![Midshipman reading at watch station](images/homepage/watchstation.jpg)
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
— William Carlos Williams
![Midshipmen walking across the Yard](images/homepage/midswalking.jpg)
![Scene from Masqueraders' production of 'The Belle's Stratagem'](images/homepage/labelle.jpg)
"Sometimes there are going to be problems that equations won't be able to solve."
— 1/C Midshipman
![Marine wearing T-shirt with slogan 'Metaphors be with you;' background is a row of tanks](images/homepage/metaphors.jpg)
![Midshipman on Great Wall in China in English Department T-shirt](images/homepage/grtwall.jpg)
![Midshipmen in ballet pose with T-shirts that read 'English majors make novel lovers'](images/homepage/ballet.jpg)
![Prof in English Department T-shirt, dwarfed by a mock tin of Vermont maple syrup](images/homepage/syrup.jpg)
"English lets you think outside the box and not get in trouble for it."
— 3/C Midshipman
English Department
United States Naval Academy
107 Maryland Avenue
Annapolis, Maryland 21402-5044
Phone (410) 293-6200
Fax (410) 293-4372
Yard Mail Stop 12B