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Summer Flutter
Up, down and all around (MIT)
Plenty of students take a year off between high school and college. Very few
of them spend it staving off frostbite and carrying wooden boards across a
continent most people will never see.
Yet Antarctica — along with other latitudinal extremes such as Greenland and
Siberia — was a stop on senior Ian McKay’s circuitous journey to MIT, where
he’ll receive his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering this month. Upon
graduating high school, McKay, a native of Seattle, says he was less concerned
with attending college than with “exploding out into the world.”
“I was really, really obsessed with living the exact kind of book that I would
want to read someday,” he says.
An avid ski racer, McKay had heard legendary tales of fellow skiers who had
traversed the snowy continent. He spent his savings on a ticket to Denver,
where the annual job fair for the U.S. Antarctic Program is held. Having read
up on employment needs and conditions in the extreme south, he convinced
recruiters to give him a position as a construction worker.
McKay’s job was to build and maintain research centers in Antarctica, where
the climate is too harsh to keep ...
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