What are your plans for the future?

Question

If you have not already, where college do you want to get into, if any, what would you like to be, etc.

I want to go somewhere on the east coast, around Boston, and I plan to join the peace corps when I get out for a year and a half.

Answer 1

"where college do you want to get into" - you write like I do; mind flies faster than your fingers. I suspect you started to write "where do you want to go to college?", realized that "Massachusetts" would be a valid but unhelpful answer to that, changed it to "what college do you want to go to?" but didn't change the "where" to "what".

If I'm right, it is because I do the same thing; also because I have honed my mind to razor sharpness over the years by reading hard-boiled detective stories.

I search the questions for "Peace Corps" and "Peace Corp" every once in a while. (Not everyone spells it properly.) I have a technical correction for you.

The standard PCV serves for two years, and does 3 months of training beforehand, for a total of 27 months. While you train you will be a Peace Corps Trainee. The transition from PCT to PCV is usually marked by an oath, then by eating, drinking and a feeling of pride that will last, in my case, 38 years.

You can leave before your term is up, but it is bad form to do so; you leave people who depended on you in the lurch. It is a little like a teacher leaving in mid-term. (If your post as a PCV is secondary school teaching, it is EXACTLY like a teacher leaving in mid-term.)

You can read more here, if you like:

http://www.tedpack.org/pchead.html

You can Google "PCV Blog" to get some more recent views.

Your ambitions are noble. Best of luck!

Answer 2

Jesuits colleges have something called the Jesuit Volunteer Corps which is basically a Catholic Peace Corps where graduates do work among the poor and underprivileged for a year after college. Holy Cross and Boston College are the two Jesuit schools in the Boston metro area. Holy Cross has the highest rank of the 28 U.S. Jesuit colleges and universities in the percentage of its graduates who go on to serve in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps.  Both BC and Holy Cross are among the top colleges in the nation.  Holy Cross is the oldest Catholic college in New England, 20 years older than BC.