Oh, and if you wind up being high up in your class, I was the Batt 1 Commander (#3 in my class), you wind up with a decent amount of work. If you end up with a lower ranking job you may or may not be able to slide by candio phase without lifting a finger.
Heh, I was in the middle of my class, and I had piles of work. Of course, that was because we only had thirteen people, so everyone actually carried several billets (I was batt 2 subcom, batt 2 adjutant, batt 2 1st Lt, and I got to play shepherd to the unsecured candidates). Liberty existed in bits and pieces for us as candios. On the plus side, the class previous to us was a class of 12, so things were largely set up for us already, we just took their model and modified it. Another plus, very few of us got beat as candios (I never did), partly because we had a good regcom, but also because we could legitimately blame most screw-ups on the lack of people. It was busy enough that I got less sleep than in the last several weeks of OC phase; there were three bigger classes that arrived in four weeks' time while I was there, and I gathered in talking to some of them at the gym during their candio phase that they spent more of their time staying out of the way and catching up on sleep than anything else. Still, it was good experience (woulda been perfect for a SWO), and everyone in my class had some opportunity to practice their leadership. Even with the workload, I'd say finally being treated like a person again, and actually getting to talk with the chiefs, officers, and occasionally DIs, made it a pretty good time.
Anyway, I'm rambling on now. Those of you about to start, don't even think about candio phase. Do bring your laptop, DVDs, anything you might want in your car (and do bring a car, it's your own little warehouse early on, and you don't have to be begging rides when you get liberty), but it's going to seem like an eternity till candio phase when you get there. Then, in what will seem like a flash, you'll be driving the candio van thinking "man, that guy driving the van the day I started was right, it does seem like it's been no time."