The Student Compass
Mentoring Gen-Zers in creating a Gap Year set of experiences designed to create adventure, build confidence and prepare for the challenges of college and future life challenges.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 11 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 9 months ago |
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From the Grand Tour to the Gap Year
19th-century travelers in the 1880s in front of the Roman Colosseum on the Grand Tour, and contemporary Gap Year students backpacking through Europe
In the late 19th century, during America’s Gilded Age, the Grand Tour was more than an ex...
Human–AI Co-Working
The AI is here, here to stay. In that light, we humans will need to figure out how to co-work, co-live, co-plan, co-habit with the AI. The question of how best to do that, to retain the uniqueness and wonder of what makes the human person s...
Stepping Out to Step Up: Why a Purposeful Gap Year May Be the Most Important Class Gen Z Ever Takes
What Schools Don’t Do, in the Face of Today’s Gen Z Needs
We are asking young people to solve contemporary problems they have never been taught to see as part of a larger whole.
Their education has trained them to think in silos—math...
The Sacred Pause: Campbell, Wilson, and the Urgency of the Gap Year Before College
By Jake Horne – Gap Year Mentor
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“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” – Joseph Campbell
“The love of complexity without reductionism mak...
My Gap Year Origin Story - 1971
There were plenty of other experiences and adventures I had throughout that year. Vertical windmill design-build, small-scale hydroelectric power installation, ski lift operator, living in an indigenous community in a health services c...
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Gap Year mentors for Gen-Z students, gaining insight and experiences to better prepare them to thrive in college and confidently manage post-college life and future national and global challenges.
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