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Taking a year off to party seems like bad advice. You need to be able to party and meet obligations too, because that's real life. College is supposed to introd

Taking a year off to party seems like bad advice. You need to be able to party and meet obligations too, because that's real life. College is supposed to introduce you to that. One year of partying is like dipping a pinky toe in. Most of the best partying seems to be from about 25-35. You have better money, good experience, and a huge friend group. It's trivial to get 40-50 people together for a party and walking into the bar and already knowing lots of people without scheduling ahead is reality. Then more and more people start filtering out as they have kids. So, about 20 years of solid partying seems pretty normal from my friend group and observations. Then once you have solid money and kids it turns to weekend warrior types. Only partying on the weekends and doing more costly things like boating or taking short trips with friends. The only big parties are on the coveted 3 day weekends and the food becomes as important as the drugs and alcohol. Then, not from experience yet but observations seems like a little more partying once the kids are older late 50s early 60s but probably being in bed by midnight in most cases.

Eric_WVGG 4y ago
> Taking a year off to party seems like bad advice. A year off "to party" is iffy advice, but "a year off to get high school out of your system," i.e. a "gap year," is really good advice. I walked out of high school a depressed mess, and instead of slowing down and dealing with that, I let my parents pressure me into rolling that straight into college. Five years later, still pointlessly studying anything that sounded interesting, no degree in sight, sinking deeper into depression… it wasn't until I finally flamed out and put my life back together that I could even think about career. I wasn't even aware that the disciplines I would eventually find interesting even existed until after college. I still rank going straight into college as the biggest mistake of my life.
ativzzz 4y ago
Taking off a year to party may not be worthwhile but taking off a year to travel (if you have money) probably is. Also I disagree about partying better later on in life. Getting shitfaced with your friends at 20 any day of the week, hardly sleeping, and then not feeling a thing the next day and going to class is an experience you cannot replicate later in life. The last thing I want to do at 30 is have more than 2-3 drinks and get less than 8 hours of sleep when I have work the next day. The party atmosphere changes - the experiences get nicer and the food is better, but that raw youthful naivety and energy cannot be replicated, when you don't really care about anything but just having a good time and the environment/peripherals don't matter at all
TrevorJ 4y ago
I don't think the spirit of OP's comment was 'take a year off to party'. It was, if you are going to pay a bunch of tuition because you want to party...don't.

Eric_WVGG 4y ago

> Taking a year off to party seems like bad advice. A year off "to party" is iffy advice, but "a year off to get high school out of your system," i.e. a "gap year," is really good advice. I walked out of high school a depressed mess, and instead of slowing down and dealing with that, I let my parents pressure me into rolling that straight into college. Five years later, still pointlessly studying anything that sounded interesting, no degree in sight, sinking deeper into depression… it wasn't until I finally flamed out and put my life back together that I could even think about career. I wasn't even aware that the disciplines I would eventually find interesting even existed until after college. I still rank going straight into college as the biggest mistake of my life.

ativzzz 4y ago

Taking off a year to party may not be worthwhile but taking off a year to travel (if you have money) probably is. Also I disagree about partying better later on in life. Getting shitfaced with your friends at 20 any day of the week, hardly sleeping, and then not feeling a thing the next day and going to class is an experience you cannot replicate later in life. The last thing I want to do at 30 is have more than 2-3 drinks and get less than 8 hours of sleep when I have work the next day. The party atmosphere changes - the experiences get nicer and the food is better, but that raw youthful naivety and energy cannot be replicated, when you don't really care about anything but just having a good time and the environment/peripherals don't matter at all

TrevorJ 4y ago

I don't think the spirit of OP's comment was 'take a year off to party'. It was, if you are going to pay a bunch of tuition because you want to party...don't.