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During PROTRAMID, you are *supposed* to be provided food every meal either through the base galley or they will give you MREs/packed up food. The main expenditure for me was when we would go out and enjoy the town in the evenings/weekends and not eat at the galley. Although it isn’t always...

If you have the skill set and ability to join the crew team, I wouldn’t discount it until you actually try it out here. There is a chance you will really enjoy it based on a different set of coaches/team culture, and make a lot of great friends. All three crew teams are known to have very high...

It's tough because of course everyone wishes to receive an A, but since only a certain number of each grade is awarded, a B still means you are doing pretty darn well, especially as a plebe! Every company has a different system of ranking, but a big way to be ranked higher is to get to know all...

Wow, I wish we at USNA got the option to get a printer or not! We were all issued them, which was paid out of our own salaries. :( I used mine probably 4 times last year.

When I took the CFA with my field force representative, they had me hold up a piece of paper with the candidate number provided by USMA in one hand, and my driver's license in the other hand.

It’s great to have a sponsor really close to the yard as well as close family friends or relatives a little further away. During short liberty weekends (1200-2359 on Saturdays), further drives can be a little bit more stressful, harder on sponsor families, and eat into liberty so aren’t great...

You're the only one who can decide, but the posters above had some really great advice. If it was truly small, did it really affect your life that much, enough to want to use up all of the part of your application where you can truly show them who you are? Everyone who has been appointed to the...

The Center for Academic Excellence has supplemental instruction classes which take place during a normal academic period and are essentially like normal classes because you have to attend them if you sign up. However, there is no homework because they are designed to review and clarify material...

Attending one sporting event each week is still in Midregs, but we plebes were surprised last fall to find out that none of the upperclassmen had done that themselves or even knew it was a rule, so I am not sure how long ago that tradition was discontinued. I am not sure what ship visits are, so...

Yes, they voluntold a lot of mids attend the Orioles game in Baltimore last spring because they needed so many in attendance. There was also the Army-Navy soccer game last year. I think it was a litttle easier to encourage people to attend games towards the end of the year when they developed...

On the last week of plebe summer, one of our firstie detailers highly suggested Apple Watches when the topic came up because a lot of the professors are pretty strict about phone use during class (a good amount of them are also very lenient), and they are nice to see important notifications and...

At this point, I would contact your regional commander in admissions and alert them to the situation because the BGO interview is an important part of the application. They should be able to sort things out.

I also missed E by 3 points. You can usually requalify during the AC year if you are part of a team such as the service rifle and pistol team, but otherwise there are no retakes at the academy unless you eventually do weapons detail. They don’t currently have great opportunities to shoot...

Yes, you get your laptops issued very early in plebe summer, but most companies’ detailers keep them locked up in the wardroom until they are needed. Last summer we used them to write our plebe weekly journals every night in a google form, and had to watch a few informative videos such as the...

I think @MidCakePa has some really good advice. My original first choice was USAFA. Although I received the principal nom for USAFA from my congressman and regular noms for USNA and USMA because I put USAFA as #1 on my application followed by USNA and USMA, I ended up being medically DQ’d by...