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Gap Year Snobs
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Just wanted to ask everyone who's having Freshers Weeks at the moment (or indeed anyone at uni) if it is actually true that there's a group of people who all took gap years who all hang around together wearing ethnic jewellery and beginning all their sentences with "when I was backpacking in the Himalayas......" Am I destined to become one of them?!!!!
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Once you get past their 'I've been to India' outfits, most of them are actually decent people
lol!!!
I think you'll be fine, don't worry.
I'm not called Sarah......
I have just started university and took a gap year. Thus, they have put me in a hall flat with others who have done gap years. What you have to remember is that not everyone who took a gap year travelled to some obscure place. There are a true mix of us, some who travelled, some who worked, some who went to college etc. And, its surprising but we all get on very well, at the moment anyway. Therefore i think you are worrying unnecessarily
Its not that I'm bitter or anything - I've always known that I could EITHER go travelling OR go to uni not both as funds won't stretch that far - but I do feel a tad left out at times when everyone's talking about the wonderful places they've been to and the things they've seen and done.
Ah well, one day. When I'm famous and rich and know everything and pigs fly on rainbow coloured wings in an aquamarine sky (hmmmmm that sounds like a song lyric - is it??? It might just be me subconciously nicking someone else's brilliant [?] rhyme here)
I'd rather be with some other "common" students!
Oi! Leave Dom out of this.
Ooh, I've been waiting years to say that!