[Magdalen] Everett @ the DMV.

[Jay Weigel]

I know I would have benefited greatly from a gap year, even just to decide
whether college was for me at that time or not, but my parents would not
hear of it. It was push-push-push all the time. As a result, I was
completely unready for college and f**ed it up completely, making a poor
choice of colleges, then transferring and flunking out. I was far too
immature to be in college, period. When I went back after my year out I did
pretty well, on balance, but then I messed up by getting married (to
someone completely wrong for me) and dropped out again to go to work. After
that I didn't go back until I decided to go to nursing school in my
30s....and graduated magna, but that's a whole other story.

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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... : )
>
> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>
> 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
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>>>> before they  start college or go to work  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<
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>> 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).
>>
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