For most of my life, I have had plans to go to college. The idea was college, good degree, good job, make money, be successful. And now with two years at Gonzaga completed, I am realizing that it might have been a better idea to take a gap year between college. Or an unspecified amount of time off from school.

Plenty of people I know are doing it. Working to make money, working to figure out what your life goals should be, working to find out what you like and dislike about certain professions.

Now do not get me wrong, I am glad to have gone to college straight out of high school, but if I could do it again, I would definitely take a break. When I graduated high school, I was a 17-year-old kid, naive, confused, and with lofty dreams about the future.

I started out in the School of Engineering, then moved to a Business Major with a Computer Science minor. I am excited to see what the future holds.

Taking a year or two off can be a really good way to figure out what you want to do with your life (minus the stress of school), and catch your breath.

And if going to school is not in your cards, so be it. Move to a cool city and start over, be who you really want to be.

No matter what decisions you may make about college, just remember that it will all be okay in the end as long as you are happy.