He spent five years in California, the next four in Paris, then found himself on a plane back home to Palo Alto—all before the age of 10. Sure, spending his formative years in Europe never gave him the quintessential American childhood—“pickup basketball still terrifies me”—but for Reed Piercey, MCAS ’19, his compelling childhood, which started him on his eventual path toward international politics, was anything but a crutch.
As Piercey prepares to depart for Southern China with the Peace Corps on June 15, he’s begun to reflect upon the past four years at Boston College, from Welcome Week to Commencement.
“Coming into freshman year, [I thought] I had finished growing and I knew who I was and I was set,” he said. “As any senior would tell you, that’s very mistaken.”
