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Tricia Ballard

Tricia Ballard will be attending Bates College after a few remaining months in her gap year. When not reminiscing over NOLS, she enjoys baking pies, amateur biking, watercoloring, drinking hot chocolate, and fitting in outdoor micro-adventures into everyday life.

Articles By Tricia Ballard

backpackers hike along a ridge high in the mountains of New Zealand

Discovering My—Slightly Strange—New Normal on a NOLS Gap Year

Tricia shares her story of a gap year filled with glacier walks, ABBA songs, and Kiwi slang on a Semester in New Zealand.