It’s Thursday night, and we’ve only got two full days left in Buzzards Bay before casting off lines and heading south.  We’re doing very well in preparations for departure, with only a couple of major things left on the to-do list.  On-load was finished today, with the arrival of 200 gallons of milk.  We’re now …

I’m laying in my rack as I write this, after a long, exhausting day.  I got lucky with my rack assignment, and am at the end of one of the upper holds, in an area with a lot of space in the aisle (a very rare commodity on board), and I’m on the bottom.  As …

We’re now officially less than 12 hours away from the start of Sea Term 2009.  At this time tomorrow morning, the freshmen will be checking in and starting their first briefing of Sea Term in Admirals Hall.  A few hours after that, the ship will be alive with cadets moving in and starting the immense …

I’m writing this during a quick break I’m taking from packing my bags.  I’ll be leaving my house early in the morning (0630) to drive from Annapolis, MD up to Buzzards Bay, picking my car up in Connecticut.  I’ll stay with my grandfather tomorrow night, and then Monday morning I will join the 500 other …

I’ve been hearing concerns about how to sign up for SeaWave, mainly regarding credit cards.  In order to sign up for SeaWave, you do need a credit card so that usage can be billed.  This information is necessary during registration to complete the process.  If your cadet will be using the credit card of a …

I received an e-mail from Skid Schermerhorn with a map of the route for this year’s voyage: Hopefully this provides a better sense of both the areas we’ll be transiting, as well as the distance we’ll be covering in just 6 or 7 weeks.  I’m also interested to see how closely our actual path follows …

I received a Skribit suggestion that I talk about cadets bringing laptops on cruise.  Not only can cadets bring their laptops, but I would highly encourage it. In the evenings on cruise we have plenty of down time, and having a laptop provides plenty of entertainment opportunities.  Almost everyone brings DVDs as well as movies …

One of the biggest issues on cruise last year was communications.  While we’re at sea, we have very limited contact with the rest of the world.  We have an e-mail system that connects a few times a day to send and receive e-mails held in the queue, called SeaWave.  And that’s it.  No Internet, no …

Well, we’re almost halfway through finals week, and only a few weeks away from Sea Term 2009.  In keeping with last year, I’ll be blogging during the voyage about the trip, keeping friends & family of Sea Term cadets up-to-date.  This year, however, I have the benefit of knowledge and experience from last year’s Sea …

This week marks the beginning of the end for fall semester.  Today is the first day of final exams, bringing mixed emotions to campus.  Certainly everyone’s excited that in a mere 5 days we’ll be leaving to go home for the holidays with school totally out of mind (for those of us not going on …