unkown1961
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Ski instructor? Sounds like a CU Buff or a Utah kid.
Couldn't agree more. ROTC teaches so many valuable life lessons that you don't really find at SMCs. Finding housing and signing a lease, budgeting, being frugal and finding deals, or even cooking.+1 @sandnnw
My DS's first choice two years ago was USNA and plan B was an SMC. Ultimately he ended up at neither. But for him it worked out well for him.
My DS is attending a State University that our family could afford without any financial aid loans. This has allowed him the following:
As an MS-II, he has made Dean's list and ranks in the top 10% on the OML at his battalion.
- Be only a 3 hour drive away from home. (as opposed to cross country).
- Get a weekend job as a ski/snowboard instructor.
- Earn a Campus based 3 1/2 year AROTC scholarship
- Wear his uniform only to his MS classes and AROTC activities.
- Learn time management on his own, while carrying 20 semester units and engaged in multiple EC's.
- Not worry about affording to finish his degree if he became injured and lost his scholarship.
He has no regrets about his choice to pursue a "regular" college that was affordable that still offered a means to commission as an officer.
Couldn't agree more. ROTC teaches so many valuable life lessons that you don't really find at SMCs. Finding housing and signing a lease, budgeting, being frugal and finding deals, or even cooking.
I know that too well!Yes! My DS has learned the joys of ramen noodles, and buying some clippers and giving himself his own "buzz" cuts.
I think the point was to maybe look at non-military colleges....Yes that's the plan, I am just going for ROTC. Mostly because, I figured there's time to do military stuff 24/7 after college in the military, but for college I still want a somewhat normal college experience. Obviously it's not fully normal due to ROTC of course.