Study abroad application results finally came through yesterday, and I ended up getting accepted to the London School of Economics and also to Cambridge University. I'm going to go to Cambridge and study financial markets, and it'll be from late June to late August. The other good thing? My girlfriend happens to be attending the same program at Cambridge also. Now I just hope my Commanding Officer signs the waiver for summer training deployment. If he doesn't I'll only be home for about a week all summer. I'd leave mid-May for deployment to the Pacific, come back late June, and then two days later take off for England until August 24th...two days before classes at Yale start again. I'd rather just not go on training deployment this summer.

This is my midterms week, and I haven't really been stressed at all. I did my econ midterm today, and I've calculus tomorrow. Along with that, navigation's midterm is Friday morning.

Today during our midterm review, the LT asked me four consecutive questions, and to each one I responded "I'll find out, Sir." After successfully evading having to answer four questions, he finally asked me "Midshipman Sellers, do you know any of the material for this midterm?" I just responded "Well Sir, I plan on learning everything Thursday night and Friday morning right before the midterm so I can use this time to study for calculus." He just laughed and shook his head and wished me luck learning everything in one night. Haha, he did tell us to focus on studying for Yale courses instead of using our time up on navigation since we don't get credit for navigation. It's strictly memorization anyways, since the only thing I have to learn that I don't already know is the US Coast Guard's Rules of the Road COLREGS. It's easy stuff like light configurations for nighttime navigation, sound signals, dayshapes for different ships and restricted visibility operations.

Less than 16 days until Spring Break 2014.