<p>I just want to hear from those who took off more than one semester from college. How did your subsequent life shape? Did you go back to school? </p>
<p>Looking back, do you consider it to have been a good decision? Would you do anything differently?</p>
<p>Well, Spring of 2010 I had a lot of personal issues, which started affecting my grades, which exacerbated those issues… bad cycle that made me take a leave of absence from university. I applied for re-enrollment and was accepted for Fall of 2010 but I spent about 4 and a half months working at a grocery store.</p>
<p>Went back to school, got a 3.6 last semester. I guess in a sense it helped kick me into gear and realize that I do NOT wanna work some menial job the rest of my life… but it would have been a lot better if I had just taken a gap year after high school instead.</p>
<p>11 year break.</p>
<p>I don’t regret my decision to leave school when I did. Still wish I left a semester earlier (like I wanted to) but my parents talked me into staying another semester (which I bombed).</p>
<p>Actually wish I had returned a year earlier, but glad I did not wait longer than I did. Had the foresight to realize many things in my industry were changing and it was the right time to return to school as part of a career change.</p>
<p>I will say this, the absolute hardest part of going back was walking into the admissions office and registering. Of course I’ve had many difficult classes since then, but it takes a lot of self motivation to start school again in your early 30’s.</p>
<p>I would like to know this as well, bump.</p>
<p>I plan on taking a couple of semesters off, but not one right after another.
Instead for research purposes.</p>