On call you insensitive clods!

As someone who is 32 and just got into IT (Sys Admin, that sort of thing) I can also say go for it. I went back to school 2.5 years ago, when I was 28 after being a chef for 10 years. I found that the students in my program were young, had no life experience, lazy, unmotivated and immature. This of course reflected in their marks, how far they got in the program and of course whether or not they graduated. At the time of graduation I was the eldest. I was the only one out of my graduating class to get a 'real' job, most of them are now techs at Best Buy or working as phone monkeys for Shaw Cable. Age gives you something that the 20 something crowd will never have; life experience, which is priceless. A well rounded, refined individual with good people skills will go lot further than someone that just has some technical background, IMO