What would you do if you were about to jump into 6 years of MIT? I have always had a passion for working with the developing world, but I never lived directly there for a long period of time. So over the summer I lived in Ecuador, volunteering on an organic farm in the middle of the amazon and traveling all around. Check out my blog of my adventures.
Through this experience my whole concept of w"helping people" flipped around. In a lot of ways the Ecuadorians can help us more than we can help them.
And taking showers in rivers, hunting guinea pig, and lifting rocks has its own enlightening qualities.
Visit my web page to find out more: http://ewondering.blogspot.com/