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 […]
‘Gap years’ offer teens service, travel — and transformation
By Sharon Noguchi For 13 years, Isabel Garcia, of Redwood City, hit the books and was poised to become the first in her immigrant family to go to college. Then instead she decided to spend a year in Brazil as an unpaid apprentice and was met with bewilderment. “You’re in America, it’s perfect here, […]
