<p>hi
i have taken a gap year and have no clue what to do
got any suggestion?????</p>
<p>thought i would take a computor course and learn couple of its languages.. learn chinese too since china is sooo much in demand..</p>
<p>what are the best jobs on campus pay scale wise.. if it is something like scuba-diving trainer or computor programmer then I can learn that skill here and earn there!!</p>
<p>or any kind of job which will help me in the future..
[i am going undecided.. so u cant predict which co.s will like whichever internship i do ..can u?]
got any in mind??</p>
<p>I agree with UCLAri. i think maybe the reason you haven't gotten many replies is that people don't really know what to say.. at least I didn't when I read your post. I'm not here to judge, but I found it odd that you decided to take a gap year without knowing why you wanted to in the first place. Don't do anything just because it's in demand or for the high pay. People on CC aren't going to tell you what the highest-paying jobs on campus are, because college campuses are so vastly different that it's impossible to generalize across them and tell you what, exactly, will pay the highest. Just curious, why did you decide to take a gap year? Maybe re-evaluating why you wanted to take a gap year will help you figure out what you really want to do.</p>
<p>Agreed- I didn't answer your posts or your message to me because I have no idea exactly what you are doing and what you are looking for. I assume this is your gap year, but it is already November! We don't know what your interests are, why you took a gap year, what colleges you are applying to for next year..... Your post is impossible to answer intelligently.</p>
<p>agreed with the others. i'll tell you what I do instead.</p>
<ol>
<li>working full time</li>
<li>learning Japanese</li>
<li>taking part time classes</li>
<li>the usual community work, but i will be off to Pakistan hopefully by end of year to help there.</li>
<li>producing a movie on my own. with a shoestring budget. sounds impossible, but it's not. :)</li>
<li>preparing myself for a climb up a 4000m mountain next january.</li>
</ol>
<p>i think that's for now. :) i did those puirely because i wanted to do them. i wanted to learn japanese. i wanted to make a movie. it's not for anything other than pleasure.</p>
<p>4000m mountain? Which one? I've done two: Whitney (~4500 m) and White (~4400 m). With Whitney, the last 500m or so were awful, but I can't wait to do my next big climb (want to do Fuji, and then later on I'm going to tackle Denali.)</p>
<p>Kinabalu, yes. In Borneo. But it's not the tallest, it's the second tallest. Hkakabo Razi in Myanmar is taller by about 1800 meters.</p>
<p>Still, sounds like a good climb. Just trust an intermediate climber on one thing: if you get alt. sickness, just go down. It's not worth messing with. </p>
<p>Yep. Look at it this way: I completed 3 years of college-level Japanese, and have now lived in Japan for a year. I'd say I'm just now at a level most would call fluent.</p>
<p>hi sorry for sounding ambiguous..
well i took a gap year coz it was only after my 12th grade did i decide to go the U.S. to study instead of staying in India and didnt want to rush up applications..</p>
<p>well i am totally into animals..enjoy volunteering but want to try out ANYTHING for the next few months..
applying Ed to middlebury and should mostly get in too..</p>
<p>so now can you guys suggest things to do/?i dont mind anything at all.. just that it shouldnt involve like paying to volunteer someplace coz thats too expensive..
really need something concrete to do.. impressive but ofcourse enjoyable too..like i love the mountain climbing and movie making plan..</p>
<p>banedon:whoa what u doing seems really interesting.. can you tell me more abt your pakistan tour.. i just met couple of delegates from paki in MUN.. they really interesting..</p>
<p>naah thats not cuppa tea.. leaning towards environmental science..
but what to do with all the free time.. so far in my gap year i have written for teh national paper and attended couple of MUNs.. getting so bored now..</p>
<p>Try to find an internship with an environmental scientist, or raise some animals and do your own study. Do you like music? Theater? History? Writing?</p>
<p>My advice would be to come up with a main interest, like environmental science, and find something that relates to that. Then come up with one or two other projects based on your other interests, do some volunteer work, and maybe find a job. If you're trying to learn skills that would help you find a job in college, do general things that can be used in a wide variety of occupations: become a very fast typist (70 WPM +), get familiar with a wide variety of computer programs, etc. As other posters have said, though, don't do something just because you think it'll make you money; do it for your own interests.</p>
<p>"If you're trying to learn skills that would help you find a job in college, do general things that can be used in a wide variety of occupations"</p>
<p>can you tell me more such skills like for eg. learning computer languages. etc.. what else???</p>