<p>I just graduated high school with 78 college hours, an associates degree in interdisciplinary studies, and now I want to take a break for this fall semester. My years of high school were filled with college life, high school life, and personal life all together. I did pretty good, though not as good as I could have done, but I feel burned out already. Because of my economic circumstances I did not get to go to my ideal college even though I was accepted. Instead I registered at a college 30 minutes away from home. I registered late and almost every class I needed to take for my chosen major, nursing, were full. During my first years of attending "real" college I should be starting out with the core classes, but since I already completed all of those during high school I would have to start with the classes related to my major immediately and like I said, because I went late, they were all closed. I'm only registered for two classes and doing half time is affecting my financial aid that I can't pay at the moment. All of my friends are going to college in two weeks and even though I'm still not sure if I'm going this semester or not I'm feeling a little left behind. If I did decide to not attend this semester my plan is to get a job this year. In spring i would go to college, still with a job, then during the summer I could take some classes to make up for the time I lost, and with the money I saved up I could go to my ideal college (which is about 4 hours away) and get by. Do you think this is a good plan? I know that it was a terrible mistake to leave everything at the last minute, but I feel like taking a semester off, more than to just save up money, I could really think about what I really want to do. If this was you, how would you tell your parents so that they don't think you don't want to go to college?</p>