Wed Dec 6th

The past few days have gone by very quickly. Classes are now in full swing and they are keeping us very busy. Between going to class, having section meetings (they have us split up into 6 different sections), and committee meetings, I sometimes only have a few minutes for lunch.

On Tuesday evening, I had to attend a mandatory movie for my Media class. It wasn't too bad for an assignment. The classes that I am taking here at the FBI academy are:
- Leadership, Ethics, and Decision Making
- Contemporary issues in Police and Media Relations
- Terrorism: Mindset, methodologies, and government response
- Interviewing strategies through statement analysis
- Managing Death Investigations
- Fitness for Law Enforcement

The Terrorism class is a graduate level course, the others are all undergrad. I don't think I've taken that many college courses since my first few semesters as a teen.

I have been working on my homework quite a bit and try to keep up on my reading assignments. On Wednesdays, we don't have class, but they reserve the day for our Challenge Run as well as other meetings and events. Tonight we have an event with a lot of the new FBI agents going through their academy. They will have the opportunity to meet some of the officers from the states where they will be assigned. I found out that the FBI agents going into the academy do not even know where they will be assigned until about the 6th week or the 22 week academy. They leave their family to come out here, not even knowing where they will be at the end.....tough situation.

I mentioned our Challenge Run. Every Wednesday, all 270+ National Academy students gather to run ever increasing distances. Today was only 1.5 miles, but some of the guys were really stressing about it. It really wasn't hard at all. Next week it goes up to 2.something and by the end it will be over 6 miles. I'm not too worried since I went for a 9 mile run just the other day and it wasn't too bad.

The fitness class is challenging and they make us really push ourselves in a variety of ways. I definately have a lot of sore muscles.