The pressures on today's high school students is unprecedented. The orientation（方向） around getting into a selective college（顶尖学校）means that perfect records are valued more than authentic exploration（真正的探索）, risk-taking, failure, reflection. So it's really hard to get out of high school today and actually know what you genuinely（真正地） care about. And when kids get to college, what we're seeing are record levels of（创新高的） stress and anxiety. And we see that a third of college freshmen don't come back for a second year. And, on average, kids are taking six years to get through four-year colleges. What happens when you take a young person out of their comfort zone（舒适地带） and out away from the people who have defined who they are, the social media profile（社交形象） they have invented for themselves, the expectations that their family and community might have for them, that removal from that context forces（社会压力） you to see yourself in a completely new light（以一种新的方式和角度）. We work with a dean who likes to say, well, everyone takes a gap year. It's called freshman year. It's kind of funny, and it's kind of not, because somebody is making the biggest single investment in this young person's education. At Global Citizen (a nonprofit in Oakland, California, that recruits and trains a diverse group of American high school students to work abroad before they head off to college), your experience is a deep community immersion（投入到社区）. You live with a host family. You work as what we call an apprentice, supporting a local project; 95 percent of our alums are in college and on track to（正要） graduate in four years or less. Colleges love to brag about（吹嘘） the numbers of kids who are studying abroad, and that's definitely on the rise. But when you actually look at the data, what we're seeing is that the vast majority of kids go to Western Europe, live with other Americans, are often speaking English. We want young people to be humbled, to sit with the discomfort of not yet being able to speak to people in their own language, to recognize that they're not there to problem-solve. They're there to explore what the local solutions might actually be.