How many of you wish to rush right off to college right after you graduate? Most of you don't even think twice because that is an American custom, to either go to college or join the military just three short months after getting handed that diploma you've anxiously worked 12 years for. What if there was a different custom? In England, they have this year between high school and college where you can do as you wish. This is called the Gap Year. So why should America adapt this British custom? According to statistics, "Harvard's overall graduation rate of 98 percent is among the highest in the nation, perhaps in part because so many students take time off  (Fitzsimmons). Maybe being 18 years old you want to explore what is beyond your high school walls. Or maybe it's something simple as you have absolutely no idea what to major in. Perhaps you're not quite ready to sign your life away with student loans so you choose to work your butt off for a year and save for the next most expensive 4 years of your life. Even though I live in America, my family is British and I took a year off, for every single one of those reasons. The day of graduation I had no idea what I wanted to do. Sure in high school you right papers or do research on it. But I had changed my mind a hundred times. So when I received a phone call, congratulating me on getting my diploma and then to inform me that I was also now employed I was estatic. And I say employed not meaning I didn't work before, but that I was now working 40 hours a week making $12 an hour working at a Ford dealership. Being 18 and used to waiting tables for little to no money at all for a handful of hours a week, this was a great accomplishment in my book. I think kids need to learn to work for what they want. I made the decision to get a "real  job and make money so I didn't have to ask for it. By getting a job following graduation means you're finally an adult and you should most definitely ac