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So…the second semester has just begun but it feels like we have been here for a year. Everyone is ready to be 3/c but we still have one major obstacle to go…boards. Every second that you have open is devoted to reading through the endless material in the 50 page packet but, when boards is over, we have earned the right to stop squaring and greeting and can finally be normal (or as normal as a person can be at a military academy…..just kidding).
I have a really fun weekend planned in Boston with my really good friends that I have met here at the Academy. 4/c Julie Kane (another cadet journalist) was my roommate last semester (fun times) and we (plus two more of my best friends) are heading up to Boston for a weekend of skiing and having fun. One thing about this place is there are a lot of opportunities to go to cool, major cities like Boston and New York, things that other college kids will not get to experience. Sure this place is hard and it’s not always fun but there are plenty of good times and good laughs to balance it out.
Feel free to email me anytime.
Brandi.A.Engle@uscga.edu
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Posted by Leann Strickland at 2/14/2012 10:52 AM