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Article: One year to conquer the world EDUCATION 2001 Taking a gap-year can not only give you valuable life skills, it can also help you get into university
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 16, 2001
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IF a recent article in The Times is to be believed, gap-years are
an indulgence from which you return with "tall tales of mind-numbing
banality and a wardrobe full of ethnic tat". The article's author
says, "The really grownup thing to do is to get a life and opt out of
gapping".
If you want to go straight to university, get a job, and work nine-
to-five, five days a week, then spend each weekend thinking "weekends
just aren't long enough", then do as The Times suggests.
If, however, you want to spend a year between school and
university getting valuable skills which will get you ahead in life,
then consider taking constructive time out. You have the results in
front of you of possibly the ...