"One thing I miss is the laughing all day long," Malachuk says.
Some Corps members become so attached to the teaching that they never leave the field.
Rachel Garlin '96, one of Malachuk's best friends, also joined the program after college and taught third grade in Phoenix.
"The kids aren't aware that you're 22 and you're as nervous as they are," Garlin says.
Garlin found herself so passionate about teaching that she decided to keep it up.
Instead of heading to a professional school, as she had originally planned when she entered Harvard, she started teaching eighth grade English in Berkeley, Calif.
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