Happy New Year to everyone!  And what a great year it’s going to be.  I just want to congratulate everyone who received awards at our Holiday Formation, you all have been working hard and you earned it!  To those who didn’t receive, keep your chin up!  Just because you didn’t get something this time isn’t a bad thing; you just need to work a little harder and make yourself known to anyone and everyone.

And now to recap on the year: the Drill team did an outstanding job this year bringing in a total of 6 trophies!  Raiders has already begun and so far 5 cadets have made the team: Drew “Legs” Curran, Stephanie “Gargoyle” Thomas, Laura “Jack” Craig, Tim “Runt”  Woodbury and Matt “Superman” Thompson – congrats to those cadets and keep it up; the basketball Color Guard continues to present the Colors at each varsity basketball game, and they are doing an excellent job!

Now for the bad news: MIDTERMS!!!!  Yes, they suck, but if you don’t study you will NOT do well!  All of the upperclassmen know how midterms can be and know that they need to study study study, but freshmen don’t understand completely how bad midterms can be.  A few tips:

*grab as many study guides as you can from teachers

*ask ALL teachers what percentage the midterm covers on your semester grade (it can be anywhere from 10% to 20%)

*study hard and study often; if you hate studying, grab a buddy and make it fun…somehow.  Also know that every upperclassmen is obligated to help you so start asking!

If anyone has any questions about midterms or anything related to the Corps don’t hesitate to ask!  I hope everyone had a great holiday, and I can’t wait to see everyone on Monday!

Happy New Year!

–Audrey “Superwoman” Sylvester