<p>Random question about musical instruments… After acceptance day are we allowed a personal musical instrument? Or is this allowed only after recognition?</p>
<p>After acceptance day is fine.</p>
<p>I have two saxophones that my parents brought our after parents weekend, that seems to be when most bring them out</p>
<p>If my little countdown calendar is right.</p>
<p>50 days.</p>
<p>That number is beginning to get low, very quickly.</p>
<p>It will come so fast you won’t know what hit you. One minute you are enjoying high school and summer, the next you are saying good bye and off to basic. Think of it like going to summer camp :)</p>
<p>“I love Camp USAFA…”</p>
<p>me too, petko!!! :)</p>
<p>Doesn’t everyone?</p>
<p>Haha, theres not much summer break for me to enjoy. 7 days…</p>
<p>camp usafa! YAY! 
Almost done with it too hehe.</p>
<p>40 Days!</p>
<p>Wow. That number seems low. :)</p>
<p>Ya want a high number?</p>
<p>“SIR: It is 9481 days since the class of 1983 graduated!”</p>
<p>Ahh…and what a ride it’s been!!!</p>
<p>Days to HS graduation: 0</p>
<p>Days till I-Day c/o 2013: 38</p>
<p>Time to get out and ENJOY life and freedom!</p>
<p>I’m super psyched for you guys. Not because I finally won’t be in the lowest ranked class anymore (though that helps), but because it’s really awesome you all are coming, and really exciting. The tailor shop is ALREADY making the nametags for your backpacks (saw them coming through the machine), and your nameplates and blues nametags are in the works as well. The nametape for your ABU’s should be coming along, too.</p>
<p>Wow, seeing those name tags being made must have been a bit of a thrill! Congratulations on successfully making it through your first year!!!</p>
<p>yep, pretty soon we will be seeing those Welcome Class of 2013 signs up ;)</p>
<p>They already stole our ABU tops to put new nametapes on. That was rather exciting for us preppies, although I don’t think we will get to see the finished product until really late today or early tomorrow.</p>
<p>wow…hearing about the nametags made me realize its not a dream–I’m really going! lol woohoo! that’s so neat…</p>
<p>well if hearing about the nametags gets you excited, you’ll love the fact that i thought i was in basic again walking to lunch seeing all these cadre around training haha. </p>
<p>get up for it</p>
<p>Yep. Saw Aggressors, Barbarians, and Hellcats out there. Haven’t seen those guideons in forever.
But what really got ME excited was picking up my new rank, to include my first metal rank.</p>