<p>What is college life like while in ROTC? Do you have any spare time? Would you be rooming with another member of ROTC? Is it alot more stressful?
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<p>Depends on the branch of the service somewhat. Marines will have more demands on their time than Air Force. But you would have free time, be able to have a social life, join clubs, etc. One of the first things you are taught it time management. Master it and you’ll be fine. Don’t master it and you’ll be in big trouble. </p>
<p>Most schools let you room where you want. You don’t have to have an ROTC roommate. Although your roommate may not like you getting up at 5:30am 3 days a week for PT. </p>
<p>Don’t do ROTC to pay for school. Do it because you want to be an officer. The scholarship (if you are fortunate enough to get one) is a bonus.</p>
<p>I was in Air Force ROTC for a year and it was easy to balance the ROTC requirements with school work and social life. However, I think the program got more intense when the next colonel took over. The colonel in charge when I was in ROTC didn’t have a lot of requirements. For example, there were no mandatory PT sessions. Each cadet had to work out on their own and the officers would expect you to be truthful about your workouts.</p>
<p>I transferred schools and never continued with ROTC. I learned pretty quickly that I didn’t really want a military life. If I would have stayed at my current school and if my GPA was good enough I would have gotten a very nice scholarship simply for being an engineering major.</p>
<p>My roommate is in ROTC and it really isn’t that annoying when he wakes up at 5:30, 3 times a week. Just fall back to sleep in like a minute.</p>
<p>Air Force tends to have the least demands and physical rewuirements, Army more so, then Navy, then Marines.</p>
<p>I’m currently in AFROTC. It’s really not hard to manage your time between ROTC, class, and a social life. As a sophomore I have a 1 credit AFROTC class (juniors and seniors have 3 or 4 credit classes), a 2 hour leadership lab once a week, and PT two times a week from 6AM-7AM. However, for AFROTC, second semester of your sophomore year gets a bit stressful with field training prep, but the intensity varies between schools.</p>
<p>I definitely agree with the poster above who said not to do it for just the scholarship. You have to want to be an officer.</p>
<p>thanks for all the helpful infomation</p>