GapYearly: Necessity is the Mother of Invention Sasha Landauer and Jiyoung Jeong SASHA:It was noon on a Tuesday in February. I wasn’t in my second hour of an organic chemistry lab. Nor was I napping after a particularly gruesome history midterm. I was whooping while throwing a 100lb tree down a hillside near Mount Everest. To my right was a ten-year-old monk sliding down the mountain on a wooden plank, holding a teapot on his head and an axe in his hand. We were on our way to rebuild Pema Choling Monastery’s Buddha statue, which had been destroyed in the…
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Voices Project: Michelle Zhang on the Life Changing Power of Gap Year with Michelle Zhang Meet Michelle Zhang, a Travel Access Project 2017 Grant recipient. She’s currently on her Gap Year and recorded this for us on a slow boat chugging up the Amazon River in Peru. How cool is that? She’s not even done with her Gap Year but she’s quite sure it has changed the course of her life. Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on pinterest Share on reddit Share on google