The Reasons I Would Prefer Having A Gap Year
A gap year is a period of time when students break form their education to do something else: working, saving money for the tuitions, travelling. Gap year allows people to develop communication, knowledge, independence and autonomy. Besides, this enables to improve and learn foreign languages. So, the gap year is therefore a useful and effective way to learn new things, to solidify our knowledge, but it is not appropriate for everyone. Indeed, some people don’t feel able or don’t want to stop their studies for fear of losing the desire to study on their return. Moreover, the idea of taking a «gap year» differs from person to person and country to country, indeed many students take a gap year, for example it is very popular in the USA compared to France. Moreover, the opinions between professors and students are quite similar, one tells us that students take a gap year to help their families financially. One student wants to take this year to grow as a person and the other doesn't want to become a couch potato.
Personally, I'd say yes, I'm capable of taking a gap year, but it's more complicated than that. Firstly, if I had to take one, it would be before university, it would be very rewarding for me. Indeed, it would allow me to travel to a foreign country and so cross culture and thus improve my secondary languages, which is essential in our society. Moreover, one of the other positive points of this gap year is that by working I will have acquired a good professional experience and therefore it will be beneficial for my future. It will also allow me to finance my studies and my life as a student. In addition, I would become independent, managing my travel, my accommodation, my work, my money and my desires, this experience will make me grow, evolve and gradually bring me into the adult world.
However, I'm worried about getting involved in this project, on the one hand because it's a lot of responsibility and I don't know if I can handle the constant pressure and distance from family and friends. On the other hand, I'm afraid that when I come back I'll give up studying because I don't want to. So for me, the choice of a gap year hasn’t yet been made, certainly there are many advantages, but the consequences worry me.
I’d like conclude by saying that even though I am anxious, the gap year is a very good choice before pursuing these studies, since it offers us many opportunities, it also allows us to learn new things, to enrich ourselves as well as to make us grow, so it is very beneficial. As for me, if I take a gap year, it will be in Latin America or in the United States since it's other cultures, other worlds that I dream of discovering.
