<p>I am currently a freshman at Cal Poly. I am considering possibly taking winter quarter off next year and either taking some classes at community college back home to get GE’s out of the way at a lower price, or doing some sort of volunteering. Does anyone know what the policy is at Cal Poly for taking time off from school? Has anyone done this (not necessarily at Cal Poly, but at any school)? If so, what was your experience like?</p>
<p>My friends just took their winter quarter off from CP. They are seniors, but the way they did was ask some of the teachers to give them work in advance for classes they could not skip, handed it in early and they were fine…They also did a summer quarter 2009 to get ahead…
so i’d say it’s pretty do-able!</p>