You Know You’re a Plebe if…

If you read my post on Plebe Parents, here’s one for your future or current Plebes. These are from the USNA parent networks. Good reading…

You Know You’re a PLEBE When…

• your favorite word is “YUT!”
• it is dark when you get up and it is dark when you go to sleep
• you wake up and discover your bed is on fire and go back to sleep becasue you just don’t care
• when sitting in your room you are used to any Plebe just coming in and waiting while a group of upperclassmen walk past
• you think about how relaxing it would be to be in jail
• you now can have REM sleep standing up
• the highlight of your night is getting new mail from the Brigade Mislo.
• you pass time by singing cadences to yourself.
• for excitement you dare each other to do stupid things at night in the halls.
• the library becomes a four star hotel.
• you thank God evey night around 7:30 for being allowed to walk.
• your summer break sucked.
• whenever going from point A to point B you plan an emergency exit strategy.
• you find yourself screaming bloody murder at 6:50 in the morning.
• shining shoes and studying menus is a pasttime.
• you’re afraid not to read the newspaper.
• going to class is a refuge.
• you have to be in bed by 11pm on Friday night.
• being allowed to watch TV is an honor.
• your quality of life rests on the outcome of a football game.
• you drink no beer.
• you meet your girlfriend at mandatory dance lessons.
• going to 7-Eleven to get a Slurpy involves covert operations.
• your life stops when your computer breaks down.
• your self-esteem suffers because you notice you’re getting less email.
• you pray nobody will talk to you.
• being allowed to call someone by their first name is a privilege.
• you find yourself hanging out in the midstore a lot.
• the only time a woman touches you is when Suzy Q cuts your hair in the barber shop.
• you made more money in high school than you make now.
• you build up your courage every time you want to leave your room.
• you’re afraid to go to the bathroom.
• you can count things you enjoy on one hand.
• you have more weekends than firsties have victories over Army.

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Jacqui Murray is the author of the popular Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy. She is the author of over a hundred books on technology integration into education, an adjunct professor in tech ed, webmaster for six blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a tech columnist for TeachHUB and Examiner.com, Editorial Review Board member for ISTE’s Journal for Computing Teachers, and freelance journalist on tech ed topics. Currently, she’s writing a military techno-thriller that should be out this summer.