I'm considering going back to school and get a master's paid for by joining the peace corps. Environmental engineering/hydrology is hot right now and there's jobs all over the world for that stuff.

if you are a science major you probably dont have to join the peace corps. most of physics folk just get exploited as TAs. perhaps its different for hippie enviromental science though.

3 hours of System Dev.
3 hours of Programming
6 hours of Networking
6 hours of Unix

Rince and repeat for 8 weeks.

I'm considering going back to school and get a master's paid for by joining the peace corps. Environmental engineering/hydrology is hot right now and there's jobs all over the world for that stuff.

[b​ if i do my phd on astrophysics i would be confined to academia. [/b]i could always do a phd on engineering  if i change my mind, or i could do something really aplicable to industry like biophysics. its not like i am hasty of getting rich; grad school for science majors is pretty much free (well it isnt because grad schools are the sweatshops of scientists so you are exploited a lot and get paid worse than a janitor but still you wont pay for grad school)

you'll have a ponytail in no time

HOLY SHIT WHAT.

Yeah, I was thinking of joining the peace corps anyway, but talk about killing two birds with one stone! How does this work out? Does the Peace Corps have to be affiliated with your college/grad school or do they send a check anyplace you decide to go?

A friend of mine's sister is majoring in Developmental Policy, so she transferred to Ghana and goes to school there. Just a thought, I bet the peace corps could really use someone who knows that information.

But anyway, that sounds pretty badass. Not that it would be particularly useful to me, since I'll probably turn out to be a CORPORATE LAWYER and screw over the common man, but at least I'll have a guilty conscience when doing so.

peacecorps.gov has a list of schools affiliated with the program. The basic gist is that you have to get accepted into a masters program and then your peace corps service will count as some sort of credit and you're usually expected to develop your thesis while you're doing work over there for two years. Usually your tuition gets waived and you're given a living stipend to finish off the two years of schooling required for your masters program.

Not a bad idea if you're interested in studying and doing useful stuff, not so great for people who don't really plan on doing anything productive with their lives.

1.) Spanish 7
2.) AP Calc BC
3.) AP Physics: Electricity and Magnetism
4.) AP Gov
5.) Orchestra
6.) AP English Lit.

Yeah, the reason why I take these APs is because I can't stand the other classes. Mainly, I can't stand the students in them. They're pretty stupid, and besides, my friends are in the APs, so whatevs. Whether or not I get college credit for these classes, I don't care. Besides, my friend happened to use them to replace an entire year of work. That's a nice plus.