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[quote=Anonymous]I graduated in three years from college at age 20.  I took a couple of years off before grad school and spent time abroad as well as time exploring my future field.  I have no regrets and often speak to my children about these choices -- usually in the sense that I urge them to be imaginative with their futures -- that there is more than one path to where they want to go and the time to explore an alternate route is when they are young without any encumbrances.  Sitting here writing this, I cannot think of any downside.  I remain, to this day, friends with my college friends, some of whom I graduated with, some of whom graduated the following year.  (Because I was taking the upper level courses that allowed me to graduate early, I was friends already with students who were graduating on my timeline).  I think I would have felt bored and resentful had I stayed in college one more year simply to say I was in college for four years.  The time between college and grad school was very important to my development and the sense of purpose I ultimately felt when I went back to school at age 23.

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