[Magdalen] Everett @ the DMV.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

I think a gap year should serve a purpose of some kind and be a bit planned 
or else it does not even make sense to me... whether the gap separates High 
School from an entry level job, or university.

Lynn... whose chair is stuck on the carpeting but I'm going upstairs to the 
studio NOW... : )

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When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "M J _Mike_ Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 1:22 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Everett @ the DMV.

>>>>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).