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So if you could go back in time would you take a gap year? In general I think freshmen / sophomores don’t take enough advantages & don’t understand the profess

So if you could go back in time would you take a gap year? In general I think freshmen / sophomores don’t take enough advantages & don’t understand the professional implications of their time in college.

avalys 5y ago
Yes - actually I had just finished editing my post to say that. For me at least I think it would have made a major difference. You are absolutely correct - I still sometimes kick myself over stupid decisions I made as a freshman and sophomore.
- dylan604 5y ago
  >I still sometimes kick myself over stupid decisions I made as a freshman and sophomore. You and every other single human on the planet ;-)
  - ghaff 5y ago
    Yeah. It’s not like being 18 rather than 16 transforms you into this somber mature freshman.
dvirsky 5y ago
I skipped a year in elementary school and had a gap year (because I was in Israel I couldn't start university because I was supposed to do mandatory military service, and had a year to wait). Man oh man, did this year suck. I had no skills to manage myself with no routine, all my friends were a year older than me and started their military service. I worked for a few months, but then I just did nothing for what seemed like an eternity: I slept during the day, I was alone most of the time, internet was a couple years away so I didn't even have that, I honestly can't remember what I did but it was terrible.
- senkora 5y ago
  This was how 2020 was for me. It was awful, and I never want to feel that way again. I did have a plan for how to spend that time in a way that was meaningful, but COVID trashed it and I was left with nothing.