As promised... plus extra!

Okay, so I know I promised a blog a few days back, but i've been busy. Here's a quick and dirty of what's been going on in my life lately...

-finals
-moving out
-sea trials
-ring dance this weekend!

only four things and one hasn't even happened yet, but believe me, the first 3 were bad enough. I'm pretty sure i've discussed finals back in December when i last had them. This time around they went well. I was really happy with my results on the Thermodynamics and Advanced Controls Systems exams. I got B's on both exams which kept my A's in those courses. Now that I type that, I realize how incredibly nerdy my classes sound. But its okay because my major's "name" is way cooler than yours, Weapons and Systems Engineering, let's be honest now lol. Overall I ended with a 3.2 gpa, a lil disappointing because I ended with a C in Electrical Engineering which took a chunk out of the gpa since it was a 4 credit course. Anyways...

Moving out... wow. So basically, mids spend the entire year moving into their rooms, getting new cool things, but every May we have to completely move out of our rooms for 3 months during the summer. This is a huge inconvenience because 1) only seniors can drive on campus 2) the storage space they provide for underclass is the size of a gym locker. Good thing I'm not an underclassman anymore haha, the storage for rising seniors was big enough for me to box all my stuff and then stack into my locker. The only thing was trying to find a cart to carry it all from my room to the lockers in 8th wing. So now my room is empty, we only have our computers and a few odds and ends on our desks and our closets have the bare minimum number of uniforms and cloths.

Sea Trials took place yesterday. Holy cow, it was a long day. For me it started at 0030 (12:30 am). It ended at 1830 (6:30 pm) when I get dinner and then went back to my room, stayed awake long enough to watch the magic go into half time with a lead, only to wake up this morning to find out they blew it again. So yes, 18 hours, on about 3 hours rest, not sleep just rest. I was the Safety Coordinator for Naval Station West. Which basically meant when someone got hurt I had to run to the scene, find out the severity and then get the corpsman if it needed one. Then I had to call the Safety Officer to let them know. Now, this doesn't seem bad, except that Naval Station West has the E-Course. The E-Course is a 2.5 - 3 mile long course through the woods. There are several steep hills, some require a rope to get help get up, a handful of obstacles (most of which I could avoid, only the rope bridge I actually had to go across every time). I was running back and forth through this course making sure the course and obstacles were safe (ie no trees falling in the way) and to make sure that there were no injuries at both starting/ending points (they broke the course up into 2 sections, which made it a lil convenient for me). By lunch I was exhausted, lol. I was surprised in how few injuries there were though, which was nice.

You might be wondering what the hell is Sea Trials? Good question, lol. Its a physical test for the freshman class to complete in order to officially finish their "plebe" year. This year we started at 0230 after a speaker gave a motivation/leadership speech in the cemetery at 0100. From 0230 to 0430 they went through the "Dark Phase" which had 4 different zones they rotated through doing various PT. The "Light Phase" was the rest of the day (0430 - 1800). During this phase there was 6 zones: Naval Station East/West, Transition Run, Hospital Point, Farragut, MacD Hall. Essentially every zone was another PT event filled place of pain lol. The MacD phase was a pool phase (run by the swim and water polo teams this year, that had to be the worst one lol). Hospital Point and Farragut had more traditional PT excersises whereas the Naval Station had the O-course, e-course, ruck run, riveriene (no idea how to spell that) squad hike, paintball, pugil sticks. The Transition run was a 4 mile run across the river from Hospital Point to the Naval Station, nothing exciting lol.

Well, that about sums up the last few weeks lol, another blog about ring dance - and pics - after this weekend