by Rhiannon Osborne-Tonner | Aug 23, 2019 | Gap year, Travel
Rhiannon Osborne Tonner is in her final year of UCL studying Natural Sciences. She interned on a month long Start Me Up UX Internship. Has anyone ever told you that University days are the best days of your life? I’m confident they’ve never taken a year out. Taking a...
by Rhiannon Osborne-Tonner | Aug 7, 2019 | Careers, Gap year, Graduate Jobs, Internships
Rhiannon Osborne Tonner is in her final year of UCL studying Natural Sciences. She interned in Bali on a month long Start Me Up UX Internship. You’ve just graduated. Your university days are behind you. You’ve been launched into the world that lies beyond your...
by Staff writer | Aug 7, 2019 | Careers, Engineering, Gap year, Graduate Jobs, Internships
Pooja Vadha has just finished her Physics Masters and is going on to study for a PhD in Solid State Batteries for Electric Vehicles at UCL. She spent one month on Start Me Up’s Remote Internship Program. “I applied for this program because I wanted to learn new...
by Staff writer | Jul 15, 2019 | Careers, Gap year, Graduate Jobs, Internships, Travel
Emma Bourgeois recently graduated in law from the University of Exeter. She spent one month interning remotely on Start Me Up’s Remote Internship Program for an edtech company. “I decided to go for this experience because first of all it’s in Bali, which is amazing,...
by Staff writer | Jul 15, 2019 | Gap year, Social Enterprise
Juan Carlos is studying at York University in Toronto. He spent two months working in marketing for a social enterprise as part of Start Me Up’s Remote Internship Program in Bali. Why decide to take part in the Start Me Up Program? “Coming from a business...
by Staff writer | Jul 15, 2019 | Gap year, Graduate Jobs, Internships
Hannah Nasif recently graduated from the University of Bristol in the UK where she studies law. She spent one month on Start Me Up’s Startup Internship Program in Bali interning remotely for a Dutch fintech startup. After graduation, Hannah was looking to explore new...
by Staff writer | Jul 15, 2019 | Gap year
Chicagoan Kai Cromwell loved surfing and already had his own idea for a surf brand, KeAloha Threads, which makes causal wear from recycled plastic. He spent his Startup Internship in Bali learning more about sales, marketing and advertising so he could develop and...
by Staff writer | Jul 15, 2019 | Gap year
Tayla Christensen worked on a web development and UX project, as part of Start Me Up’s Startup Internship Program, for a Bali-based social enterprise. Tayla was looking for a way to get some more experience of the startup world while she traveled around South East...
by Staff writer | Jun 16, 2019 | Gap year, Travel
Jessica Lochan-Jenkinson spent one month on Start Me Up’s Startup Gap Year Program in Bali. What have you been doing in Bali? “For the past month I’ve been doing Start Me Up’s Gap Year Program. While here I’ve been trying to create my own clothes swap site....
by Camille de Villiers | Jan 23, 2019 | Careers, Gap year
Camille de Villiers spent part of her Gap Year before University on Start Me Up’s Gap Year Startup Program in Bali. I’d come to the end of my school career. All of my friends had decided what they were going to study and I had no idea. I decided I wanted to travel and...
by Tomi Ogundayo | Sep 22, 2018 | Gap year, Internships
Tomi Ogundayo is from New York City but she lives in Barcelona. She spent one month in Bali interning for a Singapore-run blockchain startup. After her internship she was invited to represent her startup at the United Nations World Investment Forum on Blockchain for...
by Jaime van der Peijl | Dec 28, 2016 | Gap year
I like to think that I’ve mastered the art of the gap year. I’ve had three in total and found ways to be completely independent without needing money from study financing or parents. My gap year habit leads most people to assume that I’m a lazy rich kid. But I assure...
by Jaime van der Peijl | Nov 2, 2016 | Gap year
Gap years are sometimes viewed as the lazy option. And let’s be honest, not all parents like the idea of their kids taking a gap year. They worry their offspring will never get started with their lives. What if they spend it just playing video games and eating ice...
by Haley Johnson | Oct 10, 2016 | Gap year
Being from America, the idea of a “gap year” was rarely discussed or encouraged. I didn’t even realize I was on a gap year until someone pointed it out. I discovered gap years are much more common amongst people from Europe and Australia and I was excited to have...
by Ollie Rodney | Aug 15, 2016 | Gap year
My fourth week interning in Bali has passed at lightning speed. As always I’ve met all sorts of interesting people, made some great contacts in all types of industries, achieved some amazing things and had a fantastic time while doing it. Within weeks of arriving, I...
by Jaime van der Peijl | May 23, 2016 | Gap year
“Malia Obama’s ‘Gap Year’ Is Part of a Growing (and Expensive) Trend,” said Mike Mcphate of the New York Times, after it was announced that Malia Obama, daughter of Michelle and Barack, was having a gap year before she went to Harvard. Some newspapers cited costs in...
