You wouldn't call Nathan Rodland's last summer break a vacation. A Whitworth University senior, Rodland spent most of last summer in Guatemala helping manage a research project on the effects of migration on the families left behind. He and another undergraduate, Emily Warren of Stanford University, had undertaken an ambitious, independent project – winning a $10,000 grant, devising a survey to be used for a population that speaks various Mayan dialects, and hiring and managing a team of interviewers spread all over the country.