<p>Yes sir! It was incredible! I did a lot of growing up (I know, it sounds corny) while I was a Corps member. It was very rewarding, and yes, you are trained. I worked in an elementary school near Downtown LA. Tutored, mentored, and ran an after school program.</p>
<p>aww how sweet, i did that but for pay. i wish i would have known about it right after high school. it is a wonderful opportunity!</p>
<p>I still have my panoramas from the 5th grade glasses i worked with (they invited me into them!) They’re on my wall! 
It was the sweetest gesture!</p>
<p>aww i saw it 
que sweet, que cute! awwwww too cute.</p>
<p>You saw it?! 
When?! lol</p>
<p>Wow jane, why don’t you just float away on a river of cheeze. hahaha</p>
<p>I also did a lot related to my field…I just happened to get paid for it. Frankly, I don’t think schools should hold a lack of community service against kids who had full time jobs during school. I mean, sometimes, no matter how much you want to do community service, you just need money!</p>
<p>I’m just hoping they look at the type of job I was in, and then look at how I’ve always needed financial aid, and understand why I had no time to work for free…</p>
<p>just now when u said it was on ur wall, crap now i am the stalker 
hahaha</p>
<p>I had a stipend. Around 200 a week, which isn’t a lot, but I got by.</p>
<p>@Jane, I meant on my wall at home. ha ha ha.</p>
<p>@evan 200 a week actually isn’t that bad at all. That’s like, 800 a month? dang, I really wish I had taken advantage of that</p>
<p>hahaha ooops :p</p>
<p>You can do it after you graduate, so long as you’re not older than 24! the $5,000 ed award can be used to pay student loans, too!</p>
<p>^not a bad deal at all!! better than rotc haha</p>
<p>School: UCSD so far, waiting on UCLA</p>
<p>Focus: Sociocultural Anthropology, Psychological Anthro</p>
<p>Career: NO idea, I’ve always just wanted to travel and write, either research-y or non-fiction life experiences in other cultures, there’s always a market for that. Buut I could go into teaching. Will see where it takes me, plans never go as planned anyways.</p>
<p>Fav: I love how Anthro is this hidden gem major that everyone thinks they know what it is but really don’t. It has a little bit of everything in it, from science to history to art. I also find humans wierd and facinating, so it’s perfect. Learning how other people live their lives in different cultures, from religion to social heirarchies to food (hungry right now, sorry) is so enlightening from the little worlds that we construct around ourselves (remeber when highschool was like the entire world, um ya- reality check). Soo that’s why I love Anthro.</p>
<p>I was interested in doing Peacecorps, and I’m assuming that’s similar to Americorps, except it’s worldwide. I’m actually really burnt out with classes right now and wanted take several months off to do that, but didn’t want to waste all this CC crapola work.</p>
<p>To Anthros: Congrats on choosing the best major!</p>
<p>-Desired school (or school you plan to attend): applied to UCLA, UCB, UCD, UCSB. I’ve heard back from UCD and UCSB so far and got into both. UCLA is my #1 choice.
-Focus within the major (cultural, biological, archeology, etc): I applied as a B.A. I like physical more and we’ll see what math/science classes I have to take in order to go that route though.
-What you plan to do with your major (grad school, career): Grad school for sure. I want to go for my PhD. I’m not making many decisions beyond that.
-Favorite thing about Anthropology: It is literally the only subject that I can see myself studying. I don’t know what it is about anthro but I don’t want to major in anything else. I don’t care about what jobs come with the degree or what the future has to hold; I just know I want to study anthropology.</p>
<p>-Desired school (or school you plan to attend)
Either Berkeley or UCLA would be great, but I’m still waiting on those. So far, I’ve gotten into UCSB, UCSD, UCSC, UCR, UCI and UCD. Of those, UCSD or UCSB and UCI are the only ones I’m seriously considering.
-Focus within the major (cultural, biological, archeology, etc)
I’m leaning toward cultural/linguistics. I’m also double majoring in a language, so yeah… There’s a definite push toward linguistics.
-What you plan to do with your major (grad school, career)
Grad school, then either applied anthro or teaching.
-Favorite thing about Anthropology
I get to read ethnographies, learn languages and travel - what more could I possibly want.</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, what are all of you going to do for the anthropological language requirements? Specifically, I believe that for most programs (at least as a grad student, with undergrad preferred) you need to speak French as the lingua franca in Eurasian work, and Spanish for field work on either American continent. </p>
<p>I made the mistake of taking Japanese as my language in CC (if I was doing it over again, French or Italian, no question). So, I’ll probably take French courses sometime after transferring, assuming the credits and everything work out, or independently somewhere. Then because I want to do a classics minor/classical archaeology, I’ll need to pick up Latin or Greek (probably the latter), meaning including my wasted semicompetency in Japanese I’ll be quatro-lingual by the end of grad school, ideally. :S</p>
<p>I’d really love to learn German. I took American Sign Language while at CC. I love ASL, but I wish I would have taken German instead.</p>
<p>sie liebt dich yeah yeah yeah
sie liebt dich yeah yeah yeah
sie liebt dich yeah yeah yeah.</p>
<p>Desired School: UCLA
Focus: Linguistic Anthropology
Career: No clue. This is probably why my parents are worried, haha. I guess I’ll go to graduate school somewhere and see where that leads.
Why I love Anthropology: Yeah, cultural anthropology pretty much changed my life. Anthro just makes sense to me and helped fill a void in my life. Learning about how humans are so different from one another, yet really the same is fascinating to me. </p>
<p>I took German, but only these last two semesters. I took it simply because my favorite anthro professor at CC always said that having studied abroad in Germany and knowing German opened a lot of doors for him. </p>
<p>Slightly OT, but since everyone here is an Anthropology major, did y’all take Anthro classes besides the ones that fulfill the pre-requisites or are those sufficient?</p>
<p>There weren’t any other anthro courses offered at any of my 3 CCC’s. (They’re a district) :/</p>