<p>So......having seen the posts on the other side of the coin in a recent thread, would be interested in hearing from current/former mids on what they thought was the BEST part of being a Plebe.</p>
<p>Becoming a youngster! :)</p>
<p>^^^^^
Ditto.</p>
<p>Firsties' graduation...</p>
<p>Absolutely nothing as far as I can tell.</p>
<p>is my son the only plebe who is happy? sure, chem is tough, but he's happy.</p>
<p>Ok. It was a serious question so deserves a serious answer.</p>
<p>I'm thinking.</p>
<p>Still thinking.</p>
<p>Give me a minute.</p>
<p>Don't rush me.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Okay. In all seriousness, I would say the novelty of being at USNA (finally accomplishing your dream), starting on your way to an exciting career, the way most civilians look at and respect you, the pride of being from USNA, the comaraderie of your classmates and fellow mids.</p>
<p>I remember having that surge of pride when I marched down Stribling Walk on the way to a P-rade or just walking to class. After your first year, you start to get used to it. But initially, it's kind of neat.</p>
<p>And . . . </p>
<p>Becoming a youngster. :)</p>
<p>hmmm... interesting question</p>
<p>Good things about plebe year:
-new friends</p>
<p>-football games (although no more overnights afterward)</p>
<p>-Friday night Bancroft Hall parties ("party" is probably a misnomer, usually everyone just laughs about all the funny stuff that happened that week, and maybe talks some smack about their least favorite 2/c)</p>
<p>....really thats about all. I mean, theres saturday liberty, but not much more than that. By far the best part is the lifelong friendships that you make</p>
<p>Making friends for life with some super people was the seriously the best part for me.</p>
<p>I actually found a lot of humor in Plebe year as well. You will have great stories to tell for the rest of your "bloomin' life". It's especially funny when it happens to someone else... ;)</p>
<p>I'm not unhappy here It's just there isn't a lot to look forward too. I love walking down stribling and being like, wow I really do go to this school and it's gorgeous and I can't believe I'm actually here. But making really good friends plebe year is hard because everyone is so self invovled and I would say that people don't become awesome friends until later on. At least, I've noticed that in all of the people that I know.
Fridays aren't that great. Most people sit in the room and watch movies. I live on a lower deck so the OOW always walks through and you can't do anything fun and that sucks.
So, that's about it. We all just count down the days until leave and then finally becoming youngsters.</p>
<p>Yeah, I lived on 7-4, as far away as you could get from Main Office and the prying eyes of the OOW. Visits were rare. We had "fun" out there. Not as good as Goat Court, from what I understand, but pretty darn close.</p>
<p>Most of the fun things we did are probably not appropriate for this site, and they would seem pretty lame as well. We did catch a lot of mice and I confess to harnessing one or two to toy parachutes. No fatalities, honest.</p>
<p>We didn't have PC's, media privileges (no music at all) and there were no cell phones. We were a lot more cut off from the outside world than you guys are, and the newspaper was the only link to news that we had.</p>
<p>I remember our firsties letting us watch the Presidential debates because we were all voting for the first time, but that was the only TV we got to watch in the Hall Plebe Year (1980).</p>
<p>You'll enjoy your leave. Keep smiling through the Dark Ages. Spring Break will be here before you know it.</p>
<p>My summer seminar squad leader told me that the best part of being a plebe is that if you do something stupid, you don't get in trouble for it because your leaders attribute it to plebe-ish naivety.</p>
<p>usnagirl,</p>
<p>That is not correct. You might not get a conduct offense (though, there are plebes on restriction), but you will definitely face your training chain-of-command for mess-ups and usually the punishment is enforced on all of your company classmates....which, as mentioned in a previous post, is one thing that can "tick" people off.</p>
<p>Best part of plebe year is doing ridiculous things with your classmates (recons, pranks, bets, etc).</p>
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<p>Interesting comment... pleading "plebe ignorance" can definitely work in some cases. Kinda like "Oh I'm so sorry sir I didn't know," or my personal favorite, "huh sir? You mean we can't?" But if you do something blatantly wrong... yeah, I'd expect to have the hammer get dropped.</p>
<p>The best part about being a plebe is the pride in your institution that you gain after walking to a class in Sampson down Stribbling in the snow knowing you're going to bomb the Chemistry Final the next day and wondering what you just got on the last pro-quiz, and remembering that you forgot to make your rack as you left your room. You know that things look grim, but somehow you'll get through all of it with determination.</p>
<p>Also, making the best friends of a lifetime. I have a few near and dear friends, from high school, but your company mates are people you live with and interact with. They are the best friends I have and I can see myself shooting the breeze for years down the road.</p>
<p>The people.</p>
<p>You're surrounded by people who are all focusing on the same thing- a military "career", even if it is only 5 years for some.</p>