Bringing Friends to I-Day

mvljog440
Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:07:55 +0000

I don’t think seeing family for those few minutes you get hurts. The upperclass usually take such good care of you that first night you don’t have time to think about them once your brief “family” time is done. I had my HS girlfriend there which was nice…by parent’s weekend, my MD-NAPS girlfriend showed up for that weekend which is a whole lot more fun. My friend and I took our dates sailing to show off how much we had learned. Fortunately for us, my girlfriend (now my wife) knew how to sail and got us out and back without any problems. An officer was watching and remarked to my family that it was good thing she was along as undoubtably our skills were not refined as of yet. This was before women had been admitted.

I would think if you had your buddies there, they would indeed be bored but perhaps not. They won’t spend much time with you so it they can entertain themselves they’ll be ok but your family has a vested interest so it’s a great time for them to be there if they can. Of the two, parent’s weekend is better for the family if they can only make it to one of the weekends.

Back in the day, the upperclass played the song “See you in September” (our Plebe year ran from July 3 or so until September) out on T-Court. It made all the moms cry and even some of the Mids. I thought it was great and funny. I actually enjoyed Plebe Summer, Plebe year was entirely a different story.