Sarah Madsen Hardy

Senior Lecturer, Boston University

Marisa Milanese

Master lecturer

But most [gap years] listed ... are more like Thinking Beyond Borders, where participants pay $36,000 to travel four continents over seven months.

A gap year should get you off track and beyond tracks. It should combat the simultaneously competitive and coddled culture that has turned our students into ... “answer-getters,” rather than “problem-explorers.”

Sarah Madsen Hardy

Recently published

If It's March, It Must Be Morocco: Why The Prefab Gap Year Fails Our Students