Re: RECORD
 

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

Re: Re: RECORD
 

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.

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 :)

We spent 24 out of 48 hours in the last weekend. Wednesday night, we didn't leave Visteon until 1 AM. It was ridiculous.

Re: How Late does your team Stay?
 

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"

Re: How Late does your team Stay?
 

Weekdays : 6 PM - 11 PM
Weekends : 8 AM - 8 PM

:ahh:

Re: How Late does your team Stay?
 

Oops, I just realized that this thread had not been posted in for 2 years, oh well, still an interesting discussion.

Re: How Late does your team Stay?
 

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.

Re: How Late does your team Stay?
 

This week we are doing 6pm-9pm and Saturday 9am-3pm

Re: How Late does your team Stay?
 

Its the thread that just wont Die!

Re: How Late does your team Stay?
 

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.

Re: How Late does your team Stay?
 

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.

Re: How Late does your team Stay?
 

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.

Re: How Late does your team Stay?
 

Just now got home :D

Re: How Late does your team Stay?
 

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...