No you can't go on vacation from school like you can work lol, be nice if you could. You do get vacations though, but I mean, I just finished with Christmas holiday. This weekend is a holiday too so it's a 3 day weekend.
You have to get 85 range to use it, right now I have 84, which I just got. So only 1 level left and I can use it. I'll get that today because I'm not that far from it right now.