Gap Year: An Opportunity for Youngsters

In many states, the younger generation is interested in having more of free time for self-expression. Particularly, young people try to express themselves in work, or according to the principles of social tendencies - to travel, and all this is given a higher priority than the desire for external institutional formation. People advise students to travel around the world before entering university. Others say that gap year is a waste of time and money.

The first thing that needs to be said is the gap year is able to help youth to obtain more practical skills in life, to improve their personality through mastering a variety of crafts. Most people tend to realize themselves through self-expression as a volunteer. In this scenario, teenagers have an opportunity to students will have the opportunity to expand their horizons, to create their own circle of friends with similar interests and enhance their social awareness. This will reflect their personalities and help them in their adulthood. In the future people who volunteered in childhood are more likely to have a strong ambition and diligence as an adult. They also gain vital experience and explore profession options what will help to decide the faculty in the future institution. An American educator, Horace Mann once said about volunteering: “Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.” This quote can be understood as volunteers are constantly representing an opportunity for the realization of youth in a sphere completely unknown to them.

Secondly, it is also a good opportunity to define personal interests and provide the body with moral recreation from the requirements of reality. The last classes in the school, as a rule, put aт immense pressure on students both morally and physically. The pressure expressed in stress and lack of sleep. Such conditions make it difficult for young students to think about their own desires and goals for the future. Therefore, the students feel insecure about their choice of faculty in the beginning of university life. It is great to take a year off for yourself, so there will be more time to attempt yourself in different areas. On the other side, the gap year can become a lost year. People tend to rush into a life, to graduate earlier, to get the job and start earning money. Employers are also looking for young and perspective employee. This causes an overwhelming contest between graduates. Young people are considered as a better learner and it is easier for them to get familiar with the new information, also they have more energy and more enthusiasm for the work. One of the cases of the realization of youth in the program should be presented. 18-year-old Casey Santi, explores French, wanders and enjoys social work in Europe and Africa since of registration in June in the project 'gap year.' She says that the tension during her senior direction in high school has plunged her into this, in order to shift the school time 'to return to herself and return to the right approach.' According to her texts, the acquired skills during the program increased her interest and inclination to study art. Living in the south of France, the town of TRIST, she expresses her feelings about the international experience: 'wherever everyone understands absolutely everyone, without exception,' she says, 'I have felt myself to be the more mature.”

Furthermore, one should not forget about the money of parents or guardians. As long as the teen is neither a student nor qualified worker, he has no financial income. Therefore, in the first case if the kid is traveling parents or the guardians should pay for it. In the second case, if the kid is working without qualification, the money earned in one year might not be enough to pay for the studies and life, and the worked year will not bring much of experience relevant with his future studies.

At long last, there are few great choices how not to waste the year between finishing high school and starting university studies. During the gap year, the student can travel around the world, volunteer in different areas or work. This is the most vital moment, since the intervals year is not fair a time-out, doing nothing at all, but part of a long-term educational or topical line of motion arrangement. It is conceivable to be unstructured and supposed 'at the last minute,' since the youthful man carries out a free system (in case, productive work and street travel), but use of the period through diverse sorts of work in the setting of takeoff and return in preparing, planning, which sets the time of the crevice. Unscheduled time outside of education, action or consider, without doing anything at all, is not considered a year of rupture. However, high-quality consider demonstrating that various individuals have each chance of starting and at that point switch to an unstructured set of operations.