Not ready for college -- gap year looming?
For seniors who really aren't up for college and want to take a year off, the usual recommendation is: spend a year in the world of minimum-wage work as a powerful motivator to seek out a college degree.
But there's a widely recommended program in Worcester, Mass., that offers an option:
http://www.dynamy.org/
Dynamy, Inc. is a not-for-profit experiential educational organization founded in 1969. We are the oldest and only residential internship program in the country. Our mission is to offer young people, ages 17-22, a "gap year" opportunity like no other. Dynamy believes that the crucial prerequisites for work readiness and life-readiness are independence, self-reliance, courage, character, a habit of service, and an ability to build healthy relationships. We believe that these things can be learned, and learned best through experience. Dynamy programs integrate independent city apartment living with mentored internships, personal and college/career advising, urban and wilderness leadership opportunities, and the company of an incredible group of peers.
But there's a widely recommended program in Worcester, Mass., that offers an option:
http://www.dynamy.org/
Dynamy, Inc. is a not-for-profit experiential educational organization founded in 1969. We are the oldest and only residential internship program in the country. Our mission is to offer young people, ages 17-22, a "gap year" opportunity like no other. Dynamy believes that the crucial prerequisites for work readiness and life-readiness are independence, self-reliance, courage, character, a habit of service, and an ability to build healthy relationships. We believe that these things can be learned, and learned best through experience. Dynamy programs integrate independent city apartment living with mentored internships, personal and college/career advising, urban and wilderness leadership opportunities, and the company of an incredible group of peers.
posted by caroline at
7:26 AM
4 Comments:
Many young people take a year off to travel and have a break after thirteen years of school. Some think about what they might like to study when they do go to college. They don't lack motivation, nor do they necessarily need a "prerequisites" program, as good as it sounds.
Roger
when i left college in 1969 to spend a year in europe
( my motivation was to meet up w/ my older brother who was in germany R&R from viet nam..) it was a funky/hastily planned CHEAP adventure.
i don't think my parents really had any idea what i was about to do! i lived in paris @ 18 alone, babysitting/apartment cleaning and taking french classes. actually i was growing up away from the suburbs & my parents!
now the gap years are just extentions of the expensive/elite hyper-parent planned kid thing..
everything is just too expensive/too controlled/too scary....
oh well....
17,00 per year to pay for the privilege of working without wages. What more can I say.
what it is seems like is a year learning life skills/work skills.. they actually advertised that the kids learn to wake up to an alarm clock! OMG.. have we entitled our kids to the point that some parents have to pay $17,000 to teach their kids to shop/clean/& wake up?
the program sounds like it is really helping kids out; but i say start the chores early!!
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