Rewarding restlessness
During his four years at Harvard, Chris Stock studied math and music history, sang with the glee club, and flew across the snow as part of the Nordic ski team. He had a full, rich College experience, but at the end of it he still wanted … something else. “They [the activities] left me with this feeling that there was a part of me I was letting slip away because of school, the sports team I was on,” Stock said. “I love those things, that’s why I do them, but I felt [there were] these other things I was letting slip away.” So instead of going to graduate school, or to work, as many of his classmates are, Stock is going to Morocco. And, instead of book learning, he’ll be learning about the oud. Stock’s plan to spend a year studying the lutelike instrument of the Middle East may not meet the career-focused expectations...