Virginia Military Institute - Bomb Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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!PP mam • Diversity Molds The Man All throughout ones cadetship a cadet is exposed to many new experiences. Most of these experiences are positive and have a lasting effect for the rest of ones life. As with anything though one is bound to experience some bad times. VMI is no different and with this in mind one is ready to look into how cadets live and what they are exposed to in their daily existences. The Cadet Life section shows various experiences that cadets live through during the academic year. From the New Market Day ceremonies to intramurals to confinement all these events help mold the VMI man into what he is; The Citizen Soldier. Cadets usually complain about many things that happen around VMI. This is their right. One cannot expect men to live in such a closed environment and not find fault with many things around them. But, for the most part cadets are content to live with and enforce the system that is in place. The cadet in his daily routine goes through more in one day than most normal college students go through in an entire week. That is what the VMI challenge is all about. : I In the following section the daily experi- ences of the cadet are laid out for all to see. Also included are the not so usual , ' experiences that VMI opens to the cadets. I ■ -. . • ' ' ■ Some of the daily experiences are confine- ' ' ' ' ' -| ,. -: ment, Rat Training, Intramurals, forma- ■ .y tions, parades, classes and homework. ' ' « j »y .; , These daily experiences serve to develop in ; ' ' • ,??■- - ' . the cadet a certain sense of responsibility .»ft. « r and sense of duty. All of this serves to help train the future military leaders and the future civilian leaders that our great na- tion so desperately needs. However, there are a full range of new experiences that broaden the horizons of the cadet. These serve to give the cadet an open mind to new ideas and thought. I Each day in the life of a cadet is never the same, cadets are always exposed to . new things. M