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[quote=Anonymous]I can't see any reason not to and will be strongly encouraging my kids to do it. My DH and I both did, we are both from Europe where it is common. Both of us worked for around 6 months (he worked in a store, I was really lucky and had an amazing paid internship in the field I wanted to work in at the time), and then traveled for 6 months, taking time to study languages and volunteer in some of the places we were in. It was an amazing break from the pressures of school (I was in a very academic, Big-3 style school in my home country), and an incredible opportunity to be completely independent, meet totally different people, see new things, etc. I returned feeling refreshed and really excited to start college - and because gap years are more common where I am from (I'd say about half of the first students had done one and half not) there was a real difference between those who had and those who hadn't had gap years. [/quote]
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