September 3, 2024
Why Graduate School?
Time moves fast and slow in the Peace Corps. There’s the blur of training, the slog of setting up at site, and then, just when things start clicking, the race to finish up your projects and cobble together a plan before your close-of-service catapults you back home. After their service ends, about one in four Volunteers pursues grad school, according to former Thailand Country director and former NPCA president Kevin Quigley. The reasons are manifold, from gaining skills and contacts, to launching a meaningful career, and finding kindred spirits in international programs full of returned Peace Corps Volunteers. Mark Gearan,...