The first week of each semester at West Point consists of attending meetings and preparing your room for SAMI(Saturday Morning Inspection). There is a 50-page packet that describes exactly how everything in your room needs to be laid out. Preparation includes taping gloves and pieces of parade uniforms into place in drawers,
folding shirts into perfect 8-inch squares, buttoning every single button on and inside jackets, making beds with duct tape, and dusting every nook and cranny to the extent that a white glove can’t find dust on even the most obscure surface. Due to timing, the inspection actually took place on Monday(MAMI?) then we had classes starting on Tuesday. My credit load this semester is 19 credit hours and consists of Psychology, Calculus, Physics, Latin American History, Literature, and Military Science. My classes so far have been great and I’m looking forward to the rest of the semester.
My pile of stuff the night I got back and pulled it all out of the basement trunk room.
Our room after about 5 hours of work. Most rooms take about 20 hours to get ready for SAMI.
Our room on the first day of classes. During the academic year, the white glove dust standard goes away, but almost everything else still has to be laid out. You get inspected to the AMI(Morning Inspection) standard every morning which includes keeping the door open, the trash can emptied, and the sink dry.
