USNA Class of 2026 Appointee Ready Room

DutchAmerican said:
Ditto for Glee Club
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Our company was taken to the location where they were offered an opportunity to try out during the summer. I was the only one that did, so my classmates had to hang out while I terribly did some scales with a messed up voice from yelling responses from cadre commands. Since I quit later in Plebe summer, I never got to know if Dr. Talley wanted me in the club.

(Interesting side note .... the Director for the Glee Club ^^^^^ at the time was my high school girlfriend's dad. Needless to say, he was a big shocked to see me as it had been a few years!!).
 
JaxGolfGuy said:
What would be some ideas for graduation gifts for a future midshipman? We have been getting this question after my DD received her appointment. I understand that plebe summer is restricted regarding what they can have and do. I heard one suggestion for target gift cards since there is apparently a shuttle from the yard to Target.
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door dash gift cards!!! any kind of gift cards - but door dash is commonly used on the yard - its hilarious to see all the dashers at gate 1!!!
 
I'm an appointee planning to head to I-day alone. Will it negatively affect me to show up without my family? Any response is greatly appreciated!
 
PargoPK67 said:
I'm an appointee planning to head to I-day alone. Will it negatively affect me to show up without my family? Any response is greatly appreciated!
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I am sure many kids arrive alone. I would not worry about that. You will be fine! maybe you can find another plebe to be to travel with from your area.
 
PargoPK67 said:
I'm an appointee planning to head to I-day alone. Will it negatively affect me to show up without my family? Any response is greatly appreciated!
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Absolutely not. At all. In fact, USNA won’t interact with your family. They won’t know if you arrive alone or with 50 people in tow. If it’s like ‘normal’, there will be people hanging out around the reporting place, Alumni Hall. Appointees leave the gaggle of onlookers and get in line. Alone. No one will know if you reported with anyone or not.
 
Appointees have been headed to I-day alone for a long time. My roommate was from South Dakota. He caught a ride from South Dakota from some upperclassmen and got dropped off around Washington DC. He found his own way to USNA for I-Day. I think you will find a great deal of satisfaction and a sense of independence reporting on your own. Good luck to you.
 
You won’t be alone and you won’t be any worse for it. After the swearing-in ceremony in Tecumseh Court, the plebes are “released” for 30 minutes to reunite with and say goodbye to their family and friends. Quite a few plebes don’t have any “guests” there, so they instead gather by the statue of Tecumseh. There, they’re met by alums who offer sandwiches and drinks and the use of cell phones. You’ll get to refresh yourself and call your own loved ones. Then, like everyone else, you’ll form up and march into Bancroft Hall — alone, but alongside 1200 new friends and shipmates. All good!
 
Our son (2024), my dad (1968) and my grandfather (1939) all reported solo. For various reasons.
If you aren’t Uber independent in this moment then this is an opportunity to grow and reach and begin the journey that only you can experience.

Your friends and family will be on a parallel roller coaster but not in the same cart. It will be okay and you can do this!!!
 
Heatherg21 said:
Our son (2024), my dad (1968) and my grandfather (1939) all reported solo. For various reasons.
If you aren’t Uber independent in this moment then this is an opportunity to grow and reach and begin the journey that only you can experience.

Your friends and family will be on a parallel roller coaster but not in the same cart. It will be okay and you can do this!!!
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In retrospect I don’t name those prior grad years as badges or points. It is just that my grandmother sent her son with snail mail. And they survived WW2 with just snail mail. We can and will survive. It is a great adjustment to what deployments will look like.
 
Word for the wise ...... when the others are released to go hang out with family, and you don't have anyone to see, do NOT walk right in Bancroft and head toward your company for reporting. My company was way back in one of the further wings. I made it about 50 feet in Bancroft before the fun began!! Even with 25 minutes to spare, I barely made it back to my company in time, and I was already sore!! I probably had to recite rates and got dropped to the floor literally 20 times before getting back to my unit. It was an incredibly stacked gauntlet the whole way through the hall.

Find out where your company is located in the hall, find another way around to get to it other than walking through the front doors. Will make your life much easier!! ;)
 
PargoPK67 said:
I'm an appointee planning to head to I-day alone. Will it negatively affect me to show up without my family
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Absolutely not... the whole parental involvement in I Day seems to be a relatively new development. (By relatively new, I mean the last 40 years :))!
My parents dropped me off at the local airport for both NAPS and USNA departures ... I didn't know any better at the time, but in retrospect it was better for me that way-- not a whole lot of emotion in I day and I hate goodbyes.


IronmanDaremo said:
do NOT walk right in Bancroft and head toward your company for reporting.
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^ LOL --- this I do remember. Walking into the Hall and going up an upperclass ladder into a gauntlet of detailers eager to begin training and correct a variety of transgressions that I had no idea existed ... Remember, there is (relative) safety in numbers !
 
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Old Navy BGO said:
^ LOL --- this I do remember. Walking into the Hall and going up an upperclass ladder into a gauntlet of detailers eager to begin training and correct a variety of transgressions that I had not idea existed ... Remember, there is (relative) safety in numbers !
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"Ladder" = stairway for the uninitiated.
 
My wife and I went to I-Day with our son and it was a great experience (from our perspective). We left for the East Coast a week early and made a (probably last) family vacation out of it. We stayed in Arlington, VA for a few days and did the D.C. tour. It was fun. We got back to Annapolis a couple of days before I-Day and hung out by the pool to decompress. I think that he found it fairly relaxing.

I-Day was HOT. I expect that it will be again this year (only 93 days away). :)
 
PargoPK67 said:
I'm an appointee planning to head to I-day alone. Will it negatively affect me to show up without my family? Any response is greatly appreciated!
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Aloha... you can come hangout I-day with us. (dropping off daughter)
 
I just thought of something.

Alone, you will never be…

Navy Family is pretty amazing…you will be with family. Not an overstatement or cheesy platitude. Literally you will join your new brother and sister shipmates, and can claim any parent around as yours.
 
JudgeGuy said:
Ping me if you need someone to hang with. Bringing DS from SE PA so I plan on having some Philly goodies (Hoagies & soft pretzels)
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I can trade you some Mac nut candies for some philly pretzels if we find each other...LOL
 
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