working til midnight
 

anybody has those kind of nights yet? we haven't yet but sure enough, we'll most likely have on friday and saturday night I bet.

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We worked Friday from 3 till 7 and then Saturday from 9 till 8 and then Sunday we worked from 9 till 9. this week we will work everyday after school and then this weekend we might do the same times if everything doest get done this week..

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We worked from 7 A.M. this Saturday LITERALLY ALL DAY!
3 problems with this:
1. We never work Saturdays or Sunday's
2. We never work ALL DAY
3. Our robot interface broke.

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its starting to happen, last week was mon-tues-thurs (3:30 to 9) and saturday 9-5 <8hr saturdays since week1.. stupid intnt'l border :( takes 1hour ish each time we cross for meetings

but its definately going to be all day every day this week if we want to make 2 robots (get current bot to 90% for practice, then make competition bot which is currently at 15%).. saturday sunday is going to be midnight / sleep at school days.

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I know for a fact that Team 1114 has been working until 4:30 am all week. And then they come back in at 10 am to work again. We arent even close to that thank goodness!

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And school is not an issue? :ahh: I just wish we could work during the day.

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Ive been on teams that pulled 72 hour weekends (friday morning till monday morning) right before ship date

and Ive done similar things at work many times.

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i think my team has found a new way to use the 6 week cram period and be able to turn it into just the 6th week. nevertheless we will be be ready and driving for practice by next week. we are actually having are of are parts we havent got yet today or yesturday night. the one main component we didnt have was (u guys could guess it) our frame. well alas we will be getting our frame to go with the already existing parts that we have. if we work till 9- 10? each day during this week and on saturday 9-? we will be driving saturday night. code is good and being tested on old robots. well hope to show of BIG MO with the new improved cram period. :D

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We have already stayed till 12 4-5 times, we would have stayed later but our school has a new security system where the police come if you stay in the building between 12-5am :(. (last year we stayed till 3-4 am a couple times)

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This last week will be lost of late night making parts because it is down to the wire. We will most likely be there from 9am-1am on sat and sun this weekend. This is one of the few builds im worried about time and weight at the same time. O well theres always the time machine weve been working on, hopefully thats up and running this week.....

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WARNING:

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When I was a student on Team 204, in like my Jr. year, we had advisers that were real cool about us staying late. We would have our classes end at 2:11 and stay until 11:00 on the week days and on the weekends we would work from 11:00 to 11:00 at night. It was much more relax then ever and we could do a lot more stuff. However when our new advisers came in, we had a set-up new schedule where we could only work on certain days for a limited amount of time.

I missed the good ole' days!

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The last time 862 worked till midnight was back on 2004 we went 9am to midnight on Saturday then 9 to 5 Sunday. I think that was the Saturday Not2b claimed "I'm a FREAKIN' mentor, I can walk on FREAKIN' water!"

We usually meet 5 to 8 but this week we're going 5 to 10 with small groups working earlier and some like me working for the first two class hours, since our classroom is where we build the robot.

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I've left at or past midnight more times than I can remember :p

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We unveil at least some sort of functional robot for our school at the pep rally for winter homecoming. This was last Friday for us this year. Usually the Thursday before people stay until we have something presentable. At least for all four years we've been up in the range of 3 to 4 am on that Thursday. But the students at the pep rally always love the robot.

Another one of my favorites was a mentor on our team travels during the week for his job but is able to work weekends. So if he can get a student to stay we will work late. Two years ago we started making our winch to lift the robot at around 8 pm on a Friday night and by 2 am we had it mounted on the robot and working. We then lifted ourselves off the platform with it, turned off the light, and left it hanging so the rest of the team would find it when they came in a 9 am the next morning. We knew our winch would work when we came back and it hadn't moved.

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You'd better believe it! This past Saturday a few friends and I worked from 9 am 'til midnight. We intend to do that this upcoming Friday and Saturday as well (no school due to president's weekend). That ought to be fun.....

think you can out-hour me? I am humble before those who truely do
 

well this saturday I got up at 5PM, due to some problems with our teams animation I spent my time more on 3ds max then on strategy or translation,
and all my hours reached peak on saturday,

I usually start FIRST sessions at 4:30PM (mandatory daily for all participants)
and whilst most night I go home around 2-4AM at least 1 night a week or even 2 I stay atleast untill sunrise, saying good morning to your fellow classmates is prety amusing, me going to bed and them going to...study =)
but this weekend was something special, since animation didn't have a strict scheduele it was in pretty bad shape, we finished our modelling just that week and I wanted my animators co-workers to come over on the weekend so we can reach the monday deadline, unfourtanetly they didn't, so after a long friday night out I fell asleep around 6-7am and woke up at 5pm saturday
since we go to school on sundays I decided I might as well stay up since I was in no need of any more sleep, when I came to school at 8am the following morning after a night of delphing and just passing time I was pretty stunned by the fact our lab was not to be opened untill 2pm that day, which in my scheduele was just my nap time after a good hard work all morning on 3ds max, well I guess lady luck isn't on my side this week...
still not feeling sleepy I went back home and then back to school again
where me and my 2 buddys labored pretty hard on our animation, things weren't going well to many bugs and segments etc. etc. so we didn't start rendering untill around 6PM that night (that's 25hours of me staying awake for FIRST, straight) well I said to heck with sleep, the deadline is tomorrow and if we don't start rendering NOW we won't be able to reach it (over here 8am pst is 6pm monday) eventually 6am came and we started rendering on some new pc's we rallied up for teammates houses, things were finally looking cheerful (36 hours now) except that we just couldn't get that animating done right, eventually by 5PM today (4 hours ago almost, and 48hours for those of you who are counting...) the rendering was almost complete, only we found out the horrid fact that one of the pc's was rendering a scene and it had 1:30h to go (30 minutes past deadline) in the chaos that insued we didn't get any audio, nor did we get a presentable animation but eventually we editted it only to find out we sent streamline a file of only 2seconds long,
by the time we got the hang of shreaking our animation to a reasonable size the deadline was over, and 47 hours of being awake just kept me a wee-bit to edgy, I wasen't excpecting something incredible, but atleast a representation we tried to send at 6pm sharp!, it didn't go through, a string of bad luck :( , and poor organization...but atleast i've learned a valubale lesson

if your gonna go to first BRING MORE CHANGE FOR THE COFFEE DISPENSER.
well, among other things...

ehhhh
nothing like venting your ventilation to a forum full of stange people =)
cheers :rolleyes:

if your wondering, I said to myself I might aswell try and go for the 72 hour home run, but I guess that would be wrong =)m my bed looks so omfy right now..."yawn"

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yea this week I've been getting out of robotics at 3 in the morning :P

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yesterday i was at robotics for literally 12 hours: 10am-10pm. we now have a finished-looking robot!!! until you turn it on...... vijay had a spazz-attack field day yesterday trying to fix the gearboxes :D

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Each year we have an all nighter. Friday to saturday. It's half fundraiser, half robot work time.

The all nighter is 8:30pm to 8:30am. We start working once school gets out, and don't leave till the morning.

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all in all over my 4 years i have been there later then 12 probally more then 3 weeksw or close to a month, not counting the late nighters we will put in this year during the 6th week. we have been lucky and not had to have to do a all nighter early in the build season do to a lack of or no parts :D

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Not yet, but maybe by the end of this week. The latest we work till is 10, and starting at 3-5

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We haven't needed to work that long, we don't have that much energy left

We've been working 4-8 hours a day and from 9am to 6pm on Saturdays Sundays are for recovering from the rest of the week

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We have never done that so far, but we might have to this week (and not weekend because our robot is supposed to be at the pep rally for Winterfest on Friday). I can only hope that all our problems will be fixed by then! D:

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So far my team has pulled three late nights, but no all-nighters yet. We have finished around 1 or 2 in the morning, but Friday will probably be a true all-nighter.

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I wish we had all nighters :) (or weekend lockdowns for that matter) :)

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dude last friday and sat. i was out at our lab till 3:00 both neights and that was starting at 4 on friday and 10 on sat my love life sucks but owell pretty soon with my girl robot well nevermind.

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our team has been staying up around midnite for the past week or so...so tired!--- :o

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Its crazy, when you all up all the night!

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allnighters are great, the problem is when your at school for 36hours straight without sleep, you start getting dizzy, by 8am PST, I simply could not work any more, when people were talking to me itfelt like the sound was being blocked out by a concrete wall or something, if I would've stayed a few hours longer I SWEAR I would've blacked out...

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honestly i have not experienced working till midnight this year.

-Court-

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We have been lucky this year and no late nights. Our robot is finished except for the polishing and painting. We do work 2:30-4:30 (programming, animation, inventor ect...) and 5:00 to 8:00 or 9:00 each weeknight and Saturdays are 9:00 to whenever. (usually 5:00). This sponsor can tell you she is ready to ship and go back to cooking for her family :)

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We have been on weeknights until 11 pm this week and last weekend
we were here Sat. 8 am - 9 pm and Sunday 10 - 9 pm

Most nights we start by 5 and are done by 10 to 11.
The last three weekends we work Saturday and Sunday.
The first three it is Saturday only.

We tried an overnight one year. We were not too productive the next night. :(

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This year, the latest we've worked was an all nighter on VEX with a friend in our hotel room at San Diego, the night before the FLL competition at Legoland for the FLL team we mentored. I don't recommend doing this or doing long work days or working without rest because your work begins to get sloppy. This past Saturday, we worked from 9AM until 10PM and by 9:30 PM, which was the latest we had worked for FRC sofar this season. My work on drivetrain had begun to get a little sloppy and wasn't too productive, as I had worked and spent all day on it and really needed a break. It's fun though because sometimes you get the see how your friends are when they're sleep deprived.:p :D

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I would love to to that.. except nobody would want to lol, not even mentors

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we have been working every weeknight, 7 to 10 pm
saturdays we work 9am to 2 am sunday morning, and 1 pm to 10pm sunday night
oh and fridays we work from 7pm to 2 am saturday morning
we are all very tired...

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I have been trying to have our team stick to the specified times (4-7 weekdays, and 10-4 Saturdays), but at this point I am working 4-usually 8 on weekdays because I am one of 3 primary machinists for the team. I have to limit the time I work from 4 to 8 because Calculus, Chemistry, and Physics homework await to be finished at home. However; I believe that a few members of our team (me included) may pull an all nighter or two this weekend if neccessary.

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yes we have had many of those, some days i didnt get home from school till 1130-12 at night! saturday we were working from 9AM till about 2 the next morning

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hm none yet, although I do think we'll be having many late nights this week.

though I do remember last year's late night, I stayed up till 5 AM the day of the pre-ship scrimmage at chatsworth...

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well, I am a rookie and all ans this is our team's second year, I think the veterans want at least one all-nighter to happen as a team traidtion to add to the other tradition of the robot doing doughtnuts when we have achieve it's first radio signal.

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our animation crew has worked till 11 every night for all of last week...and thank god our animation is in and done...::phew::

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Beware of what you wish for! :yikes:

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long days are kinda fun. I like working on weekends partly becuase we stay from about 10 a.m. 'til 11 p.m. :o

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10:22, team 114 is still in the shop! ;)

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Yea, I think 6 weeks is not really enough time...
We will soon be working till Midnight.

Especially me the programmer, I don't think I will sleep at all this Saturday OR Sunday!

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Or Monday... :p

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We're actually definitely planning on working until midnight on Saturday, if we have to, to finish the robot for the Preship the next day. All of the long hours are really beginning to push some people to the breaking point.

Today, one guy was having another guy on our team drill some holes and the first guy just eyeballed it, which is a practice of mine (I won't deny it, but I tend to be very good at it :D) and it turned out that when the guy had eyeballed it, he was off quite a bit, and started yelling/ranting at the guy that drilled it for him from the holes that he had marked.:ahh:

Not too gracious or professional really.. but I think it's just the long hours and some people stressing out, happened around this time last year also. How many other teams have had some of these types of "problems"?

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come on now, late nights are just expected.
basement til 10:30 today, but only because it was the latest my dad would let me stay. And now I'm up working on awards, of course. My physics problems will have to wait. :D

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man we stay till 9 to 10 o clock every night i have not ate dinner at home in 3 weeks we get here at abou 6:30 every morning and working ont this project most of the dayman it is just like hurry up ship dste but we are pretty much finished just some tweaking and adjusting :)

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no more like 4 0r 5 am but sleep is way over rated

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Staing late til about 9_10 pm It gets vety hectic specially when your trying to juggle more than one activity and trying to have a social life with your friends. but it is worth it all when it gets to the competition. All of our drive team is going to be here even on our mid winter break but dedication is one of the many keys to haveing a successful year. :ahh:

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I wish we could work on our robot during the day. Our sponsor won’t let us, but that’s because they have work to do. But we get there about 5:30 and for the past 2 weeks or so go home at around 10-12. Makes for a nice trip into work the next day at 6am...

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the latest we've gone is 10 pm but we do come in everyday after school till at least 7 and then we come in saturdays all day and sundays if theres the church at our school.

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its fun to see the dedication .. even thru a SNOW DAY some students said theyd come .. mentors too.. . and acually .. i have a field trip monday.. permission form and all.. . leaving school 9am, come back 9pm ... get to miss a day of school to work on robot.. thats grande...

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social life? huh?

I haven't dinner at home since the kick-off and on fridays\saturday

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12:50 right now, with at least a couple more hours ahead :)

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I know a bunch of my team members have worked well past midnight. Some of them have worked consistantly into 2am for the past week. The snow day one student worked until 8am! and then came back at 10:30 to work until 1am the next day! Not to mention we work from approx. 10am - 3 or 4am on weekends. :D

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wow! I think our team has worked until midnight or later only a handful of times. Once last year the night before ship date, and once last year the night before great lakes regional to get the cart and other stuff ready. But other than that, we work everyday-ish for several hours from the beginning and try to avoid working really late. But, it still happens.

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You're a lucky one, we're looking at doing it tonight to finish/debug everything for the scrimmage giving some time to fix what doesn't work beforehand.

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Don't forget about us, we're there too!
We work everyday after school untill at least 12am, and there have been a few 4:30am nights.

oh and school gets out at 2:30pm. talk about long nights.

Let me tell you... build season is the most tiring time of the year, I get MAYBE 5 hours sleep a night. if that. but hey, the more work you put in, the better the robot is in the end right? :)

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how bout 10:00am - 4:30am?

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umm.. . 9am till 4:30am .. then back up at 9am next day?

thats what 4 students and a mentor did last nite.... *wish i had the screencap from the labtop they left up for rest of us to see next day..* ... we just discovered we were 10lbs over.....so we have lots to do :S

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Wow reading these replies make me see how time efficient our team is. Our team works from 2:30am - 5:00pm (Monday- Friday) and 8:30am- 2:00pm (Saturdays). We actually build the whole robot ourselves in our lab. Around 6 meetings have been cancelled and out robot is already done this season. We do have a big team i guess...

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we at 1888 have had many many nites till 1 and 2 in the morning, the worst are when we start at 8 in the previous morning