Raise Awareness for Robotics After-hours Syndrome
 

Note before reading: this is obviously a joke, no such thing as RAhS
Robotics After-hours Syndrome (RAhS) is a recently discovered disease that is baffling scientists everywhere. While the symptoms are easy to spot, a permanent cure has not yet been discovered. Some symptoms include, but are not limited to:

• Talking to oneself
• Spontaneous Dancing
• Naming individual parts of robot
• Calling your ball feeder a Bagel Slicer

More information on this disease can be found at http://rahs.tk

If you have identified any RAhS-like symptoms, please contact us via this thread so other robotics participants can be diagnosed and, hopefully, cured.

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Is it bad that I fit all the symptoms besides the wanting to kill programmers one?

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Probably

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How about spending another 2 hours on CD after a 16 hour robotics shift?

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Major Symptom!!!!

Is falling behind on school work also a symptom? That's what I'm experiencing right now :(

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Yeah, it's tough, but you gotta learn to work through it. I'm doing my math homework right now. School's in 30 minutes...

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How about naming the minibot after a guy who you met at a Taco Bell during MARC?
Or constantly quoting Office Space?
Or singing the same songs for the past 6 weeks?
Or going up behind a programmer working on his laptop and going "Soooooo whatcha doin'?"

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I'm in school right now and doing an assignment that was due back on monday and a major project due tomorrow... I should stop spending time on CD... but being a second semester Senior doesn't help.

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Public Service Announcement:

Pressing the spacebar when the robot is enabled isn't nearly as funny the forty-second time.



On an unrelated note:

Has anybody seen our programmer? He was last sighted walking southbound in the rain, his laptop tucked under his arm, grumbling to himself.

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How about complaining that your actual professional engineering job is getting in the way of robotics?

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quoted for truth.

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How about willing to walk a mile through the snow to reach a 3 hour build session? Or writing love poetry to your robot on Valentines Day? Or when you wake up one morning, in your bed, wearing safety goggles?

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Complete absence of or recollection of the last time sleep was a mandatory activity, while carefully balancng excessivly long raw materiel in the last bit of space that is not occupied by WIP.

Complaints about how 42 is NOT the answer.

A burning desire to see a contraption thrown thrown together in six weeks work better than many years of proven expectations.

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Ouch, truth hurts.

Another symptom: dreading the end of build season. Are we gluttons for punishment, or what?

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I will be adding some of these to the website later tonight. Because you know, build session.
Edit: The site's been updated with more symptoms and photographic evidence.

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And all the symptoms have to use a picture of me as an example?

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I have a feeling a few symptoms can be found here:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...47043&page=199

Just a hunch though...

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Just remember, if you have been experiencing any of these symptoms, you need help. Even if its "just for fun," or "isn't a problem," it might be more serrious than you think.

Talking about your problems is the first step to stoping them. Share your storries at http://www.chiefdelphi.com. There are other people just like you who want to help.

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Probably not good for the laptop