etnuclearsailor said:
The computers seem to be more for their comfort than ours, as I'm finding our syllibi and many assignments are on the LAN. The internet was just a bonus.
Hogwash. Pansyass NSI'ers and BOOST'ers can't go a day without your internet fix. Yea, yea, all in the name of QOL right? Let's take a trip back to BOOST '94 (NSI resided in the same barracks rooms during the summer btw) when the only computers we had were the 486 (dx if you were high speed) that we had to personally buy. Yea, nothing impresses the ladies like a 486 and a dot matrix printer.
etnuclearsailor said:
We were having a discussion about the original invention of BOOST and what it was intended for at its inception. My understanding was BOOST was around before STA21 or even the original STA, and it was an independent course that did not necessarily lead to acceptence into any type of ECP.
Oh yea, BOOST was around way before STA-21 ever came to be. BOOST was around even before I went through it. It was in San Diego. In fact, I had orders to BOOST San Diego up until about 2 months before I was supposed to detached when I got the ORDMOD to Newport.
Our course of instruction was 10 months long....August through May....three trimesters. You're right, no commissioning program (i.e. NROTC or MECP for Marines) was guaranteed. You still had to do well enough in the program (BOOST) AND have a high enough SAT or ACT score. In my case, I was/am SAT stupid....took it 5 times and never qualified for NROTC. Took the ACT and blew that out of the water, which was my saving grace.
In my opinion, BOOST was a complete waste of my time. If the purpose was to help increase my SAT score, it failed. If it was to help prepare me for college level classes, it failed there as well. All it did was make me want to party even more when I got to my college. As a prior nuke going to BOOST, it jacked up my study skills cause none of the work there was hard enough that I had to study. Another student and I commonly held physics, chemistry, and math group tutor sessions. Honestly, that is the only worthwhile thing that came of BOOST, that I got to help some fellow students make it through and get their scholarship.
fc2spyguy said:
Sorry Steve, I don't think ENIAC (SP?) could have fit in the rooms when you went through BOOST
Well, aren't you a funny guy. Though I have no idea what you're referring to. I can remember vividly that it was in BOOST that I first learned what this thing called "email" was. I was trying to get a hold of a friend of mine at the Academy and the NAPSters upstairs had his email address. I was like, ok, but wtf is an email address? My point: we've come a long way baby.
