[Magdalen] Everett @ the DMV.

[M J _Mike_ Logsdon]

>>>Israeli  kids typically take a gap year following their army service and
before they  start college or go to work  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<

I'd thought about a gap year, or at least semester, after college graduation and what I didn't know then was to be a multi-abortive attempt at a graduate degree in English literature, in order to catch up on some reading I hadn't managed in my life theretofore.  But, at that time, neither I nor my college advisor had any reason to think I had such a crash-and-burn coming, so he advised me not to bother, and I didn't, basically.  Because I'd by that time missed the admission deadline to the university of my choice, I did in the end take a semester off (which was frittered away doing basically nothing productive, except working as a Kelly Temp to save up at least a bit of money) and went away to school in January.  Six months later, my gov't career was off and running for life (not quite yet fully beknownst to me).