To take a year off, or not?

RacinReaver
Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:50:56 +0000

I didn’t take a year off, but since I graduated a semester early, I worked in the lab of a professors I had known as an undergrad. They understood I wasn’t going to do as much work and get as involved as a full time grad student, and I was happy with that. I got to get involved in a number of different projects, even managing an undergrad or two during the school year and over the summer. It gave me a lot more prep for what actually being a grad student was going to be like compared to my research during the semester and over summers. I’m really glad I did it instead of studying abroad, taking time off, or anything else.