I'm 35 and still in high school

It's not unusual for 30 year old actors to be playing high school characters.  We see it all the time in our favorite teen dramas.  I think on 90210, Andrea Zuckerman and Jim Walsh were like, 5 or 6 years apart in real life.  Yet recently, two instances have struck me as kind of odd, in terms of actors playing ages that are much younger than them.

First, you should know that I've watched like the first 6 episodes of One Tree Hill, and to my surprise I see yes, the one and only Minkus from Boy Meets World, one of my favorite shows of all time.  Now Minkus was really only on the show for maybe the first two seasons, and kind of disappeared into the "smart wing" when everyone went to high school.  He did make a guest appearance in the episode where they graduate from high school, and they were the class of 1998!  Now we flash to One Tree Hill, and let's remember, the first four seasons everyone is still in high school, and there we see Minkus, still playing a high school child practically ten years later.  WHAT!  you are old.

Second,  on last night's Gossip Girl, Blair meets her new best friend, a prostitute who is also a student at NYU.  The actress who plays her new best friend, also currently plays Jessica/Tessica/Bessica on One Life To Live, a mom who also suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder (thus the three names, personalities).  I think I started seriously watching the show when I was a junior and high school, when the DID storyline was underway. In that time, I've managed to graduate from both high school and college, and I'm supposed to believe that on GG she is a college student??  On OLTL she has like a 6 year old daughter! moral of the story, you are old and i don't believe that you go to NYU.

In conclusion, I should be a casting director. the end.