They are more confident. Three days before breakout, upperclassmen torment rats during a late-night sweat party in the barracks. Two days before breakout, rats race around the barracks courtyard while hauling each other around in a fireman's carry. Scott Hillyer, a rat from Montclair, Va., is singled out for a workout from upperclassmen. The mission for the rat mass is to struggle through the mud then climb the steep, slippery slope called breakout hill.
Rats struggle to keep their heads above the mud, despite the hindrance of an upperclassman.