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So, its been awhile since my last post.. mostly due to the fact that i have spent quite a bit of my time trying to get ahead here. I made a decision while i was on T-Track that i wanted to put in for an officer package. What does that mean? That means i basically want to transfer from enlisted to officer. I plan on doing this via the STA-21 program (https://www.sta-21.navy.mil/).  As for the officer community i want to apply for i was thinking Intelligence or Nuclear field. While Intelligence is the community i would like most to be in, I have a far better chance of getting accepted into the Nuclear field. If you would like to know anything more about my STA-21 route please just ask away.

So anyway where have i been? I dedicated more of my time to studies, I spend on average 30hrs in the building, and if theres a holiday.. even more. As for the upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday, i have volunteered to stand watch as well as put in extra hours just so i can have some quite time to myself to get ahead in my studies.

Anyway on to a different subject, I finally got my replacement LED tube for my car… it only took StreetGlow 2Months to get it to me… unfortunately now i dont have the time to get it put on, sooo who knows when it will get done. As for those of you who joined our makeshift ‘car club’ the logos are now done, and i have them, so if you are waiting to get one on your car, just stop by or let me know and ill get you one.

And as always its getting late, so im off to bed, im hoping that i will get a chacne to write some more this weekend.

P.S. Ill be coming home for Christmas (Dec 20 – Jan 2)

I finally bought it… my new toy..

I havent driven it a whole lot, but it definately has more power than my old civic.  If you would like to see some more pics of if click here SCION PICS

So, as im sure you have noticed its been quite awhile since i have written any posts…. mainly because for awhile there my GPA was dropping…. i went from a 3.25 to a 2.77 GPA… LONG! Story, but to make it short, i ran into a speed bump with a couple of concepts…. By the way, has anyone ever told you how ridiculous learning “ideal” vs “real” OPAMPS are? If not, ideally no current flows through an Opamp, however in actuality there is current… but when you do your calculations you dont account for it… wait, what? we are calcualating for how something works not using the numbers that are ACTUALLY there? whatever… move on… so after i got over “simple” understandings like that, i managed to bring my GPA back up to 3.01 Still not good enough… (A school mandatory hours, have me on 20-3, meaning, i had no life) BUT now im on 15-2 BARELY as 3.0 is the cut off… Cutoff when Vce is at MAX and Ic is as MIN.. wait no no i didnt mean to give the electical definition of Transistor cut off… but you spend so many hours swimming in electrical concepts eventually every thing you think of relates back to class..

Anyway, after a long day, i started reading my favorite comic again, Ctrl-Alt-Del Online, and if youre not a nerd dont start… but if you are, you might wanna start from the beginning and read your way all the way through you might find it to be a good stress reliever.

Speaking of stress relievers… isnt exercise supposed to relieve stress?? whoever said that LIED! since it gets too hot to PT in the afternoon, we now have to do it in the morning, so for those of you who dont know i get up at 4am and start my studying by 5-520ish, however that doesnt seem to be  the case on days we have PT, nope instead the entire class has to be on the field by 0550, and then we have to go do whatever (running, play a sport, work out) the APO (Athletic Petty Officer) decides. After thats all done, which is usually around 645, wwe have to be showered, shaved, and dressed by 0720… no problem really Navy made us do it in 10 in boot camp. But what is hard, is on top of that you are supposed to be reviewing yesterdays topic AND going over todays topic before its covered so you have seen it, and it is fresh in your mind before the classes begin…. anyway its 2200 (10pm for you mom)  so i should go to bed.

theres been a slight update to my address, still the same place, but i  now have a permanent class… so here is my new address….

UPDATED: March 20 2008

FN Wagner, Branden C
Class 0826 M
Naval Nuclear Power Training Command
101 NNPTC Circle
Goose Creek, SC 29445

For those of you who dont know. I am stationed at NNPTC (Naval Nuclear Power Training Command) and i am awaiting to start school. Good news, it looks i will be starting school next week. which means i will start the indoctrination briefs this week. so far i have gone to patriots point, which is basically where we take a tour of a WWII Submarine (USS Clamagore) and a WWII carrier (USS Yorktown). its interesting becuase alot of it is, as we are told, very similiar to todays ships/subs, so  really it was kind of like an introduction to what our lives will be like on ship and where we will be staying and such. I recommend to all of you that are out there, if you are ever in South Carolina you go to Patriots Point.

But back to my point… school will be starting soon, i am excited however those around me, who have already started are telling me 1 of 2 things either how miserable they are or how much fun it is- its interesting from what ive been able to look at, is those who have either not attended college or who have poor study habits, are the ones who are miserable. and those who have good study habits and/or attend college find this to be both fun, and easier than college.

 For my self, i have terrible study habits and i know i do, but that will be changing (as the Navy pays me to study- thats right suckers i get paid to go to class and paid to study. you have to go to school, then go to work. HAHA). i do however have college experience and am used to a fast paced learning environment. so i am excited to see how things will work out.

As of 4pm today I now belong to the US Navy for the next 6 years. Boot camp is 9 weeks long so i should be home sometime soon after that. If you want my address check back here in about a week. Stacey will be posting updates on my blog for me while I am gone. So if you have any questions she is the one to direct them too.

p.s. Branden wants me to post letters on here that have updates about what and how he is doing so if you have any letters you want posted here for others to read just let me know and i will post them.