So, Are You Excited for College?: Gap Year Week ?

So, am I excited for college? Yes. No. Maybe. I don't know.

Field Girl: Gap Year Week 45

"I realized, as my parents and I drove to Mysore for the meet, that I had never quite answered the question for myself. Somehow, I’d always assumed I’d end up in science."

On Top of the World: Gap Year Week 40

"In a landscape characterized by its tight-knit isolation, where things change, literally, glacially if at all, the transient population of tourists are the ones with the impacts that linger far beyond their ephemeral visits."

Rosary: Gap Year Week 38

“In every direction something loomed; it was easy to think us pioneers, completely alone in a landscape nearly ethereal.” Life on the pasture.

The Climb: Gap Year Week 37

Those peaks would be 6000 meters high—the length of a cross country race run vertically away my island-bound comprehension. I shivered at the thought, and at the knowledge soon I would be there, too, above it all.

Time and Tourism: Gap Year Week 35

15 minutes in Bosnia, King’s Landing, and beyond.

Mountains in the Mist: Gap Year Week 34, Part 2

Fairytales are concrete things with defined tropes and patterns: this is not.

Backpacking Beginnings: Gap Year Week 33

Involved mild destabilizing anxiety, graffiti, and backpacking Europe.

Coming Home: Gap Year Week 32

“I began my gap year wanting only to travel.”

Cowardice in the Reedbeds: Gap Year Week 31

"Deep down I find nothing but a quiet naïve belief that everything will pan out. My hands can hold all the things I need."