[Magdalen] Everett @ the DMV.

[Jay Weigel]

Israeli college students are typically older than American students, often
20 or 21 when they start. As a result, they have a much clearer idea of
what they want and where they are going than American students do and are
more likely to reach their goals quicker. They may take heavier credit
loads or go to school year round in order to finish in a shorter time, and
there's less partying.

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> 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).
>>>
>>
>>
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