Just graduated! :)

[cire]

Originally Posted by kgervais

I've asked this before but I'm kinda confused because of the different answers I'm hearing but how long are the showers? About how long for each individual under the shower head? About how long is the process for the entire division?

If you want to know what it CAN be like.. at 6am, just into a freezing cold shower. Shower as fast as you can. Get out. Dry. Then come back in after you are dressed and dry down the entire shower with a towel.

You get to shower. You will not be in there long and you will get to use your own shower head - probably. Boot camp isn't day spa. If you have some homophobia about showering with 30 some naked people of the same sex, then grow up.

[kgervais]

I was just asking to know how much to cut down on my current showers now as practice. I read somewhere that they got 10 minutes to shower each and that seemed excessive. No homophobia intended...

[kgervais]

How is Corpsman school btw? The barracks and whatnot.

[holliann7]

Originally Posted by kgervais

How is Corpsman school btw? The barracks and whatnot.

It's interesting! The barracks are so nice. It's a high end dorm room really. Walk in closet, desk, one bathroom per room, two sinks. My room gets inspected randomly though.

[cire]

Originally Posted by kgervais

I was just asking to know how much to cut down on my current showers now as practice. I read somewhere that they got 10 minutes to shower each and that seemed excessive. No homophobia intended...

Like I said.. practice taking ice cold showers. You will be in and out as fast as you can. Trust me. You don't need to practice for it really, it will come naturally

[sweetmtn]

Moving this thread to the proper forum....

[FutureND]

It blows my mind how anyone would need to practice showering, or even getting used to a short/cold one for that matter. We are all adults and we do what needs to be done. RTC is designed to be a shock to the system and to break you down, it is unrealistic to think you can simulate life there at home.

[cire]

Originally Posted by FutureND

It blows my mind how anyone would need to practice showering, or even getting used to a short/cold one for that matter. We are all adults and we do what needs to be done. RTC is designed to be a shock to the system and to break you down, it is unrealistic to think you can simulate life there at home.

You don't need to. They were asking about showers. Maybe some people are used to really nice luxury 30 minute hot showers or something. If you want to make the "transition" to boot camp showers easier, get used to freezing cold showers right when you wake up. They might or might not happen in boot camp, but it probably will at some point.

In the end, it's just a shower.. you don't need to over analyze things.

[Auridan]

Originally Posted by FutureND

RTC is designed to be a shock to the system

Which means that the fewer ways in which you can be shocked (having to take a blazing fast, freezing cold shower, for instance), the more energy you'll have to handle the shocks you can't so easily anticipate. It's just like getting used to waking up at a set time, shaving, doing tons of PT, listening carefully with your mouth shut, and (for those of us who've been out of school a while) remembering how to take legible notes in a classroom lecture.

And frankly, some of us are just BORED with 6 months to twiddle our thumbs, and need some variety in our DEP lives.

[kgervais]

Originally Posted by Auridan

Which means that the fewer ways in which you can be shocked (having to take a blazing fast, freezing cold shower, for instance), the more energy you'll have to handle the shocks you can't so easily anticipate. It's just like getting used to waking up at a set time, shaving, doing tons of PT, listening carefully with your mouth shut, and (for those of us who've been out of school a while) remembering how to take legible notes in a classroom lecture.

And frankly, some of us are just BORED with 6 months to twiddle our thumbs, and need some variety in our DEP lives.

Exactly this in its entirety. The people who have gone through it before must have forgotten about the pre-RTC anxiety and this 6 month waiting period. Ideally, the less shock to the system the better as told by all the recruiters in my office.

[holliann7]

Originally Posted by kgervais

I was just asking to know how much to cut down on my current showers now as practice. I read somewhere that they got 10 minutes to shower each and that seemed excessive. No homophobia intended...

Honestly, do the opposite. Take really nice long showers up until you leave. Cherish it, lol! The showers are really not that bad. You get used to it. It honestly helped me gain better habits. Before boot camp, I used to shower for 45 minutes to an hour. I would just sit in the hot water and waste a lot of time. Now I only shower for 10 minutes at most. It helped me learn time management.

And plus, those showers are so crowded and uncomfortable that 3 or 5 minutes to shower is plenty of time. I found myself just wanting to get out and get dressed as quickly as I could.