I took a gap year, well 2 years, before I guess it had a name. It worked out for me. Most of my friends who went to college right after high school partied, dropped out and never finished. Somehow I knew I wasn't ready. I planned to take 1 year off and it turned into 2. It was a great experience and it worked out for me, but it could have gone another way. One of my mentors at the time saw that I was spinning my wheels literally drove me to the closest collage and got me to fill an application. Those 2 years did motivate me to finish though.
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I took a gap year, well 2 years, before I guess it had a name. It worked out for me. Most of my friends who went to college right after high school partied, dropped out and never finished. Somehow I knew I wasn't ready. I planned to take 1 year off and it turned into 2. It was a great experience and it worked out for me, but it could have gone another way. One of my mentors at the time saw that I was spinning my wheels literally drove me to the closest collage and got me to fill an application. Those 2 years did motivate me to finish though.