I am currently a Senior, and I’ve just now found out I didn’t get a nomination from any of my sources. The truth is I wasn’t upset over this, I kind of expected it. I currently have a 3.3 GPA and a 1230 SAT, I was captain of my cross country team, the leading NCO in my civil air patrol squadron, a lifeguard/swimming instructor, founder of a newspaper club, the head of 3 other clubs in past years and a member of my schools senior committee.
I ended my XC season early because of a stress fracture in my fibula, that put me in recovery for around 3 months. During that time I fell apart, I was just in a dark place mentally and lost on what to do, I gained weight and lost my running progress, my grades dipped and just didn’t know what to do. I’m applying for a local NROTC college now and for the scholarship. But before this pitfall I found the service academies to be life changing.
Coming out of COVID I was depressed and a shell of myself, and when I visited Annapolis in the summer of 2021 I was blown away by it all. Everything was perfect, the comradery and the history of it all. It did change me, I might be in an even worse condition now than if I hadn’t found these places.
What I’m asking is now, I just where do I go from here. I’ve dug myself quite the hole and it’s up to me to get out of it, but I just would love advice and experiences anyone else has had in cases at all like mine, thank you
(Apologies for spelling errors, it’s late and I’m very very tired.)
