Amanda talked with Aaron for months, without seeing any pictures of him, before the couple finally met -- like Jon and Katie, at an airport -- when he returned from summer vacation to attend college.

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By contrast, foreign students now in the U.S. know that when they go home for summer vacation or holidays, their probability of returning to school is no sure thing.

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When I was on vacation from Harvard, I would go back to Brazil and enjoyed my summer break playing tennis and surfing.

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Jon Lal faced that same decision when his family of four wanted to travel from Boston to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for a summer vacation.

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When the summer comes, if people are pretty confident they're going to have jobs, they go on vacation.

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