I was one of the first people to check in and I think it made my day a LOT better. The indoc staff knows that the going advice on AW's is to show up around 1000 and that is who they hit the hardest for my class. It really doesn't matter when you get there, as long as it is before the NLT time. We even had one guy show up really late and while he did NOT have a good time his first couple of days, he still made it through with the class. Don't try and minimize the pain; it will happen, it will end, you will get through it and it may even make you stronger/smarter.