Many students choose to take a gap year before starting university, to travel or gain work experience. Do you think this is a good idea or a waste of time?

Studying in universities is a phase where students go through a lot of pressure. A great number of students decides to take a year-long break travelling or working before enrolling for tertiary education. I agree with the idea and in today's essay, I will discuss how effective the plan can be.

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, a lot of undergraduate

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and explore places before enrols higher studies. During

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period may come across people working in various occupations, where some of these professions may affect their decisions in picking a specialization for a university course.

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, a teenager wants to join an institution for

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studies can come across many professions like tourism manager, hospitality manager, archaeological officer etc. which may affect their decisions to choose their streams for higher studies. If someone who may choose not

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ravel before college may not have

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clearer picture in terms of the decision to pick their masters.

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, a myriad of pupils

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to work for an established organization.

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may lead them to gain valuable experience and exposure and getting a hands-on experience of the corporate world they are going to be a part of after studies.

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, a freshman may already have practical knowledge of accounting as he has already worked as

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ntern before his accounting master and it may be in sync with

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heoretical study he is obtaining. In conclusion, be it

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to different places or working in a company in a gap taken before tertiary education, those experiences can prove fruitful for the young people before higher education.