Taking a gap year does not mean abandoning your goals. It means strengthening your ability to pursue them. It allows for reflection, growth and, perhaps most importantly, recovery. When you return — whether to school or another path — you do so with clarity rather than exhaustion.

The world will not end just because a rapper dislikes cats, and if you are really offended by Timothée Chalamet’s comments, support your local opera and ballet.

When we allow ourselves to be useless, we’re going against the idea that the value of us as living beings is tied to our output, our bank accounts or our GPA. We give our brains a chance to rest, and more importantly, we give our minds a chance to catch up to our bodies. We remind ourselves that we are human beings, not human doings.

Four NASA astronauts have set out on a trip around the moon and back. The Artemis II mission occurs just over 50 years after the last moon expedition with the goal of creating a space station where astronauts could stay for an extended period of time.