<p>If so, why? Was it to achieve some goal? Did you achieve it?</p>
<p>I'm considering taking one.</p>
<p>Not a single soul?</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m considering taking a year or two off, maybe joining the Navy.</p>
<p>My college responses didn’t come back too well…</p>
<p>wow… no one?</p>
<p>I’m also not surprised though.</p>
<p>I did. I’ve always been a bit young for my grade and I didn’t get in to my top choice last year, so I decided to spend a year working and volunteering.</p>
<p>I went to Ghana for a few months to teach English, and I now intern at a law firm. Anywho, I re-applied to a few schools and some new ones and got into all of them, so I’m pretty happy with my choice.</p>
<p>A lot of my friends took gap years too. I went to a super competitive high school, so I really needed a break from formal education. Now I’m really excited for college.</p>
<p>Well, I’m actually in my first year of college. But like you OMF, I really really need a ****ing break from what’s been basically 13 years of the same thing.</p>
<p>i agree DCHurricane</p>
<p>I personally would never take a gap year, not surprise there are few to non on cc who will state to say they have/ thought of taking a gap year.</p>
<p>I’m on gap year right now; I went for it to get some real-word work and travel experience and to improve on my dismal acceptance record last year. I’m 2 for 3 and will be 3 for 3 once I strap on my backpack and jet off in June. I don’t regret it in my case, but it’s not for everyone.</p>
<p>I wish I had taken a gap year. I really wish I could take a gap year right now and then come back to school with no penalties. </p>
<p>I am definitely not going to grad school right out of undergrad, and that is for damn sure.</p>
<p>I’m planning on getting accepted somewhere and then deferring admission for a year, that way I can have a true break where I just do what I love without the looming pressures of college/job/etc looming overhead.</p>
<p>I’ve been taking the semester off and am thinking about taking another year. It looks like I’ll be getting a pretty good job at a restaurant which is enticing.</p>
<p>I don’t know, I was never really sold on the idea of college and school…and after my experiences at my former college I can’t help but not want to go back (even though I would be going to a different school). </p>
<p>If I waited a year and got some work experiences, I would be able to save up some money and mature a little, and go to a school in this state, since I would get instate tuition.</p>
<p>The only thing that worries me is that I’m missing out on something that everyone only gets once in their life and is unique to my age.</p>
<p>Any advice?</p>
<p>What worries me more is what if the economy still hasn’t recovered when I graduate? Will I join the countless people with bachelors, masters and PhDs who can’t find employment because they’re “overqualified”? Or because they lack experience (which they can’t get because even the most entry-level jobs aren’t hiring)?</p>