Healthy Ways To Deal With Homesickness On Your Gap Year by Megan Lee Homesickness might be a new phenomenon for you if you never did the whole sleep-away camp thing in your younger years, but it’s inevitable. It’ll sneak up on you when you least suspect it: a photo shared online of your friends back home at one of your favorite annual events, a familiar smell of homemade cooking, the softness of a couch. The lack of a couch. The lack of one-course meals or even silent meals. Homesickness crops up in all shapes and sizes. It may be hard…
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How to Identify Your Gap Year Goals by Megan Lee This probably isn’t the first time someone has asked you to identify your goals for your gap year (and probably won’t be your last either). Grown-ups keep telling you, “You need to know your goals!” And you’re like, “Cool, I get it Dad… but easier said than done!” Until now. It’s reflection-time! Not to sound too much like that great tune from Mulan, but you need to buckle down and do some serious reflection before your gap year. Ask yourself these questions and write out your answers. Yes, physically write…
A Parent’s Guide to All Things Gap Year by Megan Lee Your kid just proposed a (slightly outlandish) idea to you: “I want to take a gap year.” Maybe you’re 100% on board (you don’t need lots of convincing to understand its benefits) or maybe you’re still on the fence. It’s okay to worry – after all, you have your child’s best interests in mind, right? Regardless of which side of the support spectrum you fall in, here’s everything a parent needs to know to help their kid rock a gap year. Finances Ah, yes. Money. The necessary evil (and…