May 2nd - May 11th

Finals week passed by in the same way as it had many times before. Pretty uneventful and finals went ok. Busted my hump for my thermodynamics and steam propulsion test. Hardest test I have ever taken but I passed it, which was enormously pleasing.

Since they decided to give me a Zero Block cruise, I only got a few days of intercessional leave before I had to be back at school. Any other year I would have been very pleased to get Zero Block since it would mean that I would get about an extra four weeks of leave. This happens because almost no one has more than the mandated two training blocks. Well since I wanted to get Leatherneck and they didnt give it to me, I asked to do a Block Zero MAGTF so that I could show my service selection board that I tried to do Leatherneck. That would have been fine, but then someone in my company decided to drop their Leatherneck slot and give it to me. That would have been great, but the ProDev (Professional Development) Department told me that I could not drop my MAGTF cruise. When I brought up the fact that I would be missing my own Ring Dance they basically told me 'tough luck' by saying that Ring Dance wasnt a good enough reason to drop AN ADDITIONAL training block.