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Peace Corps
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I hate college, for the past three years i've watched my life go way downhill since it started. More and more i'm feeling like life is a bad thing and i have no purpose or point to being here and alive.

I obviously need a big change. I was thinking maybe if i did something that would help other people, i would feel better about life in general. Rather than feeling like life is empty and i am rotting away in a library - adding no light to this world before i go.

Peace Corps seems like a good way to help people out and maybe find myself in the process? Anybody here ever been in the peace corps or know much about it?? What do u think of it?


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"Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns - it calls me on and on across the universe" ~ John Lennon

"Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right" ~The Grateful Dead

"Religionists, with their guaranteed eventual paradise, of which they know nothing, taking it all on 'faith,' can't be expected to understand or sympathize with those with a yen to storm the Gate of Heaven and see for themselves what all the praying's about!" ~Robert Hunter

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Re: Peace Corps [Re: Help on the Way]
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Just so you know, Peace Corps almost pretty much requires that you have at least an undergraduate degree....

I plan to spend a year or two doing some stuff for them once after I graduate next year, and have looked into it relatively extensively...


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After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action.  If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it.  - Ernest Hemingway

If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it.  In the law courts, in business, in government.  There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.    -Cormac MacCarthy

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.  - Aeschylus

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Re: Peace Corps [Re: Help on the Way]
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I don't personally have any experience, but I have a good friend who was in the peace corps for a few years. She liked it, but know she's joined the forces of greenpeace and said she enjoys it much more. Either way good luck with your future endeavors. shine on!  :sun:


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Re: Peace Corps [Re: Madtowntripper]
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yea im thinking about doing it after i get my degree


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:shocked: *Divine Moments of Truth* :shocked:


"Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns - it calls me on and on across the universe" ~ John Lennon

"Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right" ~The Grateful Dead

"Religionists, with their guaranteed eventual paradise, of which they know nothing, taking it all on 'faith,' can't be expected to understand or sympathize with those with a yen to storm the Gate of Heaven and see for themselves what all the praying's about!" ~Robert Hunter

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Re: Peace Corps [Re: Help on the Way]
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If you can afford it finish your undergraduate, even if it is at some small no name school. You can be of more service to an organization like greens peace or the peace corps if you have the credentials (not that they really mean all that much when you get down to it). I feel the same way though man, I want to ensure that I don't end up working a 9-5 crap job; I want to do something that will simultaneously put me in a fun environment while helping others in need. Invent something original, patent it and use most of the profits to feed the hungry over in Africa/Asia/wherever its needed..haha

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Re: Peace Corps [Re: Shagshow]
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anyone else have any experience with this?


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:shocked: *Divine Moments of Truth* :shocked:


"Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns - it calls me on and on across the universe" ~ John Lennon

"Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right" ~The Grateful Dead

"Religionists, with their guaranteed eventual paradise, of which they know nothing, taking it all on 'faith,' can't be expected to understand or sympathize with those with a yen to storm the Gate of Heaven and see for themselves what all the praying's about!" ~Robert Hunter

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Re: Peace Corps [Re: Help on the Way]
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I was they had the "War Corps" that involved traveling to foreign countries where the poor breed like rabbits and can't even afford to feed their own children, all the while spreading AIDS like wildfire.

Yeah.

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Re: Peace Corps [Re: Help on the Way]
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I considered the Peace Corps for a while and hunted down a bunch old teachers/professors who I knew had done it, and was extremely discouraged to learn that even though you do things that matter on a small level, in a small area, you are essentially functioning as part of a huge bureaucratic Public Relations wing of the government.


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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

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Re: Peace Corps [Re: Help on the Way]
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the peace corps do not just accept anyone - you pretty much need a degree and/or experience in agriculture, languages, medicine, etc. If you have such experience and have two years to work hard in a foreign country, then by all means, apply. I have a friend who was in Africa with the Peace Corp.

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Re: Peace Corps [Re: Vvellum]
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yea i work hard all the time anyway
seems it would be better to have some good come out of it though

what did your friend think of it?


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:shocked: *Divine Moments of Truth* :shocked:


"Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns - it calls me on and on across the universe" ~ John Lennon

"Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right" ~The Grateful Dead

"Religionists, with their guaranteed eventual paradise, of which they know nothing, taking it all on 'faith,' can't be expected to understand or sympathize with those with a yen to storm the Gate of Heaven and see for themselves what all the praying's about!" ~Robert Hunter

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Re: Peace Corps [Re: Help on the Way]
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greatest experience of her life.

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