travel or work befor the university study In many countries, when students graduated from high school, their parents will encourage them to work or travel for a year before they go to the university. Some people claim that it has more advantages to work or travel before the university study. First of all , work and travel experience enable the young people to improve their soft skills. If the students stay at school all the time rather than travel to other cities or take a job, they might have less opportunities to communicate with the adults, which restricts the development of their skills of communicating with different people. Moreover, the young people's problem solving skills will be improved when they are handling some complex problems in their jobs. Besides that, work or travel experience builds more independent personality for the students. When the students study at school, their teachers always give them a plenty of useful advice, on contrary, they have to make decisions or choices by themselves when they ar doing the job or on a trip. It encourages the youngth to think more independently. However, the others argue that travel or work before the university study might have some disadvantages. The travel and work experience makes people attracted by the fresh things and they will find it is harder to concentrate on their academic research in the university. But the most students with good self-control skills will get used to the university study soon. In conclusion, although the experience of travel and work before the university study has a limited disadvantage, I believe that the students will benefit more from it.