Michael Val Bolibol
Prof. Michals
English 49
12/1/13
Taking a Gap year Do you believe that “School” sounds exhausting? For twelve years students need to be at school for seven hours. It can be really exhausting if you ask any student. In my own experience it required a lot of hard work and perseverance to finish twelve year of school. Especially, during senior year which is the hardest year among them all because it is the last step to be able to graduate and attend a college or a university. After high school there are countless of options for a students. Some of these options are to go directly to colleges or find a job and live with the money they earn. There are also students who take a year off to explore and realize what they want to do in their future. Either way, I believe that it make sense for a student after high school to take a year off because a person needs to realize what they want to do in life, they can be more independent with their lives, and a year of relaxing from the exhaustion of twelve years of school. Graduating from school and having no idea what their future should be is really common in our society. In some cases the person is set on what they want in the future but most of the people after high school don’t have any idea on what to do. For example, Monika Lutz in the article “Delaying College to Fill in Gaps” by S. Shellenbarger, Ms. Lutz planned to take the year off and applied for a company. She was sent to India to bring solar power to a remote village. After working in muddy place, she realizes that she cannot do the work the work she’s been assigned to. She also realized that taking that year off save her $200,000 and would still end up in the same place. This shows that with Ms. Lutz experiences in India help her recognize what is it she wants to do. However, Going in college undecided also works because the colleges have