Originally Posted by: Dispatch 
Few low priority questions if you have time.
1. Was PT in the morning M/W/F and was it usually just circuit training? Just curious, currently work nights and will have to learn to switch my schedule around pretty quick, was going to start doing things different if that was what previous classes experienced.
2. I’ve read about the food situation, but what about stuff like Coffee? I read previously you can’t have a coffee maker in your room, but I’m assuming they would serve it during meals? Can’t be the only one with a crippling coffee addiction.
3. Were you able to bring a laptop or a iPad / should you bring one to do work?
4. What service for the cell phone do you have? You mentioned it’s spotty. I posted in another thread that I have AT&T because its the only thing that works were I live now, but would switch to whatever if it works down there.
Thanks
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.