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@VanUden
The year out thing. Once you've finished your course do it. Start planning it now, especially in those moments where you have a 'wobble' over college. To give you an idea of how much fun it can be this is a very rough breakdown of my year out when I was 18 (about 500 years ago):
Having saved like a bastard went to Australia for 6 months with a mate, bought a motorbike and hooned around Sydney. Got a job in a lab by lying through my teeth, met loads of cool Ozzies and went to loads of mental parties and had some amazing adventures. Got a job in a Kebab shop and didn't go hungry, saved some money to travel around Oz. Hitch-hiked and got buses from Sydney to Melbourne to Adelaide to Alice Springs to Darwin to Townsville then back down the east coast through Brisbane to Sydney. It was amazing and met loads of great people, even managed to have sex with a real lady. So spent 3 months of the 6 in Australia just travelling.
Then came back to the UK and still had 6 months of the year out left so went hitch-hiking across Europe. Through France Belgium and Germany all the way down to Frankfurt to meet with a German girl (with enormous breasts) I'd met while travelling through Australia. I stayed with her in Frankfurt for about a month in return for painting a fucking huge mural on her balcony.
The whole year out experience was crazy, scary, happy, brilliant. And was all done on a shoestring with very little in the way of funds and not a great deal of planning. I can't recommend it highly enough.