is college bound.
Service members tend to be more mature, responsible and ready to succeed.
They usually don t have problems getting up for an 8 a.m. class or suffer from homesickness. Also, they often value the opportunity of higher education more than students who just graduated from high school. Tim Brooks, dean of students at the University of Delaware, remembers returning from Vietnam 30 years ago and heading back to the classroom a month later. The other students shocked me by how na ve and undisciplined they seemed to be. The military taught me structure and perseverance and these traits served me well, he said.