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PyroPhin
08-02-2003, 22:47
Question for all teams...
what kinda hours do you guys pull?
Our team last year stayed till all all hours between 2 - 7 AM and slept over for several days straight for the 2001 season.
This year, new advisor and new rules.. so we are outta luck.
another question:
do you feel being at Robotics late helps your team? or do you feel that it is better to leave at 9 or so and come back in the morning?
personally, I like to get going on something and stay till it's done. i find stopping and coming back kinda messes up my train of thought, causing me to spend an hour or so trying to figure out what i was doing Plus, it's kinda nice to spend that much time with your team. it gives it that kind of family atnosphere.
Thanks for the input!
~Pyro
galewind
08-02-2003, 22:58
we usually don't go beyond 11pm on saturdays
10am - 11pm
weekdays we do 3 - whenever, but most people leave before 7. A few stragglers stay later (8-10)
Last year we went till about 11-12 oclock, then just called it quits and came back in the morning. This year, we have been meeting about 4 times a week for about 6-7 hours each time. We get most of our work done late at night when there are fewer distractions, but I think it helps to come back in the morning again so that you are fresh and maybe you can approach a problem differently. I also think its good to get out of the shop for a while and visit the real world to remember what things are like out there. But staying late does create a cool environment. Unfortunately, people start losing focus after a while and at that point we all realize that we have homework to do...
Vincent Chan
08-02-2003, 23:04
Jeez. I just realized how little my rookie team works.
We usually work weekdays, 15.45-18.30 or so. Most people leave before 18.00, though. Not much weekend work, but I get the feeling next weekend will be crunch time.
Rob Colatutto
08-02-2003, 23:09
the last weekend is always crunch time. thats why we decided this year to finish a week early, and take the really late nights this weekend, and last weekend, but we have yet to see anytime past 10pm because our advisor always makes us leave early. i can't remember any time he let us get food twice in one day, his favorite line is "you can go to food, but we won't be here when you get back"
Now we only stay to about 8-10 but the day or two before shipoff we normally pull an all nighter with a bunch of trips to dunkin donuts :o (we would go to krispy kreme but it is over an hour drive:mad: )
I encourage students and mentors to devote as much time as possible on the team and the robot.
Mentors who are really involved can expect at least 30 hours a week on the project at a bare minimum.
Students probably spend half that much time in the actual assembly area, but do devote more time to chairmans, animation, and side projects where time is budgeted individually.
We meet four times a week as a group.
The robot team meets everyday from about 2pm to midnight, and Saturday from noon till work stops being productive.
All these times are loose.....most meetings are scheduled but run well past their scheduled times. Most students can't stay too late especially during the week. They understand that we work overnight and often finish projects that they start.....but this just leaves them more to do the next day!
Anthony
Team Advisor -- 857
Yan Wang
08-02-2003, 23:21
We're not stressed at all this year because we follow schedule and get things done on time... very nice compared to previous years.
Weekdays are from 5:30 to 9:00 PM and weekends are from 9:00 AM to 5:00 or 6:00 PM... of course, if things need to be done, we'll be up all night regardless of school in our head engineer's machine shop.
mistresshawk
08-02-2003, 23:36
We're a rookie team, and we just started in January ( that is, we didn't have any pre-season meetings ). Near the beginning we'd leave around 1700-1800ish, but these days we tend to meet ( weekdays )1500 to whenever we finish. Tends to be 2000, but we actually stayed to midnight the other week[ A bit of advice? If you carpool to a seperate site, make sure you don't leave your car someplace that gets locked up ( like a school campus :D ) ] We also meet on Saturdays, from maybe 9 or 10 AM until whenever. We have a tendacy to work in shifts, and a few of us keep blankets and pillows in our cars, and just catnap when needed.
Lots of food runs... there's a Walmart across the street from us, so we're good. :cool:
Redhead Jokes
08-02-2003, 23:45
Originally posted by PyroPhin
what kinda hours do you guys pull?
We were M W F 3:30p-8p, Sat Sun 9a-5p, this week been every week day 3p-8p, Sat Sun 8a-8p.
We'll finally be moving tomorrow.
Specialagentjim
08-02-2003, 23:50
our team does Thursday and saturday meetings, this week we also have a sunday meeting. Thursday is 3 - 4:45, but about 5 of us usually stay till 5:30, 6ish. Saturdays is usually about 8-12:30. These rules no longer apply in the last weeks however ;)
we spend from about 5-9 pm everyday and then 10 am - 10 pm on saturdays and 1-5 on sundays.
RobDeCotiis
08-02-2003, 23:58
you guys stay REAL LATE!!!
we've been staying monday-friday from 2:15 until 5.. and we were working last saturday from 8-12 and this saturday from 8-2:15ish.. somehow we're getting our bot done, too.. amazing.
RobDeCotiis
08-02-2003, 23:59
8-12 and this saturday from 8-2:15ish
that's 8 AM to 12 and 2:15 PM..
George1902
09-02-2003, 00:03
we've been staying 'til 11 or 12 every night.
might pull a few all nighters before we ship... who knows?
Aaron Lussier
09-02-2003, 00:06
Originally posted by PyroPhin
I like to get going on something and stay till it's done.
Man you hit the nail on the head!!!
M-F 5:30-11
Sat- 9AM-12PM
Sun- 11AM-11PM
As its gets closer to ship date, add about three hours to every one of those times, and the Day before shipping is always an all nighter 5:30PM-6:00AM
Originally posted by Specialagentjim
our team does Thursday and saturday meetings, this week we also have a sunday meeting. Thursday is 3 - 4:45, but about 5 of us usually stay till 5:30, 6ish. Saturdays is usually about 8-12:30. These rules no longer apply in the last weeks however ;)
You can't be serious!?!?!?!?
How can you get away with three meetings a week for 2 hours and 30 minutes? How does your bot get done?
Cory
Our meetings this year have been:
M + Th: 2:30 - 6:30
Hopefully we'll be able to work more this next week, but our school is very uptight about letting us in over the weekends when nobody else is there.
Last year, my personal record was 36 hours straight (1pm Friday afternoon until 1am Sunday morning). I had also been at school since 7:15am Friday and didn't finally get to sleep until around 1:30 Sunday morning, which makes for a total of around 43 hours without sleep, most of it with power tools and electricity... :rolleyes:
Gadget470
09-02-2003, 00:28
470:
3:30p - [9:00 - 10:00] M-F
9:00a - [5:00 - 6:00] S
I'm usually there between 4 and 5 because I have a 45-60 min drive out to the build room.
cbernich
09-02-2003, 00:34
I'd have to say we stay a reasonable amount of time working on the robot. The Hours are usually Mon- Thurs 2:05 - 7:30ish maybe later but not by more than an hour, Fri 2:05-till about 5:30. and Saturday 8:30 am Till 3 or 4 pm but now the hours have been substancially longer as the Shipping date approaches. But never the less I enjoy working in the metal shop and on the robot and working with the people I do. It really helps having advisors that relate to the students much like ours and also the sense of caring from everybody including advisors. We've got eachotha's backs yah heard?
Duke 13370
09-02-2003, 00:35
We started up at around 10 AM and finished up at 10 tonight.
We could have pulled an all nighter, there really wasn't much to stop us, but we were all tired (kinda;) )
We're still hard at work now (9:45 p.m. local time)
Chubtoad
09-02-2003, 00:57
first weeks:
Monday, Wednesday + Thurs = 2-6:30
Tuesday: 2-8:30
Friday: 2-10
Saturday + Sunday 2-6
After 3rd week
MWTh: 2-9
Tueday 2-11
Friday: 2-12
Saturday: 10am-11pm
Sunday 10-8
During 5th week and beyond:
All Bets are off!
Last year and in 2000 we pulled an all nighter the night before shipping
There are great pictures of me sleeping next to the finished robot at 9am
Ashley Weed
09-02-2003, 01:31
We have been following a Monday - Thursday 6-9 PM and Saturdays 9AM - 5 PM this year... however, last week.. the three insane people began staying till 11 PM..... from this weekend on ... there will be someone working at all times... I just got home from the shop.. plan on sleeping a couple of hours.. and going back... a couple of us will be moving in about Friday.. and staying till next Tuesday night.
tatsak42
09-02-2003, 01:36
M,T,W,Th,F - 4 -- 10... 11... 12... 1 (not later than that)
Sat - 9 AM - 10..11..12 (today was just 8, actually)
Sunday - nothing yet, but we might......
The Paco
09-02-2003, 01:37
just got home... lol i think itz about 200 er so... but sometimes we stay as late as 4 on the weekends and 1 on weekdays... ya gotta sleep sometime... ahahha... all nighters are a commonplace...
im tired... i need some SLEEP!!! happy roboteering...
Tom Schindler
09-02-2003, 03:18
i just got back to my room.... (3:00 am)....
but you have to remember that 190 plays their games of CRUD on saturday nights, so we probably got out of hte lab around 12:30-1ish
Tom
I got bacl to my room last night at 5:30 PM, at first that doesnt seem that bad but we stared at 3 PM the day before. Other than this one time we tend to not stay that late because the high school students are not alound to.
Francis-134
09-02-2003, 09:50
Holy Cow! :ahh:
You all do quite a bit of work don't you?
My team normally works form 2:30 to maybe 7:00 on Wednesdays and Fridays and 11-4 on weekends!
I now have great respect for all of you who sleep over at school for FIRST!
D.Stephenson
09-02-2003, 10:09
we work from 2 :15 to at latest 6:30 during the week and then 9am to 3 pm on saturday plus some work gets done during the day at times.....
John Bono
09-02-2003, 13:44
Team 990: We have three classes working on it (42 minutes 3 days a week and 85 minutes one day a week each), and the "devoted" of us work an hour or two after school--although me and FAK'll be there for two or three, what with having only 6 of 8 classes. Saturdays a few people show up from 8-noon, although we coulodn't do that this week with our advisor (physics teacher) at a science bowl tournament or something like that. Next weekend, I expect to spend 16 hours there--which is quite a bit for me. I'm really vying for the driver's spot this year, even though I don't know the software well (we find that gamers make the best drivers--and I'm near the best you'll ever see).
Our teachers don't let us stay past 8:30. We've found that half of the team stops working after dinner anyways. Sleepy people do not make the best builders.
Rickertsen2
09-02-2003, 18:41
our mentor only lest our team stay until about 5:00-5:30 on weekdays and not much later on weekdays. We are seriously behind due to these constraints. Hopefully we will be able to work later these last few days.
Not long enough?
We don't stay anywhere near long enough to get work done, we suffer from a severe lack of long range planning and anticipation of our needs, and we're nearly being forced to ship a day early.
All to screw me over, I'd think.
Originally posted by Rickertsen2
our mentor only lest our team stay until about 5:00-5:30 on weekdays and not much later on weekdays.
No, 5:00-5:30 isn't much later than 5:00-5:30.
hixofthehood
09-02-2003, 20:14
Wow yeah....I had no idea everybody stayed that long.
Our meeting schedule is 6:00-8:30 Monday-Thursday
9:00-4:00 Saturday
I'm tired just thinking about 10 to 10.
We work longer if it is just grunt work. If we need to actually do some complicated work (like design, etc.).
PhatalEphekt
09-02-2003, 20:48
Well, usually I am there from 3pm - 9pm. But on weekends and days we have off, I am there from 8am - 9pm. Like a couple of weekends ago, we had a 4 day weekend. 46 hours in 4 days. Dang that was crazy. Got a lot done though.
Scott
Jeff Waegelin
09-02-2003, 21:19
We typically go until about 5:30 until the last two weeks. Then, we add about a half-hour a day (or so it seems). Now, we're goin until about 7:30, but the last few days, we'll probably stay till midnight. We rarely go past then, but we have occasionally.
Our team has been going 5:30-9 on school nights, and 9-5 on Saturdays. We've been getting sundays off from robotics :)
Harrison
10-02-2003, 00:08
Our team has been staying later and later as this thing goes on...but we are getting a lot done...(altho being tired isnt always good when working on machienery....my finger met a ban saw the other day :ahh: ...luckily it only sliced me a little).
But, there is a matress where we're building the bot....so we can take a nap if we really want to (today the bot was pushing the matress and the person on it around on the floor...lol)
Our weekend so far:
Friday: school is closed due to the snowstorm on the east coast, which means we can't get into the shop. No work gets done on the machine. All the parts of the mobility system that were going to arrive at the end of this week cannot be delivered, because the school is closed. Since there are no Saturday deliveries, we won't get our stuff until at least Monday. That four-day delay is going to hurt.
Saturday: Almost the whole team arrives at the shop at the school to start work at 9:00am. During the day we decide that waiting until Monday for those ever-so-special 14-tooth gears is going to put us too far behind, so we re-calculate some of the center-to-center distances in our transmission design, and substitute slightly suboptimal 15-tooth versions that we have on hand. Steven wanders off, new drawings in hand, to the shop to start milling out version 3 of the side plates for the transmission. The school closes at 5:30pm, so six of the students and I pack stuff on over to the shop in my garage, and start work again at 6:00pm. Pizza arrives from Papa John's at 8:30pm. It is gone by 8:32pm. 9:00pm and it is cold (did I mention that there was a snow storm yesterday?), and the kerosene heater just ran out of fuel. Spill kerosene all over the garage floor while refilling the fuel cell. Use nearly an entire roll of paper towels mopping up the mess, and dispose of them carefully in a metal can (no spontaneous combustion catching the house on fire for us!). It is now 10:30pm and it is frikkin' COLD! So we fire up the forge and use it as an additional space heater. By midnight Steven has finished milling out the last of the side plates for the transmission, for the fourth time (#$%@# metric gears with #@$% ENLARGED teeth throwing off the center-to-center calculations!). We decide to quickly spray paint them black before re-building the transmissions. By 1:00am we discover that fast-drying paint really is, and it also DOES NOT wash off your fingers with soap and water, no matter how blisteringly hot you make the water. Sigh. I will just have to wait for it to wear off. By 3:00am Kyle has just about finished wiring the control system, except for running the last of the PWM cables that we left at the school. Have to remember to find them tomorrow. At 3:15am we find that grabbing the wrong end of a pencil soldering iron is a really bad idea. I have a new burn hole in my jacket. We decide that we are too goofy and unproductive to continue, so the students leave at 3:30am, with a promise to pick up some valve-grinding compound from Fairfax Auto Supply on the way back.
Sunday morning, way too early:
A few hours of sleep, see the family, grab a quick shower and a breakfast of Krispy Kremes and Diet Coke, and then back in the garage shop. Students arrive at 10:00am, and - yes! - they have valve compound in hand. As we suspected, it makes great lapping compound when it is early Sunday morning and there is NO WAY you are going to get lapping compound from any usual sources before Tuesday. It is still frikkin' cold, so fire up the "space heater" once again. There is some talk about just melting down everything that we have built and turning it all into little cast aluminum teapots or something, but that quickly subsides. Work until 1:00pm, then pack everything up and troop back to the school where the rest of the team is gathering. We spend most of the afternoon lapping in the gears on the drives and building up the rest of the mobility system while others on the team are practicing driving with ED V2.0 from 2001. Kyle and Sean have the line-following and stack-seeking software working, and are tuning it with the mini-bot they built from the EduRobotics kit. They should be finished with the "self-destruct" code by tomorrow. If our treads and pulleys arrive tomorrow, we should be driving ED V4.0 with the new transmission by the end of the day. If not, we have our emergency substitute temporary solution utilizing lawn mower wheels that will be working on Tuesday. Everyone works until 6:00pm, when we get thrown out of the school again. They are calling for more snow again late tonight, so we haul a bunch more stuff back to the garage in case school is cancelled again and we have to work there tomorrow. Spend the next few hours updating the transmission drawings with the changes we made, and cleaning up our design notes. A little bit of work on the White Paper we are writing to update the no-CNC/no-EDM transmission design we published earlier. Just enough time to check up on the CD boards before midnight...
So let's see. 48-hour weekend. 31 hours working on FIRST. Yeah, that seems just about right.
-dave
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Jokes that are REALLY FUNNY at 3:30am, but at almost no other times:
John: What are "ferrous metals"?
Dave: They make wheels out of them.
John: Huh?
Dave: Yeah, you know, "Ferrous Wheels"
Sean: But what about polycarbonate?
Dave: Rides on the wheels.
Sean: Hhuuuhhh???
Dave: Yeah, you know, Polly - Polly Carbonate. She rides on the Ferrous Wheels.
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WakeZero
10-02-2003, 01:13
Lets see... it is Sunday night... I just got back from working on the robot. The last time I sat in my own room was about 2pm on Saturday... my hands are bleeding, and my I am very tired. You tell me how many hours, I can't do the math right now :rolleyes:
gilachick
10-02-2003, 12:59
I'll do it for you brian. We get home from classes go straight to the school. We work from about 4-7 on weekdays. On fridays we stay a little later. And this weekend we worked saturday from 8-2 am on sunday 8-9 pm. And I am sure that we still have many hours to go.
A typical weekday will start around 4-5pm, after homework, after school activities are done, etc. Most students will trickle home around 8-9pm, but the "hardcores" will stay until the engineers leave. Problem with that is, the engineers don't leave until the students leave. What you end up with is 2 or 3 students staying with the engineers until 1:30-2am, until both sides decide to call it quits. The result- if you're seriously involved on our team, you'll be staying well past midnight on 4 out of 5 weeknights, and in some cases later on weekends.
The latest that we've stayed is 1:30 AM this year. However, l2002 the night before ship date our software engineer stayed 36hrs.
D.J. Fluck
20-02-2003, 16:19
Originally posted by Austin
The latest that we've stayed is 1:30 AM this year. However, l2002 the night before ship date our software engineer stayed 36hrs.
Oo boy that 1:30AM night was interesting. Midnight came, and sanity went. Heh that was the night we had our Festo Problems too :p
Aaron Lussier
20-02-2003, 16:27
On mon at 10:00AM Our Pit Crew, Drive team and software gurus got to BAE. At about 10:00PM that night we found out there wasnt going to be school the next day, at that moment we decided we were going to stay the night, We pulled the all nighter, The next morning we had breakfast and continued working, We didnt leave till 4:00PM that afternoon, At 5:30PM everybody else on our team and wondered why none of us were there. 30 hours Straight:D Quite the night...
Ben Mitchell
20-02-2003, 16:42
Most members leave at 6:00 on weekdays, and 3:30 on Saturdays.
Others stay to about 8-9 every day.
Caleb Fulton
20-02-2003, 16:44
Last night, we had guys still working at 4:00am, but I left around 1:30...
I usually stay from about 5:30-11:00 every night if I can.
KyleGreen
20-02-2003, 16:56
Ours is a rookie team made up entirely of highschool students, and the build team usually met twice a week for 3 or 4 hours, with the designer (myself), the electrician (Nick) and the programmer (steve) working on it any time we could.
The longest I spent in our lab was 13 hours in one day, but in the final week I logged almost 40 hours on the robot, while working 23 hours at my job, and still going to school (sometimes going to class...).
Our official work schedule is Monday, Wednesday, Thursday from 5:30-8:30, and on sundays from 12-5. However, this some of us seem to find ourselves there just a little more often than that. Depending on the subteam people were on, some of us were there 4:30-9:30 every weeknight, basicly all day saturday, and from 12-6 on sundays. So, for us it depends on just how much work there is to do at any point in time.
in this last week, i think i went to our machine shop monday morning, and i didnt leave till wednesday night. We are extremely lucky that First extended the deadline because we would not be done. Another problem was that our programmer got a week's detention on week6 and he was the only one who knew the language. So i was stuck programming autonomous mode wednesday night. It took me something like 6 hours just to figure out how to map something to a specific port. But after that, it went much faster. Who needs school :D I finally got some sleep this morning and i just woke up....it was the happiest time of my life, being able to go to sleep
Redhead Jokes
20-02-2003, 17:37
Originally posted by D.J. Fluck
Oo boy that 1:30AM night was interesting. Midnight came, and sanity went.
Several mentors and several students stayed the entire night one time, another evening I'm there til 2a, a couple mentors stayed til 5:30a. Another evening, a couple of kids and me up til 2am, then the mentors stayed the evening to pack it up last light. They got home about 4a I think.
Forsaken85
20-02-2003, 18:30
hey. you mean to tell me you guys don't stay with the robot and sleep with it to make sure it gets completed early? just kidding. Team 303 goes late on weekdays to about 11:00, for those who have no homework. while the weekend is another story. I myself go till 12:00 while others might sleep in there cars for the next day, but those are rumors.
Ben Mitchell
20-02-2003, 19:08
You can't be serious: I don't think people sleep in their cars at Bihler - that's a tad extreme. 10-12 is a little extreme also: how could you stay that late - what about homework and school and whatnot?:eek:
HolyMasamune
21-02-2003, 00:02
at the latest...8 pm
we finished at around 3 pm on sunday :)
inwoodraider
21-02-2003, 00:20
the problem with staying late in my school is that the kids so far away. Were a specialized school and kids come from all five boroughs of nyc. If kid leave by 10 (which they do), they wont get home until midnight
Sean_330
21-02-2003, 01:51
Our programmer spent a team record 41 hours strait at robots with only a 2 hour nap the whole time!
Robert A.
21-02-2003, 20:04
First, we met on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 6 - 9 after school. Then we went from 5:30 to 9. Then we started meeting every day of the week. Saturdays and sundays from 9am to 12pm. Then, we were meeting from Mon-Fri, from 3:15pm to at least 10pm. The last week, most of us students that could get out of class worked from 8am to 10 pm....like me....zzz....lol....
:yikes:
Jeff_Rice
21-02-2003, 20:12
I didn't get home till midnight on wednesday... A first for me. I have always, always gone to bed by 10:15 at least, usually 9:00 on nights with school the next day. And I didn't feel any worse off the next day. Only felt as tired as I have normally been these past 6 weeks. My word, our autonomous mode will rock! For some strange reason, I became the major programmer for our team even though I don't go to WAHS(see sig). Our robot will classified**************************************** ******************************** autonomous mode.
How do you guys manage school?
Specialagentjim
22-02-2003, 11:13
Originally posted by Eugene
How do you guys manage school?
Simple: My school is on block scheduling. This means I have 4 classes before january and 4 different classes after january. I set up my classes so that I would end up on the second period of classes having 2 of my 4 classes be robotics. This means I now have 2 academic classes to keep up with, which isn't terribly difficult (espeically when you have lunch before one of them, which means, that if need be, I have a half hour to do homework for chemistry)
Forsaken85
22-02-2003, 14:41
It is so easy, how could you not manage it. I have precal, chem, ocean, history, Lit, and Sat Prep. You need to budget time just right. i got 9 periods a day and i can mange with good grades and robotics. You need to know when to stop building robo and go home and do work. Or the opposite in which you can spend more time building and less time on homework if it is easy. Just work it out and see what needs to be done and what doesn't in which you could put off and do latter. Managing is easy trust me, it gets easier as you get older.
Ben Mitchell
22-02-2003, 21:56
Dude, I have Honors History, AP lit III, forensics, Precalc, AP Psychology, Honors Chemistry, and Human Anatomy. I have homework from time to time (every night)
Stephen Kowski
22-02-2003, 22:08
mon-thurs 3:30 pm - 12 am
fri 3:30 - 2 am
sat 10 am - 2 am
sun 2 pm - 10 pm
give a take an hour here or there we don't have a program in school so we can't work on it during the day.
Lauren Hafford
22-02-2003, 22:30
I was starting to get worried about how little it seems some teams spend on their robot!!!
In the last week, i didn't leave until 2-3am every night on school nights and later on weekends. One of our team members AND MENTORS pulled 2 all nighters in a ROW to get the custom circuit done together on time. Maybe it's becuase we didn't budget time well and made 2 huge steps in one year (translational drive and an arm). But we sure have been working our pretty little butts off!!!!!!! and we drove before ship, so i'm happy now!
lauren
Justin Stiltner
22-02-2003, 22:54
Monday- thrusday 1400-0 not usually later than 100
friday 1400- after 0
saturday 0700 till after 0
are we crazy or what? lol
Ed Crammond
24-02-2003, 04:43
i stay with the robot for the entire 6 weeks, although it might have something to do with it being built round my house....
Jay Lundy
24-02-2003, 04:58
We were lucky enough to have all last week off. So basically most people would show up at the lab anywhere from 9-11 AM and work nonstop on the robot until 9 PM. I say nonstop because it made it very difficult to program the autonomous stuff when the robot was never available to drive!
I usually got to the lab around 1 PM and did stuff until the robot became available around 9 PM then stayed up with 2 other programmers until 3-4 AM tweaking autonomous programs (we have several). Wednesday night we decided it wasn't even worth it to leave so we just stayed at the lab all night. I got 2 hours of sleep but Ajay didn't get any.
Thursday I got home at 5 PM and slept until Friday at noon. That's the longest I've ever slept (19 hours).
AnimatorSarah
03-03-2003, 20:28
Our team, like a few others I, also have some pretty extreme hours. We did 4:30-10:00ish Mon-Fri. 9:30-11:00 Sat. and about the same for Sunday except a couple of us, including myself, came about 12:00 on Sunday because we went to church. The days right before we shipped though we almost pulled all-nighters. Thankfully someones mom donated a cofee maker. Trust me, it diffently got used.^.~!
CaptMatt15
03-03-2003, 20:36
our hours usually ended up 3-9 on monday and wed - 3-5 on tues, thursdy, and friday then sat 10-6 (usually 10-10ish) and sunday 1-6 - except it snowed here like 2 times during the build and since its NC everything shuts down - so the last week or so was extreme. the night b4 ship we stayed until 2am - i got home at 3. then the next day one other team member and i skipped classes all day to pack up the robot! - that was the greatest day - skippin classes for robot!
kevin.li.rit
03-03-2003, 20:46
We stayed until they shut off the lights or they kick us out.
roboticscom13
03-03-2003, 21:24
Um i think we we have the record...unless someone wants to prove me wrong...on the weekend b4 ship we had multiple 9:00 AM to 4:30 AM (not a typo)...
yangotang
03-03-2003, 21:27
3:30 - 8 M-Th
3:30 - 5 F
11:00 - 3 Sat
Tom Schindler
03-03-2003, 22:24
Originally posted by roboticscom13
Um i think we we have the record...unless someone wants to prove me wrong...on the weekend b4 ship we had multiple 9:00 AM to 4:30 AM (not a typo)...
I went to the robotics lab at 10AM one day, didnt leave until 6:30 the next morning, went out to breakfast with the team.... back to my room, slept... and i was back in the lab for another fun-filled night around 2ish.... (probably stayed til 10 or 11).... and get this, there were people who stayed longer, and later than I....
Fun stuff, (glad its over :))
Tom
Originally posted by Tom Schindler
I went to the robotics lab at 10AM one day, didnt leave until 6:30 the next morning, went out to breakfast with the team.... back to my room, slept... and i was back in the lab for another fun-filled night around 2ish.... (probably stayed til 10 or 11).... and get this, there were people who stayed longer, and later than I....
Fun stuff, (glad its over :))
Tom
Jeez Tom...
Whine much? :D
I think we had about 5 people who didn't get more than 10 hours sleep in about... 4 days... yeah... Then we rested for one night, and did it again.
Yeah... we pushed it a little close this year.
generalbrando
16-03-2003, 21:01
Without having read all the posts, I'm adding an anecdote of the insanity of my team.
We live in a dorm which is attached to the basement of another dorm, which is where we work (when we can). During the build period we met every day at 5:30 PM (classes end at different times) and worked until at least 9:00 PM. The weekends started when we woke up and ended when we got kicked out. The crazy part is that most of us would take back parts or the whole robot and work on it in our dorm rooms late into the night. The last week no one slept. We would skip homework, get up early, work on the robot, go to class when necessary, work on the robot some more and hopefully slip a meal in there now and then.
I suppose we never technically stopped working in some aspects. Just as a testament to how unhealthy that is: I got sick on Thursday in St. Louis. I ended up in the mentor position and had to deal with a fever under those ultra bright lights. That's unhealthy since I probably should have been in a hospital bed, but we had spring break afterward and now I'm feeling better. A note to FIRST-a-holics out there: 18 hours of sleep over a 7 day period is not a good idea!
P.S. Don't tell my coach I was that sick :)
Jeff Waegelin
16-03-2003, 21:25
We spent 24 out of 48 hours in the last weekend. Wednesday night, we didn't leave Visteon until 1 AM. It was ridiculous.
Last year, and now this year, we got our school to schedule in-service days on the friday before, and the day of shipping, so 5 day workend. Fortunatly, there is a grandmother who lives about 2 minutes from school. So we either crash at her house around 3:30 am, or just "sleep" at school.
Although as the sign by our door says "Go home, you've made enough mistakes today"
CatchRothy22
15-02-2005, 21:32
Weekdays : 6 PM - 11 PM
Weekends : 8 AM - 8 PM
:ahh:
Oops, I just realized that this thread had not been posted in for 2 years, oh well, still an interesting discussion.
KORN_lover_2007
15-02-2005, 21:50
Our team's "set" times are weeknights from 5:30 to 9:30, Saturday from 9 to 5, and Sunday from 1 to 5. But we stay a lot later all the time. And we get here earlier on Sundays. A friend of mine on another team said that we practically live at the shop, since I am always here when I am talking to her. I think it is good to finish what you are doing because most people, I am assuming they are like me, will lose their train of thought. And we work well under pressure of time.
MrAmazing
15-02-2005, 21:53
This week we are doing 6pm-9pm and Saturday 9am-3pm
PyroPhin
15-02-2005, 23:20
Its the thread that just wont Die!
Billfred
15-02-2005, 23:25
Tonight, the last folks left Irmo at about 9:30.
I anticipate several more of those days to come...much to the dismay of my campus meal plan.
weekdays, 3pm to 11 pm
weekends, 8am to 11pm
these couple of weeks are extremely heavy. We sometimes stick around an hour later as we need to clean up the mess we create.
Right now, we've only been allowed to stay until 8 PM, but we think we might have to stay much later. All this weekend, we're staying until 10 or possibly later. All of the time we've spent has been more than worth it.
for the last 4/5 weeks its been 3:30 to 6 (or 9 for programmers) pm every wednesday then the groups meet in the other weekdays randomly and do stuff. Saturday is a 9am to 8pm day, and sunday is 11am to 8pm ish day. Althgouh this week is half term! :) (over here, we have 3 terms a year, with each one in 2 halfs with a week inbetween the halfs. so since the start oif thte year we have had 5 weeks, and are in our half term, then we have another 5 weeks, then its easter break / competition time! good timing for us! :))
Being half term we are building for 6/7 hours a day at various peoples houses...
We have fairly regular hours. We meet every day from the end of school (and sometimes earlier if people don't have to go to their last class) around 2:30pm until about 6, or our advisor kicks us out 'cause he has to go home to his wife :rolleyes: (in his defence, he does live almost two hours away from the school) On saturdays we're here early... 'round seven or so, and leave around three. We're lucky if we get dunkin' donuts, though.. I know I've been living off the pb&j he keeps stocked in the back room :D
Squeje250
16-02-2005, 11:20
usually on school days we stay from 4pm to 9pm and on weekends/vacation days we stay form about 9am to 9pm and just as a side note where over weight :(
We work from monday to friday from 2:15 to 6:00 and saturdays 1-5. Some people, like our CAD person Kris, don't sleep at all and stay up all night doing robot stuff.
psych0gambit
16-02-2005, 15:58
we work monday through friday, sometimes sunday also. on weekdays, we work form 2:30pm-6pm or later like 2:30pm-11pm. on weekends, we stay like 8am-12:30pm, but the advisors and some students stay a lot later than the regular students.
FlipperGiggles
16-02-2005, 16:54
We are here a lot. Monday through Friday we are here from 2:30-9:00 and saturday and sunday we are here from 6:00-9:00.
Lazarus (Adam)
16-02-2005, 17:06
Since we work at the Coast Guard Academy, we have to work from 3 pm- 5pm on Wednesday, Friday, and Monday (but most of the team stays until 9pm), and on Saturday, we stay from 8 am- 11:30 am, (or until 4:00pm).
It's great to work at the Coast Guard Academy, but we have a time limit. :(
Pedro Meirelles
16-02-2005, 17:39
We usually stay eleven, twelve hours. Sometimes, more. :)
Alex Salomonsky
16-02-2005, 17:44
Reading the amount of time other times works makes me angry at team (mostly advisorers) because we only work week days from 2:00 to 5:30 latest, on average 2 - 4:15, which is probably the main reason we are not done.
Wow, everyone does stay relatively late, our team usually starts at around 2 - 4 pm with just me and our programmer than everyone else pours in at around 5, with some that roll in at around 6:30ish, but never the less, clean up on our meeting nights are at 8:30 and we are out by 9, 9:30 the latest. On top of all that we only work 3 days a week, yea 3 days per week, lol well at that no weekends at all, and amazingly, our bot is done except for some play on mods that will only help us. But yea, we dont meet alot but we are just as efficient, i think its just that when u work late u tend to be lazy and less careful. we tend not to push it and therefore we are usually 100% for all our meeting times!! ohhh yea, lol.
369 Assassin
16-02-2005, 18:06
Our team cant leave the room or alarms will go off. Then gates will cover all the windows and airvents. Attack dogs will be released and we will be escorted back to the room by FBI officers.
We regularly meet after school (2:30) until around 6-7 PM...later now that its down to the final week. We meeting from around 1-6 PM on Saturdays and days we have off from school (snow days).
phrontist
16-02-2005, 22:24
It's 10:24... I am at school right now.
psquared
16-02-2005, 22:42
Our team works far less hours than it seems like most of the teams on this thread do.
Monday-Friday: 2:00-4:30PM for most weeks, this past week it has been 2:00-5:30PM
Saturday: 10:00AM-4:30PM
We only have one mentor who comes for some week days all day long and works with the robotics class in the school on the robot, but that is a much more relaxed pace than after school, i think , i do not know, im only an after school person, personally I wish we did more hours, like at least until 6:00PM or 6:30, i think the 2 extra hours a day, multiply that by the 42 days we get to work on it and that is almost 4 extra days of working
but in the end, our hours are fine, we get the job done, and no one is ever burnt out or extremely tired
We usually go from 2-6pm. Our members all proclaim that they have a "life", when all they do is go back home and play online FPSes.
However, you would usually find me spending all-nighters trying to get the code done. Being the only programmer is a pain in the backside, seriously.
Bcahn836
16-02-2005, 23:12
I just got home 5 mins ago. and the same last night, and the night before, and the night before that for the last 4 weeks. Gee I can't wait until Wednesday, the first time in 6 weeks I can actually get more than 4 hours of sleep. Plus whatever sleep i get in class.
Wow! 11 pm and 12 am... that is late!
Our team staystil 6 or 7, but we barley get anything accomplished until the last week or so...we don't come during weekends cuz our team memebers are toooooooooooo freaking lazy :P besides from few people.
last year we stayedtil 9 or 10 playing pokerand pretending we were working on the robot. "REAL MONEY" lol, but it wasn't much.
Brandon Holley
16-02-2005, 23:43
we usually stay from about 6pm to 10pm on the weekdays...at least til week 5 and 6...then its til 12am or 1am. the weekends its from 7am to 11pm, or in the later days all night
Wow...and my friends thought I'm fanatical. Wait till they hear this.
kevin.li.rit
17-02-2005, 00:38
9pm sometime later.
patTeam241
17-02-2005, 13:20
Monday to Friday 2:10 - 5:00, Saturday 9:00am-5:00pm. This is pretty much set and our advisors refuse to work other times. I'm a firm believer that staying later matters. As you stay later, you not only get into a groove where work gets done fast, but also those students who just live to annoy the rest of the team tire of it and go home. Some of our best work has happened 6:00 pm and after (last year).
sanddrag
17-02-2005, 13:44
We stayed until 11 last night and will probably do the same tonight. :ahh:
Luckily, since we have the coolest mentors around, they ask us how late we want to stay. One of our male mentors stayed til very late at night on valentine's day so we could have a better shot at making our deadlines. Our mentors have been known to stay until 2 in the morning without complaint. They are somehow also willing to come in early in the morning on the weekends to help us waterjet parts, only to stay well into the night to aide in our fabrication. As far as I'm concerned, the time spent in the shop is based on 2 things: Mentor availability, and student interest in their project. On my team, we seem to have an abundance of both. Great job team, and thanks Larry, John, Paul, and all of the other mentors who have stayed long hours for the benefit of the team.
Mon - Thur 5-10
Fri 5-11\12
Sat - Sun 9am-6ish
(but thats week 1-5... week six :eek: Hey Scotty, where are the NoDoz?
Dorienne
18-02-2005, 17:18
Monday - Friday 4pm-8pm
Saturday - 10am-4pm
Day before Play Date (today, how ironic) we're staying until we get everything done on the 'bot.
Yaaaay.
CourtneyB
18-02-2005, 17:24
we stay usually from 5:30-9ish
it basically all depends on wht needs to get done that perticualr day
usally a week before ship date we stay latttttteee hours...we get no sleep! haha
sojouner06
18-02-2005, 17:58
Weekdays 6-9, Weekends 9am-(5-11pm)
JoeFryman
18-02-2005, 21:52
3-9 weekdays, 11-11 weekends, maybe 7-11 (depends on how everyone feels).
We all enjoy staying later because that means more food, and pizza definitely owns all food.
9 PM is later than we have ever stayed, but last year, we stayed until midnight and the next, our "Teacher" if you would like to call him, called us out of class to finish the 'bot. Yes. That was our first year.
this weekend:
friday ... i guess its actually yesterday i just got home.... 1pm-12am
saturday 10am-12am
sunday 10am-12am
monday 1pm-WHEN IT'S DONE!
(and its a 4 day weekend at my school)
oh well lot's of fun on the mill and lathe..... :rolleyes:
sanddrag
19-02-2005, 06:03
Just got home at 2:45 AM. Starting again at 10 AM. :ahh:
vicecityman666
19-02-2005, 14:41
Not very late. At all. Ever. Weekdays are 3-5pm, Saturdays are 9am-3pm, and we have basically finished already.
suneel112
19-02-2005, 14:45
Right now, it's insane. The times for us are 4 hrs per day during weekdays and 10 am - 11 pm this weekend and last weekend. Every day except for Friday during the first three weeks, and everday during the last three. The last two have increased meeting times.
408Oxidation
19-02-2005, 15:31
Weekdays- Until around 10 PM, and we usually skip at least 2 classes to work on the robot. On weekends, its about 9 am-5 pm...
This weekend is different.... since we got a 4 day weekend, yesterday was 7:30 am- 8 pm, tomorrow is 7 am-whenever the robot is finished (probably around 2 am...), and monday is from about 6 am till whenever we are forced to pack the robot
DuelMasterP
19-02-2005, 16:28
Upgrading Denman's post...
Those who bother to turn up are generally 4:20 - 6:00 Mon, Tue, Thur, Fri and then Most of weekends...
Our team comes at 8:30am and stays until 8pm, usually we all need to leave by then because we are so strung out beacuse of things gone wrong, or we are just so tired that we're nipping at each other that it's for the best anyways.
vic burg
19-02-2005, 16:32
mostly, we go directly after school and some end up staying unitl about 11..... well, i dont hink that late this week but, possibly... i have stayed unitl 8:30(thursday from 4 to 8:30). it was fun but, with all this extra time.... im hoping that we're ready.
BaysianLogik
19-02-2005, 20:03
First Half of Build Season
Tues-Thurs 6-8P
Sat 10A-4P
Sund 1P-4P
Second Half
Tues-Fri 5:30-8:30
Sat 10A-4P
Sun 1A-4P
So about 15-21 hours a week
Ashley Weed
19-02-2005, 21:26
Our team is working out of three build locations this year. The local Career Center (Vo-Tech), one of the several high schools involved with the team (Towanda High), and the local abandoned Ames building. We were booted out of the High School tonight at 6, so we packed up a few things and moved to Ames to continue a couple more hours of wiring. In for another long day tomorrow, then back to school for me.
ductape_man
19-02-2005, 23:31
weekdays: as soon as school lets out->7 pm
weekends: at LEAST 10 am-10 pm(or later if we stay over)
shamuwong
21-02-2005, 02:37
Weekdays: 4pm - 8/9pm
Weekends: 11am - 8pm
This last week it's been 10am - 2am
At least it's been that way for me and a few others. Most people only stay for 5 hours.
But it all pays off in the end.
Joshua May
21-02-2005, 02:42
In 2003 we worked in a garage, and would work from 3:00 PM on Friday unitl 8:00 PM on Sunday, that might set a record with about 2 hours of sleep.
Now that we work in the woodshop at school, and the school's alarm goes off at midnight, we can't stay past that before the cops show up. So that means I have to get out of here in 18 minutes and counting, better finish up then. :yikes:
vic burg
21-02-2005, 17:52
I don't think we have pulled an all-nighter yet but we have stayed until 2 or three in the morning. Usually we leave by 11pm but it all depends if we have reached the night's goals.
that works i guess....lol. :D
The latest anyone from our team has been here has been 2:00 AM, I believe.
Might surpass that tonite, of course.
--Petey
mizscience
21-02-2005, 18:19
our team stays after school everyday, from about 3:00p-8:00p on a typical night. But this last weekend was a 4-day weekend and we were there everyday from 8:00a-9:00p. Go ahead, say it: we have no lives, lol. :o
newgrl101
21-02-2005, 18:27
Well, unlike the previous years where a lot of the nights were spent over, this year we only had one late nighter with 6 kids and adults staying till about 6 in the morning. I personally prefer staying till its done but its useless if the speed of your team is cut in half after 12 or something.
Hoping for some more late nighters and some all nighters next year
Specialagentjim
21-02-2005, 23:47
our team stays after school everyday, from about 3:00p-8:00p on a typical night. But this last weekend was a 4-day weekend and we were there everyday from 8:00a-9:00p. Go ahead, say it: we have no lives, lol. :o
It's a Broward thing. We don't bother building the robot till week 6.
It looks like an all nighter for me tonight. Ellery and the crew just put X-WhAAAt!!! in the crate so their night is done.
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