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(while programming vb)
Me: oh crap what did i just do
Fred: um idk your the one programming vb

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"Holy Crap its 3:45 I have to go to school in 2 and a half hours"

Chip-Team 271 Bay Shore, New York

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we had a typo on our website that was "The robot this year is required to meet certain requirements." that we all got a kick out of

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Lubrication is the key to life!

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" we just need to twang that thingamabobber, and quax the whats-E-doodle"

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"Remember, meeting on Sunday"
"What? But it's Super Bowl Sunday!!!"
"No, it's fix-the-accelerometer Sunday"
"That doesn't sound quite as catchy"
"No. But nonetheless, we are going to fix the accelerometer"

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Software freshman: "It's working. I'm scared. Oh God, did it work? Maybe it reverted my changes..."

Mentor (my dad): "Aww, you broke the thingy!"

Same software freshman: "So the students are saying, 'We need help! Let's ask the mentors!', and the mentors are saying 'We need help! Let's ask the students!'"

Me: "Someone get the scissors away from Ryan."

Mech lead: "You're on Electrical and you think you plug the battery into the Jaguar?"

Software member: "Burning smells are bad, right?"

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Working on interviews for Chairman's Award video:

Team member: ...and FIRST has taken my desire to be an engineer and, uh, cemented it....

Mentor, later: Cemented it? What about 'took my desire to be an engineer and cemented it, dipped it in epoxy and wrapped it in non-functional Duct Tape?'

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While working on the essay for Chairman's award:

Me: What have we done to "commit ourselves to spread the word of FIRST?"
Brandon: Wear our shirts...?

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...working in the shop at 9pm with a limited crew of mostly mentors,

samir in the background "anyone know where i put the other half of the cRio?"

...i really couldnt find it for like 3 minutes :( i lost the casing lol :eek:

(its all good though, i found it eventually) :rolleyes:

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1.Student #1: Why are you listening to my pants?

2.Me: hey Vic... you now have one quote demeaning you on CD, you don't want like seven.
Student #1: Yeah Vic!
Me: Hey, you have 7 so I wouldn't be talking.

[another person on another sub-team told me this that happened in software]

3. Software student: STOP BANGING THE ROBOT INTO THE TUNNEL!! :ahh:

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Electrical student while holding a battery from 2007 (no longer legal): "why can't we use this one? Is it AC?"

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"Only you could hit a tree indoors..."
"Look! its Abraham Lincoln!" [as she pointed at a bitten apple].
"Make me a sandwich, bot"

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Me: "It's about yea wide by yea tall by yea deep"

Also me: "Wait, so if we're building on talented students, does that mean I get infrared vision?"

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the other day, a freshman and a sophomore on the team looked at each other and one randomly said "piggy back ride" and the other replied "yes" in an unusually casual manner, they then ran into the hall and gave each other piggy back rides while everyone else laughed and wondered.