USMMA going to semesters....or staying with trimesters?

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I've read some about this question here and there, but can't seem to find a recent or definite answer. I was just curious if they were staying thinking about moving to semesters or are they staying with trimesters?
 
As per the academic dean, tKP will remain on a trimester system. They are not going to a quarter system and they will be adding a C split.
 
CAT5 said:
As per the academic dean, tKP will remain on a trimester system. They are not going to a quarter system and they will be adding a C split.
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30% of Plebes have been assigned to go C split, it is somewhat un popular becuase you miss 1 tri of 1/c year.

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KP Eng said:
C split looks awful. They start out with 5 straight Trimesters at the Academy before they go to sea??!? They are going to be some cynical, sour, little Cadets!
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No kidding. Back in the Semester days, I thought it would have been torture to be an A split. After Plebe year, I just wanted to get out to sea and away from the school.
 
Plus the fact that C splits will miss out on the very important deadlines for active duty and reserve spots in several of the branches. I cannot imagine this being a good plan. My A split kid got back from sea in late July this year and missed a couple simply due to inability to coordinate everything he needed right after coming back, so a C split would have to miss them because they physically won't be on campus. I do hope there is something done to righten this situation.
 
KP Eng said:
C split looks awful. They start out with 5 straight Trimesters at the Academy before they go to sea??!? They are going to be some cynical, sour, little Cadets!
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I looked at as which years would you rather do a longer stretch, 4/C and 3/C or 2/C and 1/C. I was B split for a sport, but I would have done B split anyway for that reason.

Now, though I think I would rather do the longer stretch up front and get it over with. 1/C year would fly by with part of it being at sea.
 
KPEngineer said:
As was told to me by an upper classman ... lay out everything you think you need, put half of it back and you will still have too much.
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KPEngineer said:
I looked at as which years would you rather do a longer stretch, 4/C and 3/C or 2/C and 1/C. I was B split for a sport, but I would have done B split anyway for that reason.

Now, though I think I would rather do the longer stretch up front and get it over with. 1/C year would fly by with part of it being at sea.
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When you get to hell I guess it doesn’t matter if you’re seated in the front, middle, or back. They’re all uncomfortably hot. Only difference is the view. KPS
 
KPEngineer said:
I looked at as which years would you rather do a longer stretch, 4/C and 3/C or 2/C and 1/C. I was B split for a sport, but I would have done B split anyway for that reason.

Now, though I think I would rather do the longer stretch up front and get it over with. 1/C year would fly by with part of it being at sea.
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Yeah, but having that last summer vacation, all what, 4 weeks of it, without hustling to get a Sea Project done. . .
 
cmakin said:
Yeah, but having that last summer vacation, all what, 4 weeks of it, without hustling to get a Sea Project done. . .
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That was the absolutely most miserable part of working indoc as a senior. I was an A-Splitter, and my first ship second sailing was a tanker where I was working 14 hours a day, every day, everyone was a state school grad, and didn't understand what my projects looked like. I got back to KP to work indoc still with a little bit of a hole to dig out of. Waking up at 5 am with plebes sucks that much worse when you're working on projects until 03 or 04 every night. Indoc as a senior was far worse than indoc as a plebe. Though iced coffee from deli on the green certainly took the edge off.
 
cmakin said:
Yeah, but having that last summer vacation, all what, 4 weeks of it, without hustling to get a Sea Project done. . .
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I always advise front loading your seadays as much as possible in sea year. I had somewhere around 170ish so I was home by Thanksgiving and had 6 weeks till school started. Not that it mattered in the end as far as my sea project was concerned but I did have plenty of time.
 
Is there a reason why the school is going to a third split?
 
KPEngineer said:
I always advise front loading your seadays as much as possible in sea year. I had somewhere around 170ish so I was home by Thanksgiving and had 6 weeks till school started. Not that it mattered in the end as far as my sea project was concerned but I did have plenty of time.
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My first Sea Year went a few weeks longer than expected. The ship was arrested in Manila and we didn't leave for two weeks (the horror). . . and then wandered the Pacific without a real destination because we would likely be arrested again in any Asian port. I think I had about 4 or 5 days from the time I got home to when I headed back to school. I did get my project done, though. My second Sea Year was long because I wanted it to be. . .
 
deepdraft1 said:
Is there a reason why the school is going to a third split?
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I believe originally it was for sports and academic purposes to be implemented in a few years. I think COVID and lack of ships for the upperclassmen might have forced the school's hand.
 
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