Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 12:00 a.m.

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Ski-town lifestyle draws alums to mountaintops

Contributing Reporter
Published Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Between graduate school applications and job searches, the fall of senior year can be one of the most stressful times of a college student’s life. Or, for those who go from “Yale to Vail,” it can be incredibly relaxing.

Over the years, a smattering of Yale students have put aside high-powered careers in favor of working at ski resorts as ski instructors, waiters or medics in orthopedic clinics. Most of these students travel several hundred miles west of the Elm City, looking for a change of pace before they ever crack open a book in graduate, medical or law...

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