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The ‘Gap year’ which provides free
choices about work and travel to the high school graduates before they enter university,
can impose both advantages and disadvantages to the people who joined this ‘gap
year’ course. Especially, these differences are based on the preparation of each
student.
The advantage can be represented as a
freedom of choosing their life in the very important season. Even we are sure
that we can live a free life, compulsory educational courses and following
university studies are not easy, not to mention the life of adult as a bread-winner.
Before putting ourselves to the continuing competition to survive, saving some
free time as a student can be the final and the most pure ‘freedom’. This kind
of freedom can secure a great chance of thinking deeply on our life and further
life courses we want to pursue. Working at the factory or store can be a good
choice and traveling to the other country is also a fantastic choice. Whatever
we do, if this freedom is based on one's careful thinking, the limited and precious time called gap year, can embed a huge possibility to our
future.
However, in some particular circumstances,
this ‘gap year’ is not as good as I mentioned before. The circumstances i mean
are the various situations provoked by the lack of preparation with careful thinking
before the gap year. For the people with lack of careful consideration, it is
just a great waste of time. Many of modern universities can offer a good or
outstanding education to students. And after graduation, the graduates, who
were students once, should work hard for the society, and the family. Thus, a
single year in their young age is much more precious than we expected. In the
long term, doing trivial things without taking university courses can be a huge
loss to one’s life.
In conclusion, it is natural that the
system is not just defined by the system itself but defined by the person who
is in the system. Thus, a true freedom of gap year is for the one who is in
ready and willing to use it wisely, while the loss and waste of time for the
one who is not prepared for grab the chances.
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