These Young People Blew Up Their Lives in 2020

If you were lucky enough to find yourself in a place where you could drastically change your life, why wouldn’t you do that?

Andrea González-Ramírez
GEN
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6 min readDec 18, 2020

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Young people on train wearing face masks.
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Halfway through her freshman year, Elizabeth Olshanetsky had a road map for her life that stretched all the way to 2023: The self-described “traditionalist” would continue her…

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Andrea González-Ramírez
GEN
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Award-winning Puerto Rican journalist. Senior Writer at New York Magazine’s The Cut. Formerly GEN, Refinery29, and more. Read my work: https://www.thecut.com/