> In the best-case scenario, you’ll end the year with a path towards a profitable business and the money-making skills you thought you needed student loans to b

> In the best-case scenario, you’ll end the year with a path towards a profitable business and the money-making skills you thought you needed student loans to build. Author should include a pie chart (or something) of the odds of this happening. When you're unable to see the "profitable business on first try after 4 months" slice for how vanishingly small it is, that will put this advice into context. Basically, if someone wants to do this, they should definitely do it _for the experience_, not because this is a viable means of starting a profitable business. I say this as someone who is not a fan of "college for all" and think that taking a year after high school to work & experience life without grades (and without someone else paying the bills) before heading to college is very good idea.