After 7 months living in Senegal, I cannot imagine what my life would have been like had I gone straight to college. During my Global Citizen Year I became an integrated member of a community an ocean away from my physical and psychological home. I learned international development from the ground up, medicine through empiricism, and languages through immersion. Perhaps most importantly, I discovered how effortlessly I can break through what I thought were my personal limits."

Gus Ruchman
2011 Fellow in Senegal