This summer I got to live in New York City and intern in my field and it's been a great experience so far. I come from a college town where the average age in the city of 100k and the median age is 29, compared to 35 in the rest of the nation. It's a very young atmosphere and all of my interactions have been with girls in their late teens early 20's.

Once I got to the city I started going out very often trying to meet people. Women seem to assume I'm well into my late teens, they say I can hold a conversation, have many life stories, and I carry myself like I'm not in college. This is usually what we talk about after I reveal that I'm still 21 and finishing up University. I don't mind the compliments of acting older than my age, but I would rather avoid that topic all together, I feel like after I reveal age the conversation dynamic shifts for the worse.

I don't want to lie about my life, and when talking about what I do it's hard not to incriminate myself as a student transitioning into graduate school.

How should I deal with the women who persist to know my age, or know about things that may incriminate me about my age. I am leaving to go back to my university town soon, so I don't think this problem will follow me there, but I would like to know anyway because it will help in all future interactions