DLI has a lot of RNG involved.Ĭar was shipped for my overseas PCSs only.Īirmen who desire and meet eligibility requirements are authorized to reside off post. Your experience may be wildly different from mine. That's why I refused to go, and never went my entire time there.īut I always had my performance to back that refusal up, and they couldn't mandate I go because of it. Oh, once you go to study hall once, they expect it from you from then on, in an exponentially increasing fashion. Then you will have evenings full of peace and relaxation. My advice, do well enough and continue to do well enough to NEVER have to go to study hall. Largely unhelpful, some students started to do worse because it was leeching literally hours of potential study time every night, and there were long lines and sometimes angry and belligerent instructors there. At least it was for the Chinese schoolhouse. My classmates who started to slip in GPA were mandated by teachers to go there as part of their teaching plan. I didn't need it because my grades and knowledge was fine without it. The key for me, was to NEVER go to study hall in the evening. If you have a talent or something for your language and can manage to knock out everything during the day, you hypothetically could have free time at home with the wife and kiddo. Part of that was my experience living off base whilst married and how that went.Ĭlick to expand.Hm, that was before I had kids. I know I've written a substantial story about my DLI experience and stuff in another thread. I'd wake up the next day, drive to the parking lot, and take the bus down so I could review flashcards for that morning's quiz on the way. Then it was glorious sleep, with lots of fans and white noise. Right before bed, I'd go through my flashcards again until I had them down, which was usually about 20 minutes. I took melatonin every night during my time at DLI and made sure I got 8 hours every night at least. We'd watch shows, play video games, eat dinner, go for a walk, then it was bed time. Once I was there, it was PLAY time, which was the only thing that would keep me sane and allow my brain to decompress and actually retain all I learned. During PT, I'd think about all the crap we learned that day and reviewed it in my head. After school was out, I'd study my flashcards I made for that night's vocab words on the Dianhua app on my iPod. I'd do all my homework during the day during any breaks I had. So, my method was to bust my ass before class, in class, during breaks, during lunch. That, and I think I scored big time with Chinese, because I'm good at pictures, like a caveman. Video games played a major part in my 4.0 throughout DLI and my 3/3. Part of that was my experience living off base whilst married and how that went. You're away from the shenanigans of the dorms.Ĭlick to expand.I know I've written a substantial story about my DLI experience and stuff in another thread. So, you need a car, and you put in some hours with school and formations and PT, but other than that, your time is your time. The main issues will be what size place do you need, and can you find that size place with the BAH (money they give you to rent a place). Personally, that's what I did, and it worked out really well for me. So 'off base' housing is not living in military affiliated housing, and simply finding an apartment in Monterey somewhere. The actual 'base housing' is up the road maybe 8 miles or so at a location called (or at least was called ) Presidio of Monterey Annex (used to be Fort Ord). Not his fault, it's not his job to know everything, and the linguist corner of the world is a dark and mostly forgotten corner anyway.ĭLI is the name of the school, the name of the base is The Presidio of Monterey, there is 'base housing' on the actual base, but not much of it, and at least when I was there, none of it was open to students with families. Your recruiter most likely will no next to nothing about anything linguist related.
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