If you have just graduated from high school or collage you may be considering taking a gap year. Gap year means taking a time off from emotional, mental and physical state before getting back to studies. Students can travel during their gap year and experience and learn, to search for what they want before moving to the next level in their academic career. However, a gap year may have some negative aspects that will affect students, such as slacking off, wasting time that is of essence, and will be academically late.
Firstly, a break off even for one year could turn a person into a idleness person causing him to become less anxious to continue his studies and postpone it even more, eventually leading it to become a habit in the future, which will affect his life negatively by not achieving what is required of him in the time it is needed. For an example, a simple test that is being postponed to the last minute will make the student get a lower mark or even fail the subject, due to carelessness making the person feel sorrow and hateful about his bad habit.
Secondly, Time is of the essence, one year out of studying is enough to erase all the information that has been taught, as result student would be a level below their colleges. Many people prepare their vacation before even finishing high school or collage, this shows the lack of thought in seeing that taking a vacation will make him spend it for a longer time needed. Also, a study in 2012 was made in Canada that scientist have shown that 87% of students who take a time off for a whole year waste their time doing nothing.
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Lastly, being academically late can become a serious issue by causing an emotional affect to the person, seeing that everyone around who is younger than him graduation or moving forward result in what is called “ lack of confidence”, growing the idea of being unable to meet the level of their colleges subconsciously that they wish to be. Thus, leading to dropping even more to a lower level, due to the feeling of poor capability to continue their studies. Moreover, the feeling of regret starts to show and making them feel bitter about it.
To sum things up, many people may fall under the victim off becoming a lazy person, wasting time doing nothing, and being academically late or weak. Which all in the end will accumulate only makes him feel regretful, emotionally stressed and negative about himself later on. Being emotionally stressed starts affecting a person mentally and physically. For an example, a person who is stressed can lead to depression causing his immunity and health to drop this is a sign of poor physical health due to emotional stress cause by all the negative happenings of taking a gap year.
