Short Takes - Learning, then College

1.   Meg Gifford stated “taking time off before college.” I can tell that the following paragraphs are about her life before college and how this changed her life forever.

2.   Meg Gifford was seventeen years old in the first paragraph and she decided to take a gap year before going to college. The second to the ninth paragraph are about Gifford’s life in the gap year when she is eighteen. The last two paragraphs, Gifford has attended two years of college and experienced a lot of things.

3.   I think that Meg Gifford used her time very effectively because by her age of twenty she had had many special experiences such as traveling, midwifery and teaching an old man alphabet.

4.   Pros: Meg Gifford wrote this essay in the chronological order and she also gave many supporting details. Cons: There are too many paragraphs in this essay which can be simplified a little more.
      Thesis: The decision of taking a gap year before college changed her life forever.

5.   After reading this essay, I think it is a good idea of taking a gap year before college. A gap year can let young people understand themselves and this real world more.