October 25, 2020
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By Maia The program I am on is called “Hevruta,” translating to 'partners' in Hebrew. As the only gap year program made half of North Americans and half of Israelis we are a bit of a social experiment. The Israeli...
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October 24, 2020
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By Maya [caption id="attachment_1733" align="alignright" width="430"] My favorite work buddy.[/caption] This last month I started an internship at Renegade, an NYC marketing agency. This was a huge opportunity for me that was realized by reaching out to a Duke alum....
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October 23, 2020
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As my family checked in at the front gates of Yosemite National Park, I began to realize that this was the start of a trip of a lifetime- an odd thing to say in the middle of a global pandemic...
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October 22, 2020
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By Sammy An integral part of life is conversing with new people, making first impressions, and forming relationships. While meeting people is always exciting, after bursting out of a two-week strict quarantine into a crowd of 300 Americans, Latin Americans,...
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October 21, 2020
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By Siddharth I’ve come to the realization - as have most people for whom it is the first pandemic - that it is extremely handy to have a hobby to keep yourself entertained within the constricting 4 walls of your...
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By Lizzy This month, in continuing with my gap year’s unintentional theme of spontaneity, I decided to take a last-minute trip to Colorado. My grandparents live in a beautiful log cabin deep in the mountains, and I thought that visiting...
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October 20, 2020
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By Sami Last May, I decided to start writing regularly in a journal so that I could improve my awful handwriting. Now that my penmanship has improved, however, I’ve started to notice the many other positive effects that journaling has...
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By Amelia I can now say that I’ve finished my first week of work as a research assistant in the Gibbs Lab at Oregon Health & Science University! The lab is focused on the study and synthesis of fluorescent dyes...
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October 18, 2020
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By Christina [caption id="attachment_1656" align="alignright" width="283"] Writing letters to voters facing disenfranchisement with voting and voter ID information and resources.[/caption] I don’t know how to talk about this fall without bringing up mental health. Few people talk about the hard...
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October 1, 2020
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By Lhamo I often think back to March, the last month of New Hampshire snow. I remember ending winter term and vacationing in Maui, Hawaii, where I first heard that my school year would end abruptly. In Hawaii, the gyms...
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