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Resources & Tips

A Gap Year: Parents Guide

You’re thinking about your child’s future- that’s normal. You basically want what is best for them both personally and career wise- understandable. The idea of a gap year worries you, and deciding whether you are going to give the “OK” is hard, parenting is hard- we get it.   As

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Resources & Tips

A Gap Year: The Pros and Cons

To gap year or not?! One hell of a question, right.   To embark on a year of adventure and exploration or get ahead of your peers by entering a career path or go back to school. At some point the latter will happen, it goes without saying, but is

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Stinters' Corner

A Gap Year: Is It Really Worthwhile?

Dear Potential Gap Year Stinter, Today I thought of you. I thought of you and the choice that lies before you: do I take a leap of faith and partake in a gap year in Dublin? This is no small decision. It must be weighed on personal, spiritual, financial, practical

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Stinters' Corner

My Journey to Interning in Ireland

by Tia Mitsis For many young students a semester overseas, a gap year or internship sounds exciting. It sounded exciting to me too as a young university student. At the time I didn’t have the financial ability to do it. I yearned to have an exciting international adventure, I looked

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Resources & Tips

The Parent’s Guide to Internships Abroad

You’re worried about your child’s future.   Of course you are. That’s why you’re reading this. That’s why you’ve invested so much in them. You wish you could just transfer your lifetime’s worth of hard-earned wisdom to them, perhaps even helping them avoid the mistakes you might’ve made, or the regrets

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