It is very regretful for me the fact that I did not get a break for long time like a semester or a year before I attended my university. Certainly, if I have a chance to study in the course of my university, I would take a break before I enroll because there are two important reasons why students need to take a year break: a better decision for their major and various experiences before attending collages.
Choosing a major in a collage is seriously significant for people’s future. It is not easy to select a major because there are many options and requirements. Students have to consider not only what characteristics they have, whether they like and what sorts of occupation they will get after their graduation, but also they should think of the school’s admission requirements such as grades, foreign language proficiency, etc. Those would be solved considerably by taking a break for a year. They can study their future subjects that they are not sure whether they want to study or not, and make up for many requests of universities that they want to go. In other words, definitely, they would get a sufficient time to consider and complete many options and qualities before they start to get a bachelor degree.
During a break, the students can enjoy many types of experience. I believe that experience is one of the best education methods for youth. Everyone knows various experience would be accumulate as knowledge and it makes students wiser, but it is difficult to realize in limited status as a student. For instance, it is not easy to get a part time job because of own studying, and it is hard too to travel for a long time during a high school period. However, those are good ways to learn our real lives that no one teaches in their school. Of course, they will get broaden perspectives. It cannot be worthy enough. In addition, the break will be a great opportunity to poor students to earn some money to pay their tuitions.
Someone might say students have to attend their collages as early as they can to earn money for stable lives. It may be true students who don’t take a break before attending universities can graduate earlier. However, I believe that there are two types of better advantages in taking a year break. The students have an enough time to decide their majors and they get diverse and plentiful experience as another way of studying. |