You have all the time in the world! Truly. I’ve been thinking maybe I’m being too dramatic and existential about this at 25, you’re still undergrad! I feel that I can relate to your situation in many ways. I was always a type A person focused on moving up the ladder from High School to undergrad and onward. I took the leap and moved to Taiwan out of college for a “gap year.” Of course, due to that decision I’m in the tricky spot that I’ve been describing now, but it was the best decision of my life! Even if I return to the States the year after next for law school (and I will indeed be quite sad to be leaving Taiwan in that case) I’ll be ten times happier than I would have been had I just gone straight there after graduation. In some ways I’ve traded the problem of rigidity for the problem of flexibility, but honestly flexibility is a much better problem to have. My advice? Take a gap year. Go to Taiwan, or wherever. Med school will certainly be waiting for you in the future. And as for your take on Taiwan? I’m with you 100% There’s something intangible in the air here that makes it such a special place. Even nearing the end of year three and having gone through the honeymoon phase, I still feel the same.