疫情之下高中毕业生陷入两难选择“间隔年”的人数增多_时事

疫情之下高中毕业生陷入两难选择“间隔年”的人数增多

在美国，总部在巴尔的摩的咨询公司艺术和科学集团四月份开展的一项调查发现，疫情导致17%的学生改变了上大学的计划。在这些学生当中，16%的人表示他们会休一个间隔年，17%的人表示他们会等到春季学期开学时 It’s far from being an easy decision. Gabriel Hostin, 17, had decided before Covid-19 that he would take a gap year before attending Harvard. Now, he says, there are uncertainties surrounding his plans to travel internationally – something he hopes will change at the start of 2021. In terms of the immediate future, he’s looking at domestic volunteer programmes including community work closer to the New York area, where he’s from. For his peers who are going straight to university, he says there’s concern about not being able to be on the campus when the academic year starts. “For me, that’s not college,” says Hostin.

这绝不是一个轻松的决定。17岁的加布里埃尔·霍斯汀在疫情暴发前就决定要在入读哈佛大学前休一个间隔年。现在，他表示自己出国旅游的计划有太多不确定性——他希望这一情况能在2021年初发生改变。眼下他计划在国内参加一些志愿项目，比如，在他所在的纽约附近参加社区工作。对于他那些打算直接上大学的同伴，他表示新学年开始时恐怕无法进校园。霍斯汀说：“对我来说，这不是大学生活。”

It’s a sentiment that Joshua Kim and Edward Maloney, authors of Learning Innovation and The Future Of Higher Education, understand. But Kim, the director of online programs and strategy at Dartmouth College, says, “I think you really have to distinguish between true gap year experiences and simply stopping for a year or waiting for a year.”