<< It is thought that children should be given several short vacations a year. Although some may say that one long vacation a year is preferred, because the children then can do something takes long time and that they cannot do when they study at schools, this argument is rather weak. It is better for students to have several short ones, because they need to have rest and refresh once in a while to concentrate on their study. It appears that students should be provided several short vacations a year, since this enables them to concentrate more on study. It is obvious that the students need some rest at times and that they cannot just keep studying for a long period of time. If the students are forced to study, say, for 6 months without any vacation, they can be tired of and bored with studying, which will lower their concentration. Contrary, when students are given some short vacations where they can leave their study and refresh themselves, they can study hard again after the holidays. I myself feel tired and have less concentration when I have to keep studying for about 6 or 7 weeks. My university has a one-o- two-week of middle semester break on around week 8 or 9 every semester, which is the middle way of the whole semester, but I start feeling worn out with the stuffy before the break actually. If I did not have this break, I just had to keep studying without much refreshment, which would clearly lower my productivity. Because of the break, I can have more time to have fun and leave my study for a short while, I can concentrate more on my study after the break. This break is not design to provide students with time to enjoy themselves but to do our assignments, yet it can still give us more time thus greater chance to have some more relaxing time than usual. Considering these things, it is obvious that short breaks can give students time to refresh themselves so that they can concentrate on their study, thus is preferable than one long break. Some may say that students should be given one long vacation, which enables them to do something that they cannot sue to lack of time when they have to study at school. When students have long vacation, they can do many things that they cannot usually do because of the time constrainment during semesters. There is something that they cannot do with short holidays. For example, one student may want to travel around the world, which will take him or her along time to stop at many places and look at things thoroughly. If this student has a long holiday of 3 months, he or she have plenty of time to look around more places, and experience more thing to a deeper extent. If this student has only 4 weeks of holidays, this student can look around one-third of the places that he or she could have done with the long vacation. As for me, I am given a long vacation of 3 months every year if I do not take any summer course. I usually go and do something I cannot do during semesters. I went back to Japan last summer vacation to work for a part time for 3 months, which I could not have done with a short vacation. If the holidays were, say, only 3 weeks or so, I could go back home for a while, but could not have enough time to find a job only for a short while. However, it is thought that it is more important for students to be given many short holidays. This is because what matters for students is study but not other activities. I could possibly go on travel or work after I finish degree, but I can study this degree only when I am a student here. Moreover the outcome at schools can influence my career later on. This probably applies to other students. This leads to consideration that short holiday that can give me more concentration on study is more preferable. In conclusion, it is thought that it is more preferable for students to have several short holidays rather than one long vacation. It may be said that long vacation is better because students cannot do what they cannot do on semesters because of the time constrainments. Nonetheless, the argument that short vacation is better in terms of concentrations of students on study overweigh this argument.