Taking a Year Off Options

Career Opportunities & Internships
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<p>Hello...I hope this is the right forum to post this in. Please let me know if I should post it under a different topic.</p>

<p>Anyway, I recently started toying with the idea of taking a year off. Since it is mid-July and a lot of applications are due SOON I could use a lot of help on deciding what programs would be good for me to look into.</p>

<p>I am a senior at the University of Michigan with a double-major in Psychology and Creative Writing. I hope to eventually apply to Clinical Psych PhD programs. For my year off, I am interested in something that is a mixture of soul-searching and academia. Please toss me any idea.</p>

<p>I can say this...I am pretty sure I am NOT interested in either Peace or Americorps, unless you know of a program particularly suited toward my psychology interests. Other types of "year off" opportunities do not necessarily have to directly relate to psych, but it's good if they do.</p>

<p>OK SPILL! THANKS!!</p>

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<p>A bunch of my psych major friends taking time off before PhD programs are working as lab managers or research assistants.</p>

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<p>Have you ever considered work-exchanges to different countries? For example in Canada, we have a program called [url=&lt;a href=“http://www.swap.ca%5DSWAP%5B/url”&gt;http://www.swap.ca]SWAP[/url</a>] that lets you get a working visa in another country and work there for a short period of time. I’m not sure whether the US has a program like that but try searching up USA work-exchange or something along those lines and I’m sure you’ll find something that might interest you!</p>