I first went to college right after HS but dropped out after 3 semester and worked a variety of low paying jobs until deciding to return. I had a girlfriend at 21 but we never got further than making out. I was bi-curious for a while but wanted to be with a woman first before I started experimenting with men, however I got impatient and hooked up with a few guys off Grindr and decided that it wasn't for me. Those hookups are my only sexual experiences

So now I am back in school and in fairly tight knit degree program and I commute to school so have a lot of time between classes to spend on campus and do so in a room designed for people in my program to work work together on whatever we need to do. I see a lot of the same people every time I am in there and despite being older than most of them get along very well and don't feel like an outsider. One girl in particular I really like, I feel like we have a lot of chemistry and can talk for long periods of time and make each other laugh. However she graduated high school in 2018 so I know she is only 19 or 20 and when I really think about it the age gap bothers me. With that said I think there is a decent chance she has more relationship experience than me and we are in similar places in our lives both being undergrads so maybe we would have a lot more in common than I would with most women my age.

The last thing I want is for everyone in my program to think of me is a creepy older dude hitting on people to young for me but its getting harder for me deal with online dating when I have this great girl right in front of me.