Choosing which university you want to go to and which subject you want to dedicate three years of your young life to can be a daunting task. Many secondary school leavers find that the stress and strain of taking A’ levels doesn’t leave them with sufficient time to make this decision carefully and as such they decide to take a gap year.
A gap year can offer time in which to weigh up their education options, but too, will open up a wide and varied experience of life before they do, which, is something not taught at school.
If the prospect of zooming straight from classroom-to-classroom fills you with dread, or alarm, and you feel an nagging sense that there has to be something else to experience before university, then why not consider taking a gap year?
It may be the case that there is a country or an area of the world that you have always dreamed of visiting but haven’t yet had the opportunity. It could be that you’ve always wanted to work with orang-utans in Indonesia or help build schools, orphanages and water supplies in third world countries. It might be that you’ve always thought you’d make a good teacher of English or perhaps you’ve simply dreamed of travelling through somewhere that’s completely different to your home surroundings.
Whatever your gap year dreams may be, this could be one of the few times in your life where you have the opportunity to throw caution to the wind. Once you start at university, you’ll be limited to non-term time if you want to go abroad. And, if you are fortunate enough to get a job after your degree, the real world has limitations on holiday-time too.
It has never been so easy to organise a gap year, either. There are a multitude of organisations dedicated to helping students organise their travel experiences and now, providers offer travel insurance specifically designed for backpacking trips and gap years. The internet is a fantastic resource for finding out more about all kinds of different travel experiences, so have a browse and see what catches your eye.
There are, however, a few instances when a gap year could potentially be detrimental to your further education prospects. If, for example, you decide to spend 6 months working and saving and 6 months travelling, but things don’t go to plan and you end up at home for a year, some of the more competitive universities could consider this to be detrimental to your application.
The second motivation is that in doing so you will undoubtedly gain a great deal personally. You will mature, you will change many of your preconceptions and you will find your perspectives greatly altered. If both of these sound appealing to you, then perhaps you should be thinking carefully about taking a gap year before university.
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