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Article: Make your gap year mo ore than just a holiday; Sarah Richardson meets three young people whose gap year had a profound effect on the way they see the world.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 23, 2005
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Byline: SARAH RICHARDSON
THE GAP year has had some bad press recently. Its critics question the value of getting your parents to cough up for you to hang around on a sanitised beach in Thailand for seven months - and they're right.
You may feel that all travel broadens the horizons and that you deserve a break after 14 years of studying. But if a long holiday is all you're after you can do that during the summer breaks while you're an undergraduate. More impressive to future employers and beneficial to you are the gap years where you saved up so you could pay for a trip yourself - where you did good, learned about other cultures, met new people and came ...