<p>I just saw this clip on Google Video searching for USNA…</p>
<p>There are some funny parts, but they help convey a very good message.</p>
<p><a href=“http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6764776167011267750&q=plebe+summer&pl=true[/url]”>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6764776167011267750&q=plebe+summer&pl=true</a></p>
<p>There are also some pretty funny Spirit Spots on the Playlist to the righthand side of the video.</p>
<p>tjm787: I have a piece of paper that I keep by my bed…I copied the quote one day at the library when I was a senior…the year was 1975…It was, and always has been, my inspiration…</p>
<p>It says (in my adolescent handwriting)…</p>
<p>“Far better is it to dare mightly things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered with failure…
Than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much
because they live in the grey twighlight
that knows not victory nor defeat.” -Theodore Roosevelt</p>
<p>Wish they’d had that when I was there. The O-Course was SO boring.</p>
<p>lol i know the mid who posted that. he’s in my church group.</p>
<p>i fell like they did and smacked my head so hard…that thing isn’t designed for 5’1" girls. a bit of advice: run along the log as fast as you can to get up momentum, and when you’re doing that running thing on those boards up high, just run across fast. i learned that the hard way.</p>
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<p>If you’d remembered how James Bond got out of the alligator trap in “Live and Let Die”, you would have been fine. ;)</p>
<p>Wheelah— the important thing is that… YOU DID IT!! … All 5’1"'s!!! What a great inspiration you are!</p>
<p>Oh. Dang. Nice.</p>
<p>I guess I’ll have to prove that 5-foot-nothing girls can do it too (even the ones who can’t jump)! It looks like fun [now]. Plebe summer is going to be quite fun [especially for a time of learning]. This reminds me of a time when I was trying to balance on a handrail in seventh grade – I fell, hit my head on the cement, but I luckily just scratched it up, no injuries.</p>
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<p>Uh, huh… RIGHT. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>It’ll be fun to look back on, but not to be in. ;)</p>
<p>Z-man: that’s what I ment by the “time of learning” thing. I didn’t make myself clear enough. A “time of learning” –> become a grasshopper again, fail again and again, get frustrated, and then be overjoyed once I finally overcome something (even if it’s just one of the million hurdles to jump over). I think “hell week” is fun in sports, though. I guess that’s my repressed, unconscious masochistic self trying to come out.</p>
<p>I wish I’d been born with that characteristic. I HATE exercise. I got through 5 years of NAPS and USNA by sheer pig-headedness.</p>
<p>Zap man, I’m right there with you. Excercise??? What exercise. I only do it because I have to. The only reason I’m doing track this year is so that I’m in shape for the CFA this summer… oof.</p>
<p>I failed either the situps or the run in half the semesters after Plebe Year. Even when I got an A in swimming (which, except for the stamina, I’d be seriously competitive in), I ended up with a D. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Oh, well. Stuck it out and graduated anyway. ;)</p>
<p>lol, dictatoranna you have a great plebe summer attitude. however, i am not sure about fun! i was mostly miserable all 6 weeks. i contemplated jumping into the severn and swimming to the other side.</p>
<p>I tried that. The jellyfish in the river are a *****!</p>
<p>Well, I didn’t so much jump in to swim across, as FALL OUT OF MY LASER and TREAD WATER. ;)</p>