Before I dive into it, I'd like to thank those of you who have tried to get updates via PM from me. The interest in my well-being and encouragement are greatly appreciated. Also, a thank you to the site and the senior members who's advice continues to prove invaluable to my progress here at NNPTC.
I'm aware I've been more lurker than member of the site the last few months. Other than a few short posts here and there I haven't had the time to contribute much, but that was expected once Power School started. I can't say that I was ill informed of the effort expected of me here. We've just ended week 9 and the wealth of knowledge we're already covered is only the basis for what is to come. My study habits have maintained the same since A-school for the most part. I still put in 20+ hours a week, and a lot of time off the log helping other people in my section with difficult concepts. We just recently started learning cross-rate material so it's kind of funny watching so many of us MMs frustrated at the magic you ETs and EMs learn. Luckily my father is an electrician (some of you who have gone through refueling in Norfolk may have actually worked with him), so I learned a lot of it a long time ago. I'm finding that my college experience is much more useful in Power School than it was in A-school. There are others who are doing equally as well without, but they sometimes have difficulties helping others if the in-class explanations aren't sinking in. A lot of the time, I know some alternative explanations that relate the information to something they already know. All that said, our section is doing well overall. We lost one person to auto-drop and two more are borderline, but the section average is about a 3.1. It isn't great
. We're working on it. I am currently at a 3.72 (higher pending the results of this morning's test). I'm doing better than my goal so I'm happy, but not content. I think I can do better.
Hmm... What else? I volunteered for section leader, so a lot of my extra time is spent doing something else to keep our section on top of things. We have to take the E-5 exam in March, and while it would be amazing to be advanced, I'm aware it's near impossible. I just want to pass the test and receive the points. For the time being, I'm more concerned with reviewing past material for comp in a few months. Speaking of which, we graduate May 14th. I've almost paid off all my debts I built up in my time in college prior to the Navy. I'm pretty proud of that. I thought it would take years. I read on here someone suggesting that some of us meet up for lunch sometime. Count me in. Just shoot me a PM with a day and I'll take a look at my lunch schedule. It makes me laugh because I feel I've given more than enough information that anyone in our tiny Nuke world could figure out who I am around here, yet no one has introduced themselves. If you have, feel free to say "Hi. If not, don't consider it a challenge...
. As always, feel free to ask me question about anything that's going on I may have left out. Good luck to class 1002 who classed up this week. You'll wish you were back on T-track soon enough
. I look forward to updating this post over the next few months and keeping you informed.
-MM3 imthehoopa
