<p>Hey all,</p>
<p>1300 other classmates and I just recently finished beast. If any potential 2012-ers want to ask some questions about beast or re-orgy week, now is the time! I, and I'm sure my other peers as well, will answer any questions you have!</p>
<p>im actually 2013, im trying to get in and im looking for all the profile tips i can get and i wanna learn all about what it was like at beast. What exactly is re orgy week anyway.</p>
<p>USMA011: Wow you have time to post messages during reorgy week? The corps has....:)
Only kidding - congratulations and good luck with the academic year.</p>
<p>USMA011,</p>
<p>Congratulations to you and all your classmates! We're looking forward to hearing some of your stories.</p>
<p>oh we have stories....</p>
<p>also we got to sleep in the bays at buckner so the corps really has...</p>
<p>And we heard about movie night. I'll echo the others; the corps has...</p>
<p>"What exactly is re orgy week anyway"</p>
<p>Re-orgy week is the week between Beast (new cadet summer training) and the academic year. It is the last week before new cadets are accepted in to the corps of cadets and become fully fledged cadets. It is usually a stressful week. For the first time, the new cadets are outnumbered by upperclassmen by about 3:1. The week is usually a busy one - new cadets are issued computers, books etc. They get their class schedules. They will start to learn how to function as the lowest ranking cadets in the corps....There will be lots of new stories this week ;)</p>
<p>USMA011--
Do you happen to know how many went home on medical leave?</p>
<p>Congratulations to all of you for making it thru! Now onward and upward...</p>
<p>Okay I'll try to answer this as fast as I can. </p>
<p>Beast - have fun before you come. :) You don't have to be very well prepared to do well. Aslong as you are motivated and ALWAYS push yourself - you will do fine. If you don't feel like pushing yourself past the comfort zone, you might want to start learning how to. lol</p>
<p>Reorgy week really depends on your company. We have assigned tables at lunch which is just a knowledge fest. We have duties at night (just finished) which again is a knowledge fest. You greet everyone in the hallways and such, and since you don't know anyone really, you sometimes have to get lucky on greetings. Don't greet any Bat. level firstie/cow with the wrong greeting. :)</p>
<p>How many left? We had about 70 leave. I'm not 100% sure why they left - but that's our number</p>
<p>The APFT - 44% passed the intial APFT. That's one of the lowest ever. By the end, 94% passed, that's one of the highest ever. So, Beast will make you prepared to succeed.</p>
<p>We have free time during reorgy week. I'm supposed to be getting ready for SAMI, but I better pass some knowledge first!</p>
<p>Keep asking questions while they are still fresh!</p>
<p>Go Army, Beat Navy!</p>
<p>I sort of have this preconceived notion that upperclassmen will attack you for your faults every chance they get. Is this true or are there some that act as mentors and show you how to do things right rather than yell? </p>
<p>I apologize if this is a stupid question, but I've always wondered if plebe year is the entire hell that I've imagined where you're criticized for absolutely everything.</p>
<p>"I sort of have this preconceived notion that upperclassmen will attack you for your faults every chance they get. Is this true or are there some that act as mentors and show you how to do things right rather than yell?"</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>(I'm practicing the whole brevity thing now..)</p>
<p>All kidding aside, Soylent, both types of upper class men are in abundance. What a third class cadet will tell you is that it's a lot better than being a forth class cadet.</p>
<p>I appreciate the brevity :D . I seem to ask a lot of questions to which I already know the answer.</p>
<p>"are there some that act as mentors and show you how to do things right rather than yell?"
Yes, every new cadet is assigned a yearling who mentors them through plebe year. During re-orgy week they help them get their books, computers etc. and generally help them to get squared away. The yearlings act as buffers between the plebes and upperclassmen.</p>
<p>Reorgy Week also has a lot of practice for A-Day. And I hear there was a 4-mile brigade run this morning.</p>
<p>Yeah there was a brig. run this morning. Thoes are usually pretty slow - as was this one.</p>
<p>They will * correct *you. So, in theory, if you don't mess up - you don't get yelled at. If you know your knowledge, square your corners, keep your hands cupped, and do your proper greetings...you are left alone for the most part. However, if you fail at any of these, you start to get hazed. If you fail at more than one, they get really upset and put you on the wall and try to instill in you to stop messing up.</p>
<p>Yeah we have had drill every day. We have A-day tomorrow obviously - so we are practicing a lot.</p>
<p>Yearlings are like...that best friend at home that helps you out. They are there with any problems, they never haze you, just help you. It's a pretty well designed system, because without them, a lot of us NC's would be pretty confused.</p>
<p>USMA011,</p>
<p>A lot of people wonder what exactly is meant by "hazing" and the question has come up often. Can you enlighten us? Is it just yelling? Or worse? :eek:</p>
<p>You. Slept. In. The. Bays.</p>
<p>?!?!??!?!?! <-- astonishment</p>
<p>Let me guess, you got hot showers too.</p>
<p>The Corps has!</p>
<p>Did they institute the new, longer language requirement yet? Also, did the females get to choose tucked in/untucked shirts, or did they just issue one kind? Which?</p>
<p>Bzzzt,</p>
<p>The longer language requirements are now in effect. Our D (cow) is starting her second year of spanish as an exchange cadet at AF . (She too was a bit miffed to hear about the new cadets sleeping in the bays at Buckner ;) )</p>
<p>As far as my bay went, our showers were freezing, no hot water at all. Durign beast females had tucked in shirts unless I'm mistaken, but now they get the choice. Reorgy week wasn't bad at all for me, barely saw upperclass except at duties, of course I got lucky and I live in divisions, so I barely see upperclass unless I'm on a lower floor or outside. For the cadre during my beast, they were great for the most part. They'd only hazer you if you screwed up, and they only did it to help us learn not to do it, and they explained reasons for doing stuff. Hazing is nothing but yelling at you and making you feel like an idiot, it's not bad at all. They aren't allowed to smoke us anymore (make us PT) and during beast if they wanted to smoke us they had to do it with us, and they had a limit on what excercises they could do what days, and a limit on the number for most exercises. CBT is not nearly as bad as it's made to look.</p>