Here's your motivational picture of the day:

Because that should be enough to motivate any red-blooded American.

It was a great day, as always. I got 11 hours of sleep last night, which is arguably the best thing that has happened to me all year. I FELT GREAT TODAY!!!!!!  I was able to focus in class and get stuff done, which is all I'm up here to do anyways.

Another piece of good news today on the Navy side of things:
We got briefed that those Midshipmen that place into the top 10% of the warfare community (aviation, submarines, SEALs, etc) that they want are SAFE... meaning the Navy will give them their desired job. In addition, those Midshipmen that wanted aviation and scored an 8 or 9 on the ASTB (Aviation Selection Test Battery) all got aviation. So as long as I score well on the ASTB and don't screw things up I'm set for aviation, it seems.  WOOHOO!

Also, evidently Yale has a flight simulator that we can use to practice with. Once again, WOOHOO!

I have a 5 page paper, a 13 page paper, a 7 page paper and a calc midterm due next week. The good thing is that I can write papers extremely quickly. And calculus isn't my worry at the moment.

Every time I look at the picture above, I get motivated. I sure hope I'm not the only one that gets motivated by that picture.

God Bless America.