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No problems. I had a ton of questions before I went, too, so I get it. PT is in the morning, and I think it is M/W/F (IAs don't have PT), but you'll be doing physical stuff throughout the day. You can go workout again after class; very few people I know of felt the need to do so. From what I heard, it varied from class to class, but mostly it was "grab a weight, we're gonna do stuff with it" rather than "here's a deadlift station, here's squats, here's curls" type thing. There were people in my class who came in having done little to no training beforehand, and they passed the physicals easily.

Coffee is available at each meal in the cafeteria, but I wouldn't say it's quality. There is a Starbucks in one of the buildings that you can frequently hit between classes; pretty sure they take cash and cards. Once you're in the shared dorms, you can have a coffee maker in the shared kitchens unless people start being dumb about it. Several people I know went with cold press or powdered, and one particular afficiando brought their own bean grinder and fancy french press. There are ways to deal with coffee dependency.

You can bring a laptop/ tablet; it is not necessary to do so. They issued us tablets during quarantine, and there are computer labs if you want a desktop to do homework on. If you want to do personal stuff like check your emails, stream videos, etc, bring your own. One thing to note that you may or may not care about: streaming gaming services and some overseas websites are blocked, including games that you have to have internet connection to play. Be aware, if that's your thing.

I have AT&T, but honestly, everyone was complaining about the service. You'll find areas where the signal is good, because people will hang out there and make calls. In the dorm rooms, it i***** or miss.

1. To the best of my knowledge, under-gear had to be either black or dark blue during business hours.

2. That's a tough one. Personal 2 cents, I'd say bring it and see. There are empty classrooms after hours, but I truly don't know how they'd feel about music practice. Might be perfectly fine, might not be. Stress relief is important, but honestly, you're not going to have a ton of free time.

3. There are a couple punching bags available, yes. No speed bags, but the large ones.

4. There are desks for each person in the dorm rooms, but a desktop computer would be a tight fit. For security reasons, everything you need to do for training will be on a Quantico device - either the computers in the labs or a tablet (if they're still issuing those; they were necessary for quarantine when I was there). Any personal device you bring will be for personal use only: email, social media, gaming, etc.

For people who did the October class. What were the holidays like? Did you get to go home for Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Years?







Also, very random question and I doubt anyone will know.... Anyone ride horses? any boarding barns near Quantico that would be relatively easy to go to after classes?

My husband was told in his spouse interview that we get 40hrs paid leave to move after graduation. So one week. Which confirmed all info I had received prior. I’m set for Q next month.

I was stressing a bit about the law portion as well and did some looking into books on study and learning more generally. I just read a book called "How We Learn" by Benedict Carey that was a pretty accessible read and talks about effective study habits (and myths about study habits) that I think will be as helpful as anything else.