You'll have four 50-minute periods each morning and three each afternoon. You'll march to breakfast and lunch, and after classes you'll join in mandatory athletic activities. Unless you're an intercollegiate athlete, you'll play on an intramural team two afternoons a week after classes. The other three afternoons you have squadron activities or discretionary time. Intercollegiate athletes usually practice or compete every afternoon and frequently on weekends, too.
Many cadets take additional academic instruction after classes or during other unscheduled times.
You'll also spend many evenings studying in your room or in the library. You must be in your room and in bed at taps, unless you have special permission to study late. You'll frequently attend parades and inspections and study on Saturday mornings, but you're usually free Saturday afternoons and Sundays. Your fall and spring semesters last 17 weeks each, and the summer term lasts 10 weeks. Instead of a three-month summer break, you'll have three weeks.