Any gap year students?

Just wondering how many people on the forum are on a gap year at the moment, about to start uni in sep/oct 2005?

If you havent guessed by the post, I'm on a gap year at the moment. And bored arseless in a office handling invoices. Dont get me wrong I like having the money, but need something more interesting to do with my time.

Anyone else in the same boat or are you all off galavanting the globe leaving me here to hold down the fort

When you get to uni what are you doing to be studying? Myself chemistry, would expect a lot of people on these forums are going to be studying computer based subjects. Though you never know I could end up developing a new type of nano-based processor. <geek moment>Now that would be cool</geek moment>

 

Only a few people I know at uni actually took a gap year, it doesn't seem to that popular!

 

Your right, only 5 (or so) out of a year group of ~100 elected to take a gap year maybe 10of us have, as other didnt get the places they wanted etc.

I couldnt go straight into another 3/4/5! Years of education without some kind of break.

Upside :

Work experience
Money

Downside:

Boring as hell at times.
Forgetting all the stuff your meant to know!

 

go travelling then!! go see europe or america or austraila or something!!

 

Unfortunatly, havnt got the income to afford it. Planning on taking a 2month summer holiday before I go and try and go around the most live gigs I can.

Most of the money I have earnt (actually half) - Has been saved so that when I go to uni dont have to work for the first year or so.

I'll go travelling at the end of uni - I hope.

 

I really wanted to go travelling before I went to uni, but my parents kinda forced me in to going straight in to uni. I wanted to fly to Berlin, and then make my way to Prague, and then Moscow, and then get the train from Moscow to Beijing and spend a few weeks in China, finally ending up in Hong Kong for a month, where I'd then fly back home

I still plan to do this at some point.

 

More to the point, any FEMALE gap year students who are bored at home all day with a stack of swedish porn gathering dust!?!

 

One very hopeful guy. Good luck.

 

I nearly took a gap year but I was worried that after 12 months out I would never go back to it.

 

I wanted to take a gap year (i'm hopefully going to uni this september) but if i did i would have been hit with the top up fee thing, and be in even more debt by the end of it.

 

that was my parent's worry... I wanted to go to uni, but I couldn't convince them that I would be able to get back in to it after a year off.

 

Loads of people said to me that if I take a gap year that I'll get used to the money, and not want to go to uni. But as far as I can see, after saving and other stuff (paying a token amount for rent and bus pass) - I'm not much better off than when I had a saturday job. Though I wont get the benefit of the savings until next year.

As far as I can see, if deep down you dont want to go to uni and take a gap year, then you're going to end up not going. Its the the gap years "fault". You'll end up in a better position anyway as you wouldnt have spent a grand on a years worth of education that you just dropped out of.

I desperatly want to go to uni now, my mates all went to uni, bar two that have decided not to go and go straight into work. The ones that are at uni seem to be having a blast and doing feck all.

My parents are pretty easy going, dammit nothing to rebel against. So was never forced to go to uni, or expected to. Only one person in my family has gone to uni ever i think, I'll be the 2nd, and my mum has just started the final year of a distance learning degree from Sheffield Hallam.

 

have a year our between college and high school. get a job and save all the money.

 

that sounds like an awesome plan, something to work towards

im probably going to get hit by the top up fees thing for university anyway no matter whether i take a year out or not so i figure it doesnt make any difference to me.

my thinking is that you need a year out to kind of relax chill out and learn to be a lazy bum before actually starting university that way you can just walk straight into being lazy

 

As easy going as my parents are, they would have killed me if i bummed this year.

Did that come out the way I meant it?

Still, the lazyness will come to me I think as soon as I start. Only another 5months or so.

 

Damn same thing happened to me. I really wanted to take a year out to work / go travelling instead my parents forced to go to uni. Now 3 years on I really regret that decision, would have prefered to take the year out decide what I wanted to do.

 

Moral of the story? Never do what your parents tell you to!

 

Agreed

 

I was told to travel in my gap year but when you have to pay for that + 4 years in uni then it's just unfeasable. Therefore I decided to get a degree paid for by the NHS. Uni in London, expenses paid and a full time pay check coming in.... god I love the Labour government

 

I'm on a gap year ATM. I wanted to take some time off education, build up some money and to find out if I really did ant to go to Uni.

I've got a great job so it's quite tempting to not bother going to Uni at all.

My parents thought if I took a gap year I would never actually bother goign to Uni, but I think I most likely will, especially if I can get the company I work for to sponser me