Why gaps in logic matter

Some University bod has advised 18 year olds not to go on gap years but instead concentrate on getting work experience and extra training which is balls as I spent my gap year working in Germany and gaining greater fluency in the language before I started a degree in German or to put it another way I spent my gap year getting work experience and extra training which is what the University bod was suggesting might be useful so I have rather tied my own argument against her up in a logical knot.