let's build a survey!

In my last post, and then I started a secret blog, I included an old-fashioned MySpace survey. I received an overwhelmingly awesome response to that post, including several readers sending in their own responses to the survey.

For example, the last person Nikki got in an argument was Riley, and the argument was about whether or not he could bring his guitar with him into the bathtub. Hilarious, right?

what no one told me about AmeriCorps

The moment I became an AmeriCorps member.

It has been roughly 10 months since my AmeriCorps term ended, leaving me with what I think is probably adequate reflection time on the value of my experience as it relates to the "real world," AKA life after serving with AmeriCorps.

There are a lot of not-so-sexy things that no one told me before I joined. Sure, everyone I spoke to told me it was going to be a rewarding experience and that it was a chance to really make a difference for America. And I think that, in most ways, they were right. Unfortunately, there's a lot of junk that comes with your AmeriCorps experience that I haven't really noticed other service members talk about.