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[quote=Anonymous]I'm hoping/planning for my DD to take a gap year. I don't think they're weird, our two friends from Scotland both did one--one as a foreign exchange student, one as an au pair. I went into undergrad thinking I wanted to be a Spanish teacher and by the time I was a junior and started student teaching I realized I really didn't want to teach. I thought maybe I could do something IR-related with my Spanish but after I studied abroad, also my junior year, I realized...nope, not for me either. And then had to figure out what I did want to do. I think if I had taken a gap year and gone somewhere to volunteer as an English teacher or teaching assistant or something, I would've realized all that a lot sooner. So I'm going to encourage DD to take a year to volunteer/intern/start a business/be an exchange student/work at a coffee shop while trying to be a starving artist...just get a little life experience before making big, expensive, time-intensive decisions about what to study.[/quote]

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