well for those of you who don't know, i'm in my first year at the naval academy which as you may or may not know, is comparable to prison. the first year sucks because i am stuck here 6 out of 7 days, i do nothing but go to classes, do homework, work out, eat, and sleep every day, and i basically am forced to take it up the sphincter by all the upperclass. i have to "chop" and square corners/sound off in the hallways, which means that i run in the dead center of the hall with my knees high and every time i want to turn, i have to make a complete 90 degree pivot and yell "Go Navy" or "Beat Army". its not all bad, though. i'm on this team called the infantry skills team which is really hard to explain, but basically we run a lot and get to do a lot of really cool stuff like shoot M-16s and rappel off whatever we can find. i enjoy the people i've met since i've been here and knowing that what i do with my life will actually be worth something. i would definitely say that its harder than anything else i would have been doing in college, but i get satisfaction from knowing that i've done some pretty hard stuff. supposedly the freshman chemistry that's required here is the hardest freshman class in the nation, so that's cool... luckily i'm passing right now. bdh, i'm sorry i didn't get to see you this weekend... i'll be home again in a couple of weeks for thanksgiving and i'm sure there will be a rather sizable bash that everybody here will hear about and of course be invited to. as for the picture, i'll work on it, but i think my mom is the only one who has a copy of any of them, so i'll have to get one from her.
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