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If you have enough uncertainty that you made this post, it seems like a good idea to take a gap year and spend the year researching more fully what your options are. The VoI is quite large. The main reason not to do this would be if you think taking a gap year would damage your chances of succeeding at at least one of your plausible options (e.g. it might look bad for grad school admissions); I don't know to what extent this is true though.
In particular, Peter might want to spend that year interning within some of his plausible career options.
This is in the works. Though, there still are enough potential careers that it would be impossible to intern for them all, so I would need to narrow things down.
This is a good point, but currently I think that I'll be able to gather sufficient information quickly enough to make a good initial decision. I can always decide on a gap year down the road if things don't work out.
I'm am afraid of this.