Over the past few years, the world has seen an upsurge in the trend of people deciding to spend a year traveling or doing a work between leaving school and starting university. Either traveling or doing a job helps young people to be more independent and responsible for whatever decisions they will make.
Taking a gap year bring a broaden view and better personal resources to draw on. Some individuals spend this time to visit in their own countries, while others choose to travel in foreign ones, providing that they could get out of safe zone. Whenever they go, they will experience culturally deverse regions, encounter with local residents and make new a lot of friends. It not only provides general knowlege , but also improve their soft skills. From that, students could overcome actively the challenges of students life. Because university is a smal-zoomed social, where many excellent students from different places make the best efforts and compete with each other to graduate with a well-earned degree. All in all, the more experience they are, the more clear pespective they acquire to do with their academic careers.
What is more, a number of students take this break time to work for earn all money for college. As a result of the fact that college is so expensive that many Vietnamese families can not afford for their children to go to university. Therefore, woking and saving during the gap year has been considered useful solution help students reduce the economic burden on families.
In conclusion, students should be encouraged to take a year off in order to broaden their horizons and cultivate social skills. This way will contribute to clarify their academic direction and optimize learning most effectively before starting university in particularly and in their lives in general.