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I take pictures of other bots all the times. Love getting new ideas! (Also our scouting teams puts pictures taken at competition on the sheets to give to drivers and picking people so that they can recognize the robot quicker, rather than just the team number.)

Have you ever listened to a song on repeat >375 times without stopping, including when you're sleeping?

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lol... no

ever run your hand through your hair after working on the drivetrain only to realize that it was covered in grease?

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Hehe...maybe once...that and scratched the side of my face with greasy hands. A favorite prank seems to be tickling the side of someone's face while they're working on something greasy...:)

Have you ever put off schoolwork in hopes of getting a snowday the next day, knowing that's not a good idea?

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yes thats what I`m doing today



Have you ever played a video game for so long you think it is real?

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no...but I have watched my sister play video games so long i thought it was real.

Have you ever done anything (math, crosswords, video games, puzzles, etc) so long you dream about it?

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^I dreamnt of guitar hero for a night.

Have you ever procrastinated about programming?

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Not programming, but other things

Have you ever broken more than one thread tap?

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haha, yes, many times, usually going too fast, doing it in a hurry :p

have you ever been rediculessly silly/hyper for no reason?

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Only in my younger days :D

Have you ever put down a tool and 10 seconds later wasn't able to find it?

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i stopped counting a loooong time ago how mant times that happened.

Have you ever been lookins for a tool/part for a long time only yo understand it was in your pocket the whole time?

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Not personally, but one of our mentors had it in his back pocket...I was looking for it too.

Have you ever been to Mount Rushmore?

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nope, but, i actually don't mind not having gone there.... but i should....

have you ever gotten addicted to using a tablet and stylus, only to remember that you have to use a regular mouse in one class?

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no

have you ever thought about something all day and night about something your going to do the next day but when you go to do it you 4get

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Always...What was the question?

Have you ever met Dean Kamen?

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^Yep, got a picture and he autographed my driver button and my inner tube.

Have you ever made it your main goal to track down and get your picture taken with each Dean, Woodie, and Dave?

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I most definately plan on it, if I get to Championship this year...

Have you ever entirely forgotten about your hot drink, then picked it up and almost dropped it after you drank some cause it was so cold?

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No, can't say I have.

Have you ever had to fight over a tool because the team only had one of them?

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hm, I dont think so... I dont like to fight.

Have you ever had a garbage plate (Its a rochester thing...)

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No, but I have had a garbage pizza.

Have you ever gone to a sci-fi convention?

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Oh close, Anime Conventions....

Have you ever played any of the Guitar Hero games?

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Who hasn't by now?

Have you ever wanted to go to Savannah, GA in the summer?

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No, not really but I probably have. (as seen above, I live in Georgia)


Have you wanted to become a pro tennis player?

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Sure, i dreamt about becoming a sports star of about any kind of sports there is.

Have you ever spent New Year's Eve all alone?

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^No I have not.

Have you ever CAD stuff when you're bored?

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Yes.


Have you ever thought of what your life would be like without FIRST?

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Yes

Have you ever thought about it and realized your life would be a lot worse if FIRST didn't exist?

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absolutely (sorry if I interuppted)

Have you ever wanted to skydive from space?

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Since I'd rather not burn up, no, but I would like to skydive some time. (Plus, wouldn't even freefalling get boring after that long, assuming you didn't burn up, die from lack of oxygen, or die from a heart attack?)

Have you ever realized that the phrase, "It's like riding a bike - it just comes back to you" really doesn't apply when you can't remember how to ride a bike?

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(actually scientists came up with body suits for space skydiving)

Although biking may not apply, bowling does. Couldn't remember how to bowl a couple of years ago.

Has anyone wanted to meet current (or past) engineers, roboticists or other science related professional?

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Yes

Have you ever been to Canada for other reasons rather than the robotics regional in toronto? (Bonus points if you have ever been to Montreal my hometown)$@#

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Yes, i went to my friend's cottage and it smelled of dead fish. :yikes:

Alright, has anyone ever jumped off a banster for the fun of it? (guilty..)

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^lol, No.

Have you ever checked CD more than 10 times in one day?

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yes cus its better than wasting time playing games cus you can say "i'm not playing games"

Have you ever wanted to take your team mentor outback and beat him with a stick for making you do all that hardwork and not even use the item you designed and built 4 times? Guilty as well as most of my team last year

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I don't have to take myself out back; anyone on the team last year knows I am quite adept at taking myself out in nearly any venue.

Have you ever slipped video game dialogue into normal conversation?

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I always do that.
Have you ever been dissapointed by FIRST?

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Not yet and I hope I never will.
Have you ever fallen asleep during a history lesson ?

(I have...seriously!)

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History no English Yes

Have you ever had a laughing fit for 5 minutes straight at a robotics meeting (yes I am guilty of this)

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Sorta not quite 5 minutes(try 3).

How many people thought of having cheerleaders on there team? (The idea's come up in our team meetings a couple of times.:p )

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I can't stand on my head, so no.

Have you ever suffered through school when you're sick just so you could go to robotics that evening? (Looks like I'll be doing so on Monday...)

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No, but only because when I get sick, I'm *really* sick--as in crawl into bed with a 102-degree fever, bury myself under blankets, and sleep for 17 hours. No condition to go to the shop in.

Has anyone baffled their math teacher with equations for autonomous?:yikes:

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Noooo.

Has anyone baffled the principal with chairman's award?

:yikes:

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No. My principal doesn't care about or give funding to someting (including FIRST) unless its football.


Have you ever gotten more than 15 phone numbers at a regional?

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No

Have you ever gotten frustrated by the fact that a mentor on your team who confuses you a lot is actually related to you

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Not really, you can always just say "I'll be right back."

Have you ever almost cried with relief when you woke up and found out school was on a two-hour delay for the snow, because you were so tired and really needed the extra sleep?

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yes i have that might be happening tomorow for me


Have you ever been helping other teams in thier pit for more time then you have spent in your own pit at a regional?

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this is my first year so no

have you ever been on a team where all the guys keep making sexual induendos to each other and not as much as the girls?

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Nope, don't think I've ever heard any guys make sexual innuendos. ...Except maybe the mentors.

Have you ever been ready to kill whoever makes the godawful music choices at competitions?(I have, many times. I've resorted to bringing my mp3 player and blasting it, even though I do that normally.)

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No

Have you ever used a fork for something other than eating?

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Yes, whenever somone is being photographed, insted of rabbit ears I hold up two forks behind their head in a V shape. :D :D :D

Have you ever witnessed a car crash firsthand?

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Yep. Been riding in one of the vehicles a time or two as well.

Have you ever been to Mount Rushmore?

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Yes but it wasn't serious. It was a little old lady who must've forgotten how to drive at a stop light and a car bumped into her. But this being on the worst side of our town, naturally they two people in the other car got out at started yelling at the lady.

Have you ever said something and it got horribly corrupted somehow by your friends and you all end end up laughing about that till the end of class?

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lol yes

have you ever been with a class that everybody argues against the teacher for 1/2 hour+

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Yes, that was a hilarious argument.

Have you ever gotten mad at any design guys who think they know how to run your division better than you, even though you're the head of said division?

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no I havn't cause I'm a noob

Have you ever wanted to go to a regenal and get there on a "Strippers" bus :D

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Which ever way you meant sure that'd fun! (yes)
Have you ever "killed" a thread for more than a half hour?

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Nope can't say I have.

Have you ever been doing something, then, the next thing you know, you're watching a sbemail?

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Actually, yes I have done that

Have you ever heard someone watching a sbemail and then just randomly started quoting the exact line the email is on, as well as all of the other great lines from it

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Oh yes, many, many times.

Have you ever wanted to become a member of the Deleteheads?(If you don't know what that is watch the newest sbemail.)

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Heck yeah! In fact I bought Twizzlérs the next day.(And ate the whole thing):yikes:

Have you ever quoted a sbemail at least once every sentence?

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No...I don't even know what that is!


Have you ever read five books(actually novels, not mangas) at the same time?

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Not five, most I've done is 3.

Have you ever spent a few hours watching every sbemail from 1 to the newest?

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No, I've got pleanty of guy friends at school here that do though, but I guess kinda yes because I'd get sucked into it.

Have you ever had encoder races?

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no not really

have you ever got in afight with someone over something really stupid
(ex. Peter griffin vs. the chicken)

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Nah, but the Peter Griffin vs.The Chicken fight was pretty awesome.

Have you ever slept through one class for an entire semester, never taken notes and still gotten a mark higher than like 90% of your class?

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actually yes and i have the highest grade in the class which for me is kinda worrying

have you ever tried to keep something for your team a secret from the the team mentors

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no

have you ever been to a 10 person LAN game...and had more then 10 mt. dews?

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no, but i had 3 bottles of dew fuel once. that was...interesting. i thought i lived in a rainbow silo.

have you ever looked up your own name on google?

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No, not much gets past our mentors.(...except maybe a rubber chicken...don't ask)

Have you ever used MacGyver methods to fix things? e.g. using spiral notebook wire to melt glasses back together.

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Absolutely. It's called FIRST Robotics.

Have you ever been to a movie so bad you walked out of the theater?

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actually no. i look at reviews

Have you ever spent more than 15 dollars at a convenience store (7-11 etc)

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Actually yes.
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Have you ever scored the game winning goal in the soccer finals the same year that you scored the game winning touchdown in over time in the city championship.. I am not kidding its true

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No,

Have you ever stayed at school til 2 in the morning, JUST to finish the robot?
This is also true.

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Not quite. 1am, but never 2.

Have you ever had the power go out right as you're about to start drilling? (Happened today... we had to leave early, couldn't get anything done)

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no I have not had that happen to me.

have you ever thought about building an anti matter reactor??

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Actually Yes, but I have yet to do so

Have you ever been sick for a whole week of build season and your biggest worry isn't getting better but getting back to finish the robot

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no, but i'm a freshman so i guess that doesn't really count

have you ever watched hannah montana??

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No. Who watches that?

Have you ever wanted to kill everyone around you on Valentines Day? This happens to me every year.

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IDK.

Have you ever built an off road mountian bike from the ground up?
(I've got 14 bikes)

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No, sounds boring to me. But then all I do is sit on a computer.

Ever built your own computer from the ground up?

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I'm afraid not but then I'm a pacifist.

Have you ever planned world domination??

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Every time I play Risk.

Ever lose something that was in your pocket the whole time?

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Yes. And Ive lost my cell phone while talking on it, and my sunglasses while wearing them, and my history book while reading it.


Have you ever ran right into a tree while looking straight at it by accident?

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Yes actually, especially when walking home from school and talking to a friend, see it 5 seconds before, walk into it anyway. :yikes:

Have you ever ran until you puked? :yikes:

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yeah, defiantly wasn't fun.

Have you ever tried to use the second law of thermodynamics to get out of something?

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Nope, not quite that nerdy.

Have you ever wanted a game/CD so badly you went out and bought it the day it came out no matter what it cost?

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Book, yes. Harry Potter 6 and 7, at midnight, in costume. Woo! :)

Have you ever been happy because you thought you were on top of things in school, and then within an hour been close to tears because you definitely weren't?

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Yes, I had a busy-work packet in Biology that I didn't know was due at the end of the period, and that we could work with partners. So, I was only half-way through when it was the end of the period and everyone else had it done easily. I had a melt-down cause I knew I was going to get an F on it, and I had a lot of other things stressing me at the time. :p

Have you ever made up a complicated plan (like I'm doing now) to get a guy/girl you like? :D

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No. Why would I plan these things?

Have you ever done something you thought was fairly mediocre but everyone else thought it was excellent?

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No, seeing that my whole life revolves around FIRST I always think it's excellent...and then some people don't care.(Our team is dead if this continues:ahh: )

Have you ever planned to make something big? e.g. a blimp, FRC car for the summer etc.

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Nah, just an evil supercomputer that enslaves all of humanity...*cough cough* Did I say that out loud?

Have you ever just randomly started playing air guitar for no reason?

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No, I don't like music.

Have you ever looked at a clock and read pi, when it really says 3:14?

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Only on March fourteenth.

Have you ever wondered if ducks get seasick?

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no.
have you ever eaten an apple? :confused:

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uuuuuhhh... yeah. Has anyone wished they could take there robot to school to build during classes?

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Back in high school, my robot was at school and I was ahead in all my classes as I possibly could so I could be excused and work on the robot some more everyday until ship date.

Have you ever watched the competition webcasts as often as you could through your day?

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Yeah, unfortunately it was only because I've had days that I did have a time that I could.

Have you ever read a post on here and wondered what in the world was that person thinking?

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Yes........multiple times! :rolleyes:

Have you ever been hit in the eye with a PVC pipe? I HAVE!!!!

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no

Have you ever been so bored that you let someone hit you on the back with a piese of 1/16 inch wood unfortanately I have and I didnt' feel it