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I think my biggest anxiety about taking Gapier was sort of just like would it be a good use of my year?

Would I feel like bored to no end or would I get as much out of it as I would from a year of college. Welcome to how to, I'm Carvel Wallace. You know, when I was about 21 years old and in

college I went overseas to work for a theater company in the summer.

And when I got back to New York in the fall, it was time to register for classes in my senior year.

But I just didn't.

It wasn't like I had a plan. I just kind of sat in my apartment as the deadline for registration came and went.

I ended up spending a year working two jobs, one is a bike messenger, one is a fundraiser for a social justice organization, and just eked out of living in New York.

It was a wild time, weird and exhausting. I had bike accidents, I got hit by taxis, I showed up to work at 6 a.m. I worked 14 hour days sometimes

When it was all over there was really one main thing I had learned life out here is hard. I learned that work is real and college was actually a privilege and an opportunity and if I didn't want to spend the rest of my life bleeding on the pavement in Midtown Manhattan, I'd better take advantage of my education.

But it's also hard to know that sometimes until you go through it.

And that was me, at age 21. So why do we ask 18 year olds to know what they want to do with their life

when the whole thing about being 18 is that you have no idea what you're doing?

That's where gap years come in. Even though we're taught to go to

college as soon as possible, there is a growing understanding that taking some

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