I think after being at Annapolis - green lawns, white shiny buildings, beautiful flowers, ocean and blue sky...walking out the gates to DTA and knowing you have somewhere to go and something to do to get away, even if it's for a few hours...seeing WP was a shock. He understands life at USNA, knows it isn't easy, but I think WP had a gloom factor, not just in the actual campus, but also the plebes he was paired with. They were disheartened, flunking calculus, said they do not get 4 hrs to study as presented in the briefing, but more like 1 or 2 at best. Said most sit in their rooms on the weekends because although there are walking privileges, there is very very little to do in Highland Falls. Other plebes went out of their way to "bump" into him or be rude - I have a 2nd class at USNA so I get plebe life - but even as a visitor? He went to summer seminar at USNA and loved it. Of course has only seen the high points other than that - PPW, Herndon, football games...which we tried to tell him, but he said the whole thing was just gloomy.