First Year Orientation Period
Video / February 13 , 2024
Transcript
We just started! There's four more weeks!
How are you feeling right now?
Pretty rough.
If there's no pain, there's no gain.
And I’m going crazy. There's way too many bags everywhere.
First Year Orientation Period (FYOP)
Starts when you arrive.
Ends after 4 weeks.
We're grabbing our bags and moving them to our residence.
I hope we can make the 30-minute timing.
Again.
Down!
Ready for inspection, Miss Lee.
Awaiting inspection, Miss Drew.
Nice work.
Yeah, I said it with Mr. Gonzola. I wasn't sure if I should say it with you.
(OCdt Mackenzie Nauss) Everything at the college kind of has an intent. We are communicating that a lot this year, so if ever you don't understand anything, please ask us.
(OCdt Mackenzie Nauss) You learn a lot about yourself during FYOP in probably the best way possible. Keeping it as regimented as it is, it really helps you with that problem-solving aspect and that leadership aspect and also, it's geared towards our success at the college.
Can you tell me when, what year Fort Sauvé was built?
Fort Sauvé was built: 2001.
Carry-on!
Wake up!
(OCdt Bianca Pacchiano) Before you have woken up, you have to run to your PT and then you have to do PT.
(OCdt Mackenzie Nauss) Your time is super regimented. You're super limited in what you can do.
(OCdt Bianca Pacchiano) Like, the two minutes to get upstairs, three minutes to fill your canteens, impossible timings they love to give you.
(OCdt Mackenzie Nauss) Phone time, there's none of that. You can't just wander around, you have to march. Things like that.
(OCdt Bianca Pacchiano) The marching around all the time; can't do anything else but march. That can get annoying at times. Like, end of the day, you're tired.
(OCdt Mackenzie Nauss) It really just helps first years learn how to be the leaders that they want to be and be good leaders.
We're getting you ready from a fitness perspective. We're getting you ready to figure out your time schedule and how to organize your time for when school starts.
(OCdt William Lee) FYOP from the cadet side. There's confusion, disorganization, and chaos, but the biggest thing is working together as a team and that’s where you establish that bond, that trust, that communication and it's all about knowing your fellow cadet, working together as a team to come together as a cohesive unit.
(OCdt Ethan Kearney) I think the mood among us cadets, obviously at the start, is a shock.
One section, Alpha Phi, 16 hours 19, officer and naval cadet waiting to eat.
(OCdt William Lee) Is everyone standardized?
(OCdt Ethan Kearney) It's something completely new we haven't been experienced to. You're kind of just thrown into this atmosphere, but as the weeks go on, we slowly start to get used to the routine, you know, the early mornings, not knowing what’s going on, the inspections.
Officer Cadet Elliot 31121, Papa Flight. Awaiting your inspection, ma'am.
Awaiting inspection, ma'am.
Excellent.
So, there's lint on both of their shirts and the frogs are pointing in different directions.
You've got a thread behind your first button.
(OCdt Ethan Kearney) I think what the staff is looking for in us as first years is to show that drive, to show that care that we want to be here.
One, two, three, one.
Quick march.
Left, right, left.
(OCdt Ethan Kearney) I know my staff a lot of times asks, do you really want to be here? And, obviously, my answer was always, yes, I do want to be here.
Right now, the FYOP? Lack of sleep.
(OCdt Bianca Pacchiano) First week because it was so stressful, I had a little bit of a breakdown. And my staff saw that and they all pulled me aside, they were like, how can we help you? They were amazing. They wanted us to, like, know our limits, but also still be okay.
(OCdt Ethan Kearney) I thought it was pretty cool, like, it got you actually pretty fired up for the obstacle course.
(OCdt Bianca Pacchiano) I did start crying. I had the biggest smile on my face. We finished FYOP, we did it and I was just crying because it was over. That -- That sadness of it leaving, that was rough, but when we got that coin, I looked at it and I was like, I actually did this. Like, there's not many people who can say that and I'm proud to be one of them.
(OCdt Ethan Kearney) For me, it was probably the hardest four weeks I've ever done in my life, so finally realizing and getting that recognition of that cap badge, that nice little piece of silver, it's like a deep breath. You're relieved, you feel that weight off of your back and for me, I felt so accomplished. I felt proud of myself as well at the same time.
(OCdt Bianca Pacchiano) Like, you get proud, you get excited to say that you go to RMC and putting it on, I just -- I had a smile on my face after.
(OCdt Ethan Kearney) To realize that you've done it, you finally accomplished it, it's awesome.
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