<p>Hey everyone, I'm getting my things together to take to I-Day and am wondering if there is anything not on the list they gave us in the packet that we would need. Chances are there isn't, but I thought I'd ask any current midshipmen or parents of midshipmen if they have any other ideas.</p>
<p>Have to laugh . . .
Get all of this typing and stuff out of your system now, because in a few days you won't have time to waste like you do now.</p>
<p>IF IT IS NOT ON THE LIST, YOU DO NOT NEED IT! Even if its on the list, you do not need it.
How many times has that been posted, in varying ways, on varying threads!</p>
<p>Its a real simple formula. Come Wednesday, you will be told what you need, when you need it, and how to use it once you need it.</p>
<p>The hardest thing I saw others cope with--and I mean the hardest thing--was keeping their mouths shut. I was so lost on I-day; at one point during the day, I had been direct to my room and left alone. I didn't know what to do, so I just stood there for, what I guess, must have been half an hour. Nobody told me I could sit down, so I didn't. Nobody told me to unpack, so I didn't. Nobody told me anything, so I didn't.</p>
<p>Keep your mouth shut, unless somebody is asking you a question. Don't laugh at the stupid things going on around you. Do what you are told to do, when you are told to do it. It's real simple, you learned it all in Kindergarten. Just like the book says.</p>
<p>So . . . the list told you what to bring and you need only bring those items if you want to. What is so hard to understand about that? Or, are you just wasting time?</p>
<p>things like shampoo....bring or no? i'm planning on no</p>
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<p>LOL- I had the same question yesterday, as I stood in the shampoo isle wondering if I should get the stuff the kid likes, or the all-in-one shampoo and conditioner ....contemplating which one weighed less (to be carried around in that seabag all day) yet enough to last the week-plus 'till the first care package gets there....</p>
<p>until I finally came to my senses and realized that there will be NO hair to shampoo, let alone condition-
and then I cried-</p>
<p>the poor woman restocking the shelves- oh my, she had no idea what was going on- but she tried everything under the sun to help me-</p>
<p>i left with some body wash that had a man-ly-smell, and 2 boxes of kleenex. Today is the last day before the drive down. I am so excited and so sad and so anxious and so proud. </p>
<p>Today I am spending with my son- all day-
and i think i will make one stop to buy one last box of kleenex.
I want to be all-cried-out by wednesday- and leave with a big smile! At least that's the plan......I hope....God willing.....</p>
<p>Listen to JamTex! You'll be given shampoo and everything else you might need. As JamTex said, you don't even need what's on the list. It's been said so many times on this board PLEASE LISTEN: any extra cr** you bring on I-Day is just that much more weight you will be hauling around all day on what might be the most exhausting day of your life. You don't even need the extra underwear & socks. Honest. </p>
<p>It's going to be raining all week here in Maryland. Today there are floods everywhere from last night's storms. It's hot, wet, sticky and gross. Every extra ounce you have to carry is going to feel like a pound.</p>
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<p>Amen! AND oiixxg. You can show up almost stark-naked and you'll be taken care of!</p>
<p>If you don't want to listen to THIS old fart, then listen to THEY who JUST DID IT!</p>
<p>Jeez!</p>
<p>Shampoo? You're worried about SHAMPOO? :rolleyes:</p>
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The hardest thing I saw others cope with--and I mean the hardest thing--was keeping their mouths shut. I was so lost on I-day; at one point during the day, I had been direct to my room and left alone. I didn't know what to do, so I just stood there for, what I guess, must have been half an hour. Nobody told me I could sit down, so I didn't. Nobody told me to unpack, so I didn't. Nobody told me anything, so I didn't.
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<p>LOL. I know that feeling! :D</p>
<p>the shampoo they give you is pert plus like shampoo/conditioner all in one. so girls, my advice: your hair is so short it won't matter what you use for a while, so have your parents send the toiletries later: less to carry. and seriously, if you think they haven't thought of it, they have: they issue those schick intuition razors to save time in the shower.
advice: take each day at a time, remember your sir/ma'am sandwiches, and unpack as fast as you can when you get to your room. remember that unless everyone succeeds, no one succeeds, and that most of the time you will fail. happens to us all!</p>