A Fulfilling Gap Year
Orginally published in the Ashland Daily Tidings After high school graduation, most teenagers follow a somewhat muddled path because — let’s be honest — who actually knows at the tender age of 18 what they want to do with the rest of their life? Maybe they start on a route to take them to […]
Preparing for College with a Year Abroad
For many young adults, the path after high school is simple: college. But what happens when a student chooses to take the road less traveled and experience life in new ways, before taking the next step into college? This is exactly what recent TMI graduate JuliaGrace Walker ’17 is learning during her current gap […]
Global Gap Year Enriches Graduate’s Life
During October of my junior year at West, an announcement over the PA system changed my life. An announcement from the State Department introduced me to a scholarship offered by the National Security Language Initiative for Youth, sparking my interest in world travel. The same night, I started my application for the scholarship to go […]
RM Alumni Participate in Global Citizen Year
Global Citizen Year Fellows Noah Montemarano (United States | India ’18) and Elise Steenburgh (United States | Brazil ’18) discuss the reasons they decided to take a gap year before college. Originally published by The Tide. For those not seeking a typical college freshman year, a gap year can provide a life-changing experience. […]
Penn State student has transformative experiences on campus and around the globe
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Grace Mannix, a junior studying recreation, park and tourism management in Penn State’s Schreyer Honors College, spent her summer vacation gathering cold-weather gear and giving herself a crash course in the Russian language. This fall, instead of returning to Penn State’s University Park campus, Mannix boarded a transatlantic flight to Russia, where she’ll spend […]
Taking Charge of My Own Learning
Written by Shannon Yang (United States | Senegal ’18) “Why are you taking a gap year?” The question would often catch me unprepared, like a storm coming earlier than forecasted. I would often shrug and tell the curious asker that I just needed a little more time, or that I felt burnt out, […]
Filling the Gap with International Experience
Originally Published by Lafayette University Barker Carlock (United States | Senegal ’13) wanted to be a medical anthropologist and worked alongside a triage nurse in Senegal thanks to Global Citizen Year. The program finds opportunities for high school seniors who set aside seven and a half months after graduating to experience another culture, while still keeping […]
Place, Intention, And The Problem With TV’s ‘Gap Year’
The Gap Year crew party, worry about their futures, hook-up, inflate each other’s egos, meet interesting strangers, get themselves into trouble and always find a way out. In the end, it’s not that interesting. I should know, because I took a gap year. The opening scene of Hulu’s Gap Year makes clear what the show is really […]
Donald Trump should’ve taken a gap year
By Maria Morava (United States | Senegal ’16) “I think Islam hates us,” I listened as the French dubbing followed, one step behind – “We have to get to the bottom of it. … There is an unbelievable hatred of us.” Then-candidate Donald Trump spoke like we weren’t listening. We […]
Why a gap year is increasingly popular for many would-be freshmen and their parents
The deadline is looming this week for local high school students to decide where to go to college. But more and more kids are deciding to take the year off instead. And for many, that’s increasingly proving to be an enticing alternative. KIRO Radio’s Josh Kerns introduces us to one such student who found a […]