Some find out early they can't deal with the regimentation. That's the time when upperclassmen make sure the plebes learn how to be fourth classmen, at the bottom of the barrel on their journey to becoming quality cadets. Not everyone completes the program. About one- quarter of a recent class of 215 didn't make it to graduation. While they're here, they come and go when we say they can.
Rooms are pretty spartan.
And we have no privacy. 2 Teresa Irby-Butler. I had my own room. When I got here, I was living with 162 other people and sharing showers with numerous other females. Jennifer Burke remembered the many mornings of lining up shoes under the bed and folding shirts and rolling them to a precise width for daily inspections.