What Im really tying to say in the above post is Travel, Travel, Travel, Travel... it's great. Take the time off and go see the world, or at the very least the rest of North America (assuming you are in North America).
I thought about it for a while, and should mention that my family basically took a world tour on route to Australia.
Its a real eye-opener, and will prehaps better prepare you for college anyways. Also, wouldn't it look impressive on a application to say that you've traveled the world?
If your family is U.S. military, as a dependent, you can get cheap/free flights to US Air bases in other countries as well as accomidation on those bases. Which makes travel much cheaper.
Due to my fathers job my family and I had to leave the USA just three weeks after I finnished High school, in June this year, and we moved to Australia. Becuase the school year here starts in March, I am simply waiting around until March 2003 to start college. Im really having a great time! During High School I put in long hours with after school clubs, homework, etc.. and also worked 25 hours a week at a part time job. Im finnaly getting a chance to do all the things that I never go to do because I was too danm busy. In short, being unemployed and not having to go to school == having the prehaps the best time of my life. Ofcourse, it doesn't help that Australia is devoid of decent Broadband, but that is irrelivant. If you plan on Traveling in the time off, then I'd especially reccomend taking a year off before starting college. However, if you just plan to watch more DVDs, play more games, etc... then just go to college and do that. When I talk to my friend that went straight to college, they say they have heaps of free time to do that stuff, more so than highschool.
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What Im really tying to say in the above post is Travel, Travel, Travel, Travel... it's great.
Take the time off and go see the world, or at the very least the rest of North America (assuming you are in North America).
I thought about it for a while, and should mention that my family basically took a world tour on route to Australia.
Its a real eye-opener, and will prehaps better prepare you for college anyways. Also, wouldn't it look impressive on a application to say that you've traveled the world?
If your family is U.S. military, as a dependent, you can get cheap/free flights to US Air bases in other countries as well as accomidation on those bases. Which makes travel much cheaper.
Due to my fathers job my family and I had to leave the USA just three weeks after I finnished High school, in June this year, and we moved to Australia. Becuase the school year here starts in March, I am simply waiting around until March 2003 to start college.
Im really having a great time! During High School I put in long hours with after school clubs, homework, etc.. and also worked 25 hours a week at a part time job. Im finnaly getting a chance to do all the things that I never go to do because I was too danm busy. In short, being unemployed and not having to go to school == having the prehaps the best time of my life. Ofcourse, it doesn't help that Australia is devoid of decent Broadband, but that is irrelivant.
If you plan on Traveling in the time off, then I'd especially reccomend taking a year off before starting college. However, if you just plan to watch more DVDs, play more games, etc... then just go to college and do that. When I talk to my friend that went straight to college, they say they have heaps of free time to do that stuff, more so than highschool.