“I think the gap year really prepared me for college in a way, because
I had already figured out how to live on my own,” she said. “I had
already dealt with the stress of living with a roommate and cooking for
myself so, in a way, I came to college feeling like I only had to add
one element to it:"classes.”
“Although I can’t say that my gap year definitively prepared me for
college, I think what it did was give me insight into the fact that
there’s a world out there that I can survive in, which makes the
thought of it much less scary,” he said. “It prepared me in thinking
about that constant always outside of school.”
Mind the Gap
A feature on students from Wesleyan University who took a year off before starting college. Not suprisingly, they were more mature and had a better perspective on school than the typical freshman. This kind of thing is expected in the U.K., and the same should be true in the U.S.