Rolled and Ready for Graduation

A Class of 2010 cadet’s diploma with the commissioning certificate on top is rolled and placed inside its individual container May 14. Before they are presented to the cadets, each diploma and certificate is cleaned and proofread for accuracy. It takes about two weeks to proofread and another week to package the nearly 1,000 sets of diplomas and certificates. Graduation Week activities start on Tuesday with the Alumni Review and Exercise and culminates on May 22 with the Class of 2010 Graduation

The Terrible TEE's are OVER!

Friday...today is the day that most students have been waiting for since the first day of school, especially the seniors. Today is the last day of finals (or TEE's). That means only a week until graduation and summer. The students are off for the weekend and return to campus Sunday night for graduation preparations. At least the hard part is over! No more studying and stressing about finals. Just parading. :)

On another note, Army Athletics is taking the Patriot League by storm! Lacrosse, baseball, woman's tennis and softball are all Patriot League Champions! Softball and baseball are hosting the Patriot League Tournament here on campus this weekend while lacrosse and woman's tennis begin the first round of the NCAA tournament! Good luck to all the teams! How awesome is that!?

Well the weekend is only a couple hours away and the weather is nice, couldn't ask for anything else. Until next time...

18 days!

Here at The Point, warm weather has invaded the campus with record high temperatures this past weekend. Temperatures are rising as the number of class days here are dwindling. Cadets are itching for the next two weeks to go by quickly and anticipating Graduation Week, especially the seniors. Rumor on the street has it that Obama might be the key-note speaker this year. But I won’t believe it until I see it. As graduation fever engulfs the seniors, sophomores are struggling with the idea of signing their lives away to the Army or returning to the simplicities of being a civilian. Whereas plebes are just ecstatic that they won’t be plebes anymore. No more walking with your hands cupped outside or hugging the side of the hallways in the barracks or only being able to take one pass a semester. Oh yes plebes, I know you can see the light at the end of the tunnel now! So, for most cadets here at the Academy it is an exciting and scary time of year to say the least.

With only 18 days left until graduation, everyone is trying to get that last homework assignment in, study for their TEEs and say their last goodbyes to friends before they head off for their summer assignments. Here’s to hoping these next three weeks go by quickly…