Zoomie To Be: How to Win an Appointment to the Air Force Academy

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What a nice surprise!  I didn’t know anything about this until I received my notification. 
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Here in the South, where I am currently located, we have been rewarded with snow both the day after Christmas and last week. 
As I watched the snow fall all day on Monday, a question crossed my mind.  How many inches of rain are in an inch of snow?

Happy New Year!
I hope that you have an enjoyable Holiday Season, and I hope that 2011 is your best year ever!
Are you making any resolutions for the New Year? No matter what your answer is to this question, I wanted to give you a couple of things that you can take action upon during the New Year, […]

As you work your way though the Air Force Academy’s admissions process and as you work your way through high school, there is going to be one resource that you will have a limited amount of.
No matter what your academic or economic background, you will have a finite amount of time allotted to you to […]

I’m currently reading Samuel Adams: A Life, by Ira Stoll.  The biography of one of America’s Founding Fathers chronicles the role that Samuel Adams played in declaring America’s independence from Britain and the leadership role that he played during the Revolutionary War and the post-war period that followed. 
Although I’ve just started the book, it reminds […]

In the previous post titled “Determinig your Acts of Initiative- Part III” we looked at developing your leadership ability through being willing to increase your flexibility when faced or requested to do an univiting task in answer to Question #4. , which is part of a discussion on increasing your odds of winning admission to […]

In the previous post titled “Determinig your Acts of Initiative- Part II” we looked at developing your leadership ability through volunteering to take on additional leadership and administrative responsibilities in answer to Question #3, which is part of a discussion on increasing your odds of winning admission to the Air Force Academy by increasing your […]

In the previous post titled “Determining your Acts of Initiative,” I asked you a series of 5 questions to help you to discover 5 acts of initiative that you have taken within the past year.  I’ve shared with you the thoughts on why your answers to Questions #1 and #2 are acts of initiative.
If you […]

Okay, so if you are reading this post, I guess that you had a little bit of trouble coming up with 5 acts of initiative that you have taken within the past year.  So let me ask you a few questions to prompt you….
 

In a previous post entitled “Have you been exercising initiative lately?” I wrote about how it was crucial to develop your ability to take initiative in order to develop your leadership abilities.  The Air Force Academy admissions department is looking for those who are consistently working to improve their leadership abilities. 
 Notice that I have the […]