Gap years are incredibly stupid.
Agree. Just promotes “Peter Pan” syndrome, plus sets a bad example for other young adults who extend the time they are a burden on their families. Gut it out, work hard, take summer classes, graduate in three years. Do post-grad right after; 18 mos. for a masters. Oh, and get a degree that’s worth something: science, tech, engineering, math.
All of this would go in & out of Malaria’s empty head. She’s gonna go party with the Hollywood ‘tards for a year. The tabloids will have some juicy pics of the entitled brat doing shots & bong hits, passing out, etc.
It is unless she is going to use it to have a “real” job so she can learn about the world of work-which I doubt, since she is a rich, spoiled kid. I was a rural working class kid-we only used “gap” time to work full time to make enough money to pay for college, then drop to part-time work once we started-but rich kids used gap years to tour Europe, or live abroad, absorbing “culture” (partying) on the parents’ dime...
Sometimes, you’d have a “gap” semester or two out of college to work full time again if you were running short of funds-borrowing funds was not an option...
Seems to be becoming a tradition.My nephew took a gap year in Germany,but he spent the time working with handicapped children.Made some money by tutoring math for 50 bucks an hour.
As they are currently mis-defined, I agree. In some previous decades we would identify a "gap year" as that time after high school when you worked full time and then maybe a part-time job thrown in, just to be able to earn the money for college. That would then be followed by the years of full-time credit hour loads every semester while also working full-time.