NationStates Jolt Archive

Should I take one, and what should I do on it?

Open to all suggestions.

1. Yes

2. Go to Japan.

Yes... fix your bike

yes...cure cancer

Yes

Travel the world.

Come back in one year time. Tell us about your adventures.

yes...cure cancerI'm looking for something a bit less ambitious I think.

Yes.

Orbit once around the Sun.

1 - If you can think of something to do, sure, why not.
2 - There's always volountary work if you're so inclined. Looks good on a CV to, I'm sure.

1 - If you can think of something to do, sure, why not.
2 - There's always volountary work if you're so inclined. Looks good on a CV to, I'm sure.
Well, my problem is that I really can't think of anything to do. But I'd still like to do it (I think)

Become my maid.

Yes and go to Thailand. I went there, It's damn nice and the people are really helpful.

Take a year out and go seagull culling in Aberdeen; you'll never be so glad to go back to work/uni/whatever at the end

Take a break, go to Swindon

Yes, yes, I know that this would not happen to you, but I don't personally know anyone who took a gap year which did not turn into two gap years, three gap years, four gap years, and so on.

I'd say forgo the gap year.

Well, my problem is that I really can't think of anything to do. But I'd still like to do it (I think)
Could always try Oxfam, Red Cross and the like - or talk to your university/college's careers office, they'd be able to point you towards volounteer organisations.

Yes, yes, I know that this would not happen to you, but I don't personally know anyone who took a gap year which did not turn into two gap years, three gap years, four gap years, and so on.

I'd say forgo the gap year.
Nah, that really doesn't appeal. I can't even figure out how to fill one year.

Take a year out and go seagull culling in Aberdeen; you'll never be so glad to go back to work/uni/whatever at the end
That actually does sound like the most unpleasant thing I could do within the mainland UK.

1. Yes

2. Road trip! No car? Watch all seasons of seinfeld on DvD and watch it sitting on a recliner with a built in refrigerator. If that gets old start a riot in DC or NYC about how Bush should not be president, than strom the white house and kill and the un-fab four; Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Condi Rice.

Well I'm on mine at the moment, and I'd suggest you take one too. I'm in the UK as an exchange student. It's great to go and be part of another culture for a while.

The really important thing I'd suggest is that if you go somewhere be EXTREEMLY careful about what company you go with (as a student or whatever). If you go somewhere as an excahge student try the ASSE, they're the best I've seen. Do NOT even think about going anywhere with EF, many of the other students here are with them and it's been a complete nightmare. They've lied to students and their parents about having schools for them. Along with misinforming the government of the country that they were going to.

Nah, that really doesn't appeal. I can't even figure out how to fill one year.

Definitely take a gap year. Only losers go straight to uni ;)

www.trekforce.org.uk run great projects for 2-5 months. Fill the rest of the time with earning some cash or backpacking or both.

I dunno, treking through the rainforest... its sounds wonderfully romantic, but I have a feeling I wouldn't be ready for the reality.

I'd like to go to America, but I've gotta think of something to do there as well. Earning money would be good, but not a main priority. Also, on moral grounds, I'm boycotting red states.

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Also, on moral grounds, I'm boycotting red states.
Think of it as an anthropological expedition. There are some cool places down south.
Besides, it's always good to confront one's pre-conceptions with personal observation.

Think of it as an anthropological expedition. There are some cool places down south.
Besides, it's always good to confront one's pre-conceptions with personal observation.
No, thats a perfectly good point, but my logic is far more basic than that. I don't want my cash going down there any more than I have to. I'd like to go there (briefly), but it'd just feel wrong.

You should go to Russia, India,and Europe and parts of the Middle East with me and my Friend Andrhea..... it'll be fun.....

No, thats a perfectly good point, but my logic is far more basic than that. I don't want my cash going down there any more than I have to. I'd like to go there (briefly), but it'd just feel wrong.
I know the feeling. There are some countries I'd avoid for the same reason, even though I've got friends living there.

You should go to Russia, India,and Europe and parts of the Middle East with me and my Friend Andrhea..... it'll be fun.....
Meet up with someone from the internet for a backpacking tour of Russia, India and the Middle East?

No offence to you personally, but that's the way that cautionary newspaper stories start.

Id say no. Take the example, you take a gap year, you get a job with a steady flow of income and lots of friends, potentailly a partner, time comes for you to start uni and leave these behind. Would you do it?
The temptation of not going to uni once a gap year has ended are too great to risk, plus all you're class will be younger than you and fresh out of education with it all fresh in their minds. You lose your ability to do as well as you could and indeed should

Id say no. Take the example, you take a gap year, you get a job with a steady flow of income and lots of friends, potentailly a partner, time comes for you to start uni and leave these behind. Would you do it?
The temptation of not going to uni once a gap year has ended are too great to risk, plus all you're class will be younger than you and fresh out of education with it all fresh in their minds. You lose your ability to do as well as you could and indeed should
Well, a lot of people take a gap year, its not like I'd be in a minority.

And I've been alive for going on 18 years, and I don't yet have a steady flow of income, lots of friends or a partner, so quite frankly, if I could manage to get all that in a year it'd be extraordiary.

Also, if I had all those things, why would I need to go to uni anyway?