Recent content by Beeswax

Well, the direction from our 529 plan is to complete their form, part of which points them where to send the money to - so you have to have the Roth up and running in your mid’s name with Fidelity, Vanguard, etc. It wasn’t hard to do through the internet. I’m a longtime Fidelity customer with...

So with the new Secure 2.0 Act, for those who attend a Service Academy, provided they meet the guidelines (for example, you will have to have had the 529 account for at least 15 years and in the Mid’s name), families can now roll any 529 money that had been set aside for their Mid, directly into...

Based on our experience this past year with Class of 2027, if you see something specific to class of 2028 and like it, make sure you grab it. Once the specific class date stuff is gone, it seems to be gone.

Really well said. My DS is wrapping up Plebe year as we speak and he definitely feels a reverence and respect for the others who tried to get appointed and those that came before him.

Yep, they did this last year at DS’s school where they had three appointees including DS!

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/top-colleges-high-paying-careers-finance-tech-consulting-d1c22601?st=p17mjvixs7i6hi1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink This should give access to the article if you’re not a subscriber

If it helps, this article from today’s Wall street Journal may help provide some insight - you might need to be a subscriber, but it is a nice profile of a 2014 USNA engineering grad as well as current salary rankings for Tech, Finance and Consulting. USNA represents pretty well here and has a...

You’ll be good. DS had to do this same thing last year - he had a FQO in less than 5 days after submitting it.

Yeah, personal finance is not something really taught in the US and I find that strange - how to manage credit, establish an emergency fund, how to build a budget, if you should buy a house, how much of a house to buy, how to save for retirement And how to invest with index funds,etc. And it’s...

Yep - DS was a proud member of the ‘7th semester transcript’ club and is currently finishing up his 1st semester at USNA this week - hang in there!

Love this rendition of “While my guitar gently weeps” at the rock and roll hall of fame induction ceremony for George Harrison a few years back - Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood, Dhani Harrison And Prince who does a great solo at the end.

1. ChatterMom 2/ DD / Oct 12,2022 / Will Accept/ Presidential, JROTC/ Direct 2. T37ip/DS/19 Oct 22/LOA/ Declined/ Presidential / Direct 3. Light8004 / Self / OCT 20, 22 / undecided / JROTC / Direct 4. MajMartin / DD / Oct 20, 2022 / Accepted / Presidential / Direct / NH 5. GoArmyBeatNavy98 / DS...

Update today is DS now has a fully qualified offer. I’ll probably post on the appointee list. Before I go, we wanted to say thanks to everyone for your support, information , willingness to share your hopes, dreams and disappointments. It really helped when we needed it and to provide some...

WA 09 - Congressman Smith

Body composition form they are emailing separately - he should be good - he had football weight he has since lost