Persuasive Speech : Benefits Of Taking A Gap Year

Attention Grabber: Jeremy Bloom is the youngest man in history to make the “U.S. Ski Team, he was national champion while still in high school and world champion and Olympian at age 19 (Pullen, 2015). He nearly missed medaling in the Olympics. I wonder what he might

Under a year-round schedule, the students benefit by having smaller breaks, meaning they can quickly snap back to previously learned information. When information is stored, but not used for an extended period of time, anyone can lose that information. Due to the shorter breaks, students may find it difficult to find a summer job, or a job at all, but there are jobs that work with students or maybe just limit their time at the workplace.

When I first heard about "impact 360" about a year ago, I will admit that I was fairly opposed to the entire idea of a "Gap Year". From what I had seen, it seemed like an idea someone had come up with, in order to delay the start of the responsibilities of college and life. I ignored the many attempts from my mother and her friend Renee Hernandez, (who is involved with the program), to get me to just look into what it was all about. I wrongly perceived that every gap year program was essentially the same. And from the program's I had looked at they all seemed to be about taking a year off of life's responsibilities, and relaxing with other people your age. That didn't interest me in the slightest, I wanted to graduate high school, and go and conquer college and eventually the world.

Who knew High School would be over in a blink of an eye? Four short years and a whole chapter of your life is over. The goal everyone was striving to achieve was completed, yet an even bigger thing was approaching “Life”. All 365 of us would venture out into the world and start new journeys hundreds of miles apart.

The break will give the students three months to visit family members and plan for vacations. The year round will make it more complicated for the parents. Although year-round schooling has saved more money for the parents.

Year-round education creates an easy transition from one year to another. When students move up to another grade, they are still in the mindset of school. This is especially significant for students that may be transition from different schools. For example, students moving up from middle school to high school do not have to spend their summer worrying about becoming a high schooler. Year-round schooling also prepares students for the transition from high school to college and even to the workplace. Most adults do not get a three-month break every summer because their jobs require them to work year-round, therefore by going to school year-round, students will create a lifestyle that resembles that of one in the

After my acceptance to Agnes Scott, I decided to take a gap year. It was a bit of a hasty decision, but it has to be made as I had to wait a bit more to obtain a scholarship. I was unfortunately unable to travel as I had hoped but instead spent the time trying to work on myself more. I meditated, watched and read informative material. Refusing to succumb to the often felt sluggishness that accompanies long periods without a schedule, I have kept up my studies with the aid of some online courses, both with and without accreditation, constantly watched the news to stay abreast of the current events and took up American sign language ( and Spanish… it'd be more impressive no?). Something I've always wanted to learn. I also watched French movies

Spring Break is coming up and it's a great time to relax, refresh, maybe clean out there. basement...wait, that's my to-do list.

1. During my junior year of college I embarked on my first international trip to study abroad in Australia. This experience set my life path off course and allowed me to experience a completely different culture. There are many obvious differences between Australia and America but one of the significant contrasts is the use of a gap year, which was a completely foreign concept to me. I learned that a gap year is a time, typically between high school and college, for students to take a sabbatical from formal education and begin a journey of self-discover. During this time many students work, volunteer, or travel, giving them time to reflect and explore their own interests. Gap years are far less popular in the United States as they are in other areas around the world. I believe many American students would greatly benefit from taking a gap year and would lead to a more productive and happier society.

For this chapbook assignment I researched the topic of anxiety. Specifically how anxiety affects students in differing degrees of education. I chose this topic because according to Anxiety and Depression Association of America one in five people suffer from different types of anxiety in the United States. This staggering proportion of people is what pressed my curiosity to find out more about anxiety. In addition to this I was curious about how it affects different people, and the different types of treatments for these conditions.

There are many wonderful things that I feel I will be able to take back into my own classroom including;

Those few years after college will also give you a chance to become a more well-rounded person, to travel places you've always wanted to travel, to see things you've always wanted to see, and to take some risks that might be harder later in life. Start a company, write a book, move to Peru--even if you fail, you will be demonstrating to schools that you have a passion and are independent and ambitious about pursuing it. And if you succeed or discover something new that you really love, it will either give you a great

In his article, Should Students Have a Gap Year?, Andrew J. Martin states that a gap year is usually defined as a period of time that students take after graduation and before continuing with formal education, training, or the workforce. Americans in particular seem to be

Vacations, meeting new people, getting a job, saving money, and moving out from a parent’s house seems like a fantasy and something that everybody would love to experience. This is what students will do or plan to do in a gap year. A gap year helps students find out who they are and learn about the world around them. Many students have found out it is not as great as they thought it would be. The executive director of Dynamy Internship Year disagrees and says "While there is significant peer pressure, parental pressure and

The Gap Year is a year that high school graduates take off before beginning college. The reason this time is usually taken off is for either traveling, work, study, volunteering, research or other reasons prior to beginning college. It is