you need to take a break , cause when you join the for what ever field and you have already worked in that are then you can put into practice what you have learned on streets , a school can only teach you so much, for example in law out side India guys work sometimes for 5 years as a interim or para legal before even going for a law degree and when they do , they are ready for it and 90% times they are sponsored by the company they were working in. i worked for 2 years before i got into a B school and now i am thinking of getting my law degree also and btw am 31
on topic sad but if the guy gets hung for it , even sadder , this is clear case of a girl who needed help to deal with pressures of life and every one does it all time nowadays updating and tweeting about our personal life is IN norm.
edit , just saw almon's post , he is 100 % right , in 90% cases if you don't have work ex you application is likely to be rejected.
Ya, these points seems to be quite relevent for taking break in Study and then taking break in Job. I didn't returned back to complete my Masters bcoz :
1. May be I lived my college life full on

2. May be bcoz I am lazy to go back to college after understanding my Industry so well.
3. May be bcoz I gt attracted towards the increment given one after another job.
4. May be bcoz I know lots of people who end up studying and studying and still struggling to live a successfull professional life.
But if the intentions mentioned by almon and you above are purely career related and followed by heart, result will be awesome.
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Now this particular comment that i am posting, is NOT MEANT FOR ATHEISTS.......i dont want to get into any sort of argument in that aspect.
Suicide is running away from ur troubles. But when u commit suicide, its only the body that is discarded. But man has forgotten that troubles come regardless of what material form a spirit has taken.
So the troubles will still have to be faced in the new material form that the spirit takes. But now, there is added liability -
1) Facing the troubles from which u ran away.
2) Facing the punishment for running away from troubles
3) Facing the troubles that have to be faced in the new form taken.
Its just an upgraded model of Law.....wherein u commit a crime, then try to run away from the punishment by telling lies, using disguise etc. But eventually u r caught & now u face even harsher punishment!
Whatever difficulty u r in - u have to face it. Coz u must have done something wrong, so that u faced the situation. So if u run away from it, the next form u take faces tougher problems.
I SAY AGAIN - Atheists, dont fall into this please. I know u people wont agree to it. But if this truth is known by all, u wont have suicides.
Well said. and I again feel pity on that gal who won't be able to see her revenge from her ex-bf bcoz of her nuisense act. This kind of emotionally immaturity is usually developed by those who had spent most of their life in books and virtual world.