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Many students are exhausted with learning during a pandemic, and more and more are considering taking a gap year between high school and college.

In this episode, we chat with Rebecca Barr from www.EFGapyear.com about how gap years work and ways to structure them to infuse inspiration back into life and learning. Specifically we chat about:

1. The benefits of a gap year and busting some myths about gap years!
2. Her own own experience taking a gap year in Turkey, and
3. The structure of our global EF Gap short-term, semester, and year programs

Ever since taking her own gap year in Turkey, Rebecca has been passionate about the benefits of a global education. Now as the Strategic Partnerships Manager at EF Gap Year, Rebecca works with institutional partners including counselors, educational partners, and colleges to make more gap experiences possible. Having lived, studied, and worked in countries across the globe, she loves to use her global skills as a part of the EF Gap Year team to help other young people find their passions through a gap. She believes that no matter who you are, where you want to go, or what you want to do with your life, a gap will make your path better, clearer, and much more interesting. A gap year is for everyone!

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Do you want a college that supports your religious beliefs? Or would you prefer a college that is not religious at all?

Today Megan walks us through several tips for how to do a college search if you do or don’t want religion to be a major factor. She discusses:

• reasons why a student might or might not want a religious component in college
• the four categories of religious affiliation at the college level
• what to ask during your college search process to find out if this school is, or isn’t, the right one for you

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It’s the end of the semester!

Here are 6 straightforward tasks that will help you wrap things up, and position yourself to take a full break this summer, and then rock the next school year.

Gretchen and Megan chat about:

• How and why to clean out your files and get set for the next school year
• the importance of verifying the accuracy of grades and transcripts
• how to reflect about what worked and didn’t in a way that helps you remember for next year
• a trick to making sure summer assignments get done well
• the importance of updating your resume with all your school year activities, and
• (for juniors only) how and when to ask teachers for recommendations.

Have a great summer everyone!

This From the Archives episode originally aired on May 23, 2016 as episode #106.

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This has been the worst school year ever, and students and parents are barely hanging on as we near the end.

Learn a few nervous system tools to help you stay as regulated as possible… and get all that missing work turned in. Specifically, Gretchen walks Megan and listeners through:

• a definition of the nervous system, and the three major “states” that human move through
• an explanation for what the “window of tolerance” is, and how it is the optimal state for learning
• some tips for how to keep ourselves in the “window of tolerance”, and/or bring ourselves back to regulation
• the importance of “co-regulation” and how parents’ can manage their own nervous systems as a way to support their students
• and more!

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