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However, when she returned home to New York, she spent a couple of weeks focused on recovery. After that, it took months to find employment. Both work and volunteer opportunities were incredibly scarce. “The economic climate is horrendous,” she said. “I [was] looking for four weeks, and could not even find a part-time...
...kind of a one-size-fits-all system,” he said, “It wasn’t very productive for me.” On his leaves, John met the standard requirement to demonstrate stability by holding a paying job. In fact, he took on several jobs in succession; he spent nine months working in a sheet metal factory, bartended, and taking on other temporary employment in Massachusetts. But while he was meeting the College’s expectations, he wasn’t addressing its academic concerns...
Lisa, who requested her real name not be used for this article, took a semester leave after a two-week admission to McLean Hospital in the spring of her sophomore year. Like Janie, Lisa was asked to consider a leave after telling her therapist about thoughts of hurting herself...
Over the summer following her leave, she returned home. There, she took a physics class while receiving regular care...
...sort of weird because some people didn’t know I took time off; sometimes I would make something up or not tell them the whole story,” she said, speaking at a fast, energetic clip. “I once told someone that all my grandparents died...