July 23, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Anna Yay! You’re 18 now! Not having fully processed that, I still moved to Brussels the next day to start my internship at the office of the Vice President of the European Parliament in Brussels - all by myself....
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July 3, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Sophia F Over the past semester I’ve been so busy I’ve hardly had the time to think, much less write—I’ve found that NSLI-Y has been a wild ride from start to finish, with few free moments. In the time...
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July 2, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Frans From late December to early January, I embarked on a journey throughout Scotland. I first traveled to the Highlands. Amid the striking nature and picturesque villages with old stone houses, I learned about the history of the different...
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June 29, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Katie Traveling around Europe with a friend was always on my mind. I grew up listening to my mother tell stories about all the thrilling adventures she had backpacking with her high school best friend one crazy summer during...
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June 26, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Alícia During my Gap Year, I embarked on a four-month adventure—the major planned event in my Gap Year period and the realization of a dream I had yearned for ever since I was three years old and a tiny...
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June 24, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Aviv For almost eight full months I traveled under the impression that there were not many young people traveling on a gap year before university. Then, I reached Southeast Asia. Arriving after traveling for a little more than a...
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June 10, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Sophia F At the end of my second semester in Kaohsiung studying Chinese, I traveled with the rest of the NSLI-Y cohort to Kinmen, a forty-minute flight from Taiwan. You may have heard about it in the news in...
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June 7, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Alícia During my time interning at the English National Ballet School Professional Trainee Program in London, I was fortunate to experience moments that can only be described as truly magical. From partaking in classes led by esteemed figures of...
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June 4, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Alessandra Welcome to another update on my gap year! I am really excited to share with you how my internship at a neurosurgery clinic at Stanford has been going! Did you know that surgeons remove pituitary tumors through your...
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June 3, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Charlie J Over the course of a month I traveled through New Zealand’s South Island exploring everything from coasts to glaciers. The geographical diversity of the South Island is both remarkable and frustrating. With a plethora of golden beaches...
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