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05-17-2008, 08:29 PM
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#16 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: USAFA
Posts: 1,439
| Three digs have at least two PE courses, swimming and water survival (AKA water haze). Swimming is...well, you guessed it...a lot of swimming, some survival stuff, and the 5m scenario. Water haze is more swimming, lots of survival stuff, the 10m scenario, and the 5m scenario. | 
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05-17-2008, 09:36 PM
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#17 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Houston/Clear Lake, TX
Posts: 66
| 10 m (~32 feet) has never looked so high  | |
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05-17-2008, 10:51 PM
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#18 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: USAFA (Houston)
Posts: 2,749
| As bad as people say swimming and water haze are, they really aren't so bad. I wasn't a good swimmer and hated it, but did fine in the end in those two classes. I continue to swim 3x a week now thanks to learning better in those classes. | |
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05-18-2008, 01:32 AM
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#19 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: USAFA
Posts: 1,439
| Yeah, being scared of heights doesn't help, either!
10m......."Ok, I have to do this! Look at the flag--Oh *&^%!--step off. Arms out, arms in. Splash. Level out. Swim toward that big white thing. There's the bulkhead! Swim under--DANG, I'm deeper than I thought! Surface sweep and clear."
It's not so bad! | |
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05-18-2008, 08:38 PM
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#20 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Michigan
Posts: 144
| I went two summers ago do NOT bring too many I completely overpacked. Like two pairs of jeans some shorts and something for the dinner/dance. Do not go crazy over dress but do dress up a . Take the civil engineering class if you can I got out of most of my Doolie Day  Wonderful timing haha.
I got none of the classes I wanted but I may have been in the minority I can't remember. Doolie day is for most of the ay they give you about and hr to get ready for the big dinner. I am a girl that about killed me the guys had a much easier time of it | |
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05-18-2008, 10:40 PM
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#21 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: CA
Posts: 397
| they don't do the dinner/dance anymore...
they changed it up a bit last year. | |
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05-18-2008, 11:51 PM
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#22 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Colorado
Posts: 128
| Question: Is there any method at which you are assigned a roomate for the week? Or is it rather arbitrary? | |
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05-19-2008, 03:52 PM
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#23 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 218
| I believe it was alphabetical, as my last name starts with Y and my roommates last names began with W and W | |
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05-19-2008, 04:25 PM
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#24 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: CA
Posts: 397
| lol, my name starts with an A and my roommate started with an S
mostly, they were done by elements I think. a few of the "extras" stayed with others. | |
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05-19-2008, 05:09 PM
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#25 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Evansville
Posts: 100
| Dance? Isn't the girl to guy ratio horrendous though? | |
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05-19-2008, 05:57 PM
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#26 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Danville, PA - 2011
Posts: 861
| That made it all the more fun.
(or interesting, to say the least...) | |
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05-19-2008, 05:58 PM
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#27 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Duluth, MN
Posts: 44
| well, judging by the number of actual cadets, the odds are better at the academy than at Michigan Tech (I know a few guys who are going there). Michigan tech has about 17% of students being female compared to the Academy having 21%. It's not too much better, but at least there are more options! | |
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05-19-2008, 06:00 PM
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#28 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Danville, PA - 2011
Posts: 861
| And we do have USMA and USNA beat, for sure. | |
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05-19-2008, 06:04 PM
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#29 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Duluth, MN
Posts: 44
| My personal opinion of what i've seen, Air Force girls look the best out of any branch. | |
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05-19-2008, 10:06 PM
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#30 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Colorado
Posts: 128
| Watch out Marvin... Kissin up to the girls on this forum won't be of much help your 4 dig year | |
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