Long vacation versus several breaks (speaking task) While some students would prefer to have one long vacation within the academic year, I beleive that several short breaks would be more beneficial for a few reasons. First, it is extremely common situation when student are struggling to focus on their studies after continuous relaxing time they had at home or elsewhere. For instance, when I was studying ecology at Moscow state university I had a friend who had passed all his midterms ahead of time and went to traveling across the country for almost a month. However, after he came back to the university he had serious difficulties with concentration due to the fact that he was completely distracted by relaxing mood. Second, I think that necessity to have a break during education process occurs not just once during academic year. For example, students have been studying for a year, and eventually get tired after their midterms, finals, inernships etc. that take place at different time of the year. Consequently, having several vacations can be more convenient for more students. All things considered, I can state that several short vacations would be much more preferable for students, especially for their mental health.