This really intrigues me' but I really would like to know your sources. Is there a way of finding the citations to this?

My daughter wants to have a gap year abroad. I want her to stay in the States. She wants to participate in Agricultural Farming. Where is a good place to find information on what the United States have to offer.

If anyone if planning on coming to Thailand to take a Diving Internship as part of their Gap Year in July or August 2011 check out the Divemaster competition running at DJL Diving and be in with a chance to win the diving courses for free see the above link for further details.

• Gap Year is an amazing experience. Amigos de las Americas (AMIGOS) is the most reputable, I know a lot of HS students that have done their summer program, and they now have a Gap Year Program. It is important to look at the different programs, and AMIGOS is really the only one we have found that has been around a long time. I think students these days really need that time before college, to many are rushing into degrees when they are not ready to.

I don't like the idea of a gap year, but the idea that Princeton has of a bridge year is great. It allows the student to discover what he/she might want to do in the 'real world' to achieve their life goals. At the same time, it keeps them from wasting their time with classes that might not have anything to do with what they end up majoring in.

After traveling, post-college, I discovered how rushed students in the states tend to be when it comes to going to school, careers, and following the path that everyone assumes is expected of them. As a 25-year-old in backpacking community of Southeast Asia, I felt old. Australians and Europeans were taking time off to see the world as 18-year-olds, before they spent large sums of money on furthering their education. I, on the otherhand, was taking the opportunity to travel after graduation but knowing there was a time and money limit to my adventures because my student loan obligations would pull me back. I know myelf so much better after having traveled, and have since began considering a huge career change (even though I already have my masters and have yet to put a dent in the amount I've spent on college.) Had I traveled before spending all that money, I would have developed a maturity and a better understanding of myself that I believe would have led me down a more fulfilling career path to begin with. (You can read about my travels at www.sotcblog.com )