c17hopeful
5-Year Member
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- Mar 8, 2014
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Usually they involve physical exercises to make you very uncomfortable and build a spirit of teamworkWhat kind of things do you do in training sessions?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.