Questions about doolie life

Flygirl22 said:
Cap'n Cookies said:
It definitely depends on your squadron. How hard your freshman year is very dependent on your squadron; there are squadrons that don't do "training sessions" at all anymore, and there are squadrons like mine that have at least four a week, and sometimes two a day. There are days when I get out of classes at 3:30, go straight to training until 6, eat and shower, and go to training from 7-8. That gives me three hours to do homework, which is often not enough given my class load. And how bad your training sessions themselves are depends on your squad. This being said, there are a lot of people that don't go to a lot of our training because they are IC athletes, or on a club with LOS. So there are some really bad days, and some OK days during the week. The weekends are usually yours, but sometimes there is training for a couple hours. The weekends are your best chance to recover from the week, and catch up on homework. I do a lot of homework on the weekends, so that I have time during the week. I consistently get 6-7 hours. In terms of embracing the suck, there is only so much you can embrace. At the end of the day, you could be placed in circumstances harder than you ever have experienced before, and it takes grit to make it through. To the fun, the fun is what you can make of it. Go off base when you can, enjoy some non-Mitch's food. Join a club that you actually enjoy doing. Do Spirirt missions and hang out with your fellow dooligans. A lot of upperclassmen look back on their doolie year with fondness, but they didn't actually enjoy being a doolie. You won't really enjoy each day individually like you did back home, and for me this year was about survival.
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What kind of things do you do in training sessions?
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Usually they involve physical exercises to make you very uncomfortable and build a spirit of teamwork
 
Both DS and DD had a good deal of college credit for their foreign languages going into USAFA. They both took placement tests during BCT and as a result, validated into language courses at the junior level. It is my understanding that validation for languages is not given unless your language test results in BCT back up your "on paper/coursework" proficiency level. So in the end, the test trumps your coursework. (I could be mistaken, but that has been our experience.)
 
Is there a practice exam or somewhere we can get a feel for what is on the Foreign Language Placement test? (Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, etc?)
 
I married my USAFA classmate. It will be 30 years this June. We dated 2 years while at USAFA, '88 Best to Date had more than one meaning, lol! So, yes, there is a good amount of "Falcon Love" at USAFA.
 
*one cannot have dependents as a cadet--so no kids or spouse.
Dating is separate. That said you cannot date upperclass as a four degree, and vice versa.

...and I'd recommend against dating within a squadron! It gets very awkward if things don't work out, and you still have to interact with them on a daily basis. (I've seen one or two exceptions, but it's rare.)
 
From the Urban Dictionary:
Cadating: This debaucherous crime occurs when a cadet and a shedet is going out, AKA having a relationship. One of the highest dishonorable things that a cadet can do to bring disgrace on himself and the military institution he's at. He will usually lose recognition as a human being and become ridiculed for his gross poor judgement major.​

That said, the week after graduation is called Shark Week as the (prior) C4Cs become upperclassmen and, as result, eligible to have social relationships with other upperclassmen...
 
FMHS-79 said:
That said, the week after graduation is called Shark Week as the (prior) C4Cs become upperclassmen and, as result, eligible to have social relationships with other upperclassmen...
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C4C's aren't upperclassmen after Recognition; perhaps you are thinking of Commitment when C3C's become C2C's (Juniors) thus upperclassmen.
 
Wishful said:
C4C's aren't upperclassmen after Recognition; perhaps you are thinking of Commitment when C3C's become C2C's (Juniors) thus upperclassmen.
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You're right, 4* aren't upperclassmen after recognition. They are after graduation, when they become 3*. The previous post was correct...any member of the upper 3 classes can date each other, and 4* can date members of their own class.
 
BlahuKahuna said:
Wishful said:
C4C's aren't upperclassmen after Recognition; perhaps you are thinking of Commitment when C3C's become C2C's (Juniors) thus upperclassmen.
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You're right, 4* aren't upperclassmen after recognition. They are after graduation, when they become 3*. The previous post was correct...any member of the upper 3 classes can date each other, and 4* can date members of their own class.
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It's the week after graduation (not recognition) - at that point in time the current C4Cs become C3Cs... sorry if caused any confusion.
 
During your first year how much time off do you get on the weekends? I heard you can go skiing on the weekends. How does one get to a ski mountain if they cant have cars the first 2 years? USNA only has 12:00-12:00 an Saturdays where they can leave and Sundays they have Liberty on base. Just trying to compare I am a mom and ask the weird questions.
 
psessions said:
How does one get to a ski mountain if they cant have cars the first 2 years?
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There are many sponsored ski trips through the ski club where they ride a bus. They can also borrow a car from an upperclassman since you can still drive a car your first two years, you just cannot own one. Our son had our old Ford Excursion his last two years out there and it was used most weekend by him or someone else to haul skiers and snowboarders to the resorts.

Stealth_81
 
Ha should have clarified-- definitely not married, lol. (I go to a small Christian college and some of my classmates are-- totally off topic but kind of entertaining.)

Is there typicially mandatory weekend training? Or is the weekend more or less "yours"? Also, are there opportunities to be a Young Life/youth group leader? I am at my current college and would hope to continue. :)
 
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