Recent content by AKH

I'm pretty sure it's not as much as 2.2 miles but it's definitely a little more than 2 miles flat. You run all the way to a cone, then you turn around, run back to another cone, turn around and run to previous cone, then run all the way back. When we took an APFT at Camp Buckner the course was...

It's going to be so much fun, I'm really looking forward to it! We won't be able to actually go to the memorial, but running by it will still be awesome.

Beast seems SO far away now. It went by too quickly but too slowly at the same time. My biggest advice is to just be squared away and do what you're supposed to be doing. Don't think too much. It's an easy six weeks if you think about it the way it is, which is just doing exactly what someone...

Don't overthink it. They need a good grasp of who you are and the statements help to show that.

1) The worst part about R-Day was waiting in my room for three hours after I did everything, wondering what the heck I was supposed to be doing and praying that my roommates would be higher alphabetically than me so I wouldn't have to be on the top bunk (didn't happen). It wasn't stressful at...

Even during Beast with the hectic schedule they made every allowance possible for those who wanted Muslim services - all you had to do was ask for whatever you needed was the way they put it. During a briefing last night they even mentioned that the Mess Hall will accommodate all Muslims during...

Last day at home here. Mom is an emotional wreck, Dad can't contain his excitement, sister is indifferent (she just wants my car). This forum has been invaluable throughout the past few years! Prospective candidates I know are asking if they can write me all their questions over the summer, but...

For what it's worth I know my relatives that graduated in the early seventies and onward were able to choose their major.

The only reason they have that box available to check is to share some information between the ROTC boards and USMA admissions. It's still two separate processes, the ROTC app is just seeing if you're pursuing other avenues of commission.

Yes, looked like it to me. I submitted one teacher's info at the same time I sent him an email saying I was doing so and he said he received the email from WP before mine :biggrin:

Yes, you need a Math, English, and Science teacher to fill out the evaluation West Point will send them. They don't write you letters - you plug in their email address on your application and West Point emails them their form. At SLS you have some individual time with your squad leader and...

I'm not positive but I'm pretty sure I had my application for the class of 2015 done by July 1st, so it probably opened about a week earlier. I remember checking my portal a few days after I got back from SLS and being surprised that it was up.

Oops, didn't mean to post basically the same thing twice!

I respectfully disagree with your disagreement. So deciding when to take an illegal risk is going to be useful in the Army? Breaking the law is worth it for a few hours of fun? If you're going to be whatever person you want and "cut loose" until R-Day and not impose any standards or models of...

I wore contacts throughout. You have barely any time in the morning, I was woken by yelling, but I was able to put them in perfectly fine.