<p>Hi all, hard to believe I've been on here about a year now....for some reason this site WILL NOT load at the Naval Academy, so I'm having to access it while on the UCONN MO....which we won as I'm sure you know. If you watched the game, then maybe you saw me....I was one of the motivated D&B plebes who did pushups for the touchdowns!</p>
<p>Plebe year is going fairly well so far. It's funny how all the CC people find each other...I know several of the others in D&B and have met others (hi peskemom!! I know your daughter).</p>
<p>So several things I've discovered so far:</p>
<p>-D&B and Glee Club is very very difficult because of conflicting time committments. Therefore, I quit Glee Club. My advice for those of you who plan to be plebes next year: there's no harm in signing up for multiple things and ending up having to drop some of them rather than risk not finding the perfect activity for you.</p>
<p>-The upperclass REALLY DO relax after a while. Especially if you do something like company prayer group or are on a sports team with them.</p>
<p>-Things like sig sheets (getting upperclass signatures to prove you know all of them/can answer questions for all of them) is trivial compared to spending quality time with your company mates or at some kind of practice. This was part of the reason why I left Glee Club (our first round of sig sheets) b/c I felt like I was letting my company down by not accomplishing it. DEPEND ON EACH OTHER!! If someone knows gouge about an upperclass (ie, my squad leader just started flying lessons and loves hockey, so those are two "interesting facts" they could quote about him) SHARE THOSE THINGS WITH EVERYONE.</p>
<p>-Plebe summer will seem endless. Live Sunday to Sunday. If that's too long, live day to day,and if that's too much, live from one activity to another. Nothing they can make you do will last forever (though 30 minutes of front leaning rest as punishment of someone racking on Sunday morning felt like forever).</p>
<p>-Write down the inside jokes. Believe me, you will want to remember them. All I have to say to my roommate is "Your POW" or one of my squadmates "Hey, do you like your BCGizzles?" and we could laugh for hours. These are priceless memories. I wish I had recorded them better.</p>
<p>Wow, I'm tired. Yeah, you'll be tired ALL THE TIME too. I have some very interesting chemistry notes where my pen seemed to get a mind of its own as I fell asleep.... Keep chugging through, good luck to all of you!</p>