Gap year(s)

[Becky]

I wish that I had felt like a gap year was an option.

[Crankin]

Also adding that all I did in college was study and work. I lived with my then boyfriend/fiance. Although I went to 4 schools (small and private, community college, 2 year upper division school and large state university), I was totally focused on getting out and getting a job. I looked wistfully at my older son's college experience: living in the dorm in a wonderful college town, finding a major he loved by "mistake," spending a semester abroad, getting a great liberal arts education, and doing an internship that ultimately became his first job in a field he is still employed in. I could have done all of that, but I was too focused on work and not enough on the education part of college.