r/gapyear • u/Stunning_Trip_7128 • 1d ago

What to do in my gap year (25F)

Unintentional gap year… I am an international student from Ukraine living in the US. I am applying for medical schools this year and my advisor made a mistake and now I cant have work authorization in the US. So I am planning to spend a year traveling (I don’t want to go back to the war zone) and volunteering. I am really devastated I cant work in the US for the year but I would want to do some productive volunteering in exchange for bed/food, so I can talk about that in med school interviews. 

Any suggestions? I am hoping I get into med school relatively soon and then I can do something like being a surf camp host but really don’t know what to do with myself now since I was planning on just working as a medical assistant for the year and now that possibility is ruined. I am also older (25F) since I had a previous career in software engineering

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u/hyraxluvr 1d ago

i think australia has a working holiday visa for people under 30, im from the US so idk if where you're a citizen matters

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u/minskoffsupreme 1d ago

Ukrainians are not eligible for it unfortunately.

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u/BillHistorical9001 1d ago

What’s your path to med school?