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The only gouge you need about college major is do something you are interested in. End of story.

Physics. It's the best.

overall: good essay. Especially the bit about "overcoming adversity," or turning bad news into motivation or however you want to look at it. Also good plug for time management skills. The only thing I would add is take out the sentence about how you feel it is necessary to continue the legacy...

Crush little ENS dreams by telling them they can't fly jets.

EDIT: Sorry didn't read. I was thinking you were talking about the pre-commissioning loan. If you're considering that loan my advice was: wait until you commission.

QD will find you if you are a FO completing IFS. I'm really not sure if there's anything you can do about it.

Of course, atm there are only 9 of us on the watchbill...which means a watch (or sub) every 3 days. By all means, continue your inquiry :)

co-ed showers do seem to be inevitable... Meh. Gays are gonna be in the military regardless of what the policy is, imo. As long as they're not creepy / abusive I don't really care.

Even the gays think the media sucks.

If you go in the summer, is pretty much all the drill you'll learn. In the winter, you'll learn just basic marching since you'll drill in the gym and won't have to march during drill comp.

Cold + Windy = bleeding chapped knuckles and uncontrollable shivering after breakfast (when your sweat-drenched PT clothes have cooled to ambient temp.)

Welcome to the club! Don't worry, we all drank it as well :)

The "worst" PT sessions that were designed to actually get you in shape (i.e. not break your body down and test your mental fortitude) went something like this: 2 minutes max set of situps 100 yard sprint. 1 minute max set of situps 100 yard sprint. 30 seconds max set of situps 100 yard...

1. yup 2. Can't ruin the surprise! Besides, it doesn't matter if you are sh!t hot during the first week...you'll all be treated the same. Even if you knew exactly how your shoes were supposed to be laced and showed up with them already laced, when you bent down and didn't have anything to...

Wasn't sure until I clicked on the link and saw this picture: :eek: GET ME THOSE SERIAL NUMBERS!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_stroke

It is hit or miss. While I was there it seemed that at least 20% or so will fail the initial inspection. The re-inspect is two days later (initial on Thursday, re-inspect on Saturday). Generally speaking somewhere between 5 and 10 people fail the initial and the re-inspect, which means they...

Classic.

The "candios" for the first 9 weeks the program was in Newport were actually Ensigns from A-pool, some of who had gone through OCS in P-cola. They seemed to agree with this assessment that OCS was softer in Newport. However, I also seemed to think that when I was a candio the indoc classes had...

Ah, reminds me when I was on watch and some poor candidate sees the reporter and goes, "how's it going, man?" Epic.

I kept waiting for the inevitable GySgt Center quote: "Make my diamonds right now" cool site, I remember those guys following that class around and wondering what it was for.

Yes, you'll need access to that much money. You'll spend money on PT gear, RLP stuff, Class T-shirts, gifts, hi-moms, softball game, etc.

Inertial Coupling = houses get bigger than you would like.

my guess is that due to the CM not being exactly centered on the turntable, the helicopter will eventually be tossed off of the thing and crash spectacularly.

You can be an SNA with vision as "poor" as 20/40, in which case you have to wear something that corrects it to 20/20 (NFOs also have to wear something to correct their vision to 20/20).

3 full stops within 90 days to be current enough to take passengers.

Colbert Report last night: "I know he's sorry, and I can tell because his lip-bite index is off the charts!...Dear God, he's trying to swallow his own head in an act of contrition!"

Aargghhh! Hippies!!!

Hopefully that should make a huge difference. Just don't over train if you start feeling better, remember to gradually increase your distance.

I had a 4.0 in my major (physics) and a 2.7 overall when I got selected. As long as your record / LoRs / essay paint a consistent picture of someone who is hardworking and motivated, etc. you'll probably get selected (eventually). If you are a borderline case, it all depends on who else...

Is the pain on the inside of your shin or on the outside? If it's on the inside you may have purchased the wrong kind of shoes. Cushioning shoes are for high arches. Stability is for neutral, and Motion Control is for low arches. If you've got pain on the inside of your shins, you might have...

To the O.P. I've seen this quote a few times, which makes me think there is some truth to it. When asked this question, apparently some dude who had attended both Marine and Navy OCS said: "Marine OCS is physically harder, but Navy OCS sucks more." To me, the sleep deprivation @ Navy OCS was...

We've got a feisty one!

I'm gonna go with nsfw, but hilarious none the less. BTW first link got a 404 for me, so another link to the same video.

It is very tough, mentally as well as physically. may give you "some" idea. Probably the best thing you could do is talk face-to-face with someone who has experienced life under USMC DI's and ask them questions. How physically / mentally demanding it is depends to some extent on what DI your...

I reported on 11 JAN and started IFS on 06 FEB

I'll be starting API somewhere around there. It's hard to say when, though, because a class starts every week and I don't know exactly when I'll be done with IFS.

Stand out by being the guy who is helping your classmates study / drill / learn procedures / memorize gouge when none of the staff are around, that way your classmates will know that you're there to help everyone get through and won't throw you under the bus. As far as ways to get "good"...

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Holy God You'll have plenty of time to work out on your own...but not at a gym. Your class usually does an evening PT session on their own so they can work on pushups / situps without their DI around. During candio phase you can go for a run or go to a gym when you have time. However, for...

Of course, if you are a rare case (me), you can pass Ishihara plates, FALANT, and circles on the depth perception, as well as have 20/40 vision, but be out of standards due to too much astigmatism. So do your homework and if you need PRK get it done before you sign anything if you can.

A few more interesting things that I can remember from our PSD brief: -I think single SNAs can only get transient BAH (with follow on orders), or per diem (no follow on orders) -PCS move is for those with follow on orders to Whiting only, like Morgan said -SNFOs get a PCS move and full BAH

We don't sing Jodies during the runs. The runs are basically either 1.5 miles or 2.3 miles of running as fast as you possibly can, with a DI, chief, or class officer setting the pace. HOWEVER, the first thing we would do every single morning is have every class double time a warm-up lap of...

The more hydrated you are, the more...liquidy(?)...your blood is, which is why you should also hydrate a lot before getting bloodwork done. Also, I'd recommend starting a good running program if you haven't already. 20-30 minutes of running at least 3 times a week should help keep your BP down.

1) Get the right shoes. Do a wet test to find out if you have flat feet / normal feet / high arches and get motion control / stability / cushion shoes respectively. You can bring your own shoes to OCS, and you'll have the opportunity to buy new ones as well. 2) Motrin: It's not just a...

I graduated on Dec 21st and drove down to Florida...it wasn't horrible, but the weather was gracious. The worst thing about driving in the northeast (or being in the northeast in general) during winter is that the sun "sets" (i.e. isn't behind the wall of gray overcast clouds) at about 1600...

Do 105 pushups and take a knee on the IN-PRT. If you are on pushup #117 and are looking shoddy enough, it is possible that you could get zero'd out. Not very likely, but why take the chance? As far as pushups not during the PFA? Basically your class will do pushups until no one can do...

The runs are typically either 2.2 miles or 1.5 miles when the weather is nice, so you shouldn't have much to worry about. They do indian runs from time to time to work on speed, and they'll sometimes run up and down the hills to "punish" candidates if the group starts to get too strung out...

From what I've seen OCS in Newport is basically like OCS in Pensacola except with snow and goose poo. On the one hand, we don't really do a lot of running outdoors anymore, but on the other hand, a DI forced his class to build a snowman in their P-way (he also made them fill their knowledge...

^^Good Gouge. To add on what Morgan said, Academics have started in the 2nd week for every class that I've seen. In fact, we had our first exam on the Friday of our 2nd week (the same day we star-jumped the warmup lap for PT!) Also, change of command (beginning of candio phase) will be week...