"I was inspired to join because I wanted to serve my
country but not on the front line. I knew I wanted to be a nurse even going
into high school but I had no idea that ultimately I would be doing my job
through the US Army. Looking back, I would have laughed if someone told me I
would be an army nurse but now I am so excited about my future. Being an ROTC Cadet
is time consuming but doable, especially because all we do motivates you and
encourages you to be a better person overall. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday we
have physical training, PT, from 06:30-07:30. PT is different every morning,
some days we have track work outs some days we go on long runs. Tuesday, I have
my military science class and it meets once a week. We talk about the army
values, learn ranks, and basics that we will need to know.
"Wednesdays we have Lab that consists of planned
lessons, the ms1s and 2s are led by the ms3s and 4s. I’m an ms1 and seniors are
ms4s. We learn tactical hands on stuff in lab that we can't learn in our
individual classes. As you go up in MS classes, you gain leadership skills and
are expected to show initiative and take care of the younger cadets and show
them the ropes. I will graduate with a major in nursing and minor in military
science because of the military classes I take over these four years.
"It is kind of
crazy because I came in my first semester not sure if I wanted to go the army
route but I showed up to all the PT's went to class and started to succeed, I'm
actually number one on the OML which is the list of all the MS1 cadets. We all
compete against each other for contracts/ scholarships, and I recently received
a three-year scholarship. It was very unexpected and I was elated to earn it
because as a nursing cadet I compete with the nation of nurses and not for what
my fellow FSU cadets are competing for."
