Taking a Break From School

Ron_Jeremy

Ron_Jeremy

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Whats up newschoolers,

Over the past couple months I have been thinking long and hard about taking a year or two off of school and I wanted to see if anyone has any past experience with it. Im a freshman and i get good grades but at this point im not satisfied with my life. I feel like i could be doing so much more. I understand completely that i need a degree but my hearts just not in it right now. I have been looking to get a winter job at a big mountain in Vermont and try to be a ski bum for a season or two and it seems like thats the route i want to take but im just not sure. If anyone has any input on my situation gimme some wisdom please! Thanks
 
I went to College for a year and wasn't satisfied either. ditched that and now 6 months later I'm in montana living it up. I'm enjoying it and i'm not sure if i'll ever go back but right now i'm content.
 
Take time off if you promise yourself you'll go back. There's no reason not to get a college degree and then spend time doing whatever you want, but stopping a couple years shy and giving it up doesn't do much for you. You may currently think you want to wait tables in a ski town so you can ski all day, and you should do that if it's what you want, but later down the line when you're looking for something different and your knees don't work anymore you'll be happy you gave yourself more options when you had the chance. Unless it's really not financially feasible (which it sounds like isn't the case) you have nothing to lose by finishing out your degree and a lot to gain. So take a year off if you want to, I think it's always a good idea to take time off if you're not as invested as you could be, since you pay a ton to go there anyway, but don't give it up completely. Make sure you're in a situation where you can come back and finish it up, otherwise you'll likely regret it down the road.

My roommate and closest friend took a year off without telling us and now nobody has heard from him for months. We contact him occasionally and we know he's alive and well from mutual friends, but he just completely went dark. So if you do take time off, at least tell your friends
 
I generally recommend the option you are taking, to what many kids here attempt, and ski through school.

I wouldn't view taking a year or two off to go ski bumming as 'something more' though...I'd also not choose anyplace on the east coast to do it. There are places like Jackson, Whistler, Alta/Snowbird, and Bridger in the world.

YMMV.
 
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Take time off if you promise yourself you'll go back. There's no reason not to get a college degree and then spend time doing whatever you want, but stopping a couple years shy and giving it up doesn't do much for you. You may currently think you want to wait tables in a ski town so you can ski all day, and you should do that if it's what you want, but later down the line when you're looking for something different and your knees don't work anymore you'll be happy you gave yourself more options when you had the chance. Unless it's really not financially feasible (which it sounds like isn't the case) you have nothing to lose by finishing out your degree and a lot to gain. So take a year off if you want to, I think it's always a good idea to take time off if you're not as invested as you could be, since you pay a ton to go there anyway, but don't give it up completely. Make sure you're in a situation where you can come back and finish it up, otherwise you'll likely regret it down the road.

My roommate and closest friend took a year off without telling us and now nobody has heard from him for months. We contact him occasionally and we know he's alive and well from mutual friends, but he just completely went dark. So if you do take time off, at least tell your friends
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Agreed, don't do something that you might regret. Later in life when your body cant withstand the everyday skiing lifestyle you will be happy to have options.
 
Ok so I graduated with an AA in a 1.5 yrs and took the spring semester off and skied knowing fully that I would transfer that fall. Then transferred but ended up not liking the certain college that I was at so I took the next spring semester off again and skied/worked. Now I'm at a college/program that I love and will stick it out till I graduate.

If you know that you'll go to school and get a degree after you take some time to ski then the more power to you. The first spring that I took off to ski was the funnest I've had so far. I was able to take several trips out west and went just about daily to my local hill to shred.

So I would say go for it, but do it knowing that you'll go back to get your degree. But I wouldn't do it more than one year. Had I transfered right after I graduated from my first college and stuck it out I would be done now and skiing again.
 
Definitely do it. Forces you to grow up a lot but it's also super fun. Just work a ton this summer and next fall so you're not having to work as much during the winter. I'm taking a year off right now in crested butte and it is the shit. I have somewhere around 70 days
 
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