I worked my way through the PEG/MBC system all on my own with almost no advice from the numerous people who were there to provide it -- which is my thing, not their's. I feel like my freshman year there were about a dozen people whose job it was to provide us with academic and social advice, including older PEGs, but I never felt like I needed that advice.
gvambat (now my girlfriend) and I became second-semester transitionals and moved out of the PEG dorm for our sophomore year. After that I relied on PEG for almost nothing but rides to the airport.
I'm currently in my first semester of an MA program, and yes, I am feeling that MBC failed to provide me with certain key advice about what kinds of preparation I'd need for further studies in my field, but this is definitely not a PEG failure; it's a Baldwin thing.
I know one faculty member in my major wished she'd advised another PEG in my major to transfer half-way through for some very specific reasons -- because the education we get at Baldwin in phil/rel is not really adequate. Which is sad. I think over all the advice I wish we had was "this is a third-tier school. It will be forever. If you are doing phenomenally well here in your sophomore year, you will continue to do so. If you want to go further in your field and that field is not strongly represented here at Baldwin, transfer the frell out of here before you eat your future." Which, um, isn't going to happen.
Still and all, I wouldn't change my PEG experience at all. Then, I'm only two years out, still living at home, and have only just begun the rest of my journey. So.
I worked my way through the PEG/MBC system all on my own with almost no advice from the numerous people who were there to provide it -- which is my thing, not their's. I feel like my freshman year there were about a dozen people whose job it was to provide us with academic and social advice, including older PEGs, but I never felt like I needed that advice.
gvambat (now my girlfriend) and I became second-semester transitionals and moved out of the PEG dorm for our sophomore year. After that I relied on PEG for almost nothing but rides to the airport.
I'm currently in my first semester of an MA program, and yes, I am feeling that MBC failed to provide me with certain key advice about what kinds of preparation I'd need for further studies in my field, but this is definitely not a PEG failure; it's a Baldwin thing.
I know one faculty member in my major wished she'd advised another PEG in my major to transfer half-way through for some very specific reasons -- because the education we get at Baldwin in phil/rel is not really adequate. Which is sad. I think over all the advice I wish we had was "this is a third-tier school. It will be forever. If you are doing phenomenally well here in your sophomore year, you will continue to do so. If you want to go further in your field and that field is not strongly represented here at Baldwin, transfer the frell out of here before you eat your future." Which, um, isn't going to happen.
Still and all, I wouldn't change my PEG experience at all. Then, I'm only two years out, still living at home, and have only just begun the rest of my journey. So.
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