Some people believe that is a good idea for young people to take a year off to travel or work between high school and university. Others say that it is better for students to go straight on to university after graduating from high school.

Nowadays there is a tendence about taking a gap year between high school and university. There are people who believe that it is a good idea while there are others who think that it is better for students go straight to university. In this essay I will talk about both views and give my own opinion. First of all, it is believed that live is a straight path that you have to follow without missing any step. However, modern days are different that before and globalization has created a huge number of opportunities for travel. When students go straight to university, they can feel that there is not a change, that they are only studying and not enjoying the best time of their lives. For example, when I was travelling through Asia, I knew a girl who was in a gap year before university and she told me about the interesting things she had learned and how open minded she felt in that trip. In the contrary, we find a number of people that believe students have to go directly to university. They are no thinking about the student’s feelings or student’s necessities, they only think about how important is studying and, moreover, how necessary is it to find a good job. For instance, I can talk about my parents, they only believe that there is one path, and when I decided to take a gap year, in my case was when I finished university, they went crazy thinking that it was not the next step after ending my degree. To sum up, in my opinion, I think that it is necessary to listen and try to accomplish the student’s desire so, in case they want to have a gap year, they can feel free to do that and gain a lot of experiences and friends.