Hey everyone! My name is Taylor and this is my not so safe for work diary of my life as a cadet at a Senior Military College. I apologize if this starts a little slow, but I need to get a few things out of the way before we can "skip to the good part" (;
First of all, this is a diary of an actual girl (me!) And her actual experiences navigating dating and having a sex life in one of the most restrictive College environments in the country. I'm by no means a porn star, nor the fantasy girl who goes from meeting a boy to all night anal orgy whatevers in just 1 night. That's not a thing....that's good selling porn lol. If that's what you're looking for, this isn't the story for you and that's okay. But, if you'd like a peak behind the curtain and read about one girl's experience navigating this complex work of Military College life, then cum on and follow me, it'll probably be quirky and occasionally nerdy, but you may even enjoy the read!
First and foremost, no I won't be sharing photos of myself, for the obvious reason that I'll be detailing how I continue to break school rules that could lead to severe suspensions and effect my life outside of reddit. But I promise to try to be as descriptive as possible! If I leave out a detail that you'd like me to describe, let me know and I'll be happy to share! Secondly, I will not be naming my college explicitly to avoid my story popping up when someone searches my school name in reddit. It's a small, Senior Military College nestled in the Blue Ridge, there are no civilian students at my college, and our mascot is a kangaroo. If you can't figure out where I go from that, Google harder.
So here we go! Like I said, my name is Taylor and I'm 20 years old, getting ready to start my junior (2nd Class) year at one of the Country's 6 Senior Military Colleges. I run cross country and track for my college and am studying to be a civil engineer. I have no aspirations of joining thr Military, which is a common thing here. What differentiates us from an academy like West Point or Annapolis is the fact that although we all lead the military college lifestyle, only about half of the student body at a Senior Military College will actually join the military at graduation. For me, this journey has been an opportunity to continue to run at the collegiate level, pursue a unique college experience in a highly sought after civil engineering program, with a tremendously supportive alumni network to help me pursue a career as a civil engineer in USACE. I'm 5'4 and about 120lbs. I've got a slender build and running has toned my body. I've got thick curly brown hair that I keep just below my shoulders and when I'm not at practice wearing contacts, I tend to go for my favorite black oval frame glasses.
My journey started on a hot day in early August when I reported to Post (campus) for athletes early report period...roughly 2 weeks before the start of the 9 day indoctrination period that kicks off freshman year that is a crash course in military life at the college, and sets the foundation for the rest of the training we experience along side college classes the first semester plus a few weeks of freshman year. I was met by my assistant coach at the front of an impossibly large stone barracks overlooking a massive green oval parade field. Coach Matt guided my parents and I through one of the 4 wide archways that are the only breaks in the rows of widowed rooms, stacked 4 floors high resembling a castle more than a barracks, with turrets at the corners and towers reaching a 5th floor in impressive towers over the archways.
The archway opens to one of 3 massive open courtyards, with all of the doors facing into the courtyard along wide open air concrete walkways with a metal railing to keep you from falling 4 floors to the grass below. I was met by a cadet dressed in the all white summer class uniform of white pants, short sleeve white button-down shirt with a name tag and grey shoulder boards denoting his standing as a 2nd Classman (junior). He politely welcomed my family and I and consulted a massive list of room assignments before guiding me through an inner arch toward the middle of the 3 courtyards, this one a narrow rectangle vs the wide grassy square of the first, with all stone on the floor and no grass, and a stairway at either end, taking me from landing to landing up to my new home on the 4th floor.
I was pleasantly suprised to find myself assigned to a room in the far corner on the front side, within one of the turrets, adding to the feel that I was living in a castle. I walked through the door, that has a 9-pane window in the top half, with a shade that you pull down only when changing, and faced down the narrow entryway that had a rack for our ceremonial rifles and hooks to hang our towels on, before the room opened up to a small honeycomb shaped space on the turret of the castle-barracks. As I rounded the corner, there was a small sink with glass shelves on the wall to hold our toothbrushes and toothpaste. The bathroom and showers for our floor were on the long wall of the courtyard, between ours and the 3rd barracks area.
There were 3 desks facing eachother with a wooden shelf to hold common supplies along the side of the 2 desks, making a 3 part island in the center of the room. Along 2 of the honeycomb walls were 2 massive wooden wall lockers, with no front on them where we would hang our uniforms and store our clothes in a precisely prescribed manner. In the corner we're 2 wooden cots that we could lay down and spread our mattress over in the evening, but had to be folded against the wall otherwise to allow free movement around the cramped spaces of the small turret room. Rounding out the features of my humble abode were