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I gave up my part time job, but that's kind of a plus:D

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:cool: I've given up any chance at a social life.:cool:

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I gave up Wolfenstein ET. I don't ahve time to play it anymore :(

Re: What have you given up for FIRST?
 

sleep, sleep, sleep, and more sleep. my patience, grades, friends and especially ROTC Color Guard presentations!!

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Money, Sleep, Time with family, 2 GFs, 1 broken heart.

But i have recieved way way more.

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I'm giving up money (from working) and music. Luckily, I've convinced my girlfriend to join our FIRST team. :D

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as a basically 1 man team (FTC!) i gave up:
lots of sleep!!!!!!
going to friends houses
tv :D
my summer vacation

things i have gotten out of FIRST:
a bad back :D
fun
1K worth of robot parts
laptop, camera
knowledge
experience (i organized my entire team during the summer)
the amaze award
joining CD and VF
and much more...

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My hopes at a 4 point GPA... Its has been gladly forgotten:)

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A girlfriend, paintball, sleep, a job, any life that i did have, and food...:ahh:

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Sleep
Grades, I had a 4.0 average once upon a time, but then I took classes that challenged me at the same time as FIRST.
Some Friends
Karate

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I have given up my peace of mind! But i never used it anyway.

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sleep( i have a part time job while at school for 8 hours a day, plus building! its god i got today off though...

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I'm getting the feeling I'm gonna be losing sleep....And definitely I've already been giving up time for working. Less money. Good thing I've saved SOME up. Thankfully my girlfriend's on the team, so no worries there. Unfortunately, I'm definitely going to be struggling to keep my homework up to scratch. Not to mention my (partially nonexistant) social life is going to get bruised a bit.

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MY SANITY, sleep, my soul (It's in a jar at Dean's house, but i gave it to him) and my social life =P. My best friend hates this time of year cause i never get to hang out with her.

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I love how so many guys are saying they lost their girlfriends.

A semi-comforting thought, I guess:

If they don't support FIRST, what kind of girlfriend are they?
and if you don't try to get them into it, what kind of boyfriend are you? (only kidding.)

I give up a lot for FIRST, mostly sleep and sanity, but it's all completely and totally worth it.

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I gave up football and a chance to be ignorant the remainder of my hs career....so ive gained more than loss

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i have given up alot too, as in all of my free time to do anything. i have swim team in the morning so i have to go to bed at like 8/9 on days we work later, making it so that all of my time not spent at school or swimming is spent working on our bot.

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baseball, (varsity if i quit robotics, missed too many games...) girlfriends, life, working out... its sad what FIRST can do to an insomniac... hahaha

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My sophomore year I gave up going to the Championships in order to be in a school play. I will never make that mistake again!!!

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i actually haven't lost my girlfriend, like most people say they have, but i have lost time to talk to her. i did quit football just for FIRST, and my little almost non existant social life.

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where to start...

--Well, no thanks to Dave, Woodie, and Dean, ive given up my sanity, especially trying to figure out the clues in the pre-season.
--Not yet missing sleep, but i will be towards the end of the season.
--Wont be able to get a job for the next couple of weeks.

but the experience and fun makes up for the loss of everything else.

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So I'm in macroeconomics class this quarter - and we're reviewing trade-offs, opportunity cost, all those fun things.

Sure, there are other things I might have done in high school were it not for Robotics team. I had to pick between some events and band events, between band trips and regionals, but to me those costs have been worth it. After all, it's it's easy to look back and think about what you could have done, but why do that if you're loving it now?

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I don't consider it "giving up" when you gain more then you lose.

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I havnt really lost anything, i have a girlfriend, shes the best and im insanely lucky to have her, i have made tons of new friends and gained a very large amount of knowledge, although REST is not an option

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What have I given up for FIRST? Having a life, probably :p I seem to recall what it was, dimly, a collection vague images surrounded by a mist of aluminum chips . . . :D

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I think I've given up alot of my social life. As a freshmen, giving up my self esteem on the first day was inevitable...but the gains FAR outweigh the losses.

-Computermaster

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I reckon I've about given up on ever knowing what an empty nester is going to feel like regarding free time, boredom, or loneliness. That's a good thing...I think..

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Ive given up just about everything, lol, my life is FIRST now (i mentor, i sit on the San Diego regional planning committee, i'm on 2 other committees both regarding FIRST and those 6 weeks i barely get home except to sleep and go back lol) ......

So basically if this was a full time job i would be more wealthy then bill gates and possibly just off the overtime, lol

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Concentration on other important things, sleep, general concentration, free time, hobbies, a few friends....
I doubt it's related to FIRST, because it DID come before the kick-off, but I'd say grades (getting Cs).

But I'm doing all this because I'm looking forward for having a successful FRC season, I'm looking forward to the success of the team and our project.

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I forgot to add something, i give up a ton of gas. I drive anywheres from 160 to 240miles every week to get to FIRST and back. I'm just a student also. My car gets 30mpg you do the math on how much fuel i use =P

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um, let me think, my life, sleep, sanity, free time, personal time, family, friends (not in FIRST), band, the list goes on and on

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For starters agree with DarkJedi613, I think that everybody has given up their lives for FIRST for the next six weeks. But yet again, you are also gaining a lot more so its worth it.
:] Also their is much sleep loss.

In my team we have theory, when its building time the six weeks, we tend to GAIN about ten pounds. Comsuming on those nights only fast food, mainly pizza.

During competition, we end up LOSING the pounds we gained. The fact that most everyone on our team cant eat because of the nerves. OR the running up and down from the PIT to the field.

I think its rather funny. :D

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I love this thread.

Let's see, where to begin:

Yeah, the whole "sleep, sanity, money, time with my family... " thing holds for me too.

I have given up advising another successful team (Debate team).
I have given up going to weddings with my wife (she wasn't happy).
Our wedding was scheduled around competition season (we got married week after championships in 05).

Oh, and last but not least...

I have given up a pair of pants while being drug across a carpeted floor while we tested our autonomous mode for the first time during our rookie year, as our robot crashed through a bolted down cubicle wall, while not knowing that all we had to do was disconnect the Operator Interface to stop it from moving.

Friction + strong robots + melty slacks + rugburn = fun .... or not

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Well...not much really. First just puts me behind a computer which is where I belong. Computers are my life.

Oh and in some cases FIRST has both destroyed and built relationships, so
its all good.

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this is where it helps to have a girl friend who is in the club :cool:

oh and ihave given up all my hours at work to the bare minnimum so idint miss a minnet of the build season,my entire life 24 7 365 days a year
and millions of hours of sleep

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LOL. Last year I got married the day before kickoff -- and was at kickoff. This year kickoff was on my anniversary. My wife isn't involved with the team (except as the unofficial team baker of evil deliciousness every Saturday during build season), but she's totally understanding about it.

Patrick

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Things I've given up for FIRST:
Over a month of vacation and personal days
Way too many ski trips
Any chance of becoming a couch potato
The joys of being a grumpy old guy

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Sleep, a relationship, theatre, and excessive free time, but the people I've met, the new friends I've made, and the kids I've helped inspired; stepping back and looking at the work I've done with and for FIRST, I'm pretty satisfied and happy currently. Being in college, most of my old friends back in high school go to liberal arts colleges and don't like math so I really rarely see them anyway but we keep in contact through the web no matter how technologically inept some of them are(I have one friend who runs away from computers because she doesn't like using them).