<p>camping is dishonorable. come out and fight. no one likes cowards. the funny thing is that campers usually get shot by fellow camper's who discover them in 'their' sniping hole. :P i use to do it in like unreal, but then everyone teams up against you, not fun. nor easy</p>
<p>ilovetocamp: ive always read your sn sarcasticly... till now!</p>
<p>polter + 93157 = poltergeist
i am an untouchable ghost, hehehe</p>
<p>I am teh coward! Well sorta, if I'm a T in a DE map, i would rush, (behind the pointman) but if i got hurt badly, i would have no qualms running away.</p>
<p>I usually only pick the camping team, and I NEVER camp when your supposed to assault...
I also talk alot of trash to the assault ppl but I have the camping skills and craftiness to back it up :P heh heh</p>
<p>what do you mean by the sarcasm though? did you think i was talking about the pitching a tent in the widlerness crap?</p>
<p>It's like our 5th year of high school except we wear uniforms, stand watch, and don't get out often. Other than that we have Math, English, Physics, and Chem and even the lowest level is tough. They throw us a bunch of homework and it's hard with our tight schedule. I have a 2.2 right now and I need a 2.0 to go to the academy. </p>
<p>stats
3.9 gpa
ACT 23 (got in with 21)
School activities: Book Club, Art Club, Senior Counsil, National Honor Society
Sea Cadets: Lead Petty Officer of Engineering, Starboard Squad Leader, Color guard leader
Took Aviation classes at Lewis University junior and senior year
Aviation student of the year
Ballroom Dancing
Won a car for perfect attendance junior year
4 years perfect attendence
Top 10%
Academic letter</p>
<p>Is your gpa above, average, or below compared to others in the pre-usna thingy?</p>
<p>i understood the first shooter camping, id just read it as sarcasm, like you were mocking campers.</p>
<p>haha i also remember the insults. i do that almost every video game whether im winning or not, more ususally when im losing. haha good times.</p>
<p>when injured, sacrifice yourself. i do that youll be surprised how much better you play</p>
<p>^lol! "sacrifice myself?!?!?!" <em>BRZZT</em> DOES NOT COMPUTE. <em>BRZZT</em></p>
<p>meh, most of the time, unless i'm playing with my friends, i am the completely antithesis to "team player"</p>
<p>if i am about to die, i often try to take my whole team down with me (throwin a fb at them or blocking the way)</p>
<p>hoewver, if they don't complain or yell at me, its no fun, and i stop doing it</p>
<p>most of the time they yell at me and i find that quite stimulating</p>
<p>hahaha</p>
<p>ya sometimes im not motivated enough to try even on video games and ill think up ways of ruining missions and stuff haha</p>
<p>I guess it's average, I'd say the least to get in is a 3.5. NAPS is mostly for athletes to improve their academic skills but most of them are very smart! Even the prior enlisted who haven't been high school for a 2 or 3 years seem to be doing ok. My weakness was opposite, I was never an athlete so I got this year to work out and get my head stuffed in books. But yeah, it's hard to determine who gets in NAPS, like my roommate is a math genius and she did not get in until 3 weeks before the program started. Highly qualified candidates also get put here just because there are no more slots for the academy that year. There's only less than 300 of us Napsters.</p>
<p>o sry if this question is really ignorant but are you at an actual naval base or somethin?</p>
<p>i'm wondering the same thing. Is it <em>like</em> a normal school? Or is it in close proximity to the naval academy?</p>
<p>How is that ignorant? :D Yeah I'm at a naval base in rhode island where other programs are going on. I actually ran into someone from high school last month :/ </p>
<p>edit: so no we don't have our own campus, but we have a football field! The Naval Academy is 8 hours away and the Coast Guard Academy is less than an hour away so we also have coastie napsters.</p>
<p>what kinds of physical things do you have to do?</p>
<p>sorry you just have such an exciting life :p</p>
<p>Poltergeist,</p>
<p>heh heh i know what you mean</p>
<p>like when the team ur on is gettin anally raped so u just start doin assholish things like camping in the spawn point (in a really hard to find place so the round lasts FOREVER, with the bomb TOO! HAHAH) or blocking someone's exit point from a door so their stuck their when they try to retreat!</p>
<p>USNA,</p>
<p>sry to bombard you with questions but i kinda want to know...
as long as all of you guys manage to keep ur GPA up, are you GUARANTEED to get into the academy next year?</p>
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Well now during the school year you're either in a sport or work out on your own. During Indoc (or boot camp) we ran A LOT and did a lot of team building exercises like log lifting and raft races in the water. We woke up at 4:30am and started exercising.</p>
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sry to bombard you with questions
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<p>I don't mind at all!</p>
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as long as all of you guys manage to keep ur GPA up, are you GUARANTEED to get into the academy next year?
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<p>Not really... we also have to pass the Physical Readiness Test which is counting sit-ups, pushups, running. I failed the running part two times but finally passed it last fall. It is very important to stay in shape.
Also you can't get into serious trouble (one girl got kicked out for lying). My English instructor said that one guy last year had a good gpa, not even close to a 2.0, and wasn't accepted in to the academy because he chose to be lazy and not turn in his english portfolio at the end of the year.
For the most part, don't be dumb about your decisions.</p>
<p>sorry about all my questions as well! </p>
<p>was it a difficult adjustment physically and mentally?</p>
<p>It was TORTURE physically because I was not in shape. It was hard because everybody knew I was the slowest. Mentally I'm doing okay. Sea Cadets helped me a lot as for adjusting to military life. In school I'm doing bad, mostly because I don't study. I'm exhausted after school. Plus it sucks when you have watch at night. For example you can have watch from 1am-3am and have to get up at 6am for breakfast and school. Plus we clean everyday. The good side to all of this is getting paid :D</p>
<p>what is the watch? How often is it scheduled?</p>
<p>Watch is when you have to stay up and keep guard basically. You log in whenever someone walks by or goes to the bathroom then walk around to make sure everything is ok or no fire. I usually get it from once every two weeks to 2 times in one week, it varies. It's not fun but we can catch up on homework or a reading assignment.</p>
<p>I chose mine because I picked it back when I joined my first message board then stuck with it. I guess I'm "a novice" at everything when I start and then learn off the boards... kind of simple.</p>
<p>usna_reject: its interesting to hear you talk(ie type) about this as I know quite a few kids at various academies and they all somehow love it. I guess I never had the desire to do that type of thing but am somehow slowing learning from all my friends. My sister did it for financial reasons (wanted to go for two years then transfer, or like I said, "Hell, go for all four, get pregnant and then get kicked out!" <-- you can see why I wouldn't make it!) but she really LOVES it now. I always joke about the stupid stuff they do and she always laughs and says I just don't understand it. I guess you have to have a certain type of personality and tolerance level. </p>
<p>... wish you the best!</p>
<p>§</p>
<p>I think its implicit.</p>