"Students who go abroad as Global Gap Year Fellows gain skills like time management, flexibility and confidence that are useful when they return to campus... Thomas Elliott, senior political science and contemporary European studies major, went on a gap year with GGYF to South Africa where he worked for a professor of social ecology from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg to research the impact of HIV/AIDS on individuals from rural South Africa."
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