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...pursuits offers much needed respite from the stresses and rigors of high school. By providing constructive opportunities to relax and reflect, gap years prepare students for a more meaningful and engaged university experience. Currently, bridge years are predominately enjoyed by the wealthy, whose parents can subsidize a year of unpaid travel and service work. We hope that Princeton’s program, with its strong financial aid support, will extend this same opportunity to the less socioeconomically fortunate. Increasing diversity among gap year participants will only enhance the insights and experiences which they bring back to campus and share with...
...computer-and-cubicle limits of the CIA office left McCulla longing for a creative output, so she sent off a dozen letters to chefs whose work she admired. “I was asking for a week of unpaid kitchen experience,” she says. “‘Just let me come!’ I asked. I didn’t care if I washed lettuce...
...We’re not at a place where we can allow limited credit amounts for a course,” he says. “And at least in the arts and the creative side there’s basically a need to get an unpaid internship to get a career.” The college’s policy of valuing curriculum over experience makes the study-through-employment route a path seldom taken. According to Connor, the only feasible way to incorporate an artistic internship into the required course load is through independent study...
...cream enthusiasts were whipped into action when over $100,000 in unpaid taxes and interest threatened to shut down Cambridge’s local Toscanini’s ice-cream and coffee shop. The business was seized by the Massachusetts Department of Revenue on Jan. 17 because the store had not paid tens of thousands of dollars in food and payroll taxes. In the days following the shuttering of the Central Square store, a blog entitled “Save Toscanini’s” opened with the intent of raising the dough needed to help the owners...
...What politician from the past would you be willing to lend your unpaid consulting skills...