Degrees of Freedom

Published on October 20, 2026

While it may not be immediately obvious how to apply it, all Peace Corps Volunteers know that the experience they build managing community projects during their two years of service will be relevant in some way to whatever career path they choose. That said, that experience rarely translates into the traditional higher education model, which can be rigid in deciding how to evaluate the unique strengths of applicants to grad school programs.... Read more

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Ask five people what grad school looked like as a complement to Peace Corps service, and you won’t hear much about seminars. Somewhere between the thesis and the practicum, a volunteer inevitably finds themselves barreling down a mountain on a bike with a dozen kids trailing behind — and realizing, mid-descent, with certainty that there’s no going back to who they were before.... Read more

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