In Their Words

Plans for Winter Break

Winter break is a good time to catch up with family and friends, work some hours at your job near home, and catch up on some desperately needed sleep. My plans for this winter break are to work at the hotel that I worked at all summer, go skiing, see the Ice Castles in NH, go ice skating, and go to Long Island for a week. All of these fun events are what is driving me through this harsh finals week. Some people, myself included, feel super pressured to go to all the family events, go see your first, second and third cousins, visit all your aunts and uncles because EVERYONE wants to spend some time together. Winter break sounds like its a long time, but it goes by sooo fast so make sure that you are doing what you want to do. I am not trying to discredit family... Read more →

Thanksgiving Dinner

Tonight was Thanksgiving Dinner, where we were able to eat at ease with our cadre for the first time. I'm not entirely sure what the orange food on our plate was, but the mashed potatoes, turkey, and cranberry sauce were very good. I was challenged to eat a piece of pumpkin pie in less than 30 seconds which I succeeded in doing. Our platoon shirts we designed and ordered online hadn't been delivered in time, so we all made our own white shirts to wear to chow under our tunics. On our shirts, we had our wolf logo spray painted on the front and an American flag on the sleeve. The back of the shirts were free for everyone to personalize. On my shirt, I made sure to include "Let's Rook and Roll." We designed shirts for our cadre as well, personalizing them with things relating to their specialty units,... Read more →

Birthday at Norwich

Today is my birthday! As a rook, you usually don’t get much joy or celebration on your birthday, but today was an exception with the help of my rook family. As we got on the wall before chow, my roommate posted her fist and announced to our cadre that it’s my birthday. The whole platoon then proceeded to sing a loud happy birthday and gave me one clap for turning 19. Overall, it was an especially nice day. I was able to spend time in the chapel practicing drums and guitar with a few members from my rook family. One of my rook brothers got donuts from Dunkin as a birthday treat and another rook brother gave me an awesome drawing as a gift. All throughout the day, I heard shouts of "Happy birthday!" from my rook siblings and cousins. Read more →