Recent content by randomplebe

SUNY Maritime, across the sound from KP.

we have a betta fish on deck in the baggage locker at kings point rn

There's a limit now on what you can test out of, I know prepsters that are being required to take classes they "tested out" of because they decided to test out of too many classes. I would definitely pursue testing out of Chemistry, especially if you're going the marine transportation route...

I am getting my EMT-B right now and will be allowed/encouraged to work off campus on LI/NYC after May, it also gives me a resume builder and gets me off the watch billet. I wouldn't say come to KP because of it though, but it's an awesome unknown opportunity.

Have you considered kings point at all? We have a massive EMS program here for learning and working with the local (and giant) healthcare system of long island and nyc. It's not USNA but you're able to go army or navy if you wanted.

The watch system here is broken. For plebes there are three possible watch stations that get stood from 1700 to 0800 every single day. In fact, in my company there are so few of us left that instead of securing the watch they've been voluntelling plebes from other companies to come stand watch...

Update, '25 has 233 plebes in it right now after starting with about 289 according to the commandant's department

kpmom2013 got the gist of it but we've had our phones since after indoc ended and we've pretty much been able to use them as regularly as we've needed too. Obviously I am not walking around campus with my phone out, but I carry it on my person and use it in non-class rates areas. Some companies...

Haha I was one of those plebes, scraped by Chemistry. I would say 90% of the plebes that got kicked out got kicked out because of Chem 1/Phys 1/Calc 1 It was historically bad this year, so bad that the school ran out of tutors and tried to hire a new chem professor. I had professional issues...

We had a zoom conference with people from admissions about overnight visit and your recruit will (hopefully) be shown the mail room, the exchange, the student-led cafe, the waterfront (weather permitting) and will have a chance to experience our classes for the day. No special modifications are...

Academics here are harder because we push more credits than any other service academy, I took 20 last trimester (13 weeks) and I am taking 22 this trimester. Lots of people get here and end up failing two classes and then they get setback. Academically it never lets up and that's what gets most...

Attrition is a pretty big thing here is what the upperclass have told me all year. We see photos of indoc platoons from our 1/c's indoctrination and we don't recognize more than half of their platoon.

Pretty sure we’ve lost 37 people total so far. I wish I was qualified to tell you if setback appointments impacted 2026 but that’s a bit above my pay grade and anything I say would be pure speculation. sorry

There might be this year since we are starting tours, so if you commit you might be offered an overnight, but I am not sure the truth of that. Just wait for USNA.

hi, sorry this took me so long, had a pretty busy saturday/friday. I am currently in that major and I am enjoying it far more than I would have enjoyed being on the engine side of things. For first trimester all plebes take both an introduction to engineering and an introduction to deck studies...