▶ Your Answer : Some people think that taking a year off to travel or work before going to university is necessary. Both sides may have their own reasons to support their views. If I had to choose one, I would say that it would be better to go to university right away. There are several reasons and examples as follows. To begin with, people will be tired if they spend a year to travel or work. Of course, not going to university will be less stressful at first, but people can easily be sick of it. In addition, by realizing themselves left behind while others getting prepared to make money, it will be painful. For example, my friend, Jeremy, was sick of studying SAT. Therefore he went to Europe for a year. At first, he really enjoyed it. He thought it was really good idea to take year off and went to vacation. However, he gradually became tired of traveling and came back home. Finally, he regretted his decision because there were many other ways to relieve his stress occurred by studying SAT such as making new friends in university. On top of that, people can develop themselves in many ways in a year. Actually, the first year of university is really important in one's life. This is because first year classes are less demanding so people can discuss various things about their life with their friends who have similar situations with themselves. If they lose their chance, their close friends will already set their points and study hard to succeed when they become sophomore. In my case, I spent my freshman year for taking part-time job. Whenever my friends talked about their life's direction, I have no chance to talk with them because I'm busy with my part-time job. All the money I earned by working is much less than my friends' first income of big company. The differences between me and them is that they spent their freshman life not only studying but searching what to do after graduate. To sum up, if people take a year off doing other things, people will easily get exhausted and lose their chance to develop and think about many things in relaxed time. In this regard, I firmly believe that going to university right away is better for the reasons I mentioned above. |