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This essay sheds light on the different types of opportunities that people can pursue during a gap year, demystifies the alternative option to taking a gap year, and delineates the downsides of taking a gap year before pursuing a college degree. There are a myriad of disparate types of opportunities that people can pursue during a gap year. The different types of opportunities that people can pursue during a gap year entice people to take a gap year. Furthermore, the different types of opportunities that people can pursue during a gap year are less cumbersome to pursue amid a gap year than they are to pursue during a collegiate year. When a student is matriculated at a college or university, he then is expected to complete a copious amount of courses during each of his collegiate years. If a student who is matriculated at a college or university falters in his endeavor to complete an exorbitant amount of courses during each of his collegiate years, then it can culminate in significantly prolonging his timeline to complete a degree program at a higher education institution. Significantly prolonging the timeline to complete a degree program cannot only further amplify the tuition costs that are incurred by being pursuant of a degree program at a higher education institution, but can also render it a significantly more time depleting undertaking to be pursuant of a degree program at a higher education institution. Furthermore, significantly prolonging the timeline to complete a degree program can also culminate in a person further deferring his full-time entry into the real private sector workforce. Moreover, significantly prolonging the timeline to complete a degree program can also culminate in a person being at a higher probability to have a reduced earnings potential relative to his peers who have completed a degree program one or more years before him and who are pursuant of careers.