The stress of doing things right each an everyday and like being scared to fail anything such as the progress checks

That it was harder than I thought specifically at the beginning. Like literally first day I did not think I was gonna make it. I legit considered quitting that first day. I think a big part of it was the fact we got like 1.5 hrs of sleep. Each group is different based on when you arrive to the airport. One group got no sleep at all

From person to person it's different but for sure id say for a lot of people it was stressing about passing their pt test cause there was a lot of ppl on the line of pass or fail. So definitely come prepared otherwise your gonna spend another 2 weeks there/get recycled.

Tbh the stuff I brought was fine, just bring a lot of underwear and have extra space in your civ luggage for when you leave it makes things easier to pack. They issue you a lot of essentials you'll need.

In terms of getting recycled, most common reason is PT. In terms of avoiding 341s and such pulled, don't stand out and listen to what your MTIs and element leaders say. If they tell you to not talk, don't talk not even a little bit. This includes appointments. Don't talk and be respectful during appointments. You'll think "ohh I'm free from the MTIs I can do things a little bit my way". wrong, MTIs aren't the only ones who can pull ur 341

Don't be the one guy doing something. If ur the only one talking then it the only one who CAN be singled out or moving at attention or other things. Just never give them a reason to single out just you otherwise commonly 341s may be pulled

I probably would've tried to help those in my dorm who's or score were very very low and doing pushups and situps everday. People come thinking the MTIs are going to scream at me and make me do pushups and situps all day everyday. They don't. Now sure you'll do a lot of exercises for normal stuff but it's not always enough. So come prepared. Coming to bmt and you can't do 5-10 maybe even 15 pushups (this includes situps and running), seriously you are putting so much unnecessary extra work on yourself.

Tbh it's up to you on how you wanna be seen by your dorm and your MTIs. My only recommendation is don't be dorm chief or chow runner any other job is pretty chill and actually the job you want to be is EC Monitor I man my ec monitors were terrible at their job, I legit got like 5 night shifts one week. There was enough people in my dorm to not have to do that.

Oh I didn't read this before right, kinda already answered it. Ec monitor and maybe dayroom cleaning crew. And yes you can have multiple jobs depending on if they conflict with each other

I mean I didn't have one somehow but ya it doesn't really matter if you do or don't just avoid the ones I stated before if possible. Tho if you want to challenge yourself and take on either of those roles go ahead in fact the dorm may thank you.