May 11, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Scott The past few months have been a whirlwind that has felt unreal at times. Ever since the pandemic, events that required immediate attention took priority over my desire to discover the world. After two years of intense studying...
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May 9, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By John Being an EMT was something I'd always wanted to do, but due to the busy schedule that comes with high school, I never got the chance. I also knew I wanted to work in the outdoor industry in...
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May 5, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Aviv In a chic and extremely cozy hostel that I am staying at in Tokyo, I was elated to meet a group of fellow American travelers (I’ve only met a handful in my nine months of traveling) that to...
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April 28, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Samuel For 3 months I lived in Vietnam, interning with a sports events company. We were based in Ho Chi Minh City and organised a Marathon event in Hanoi and an IRONMAN event in Phu Quoc. As such, I...
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March 30, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Jiaheng A balmy Tuesday afternoon in the middle of March. As the air-conditioner clamoured to aerate cool air into the stuffy classroom, letting out intermittent screeches that drew the ire of the passionate speaker, I sat face-to-face with an...
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March 29, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Gabriel Punta del Este, Uruguay. Mission: Save the Sharks. Project: Darwin200. Time: 1 week. I had the fortune of being selected as a Darwin Leader for an expedition that is training 200 young conservationists from around the world. The...
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March 15, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Charlie J Life in New Zealand For the past two months I have been living and traveling through the North Island of New Zealand, and so far it has been an incredible adventure. The first two weeks of December...
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March 13, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Alessandra I failed at painting, drawing, coloring, and almost all art growing up. I could never completely color within the lines and often wondered why the cherry blossoms I had watercolored resembled a misshapen coil of wires while my...
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February 16, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Katarina I know nothing about wine. Yet, as I roll out of my hostel bed in Florence and check my phone, I’m greeted by a reminder reading “12%-14% charisma plant of sunshine red wine”. These cryptic descriptors were left...
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February 5, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Sharad August 2023 – Nov 2023 Hey Everyone, In a happy conclusion of my months-long research internship, our lab’s paper has finally been accepted to be published in a peer-reviewed medical journal and will be presented at the COSM...
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