I left for two years in the middle of my undergrad. It was a very positive experience for me. I don't think taking a year to get your shit together is necessarily a bad thing. But, a degree is a serious asset, so don't burn bridges. IMO sometimes when you are making a decision, it helps to imagine yourself 10-20 years down the line. That time will come sooner than you think. Try to consider what that future you would have preferred you to do. Best of luck.
Thank you for the response. Do you mind me asking what you did for those two years and why you decided to take the break in the first place? My tentative plan if I drop out is to save up for a few months and then try to get my old job touring with Cirque du Soleil around the country. I feel like future me would appreciate the experience, even if that makes me delay my "career" a few years.
I worked in a hardware store in Cambridge MA, partied very hard, and enrolled at the Harvard Extension School, taking a classes on James Joyce, Playwriting, Chemistry, and Neurobiology. I don't think I completed the last two. I walked out of my Neurobiology lab final because I was about as prepared for it as you likely are at this moment. I finished up the hiatus with a road trip across the US on which I read Broca's Brain and Gödel, Escher, Bach. The time was transformative for me. It wasn't until some time after I re-enrolled that I started making what I consider to be progress, but without that break, I wouldn't be where I am at today. I think the important thing for me, was that I knew all along that it was a temporary detour, and that it wasn't a lifestyle that I wanted to settle into. That was a freeing aspect of it.