Discover Year: Student Stories

What are the impacts of a purposeful gap year?

How do our students experience growth, self-discovery, and community throughout their gap year? The best people to answer these questions are none other than our students themselves!

“I can vividly remember the moment I started saying “yes” again. It was the Discover Year Orientation Week, and all new students were in the Byward Market in Ottawa, nervously yet excitedly getting to know one another. The sun was shining, and that early September day felt much more like summer than fall.”