<p>Actually, I suppose this can be answered by those who have done NASS, too.</p>
<p>What do the renovated rooms in Bancroft look like? When I was there, a few of my classmates were allowed to live in prototype rooms that were simply unreal (especially compared to what we had). </p>
<p>I'm curious as to the layout of the racks and desks, what the floor is (tile or carpet), if they made any chages to the shower/sink areas, closets, etc.</p>
<p>If you happen to have pics, those will be great, too.</p>
<p>Please include P-ways, wardrooms, whatever. I'm really curious.</p>
<p>This past summer I was in a triple and there were 3 bunk/desk combos. The three were pretty much head-to-toe with a window in between two of them.
The lockers lined the left side as you walked in, sink and shower to the right.
Tight space, but very usable.
A/C (yep, it's there) was working, but not really that well balanced. Some rooms were the old fashioned summer "ovens," some were ice boxes!</p>
<p>i took pictures of my room at NASS, but unfortunately they didn't come out. however, when i went to visit in august i took a couple pictures in their "model" rooms that visitors can see:</p>
<p>as you can see, the bed is above the desk, and closet-type things are just out of the pictures to the right. </p>
<p>The model rooms my classmates had were similar in concept (rack over desk, etc.), but were fancier. Wood-grain furniture, blue carpet. Made the room very warm in impression. IIRC, it also had a center peninsula, so each desk wrapped around the back wall then came out toward the door from the window in a single piece. It was wild whe we saw it. Shame they didn't go all the way with the idea. Cleaning the carper would have been interesting, though.</p>
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Yeah....they would have to make spirit missions illegal for that baby to even have a slight chance of survival, never mind pass inspections.</p>
<p>Yeah, but they would need plenty of steam cleaners too! Unless of course the carpet was ruled out for inspections of other than loose dirt/items or other obvious neglect. Nice for comfort in the rooms though.</p>
<p>The room boston is in (in her photos) is Joe Gish and W. T. Door's room.
Our company has "modernized" that room since the beginning of last year...so those out-of-date computer are gone, replaced by new ones! (the DeptDant and Supe love it!)</p>
<p>Haha, actually Zaphod I'd rather just take you to show-and-tell at school so that you can put some of my (extremely liberal) classmates in their place...</p>
<p>Yeah for the rooms in the pictures, one is the one in Bancroft and the other is at the Visitor Center. I want to see the updated version! It must look wicked cool.</p>
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<p>HEISMAN! ;)</p>
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<p>Oh, yeah. Just what I call a fun afternoon: straightening out liberal high schoolers.</p>
<p>Tell them to go to the thread in the Parents board. There's something going on over there you might get a kick out of.</p>
<p>You know, I'm curious. Do your classmates give you any grief for wanting to go to USNA? You would not believe the amount of flak and abuse I took throughout my senior year in HS from "enlightened progressives" who are, of course, very "tolerant" of "alternative ideas". :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I showed them, though. I showed up to our ten-year reunion wearing my ring....... AND my uniform! :D</p>
<p>Yeah. I get flak from my best friends. Most of them don't see me, as a person, in the Navy, and the rest of them simply don't believe in war... for any reason.</p>
<p>Yeah...I don't catch a lot of flak from friends on campus...it's mostly from people we don't know who will try to give us crap for being in ROTC.</p>
<p>Mostly, I just notice that people seem to avert their eyes (save for most of the gals ;)) when I'm walking around campus in uniform.</p>
<p>Zaphod - Yeah, I do get a lot of interesting comments from people. However, many of them respect my decision to serve; they just would never ever do it themselves. </p>
<p>A lot of the time I hear "the Naval Academy? But don't you want to go to college?" Or "You got into Harvard and you might go into the MILITARY?" Or "You're smart; why would you want to waste your life by going into the Marines?" Or "is the Naval Academy a school?" Many other versions of that same sentiment...</p>
<p>I was the only one from my school who applied to a Service Academy, out of a class of about 400. I don't think anyone else applied for an ROTC scholarship. I can probably only think of two other people who are considering serving after college. Most kids at my school don't even know what USNA is, so I have to go through this whole long explanation of it. Then, they'll say "wait, so you have to be in the military afterwards?" So I say yes, and they say "well, then you should go to Harvard". I try to explain to them that if I go to Harvard I'll be in NROTC, and I'll STILL be a Marine when I graduate...but they just get these really confused looks on their faces, like, "why would you go and do that?"</p>
<p>Despite this, most of my teachers and friends all say that they will "respect whatever decision I make", and that I'll "succeed no matter where I go". Some of my most liberal teachers wrote my recommendations for both USNA and NROTC, and it all worked out for me. I know that they'll support me no matter what. </p>
<p>Spidermom: How awesome is that?!? I must say though, I've been disappointed with their recent pre-season performances.</p>
<p>I was called everything in the book: Baby-killer, murderer, warmonger, etc.</p>
<p>It was great when I got my BGO to come to my graduation ceremony to give me my appointment. He showed up in Marine Corps dress whites (he was a Warrant Officer). I didn't tell my parents, so you can imagine their surprise. </p>
<p>The look on my classmates faces was classic! They had to sit there and take it! :D</p>
<p>My teachers were extremely supportive. I was the first (and I think I remain the only) guy from that school ever to apply to a service academy.</p>