A gap year was never going to happen for me
At 18 I had £1000 in the bank that I had scraped together over a period of...18 years. I wasn't eligible for a grant but I wanted to go to uni.

I don't envy students today.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 9:58, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I had a gap year
but I spent it surfing, designing websites and consuming vast quantities of booze.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 9:59, Reply)

I meant a gap year doing something exotic
like pretending to teach kids English in Thailand or pretending to build a charity centre in Costa Rica.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 10:08, Reply)

£25,000.00 debt
not including student loan.
( WormuIus, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 9:59, Reply)

but it does include the £12,000 worth of scarves you've bought.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 10:02, Reply)

Yowch
I wouldnt do it now, I don't consider my biology degree to be worth that level of debt.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 10:04, Reply)