What a week! School has really been getting into the swing of things,I started working out with our company Sandhurst team (explanation below), I donatedblood, and we had another big tradition this weekend. School has been getting more manageable, and I’ve really tried to stopworking at 10:30pm so I can get more sleep. Sandhurst is a militaryskills competition hosted by West Point where a bunch of differentacademies from the world send teams to compete. I have a spot on ourcompany’s team and we started working out together this week. For thesake of keeping this short, I’m not going to dive into this, but knowthat donating blood was a total comedy of errors, but I did […]
Enter: College
My first week of college was only slightly overwhelming. Chemistry has been an absolute beast and I can’t remember how to do u-substitutions to save my life but other than that it has been great. We have day one classes three times a week and day two twice, but teachers have the same classes both days, so day one classes get dropped about 10 times throughout the semester to balance out the days. We also have study days every other week which are just a time to get your feet under you. I’ve been going to bed around 12 and getting up around 6 for morning formation which isn’t super sustainable, but weekends are almost […]
Slaying the Proverbial Beast
Quick Disclaimer: This one is pretty lengthy but my life is boring now so in the future they will be much shorter For the last week of Cadet Basic Training, through a combination of a 9-mile ruck march and a 15 minute LMTV ride (think of the trucks people ride in WWII movies), we ended up in an area called Lake Frederick. While at Lake Frederick, we spent our morning doing culmination training, taking what we had learned throughout the summer and competing against other companies. There were grenade throwing events, disassembling and reassembling machine guns, and carrying people around on different litters to name a few. Another day we beat the crap out of […]
Week 4
From Warren’s letter to Mom: “I had my last letter in before the Field Training but the unit just sent stuff this morning, so you’ll probably get these on the same day or at least close to it.” They both came this morning. 🙂