Taking a gap in the middle of college is a great way to catch up with your thoughts and reflect on your academic and professional goals. It gives time to rethink your major, gain new life skills, get into a competitive internship or just focus on yourself for a little while. Gap year is a semester or year of experiential learning. I can take a break from studying for a certain amount of time to pursue my other interests, dreams and passions.
So it's 1995, I'm in college, and a friend and I go on a road trip from Providence, Rhode Island to Portland, Oregon. And you know, we're young and unemployed, so we do the whole thing on back roads through state parks and national forests -- basically the longest route we can possibly take. And somewhere in the middle of South Dakota, I turn to my friend and I ask her a question that's been bothering me for 2,000 miles. "What's up with the Chinese character I keep seeing by the side of the road?" My friend looks at me totally blankly. There's actually a gentleman in the front row who's doing a perfect imitation of her look. And I'm like, "You know, all the signs we keep seeing with the Chinese character on them." She just stares at me for a few moments, and then she cracks up, because she figures out what I'm talking about. And what I'm talking about is th...
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