<p>Shot records. I plum forgot about those! I wonder if I should take him and have him brought up to date before he gets there. Thus, if he were to feel bad, it wouldn't be during the first few days of P summer.</p>
<p>nurseypoo, the Academy will send a list of the vaccinations he should have before he reports on I-Day. When my son went in, the kids were strongly encouraged to have their shots before they came, so we tottled up to Bethesda and had them done there.</p>
<p>My son went to I-day last year with a backpack that contained his calculator (for validation tests), copies of his shot records with all required shots taken prior to I-day, copies of other required paperwork (glasses) some toiletries and the clothes on his back! He wore in a pair of Asics Gel running shoes that passed muster and still runs with today. You really don't need to bring much!</p>
<p>^^^^ That's about all you need to show up with. Anything else you want and can have, should arrive in the first small care pack.</p>
<p>Also, things have been known to go missing between IDay and getting your stuff back at PPW so if you don't want to lose that favorite T shirt or in our case the favorite razor, don't take it or wear it to IDay.</p>
<p>I was also. Those clothes were beyond saving!</p>
<p>Wow...I had to laugh after read all this.</p>
<p>You'd really be better off just showing up with the clothes on your back. I brought the 'recommended' stuff...undershirts, underwear, toiletries, socks...and never touched any of it. It was just a hassle to carry around for the first few stations on I-Day.</p>
<p>They issue you EVERYTHING. Throughout the summer and academic year, there will be a series of nealry 10 or 15 different uniform issues. We're still being issued stuff (Youngster shoulder boards...I can see a dim light at the end of the tunnel!). The less they arrive with, the better.</p>
<p>A nice pair of running shoes is the most important thing, IMO. Don't bother with anything else.</p>
<p>I think our plan is to show up with necessary paperwork, calculator, cell phone, and running shoes. I really don't want his socks mailed back. P-U! Can anyone say, "Pepe LePew?"</p>
<p>Praise God, he didn't come home with the ones he used at NASS. Those were given burial at garbage can! :p</p>
<p>DMeix - How long to Plebes have to learn what to do with all the things they give them on I-Day? and put it away?</p>
<p>Wickster -15 miles a week?? That's it?? I was thinking at least 35/40 a week.</p>
<p>An hour or two...depending on your report time. I was around 1030.</p>
<p>I remember getting to my room around mid afternoon. One roommate was a NAPster, and he showed a few of use how to fold things quickly. They had already made all the racks and taken the first book issue out and put it on the desk.</p>
<p>I knew exactly what I was getting myself into, having spent a year at UW and NROTC before I-Day. You can show up not knowing anything, and you'll be perfectly fine.</p>
<p>You don't really even need a calculator. I had my TI-89 with me during the tests, and never used it. I validated Chem I, Calc I, German I & II, and Naval History (no test, turned in my univ. transcript).</p>
<p>Yeah, but I don't even think I could pull my son's calculator out of his dead, lifeless fingers, he'd still have it clutched so hard. </p>
<p>It's a sad thing to witness in the morning, if he's mislaid it and he's having to find it before school.</p>
<p>I see the term "GEEK" marching with well-deserved confidence in the direction of your son.... ;)</p>
<p>HA.. that was funny.</p>
<p>He's considered a geek/jock. Sort of caught in purgatory, there. </p>
<p>He's a jock, since he's s varsity starter on soccer and can do more pull-ups than anyone on the football team. Yet, he's a mathelete, so it kind of cancels out the jock part. It's a weird combo. It's my husband, all over again (and I REALLY like my husband).</p>
<p>However, I can have you try to pry it out of his fingers. He got in major amounts of trouble for jumping off of the team bus to check and make sure his calculator was secure before cleaning up the bus. </p>
<p>He has his priorities!</p>
<p>Word about Wisdom, teeth that is:</p>
<p>Just got off of the phone with dodmerb. No panoramics are needed. Just a letter stating which teeth were extracted and their post op condition (no infection, etc.) sent to the address on your dodmerb letterhead.</p>
<p>It's true. </p>
<p>He's a geek and he's embraced it and knows it's his heritage (geek, aka, nerd, comes from geek/nerd- study your biology)! They did find the gene for this. Not too bad when the girl's soccer team asks him for help with math/chem. on away games and they're all pretty cute. :cool:</p>
<p>Ah! So he's a LUCKY geek!</p>
<p>Good for him! :D</p>
<p>Well, I don't know if he's gotten "lucky," as a geek. He goes to parochial school, so he's not supposed to do that! :D :D :D</p>
<p>The girls who ask him for help are nice, cute, and one even does television/film.</p>
<p>TARGET! BABE BEARING 020!</p>
<p>IDENTIFIED!</p>
<p>ENGAGE!</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>Sorry, but I remember how teenaged males think, even if it was half my life ago. ;)</p>
<p>ETA: I should add that that very memory is why my daughters will be chaparoned by me and a large shotgun on their honeymoons. :mad:</p>
<p>Can't you leave me in my blissful ignorance, believing my darling baby boy doesn't think/behave that way?</p>
<p>I'm not ready for this! :p :D</p>