Students abroad share their experiences immersing to new cultures while continuing school curriculum in foreign countries.
Allegra Drago, Assistant Features Editor December 15, 2021
As a bleary-eyed Casey Ross ’23 steps off a train, she stares at a loading Google Maps screen. The display illuminates her face, but she finds herself with no cellular service. It is 2:12 a.m., and three...
Kristina Riordan ’19 could feel everyone’s eyes on her. Surrounded by 17-year-olds speaking rapidly in an Italian dialect she couldn’t understand, Riordan was briefly overwhelmed with terror. The...
After a summer of interning at Otium, a restaurant in Downtown L.A., Oliver Friedman ‘17 fell in love with cooking and working in the hospitality industry. He realized that he wanted to learn more about...
During winter break, many students and their families traveled abroad to perform community service or gain exposure to other cultures. Some opted to celebrate holidays such as Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa...
Instead of traveling to New York this fall to start at Cornell University, Eojin Choi ’14 will travel to Nepal to start her gap year.
Choi, who is one of the winners of this year’s Brownstein Fellowship,...
Conor Belfield ’14, who is a recipient of the Brownstein Fellowship, plans to travel to South America through the gap year program Thinking Beyond Borders.
Belfield will spend five weeks in Ecuador,...
A record seven members of the class of 2014 will attend college abroad next year, five in the United Kingdom and two in Canada.
The previous record occurred in 2004 and 2005 when five students each year...
