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?

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)

Managing school?
 

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.

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)

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.

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

Monday- thrusday 1400-0 not usually later than 100
friday 1400- after 0
saturday 0700 till after 0


are we crazy or what? lol

i stay with the robot for the entire 6 weeks, although it might have something to do with it being built round my house....

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).

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.^.~!

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!

We stayed until they shut off the lights or they kick us out.

RECORD
 

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)...

3:30 - 8 M-Th
3:30 - 5 F
11:00 - 3 Sat