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How to maximize a gap year — and where to go if you want to travel

2017-08-04

A growing trend among high school graduates is to take a year off between graduating and heading off to college. According to the American Gap Association, a gap year is typically taken to “deepen practical, professional and personal awareness.” Some people use this time to relax, others to figure out what career they would like to...

Place, Intention, And The Problem With TV’s ‘Gap Year’

2017-08-04

By Cierra Bland The Gap Year crew party, worry about their futures, hook-up, inflate each other’s egos, meet interesting strangers, get themselves into trouble and always find a way out. In the end, it’s not that interesting. I should know, because I took a gap year. The opening scene of Hulu’s Gap Year makes clear what the show...

To Be Great, America Needs “Citizen Ambassadors”

2017-08-04

By Abby Falik It may seem paradoxical, but the most patriotic thing Americans can do right now is travel abroad. Global Citizen Year Alum Isaac King (left) visiting a farm in Brazil in 2015. “With shocking speed, [President Trump] has wreaked havoc: hobbling our core alliances, jettisoning American values and abdicating United States leadership of the world.”...

6 Reasons Why Taking a Gap Year Can Be Life-Changing

2017-08-04

With contributions to global culture that include amazing street style, perfect croissants, and IKEA Scandi gems, Europeans have a lot of things pretty figured out. Another uber-smart idea that’s classically European? Traveling during a gap year. The concept is becoming more popular with Americans, who are adapting the tradition of spending a year traveling after high school or college into a mid-career break in their...

The Gift of the “No”

2017-08-04

Last week I received a spectacular rejection. The type of “no” that in the early years of building Global Citizen Year would have sent me into existential shock, knocked me off my game for weeks, and ground our progress to a screeching halt. I’d been invited to answer the question, “What would you do if money weren’t...

Beauty of A Bad Idea

2017-05-18

Global Citizen Year founder and CEO, Abby Falik, was featured on the latest episode of Masters of Scale, now the #1 business podcast in the world! The week’s episode, Beauty of A Bad Idea, features Tristan Walker (CEO of Walker & Company) with cameos from Kathryn Minshew (Daily Muse) , Kara Goldin (Hint Water), David Hornik (August Capital), Josh...

Freshman Year for the Bold

2017-04-23

By George Anders Nicholas Montano has been operating farm machinery in Senegal, turning dried corn into couscous. Noa Bridson has been helping Ecuadorian villagers promote their alpaca refuge as a new tourist destination. Amari Leigh has been selling lettuce and beets at a farmers’ market in southern Brazil. All three of these teenagers could...

Donald Trump should’ve taken a gap year

2017-04-23

By Maria Morava, Global Citizen Year Alumna, College of the Atlantic “I think Islam hates us,” I listened as the French dubbing followed, one step behind – “We have to get to the bottom of it. … There is an unbelievable hatred of us.” Then-candidate Donald Trump spoke like we weren’t listening. We — my Senegalese...

Young Americans: This is your chance to make history

2017-04-22

By Abby Falik College can wait. In fact, it should. Dear High School Seniors, As you approach your next steps after high school, consider this: college can wait. In fact, it should. Let’s be real. At age 18, should you already know what ideas ignite your soul? Which burning questions will drive your higher education?...