Due to personal reasons I have to take a gap year before university. This means much of the people I will be living in residence with and taking classes with will be roughly a year younger than me. My questions goes as follows- will a year age gap between me and my peers on a social-emotional level, and intellectual level significantly impede my ability to form connections with them? Or is the difference in maturity on both fronts negligible?
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My experience has been that one year, at that age, is a little different, but not much at all.
Won’t matter in the slightest
Some 18 year olds are more mature than some adults I know and some 18 year olds act like they’re 13. I promise no one will recognize a year difference.
No problem with that, and it’ll help in general not to overanalyse things like these
Lots of ppl take a gap year, you’ll probably find lots of ppl your age
I remember meeting some people at school who were a year or two older, and I didn’t have any idea until they told me. At the end of the day they were people and it was more about whether they were easy to get along with and work with, than their age.