4 th practice

Due to the personal experience with university in 2013, I’d like to encourage teenagers to take a gap year to be sure about what they would like to be in the future, and to find real passion: people usually make decisions as quick as possible - our main failure in life-. However, I already knew that this point of view of mine is a controversial topic because the great majority of parents are against it. 

I do not want to be radical with this thought; I just want to let the world know that there isn’t anything wrong about taking a lot of time to make decisions, and all the more reason, if they are going to definite our entire lives. Saying this, please, go back in time and remember when you were eighteen years old. What word come to your mind? Immaturity, YOLO (you only live once), university…? They may seem unrelated words, but, in fact, they are totally connected and people do not notice it!

People want us to go to university as soon as possible to study a degree, do our best and, finally, find a good and stable job. At this point is when I wonder...why? Is it bad to take a gap year to be sure of your future choice? As you can see, I am totally against it, I think it is far worse paying two enrollments and do not enjoy what you are studying than being abroad for a year getting informed about the degrees you like the most.

In a nutshell, high schools graduates should be required to take a year off before being accepted by a college, in order to increase their maturity, because the university period takes -at least- four years; it may not seem quite a long time. However, it will leave a really big mark in your life.