# I've been accepted to Americorps! W00t! W00t!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 20, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-accepted-to-americorps-w00t-w00t/202713 "2003-09-20T00:14:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nichol\_storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Nichol\_storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nichol_storm)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-accepted-to-americorps-w00t-w00t/202713/1 "2003-09-20T00:14:31Z")

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Just got my letter in today, it reads:

\*Ms. First-&-Last-Name-That’s-None-‘O’-Yo-Bidness,

Congratulations! You have been conditionally selected to serve with Americorps_NCCC program…_

I’ve been asigned to the Perry Point, Maryland campus and my tenure starts in January. Yay! **leaps up and down breathlessly in excitement**

Everyone’s so happy for me, my aunt and uncle and everybody. My foster brother grilled me on where I was going but after he learned we would be living on a military base he relaxed and said, “Well, that sounds all right.” I haven’t told my boyfriend yet, though.

So yeah. With a little luck I’ll be leaving out in a few months on my big adventure. Any MD Dopers out there? Maybe we could have a little mini-Dopefest or something, I’ve always wanted to go to one.

Yay me! Hee hee!

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**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-accepted-to-americorps-w00t-w00t/202713/2 "2003-09-20T00:26:55Z")

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What be this “americorps”? Be they privateers, or proper pirates? Be the booty rich in Maryland waters these days?

Arrr!

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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-accepted-to-americorps-w00t-w00t/202713/3 "2003-09-20T01:47:37Z")

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'Grats on tagging a goal there, **Nichol\_storm**. Tell us a little bit about it. How long does it last? What do you do?

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**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-accepted-to-americorps-w00t-w00t/202713/4 "2003-09-20T01:58:50Z")

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The lengths some girls will go to in order to escape Mississippi! 😉

Congrats!