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"Put a can in it!"
"errr, isn't it 'put a sock in it'?"
"I need more sleep"
"Sleep? What does that mean?"

At dinner, we somehow got on the topic of first impressions...
"You know, when I met you, I thought you were incredibly annoying"
"Nothing's changed" </joke>

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It was interesting to read this today. Last night I was in conversation with someone and they just walked away and disappeared behind a closed door. Later, I asked what had happened and they said they had been distracted by their ADD and forgot to return to the conversation.

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"we are launching our orbit balls into orbit!"

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"...so it shoots them straight up-"
"-and hit the disco ball at the top of the Seigel Center"

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"we are going to launch our orbit ball into orbit!"

said when we ran some calculations that yielded the kinetic energy= #e178

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"What week is it?"

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You build teaming, Build teamer. (Build team is now our curse word)

Darn it! there you go with that common sense thing again.

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My mom: So, it's going to have ten hands?
Me: No....it's going to have a hairy lip and shoot balls out of its ears.

Female part of the team: This robot is so cute!!!

One of the guys, looking at the clamp: Awwww, look at this!
Me: You just said "Aw" at the clamp and you don't let me call the robot "cute"?

"Let's use the heat gun to solder this stuff."

- Why does this say 4.5"?
- Because it is.
- You told me it was 4"!
- No, I didn't....
- I cut it so it's 4"!
- Well, it's 4.5"
- Wait...then why does it fit..................???

"Just hammer it in."

"Lead fumes. Excellent. Inhale deeply."

- What's epoxy?
- It's a glue that smells like ham gone bad.

"Where's the hole...errr...dent-maker?"

"Can we dissect a drill and use its motor on the bot?"

"I am going to spend thirty minutes organizing this stuff."

- How did you find this???
- I put it here...

"Wow, i tend to hurt myself when hammering."

- Did you get a metal splinter?
- Yes....and it's invisible!
- Leave it be. Your body will push it out when needed.
- I pulled it out.
- That's one way of doing it.

"Don't melt the table."

"Have you ever tried licking the solder?"

"Duct tape it."

"This is scrap. This is scrap. This is just crap..."

- Is it turned on?
- No. It's not making that sound.

"I'm pretty sure this is not safe."

A: Why are you sawing this?
B: To make it square.
C: That's what THAT [pointing at the grinder] is for!

- Hey, this frame is like a cage!
- Yup. You just have to surround it by plexi.

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Team member: We already decided not to do it that way
Me: So why did I just have to spend 2 hours trying to make it work?!
Team member: We just wanted to see if you could come up with something

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uhhh...adam.... do u smoke?
(From when the robot caught on fire in my mom's van)

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After a Saturday of building:
Team member's mother: I thought you guys didn't have the robot on wheels yet."
Team member: We didn't.
Me: We didn't even have the chassis until the PROGRAMMING team built it!

True story.

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P1: (Arguing for his helical lift design): Think of how a snow blower cuts into the snow.
P2: Umm, is that a good thing?

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While eating snack right ater school, which just happened to be goldfish.

"Look, a flying fish!"
I then proceed to throw the goldfish, hitting the person sitting across from me square in the forhead! everyone bursts into laughter.:D

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Another member and I finished building a prototype of our shooter and began testing it.

Member: "What is that loud clicking noise? I don't think the chain is supposed to sound like that."
Me: "Don't worry. It will be fine."
Member (When I tilt it upward to change the angle): "It sounds like something is going to break. I wouldn't touch that thing."
Me: "That's why I am touching it, because I have supreme confidence in my design! And because I'm crazier than you."

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Our teacher said this to us when we were being really noisy-
"Listen to my pneumatics- shhhhh"

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"Now here's the weed-smoking part of this design..."

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No diagonals.

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Team Member: "There's blood on the chain."
Me: "Oh great. Not again."
Team Member: "What?"
Me: "I'm bleeding again. And I don't know where its coming from."

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After a night of prototyping a 4-counter-rotating-wheel ball shooter (at about 2 AM in the car):

Me: You know, we should build a huge one and put it around the world!
Richard: You can't fire the world!

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This was an exchange between my mentor and I talking about last year's robot.

Me: "didn't we have waterford crystal's on last year's robot?"
Mentor: "No let's be realistic here. They were Swarovski"

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Marshall: "it is only a guesstimation"

Also Marshall is always blamed for loosing everything (usually he does)
Me (Over the phone with him and his sister who is also on the team trying to find the mounting screws): "ooh we found them Marshall hid them again."
Marshall: "Where did I hide them this time?"
Me: "Under the second half of the KOP checklist. That reminds me where is the first half."
Marshall: "Uhhh"

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My proposal to the sponsorship board;

"So we put this big sticker on it that says 0 grams of deathcrystals, and we will be the greenest team out their, and then get all this quack science proving how we don't have deathcrystals and how common they are in robots, like how common snakes are on planes."

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Mentor: "I'd say she works!"
Student: "Why can't it be a he this time?"
Mentor: "Alright fine, HE works, whatever it is, I don't care what the gender is as long as it works."

Then the student noticed my camera was still recording the test we were doing.:rolleyes:


Or just watch the video (at the end)

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Here's a few...
• During a fund raising event my friend was talking about the Xerox Creativity Award during a speech and she pronounced it "X-ron". She couldn't seem to figure out why she was laughed at.

• “Little soccer kids go to Subway ‘cause their so soccerish”

• “Did you just fart? Oh, no, that’s my phone”

• “We represent the Lollypop Guild, the Lollypop Guild, the Lollypop Guild”(This one was sung by our head mentor)

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Sometimes the hole is off center and the answer I hear most often is:
"The drill bit walked" :yikes:

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Yeah, thats normal jargon. Also, "danced" works.

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Me: Hey (anonymous) that metals hot (20 secs later)
Me: hey (anonymous) thats hot
(anonymous): OWWW hot it burns
ME: (Bangs head on wall)

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:D i laughed so hard watching that

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"You failed epically!" One member of the team told another while putting in the edits for the newsletter. She has a very short temper.
"No, no, no, no! It's epic fail!" said the person who was editing back to the writer. Another team member went in between the arguement and settled the dispute.

A few days later...

"If you don't take me to Turkey Hill so I can get my gummy bears, you fail at life!" This was said from one programmer to another. It resulted in a team wide trip to the closest Turkey Hill.
We all got gummy bears or swedish fish.

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one of my favorites that has been said this build season is..."If I'm gonna get my finger cut off, I wanna be the one to do it!"

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"...how is that physically possible..."

"ow!"

"can we make the robot move with the guitar hero controller yet?"

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The following takes place in our animation room

:::BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:::
:::Smoke fills the air:::
:::Silence:::

Mentor in other room(yelling):WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!?:ahh:
Students(Yelling): THE LIGHT EXPLODED!!!
Mentor(walk towards room still yelling): WHAT!?!:eek:
Student 1: the light just exploded
Mentor: was it on?
student 2(who turned light on): yeah for like 1min
Mentor: must have been cold
student 3(walking out of room): i can't believe that just happened
Parent Mentor(who was working on other side of room): What happened?
Student 3: the light exploded

after everything is done and cleaned up for the most part

Student 3: What have you learned?
Student 2: Don't touch THAT LIGHT
Student 2: EVIL DEMON LIGHT

Moral of this story: If a 500W Art lightbulb is in an air conditioned room in the middle of winter, don't be the one to turn it on

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While singing in the back room around a few of the guys.....

Student 1: "I think you're tone deaf."
Student 2: "I think deaf is an under statement."

they both said it so nonchalantly and 'matter o factly' that all I could do was laugh.:D

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"The chain just straight up raped us."

"Now I see why James and Jon hated chain so much"

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A: How did you loose it??? You JUST had it!!! OH MY GOSH!!!
...a little while later
B: Has anyone seen the box of kept nuts?

Mentor: I swear, there's a black hole in this room somewhere... :ahh:

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me: Hey, put your safety glasses on!
student: Why, no one is taking pictures.

I would have slapped him if I wasn't laughing so hard.

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we have 5 calipers. this is why.
Lead member: "WHAT KEEPS HAPPENING TO MY CALIPERS!"*hands in air screaming to the roof"

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"Hey, the robot isn't responding in Acceleration Control mode, what the hell did you do to it?"
"Technically, the new changes should only take effect when the absolute value of the axis is less than zero..."

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"You know we've been going at this for a while when we're conversing entirely in C++"

"I think the problem is because we named the cRio Cthulhu"

Plus this conversation that occured while we were cleaning up for the day:

"I don't know if I can go--I've got something tomorrow"
"You mean robotics?"
"Oh yeah, right".

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" We are overweight... again..."
"Crap"
"Mike get off the team..."

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"We have a problem..."
"What?"
"We need a 1/2 in. bit..."
"You just had it..."
"Yeah its in three pieces all over the shop..."
"..." "WTF?"

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"hey thats a push broom"
"yeah whats your point"
"your pulling it"
"yeah whats your point"
"look at your shoes"
"yeah.... ohh, i get it"

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A freshman didn't make a very obvious connection during a conversation...
Me: Go... hit your head on a wall or something.
*freshman hits head on table*
Me: No! A WALL!
Freshman: I don't know where a wall is!
...We were inside.

Later, building off of that joke...
Me (to a different freshman): Go hit your head on a wall.
*different freshman walks toward whiteboard*
Different freshman: Oh wait... that's not a wall.
...That's when the programming team decided If freshman=true then wall-finding skillz=0.

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After the light exploded in the animation room...

Student 1: I know why the light exploded!
Studen 2: Why?
Student 1: _______ was singing and weakened the light!

Needless to say, the person who had been singing was not all that happy.

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"It's really simple i just find the difference between the variable here, and after it come out of the shift register, then I multiply that by the change in time, which (looks at screen)...i......don't.......have...........crap." me explaining my first attempt at the TC algorithm

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"If brute force doesn't work, you don't have enough."

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We were marking where to drill, but the sharpie kept smudging.
It started out completely incoherent but after a couple of takes he got it down... Just watch it. It has been transcribed in the video description.

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"That motor is going to explode on him, and I'm not too sure I want to be around when that happens"
"You're optimistic."

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"Can you just stick in in there?....Yes. Nice and tight. We don't want any stuff leaking out on the floor. There. That's perfect."..."Oh and that's what she said."

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"I personally like this design as it defies physical laws. I like defying them."

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student 1:"Welcome to the club of redundecy club!"
student 2: "Wait, that doesn't make sense!!"

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girl - "yeah my dad let me drive the bentley..."
me - "i wanna drive the bentley"

i wish i could drive the bentley. :rolleyes:

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Next Day in Homeroom....

me to mentor "I wanna drive the bentley!!"
mentor "as soon as I get it you'll be the first to drive it, I promise!"
me to everyone else in homeroom ":P he likes me better!!"

**keep in mind i am not yet 16! so it will probably take a while for us to get the team bentley!** :(

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"I put my sweat and spit into making this!"
-A team member on break on the creation of a small carrot person with his teeth

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We had this one yesterday during dinner.

"Programmers, no sitting on the fabricators!"

But, apparently, there is no rule against fabricators sitting on us! :P

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We were sitting around today during lunch, talking about the colleges w're going to.

Member: "My brother could have had a full ride to MSOE for bio-engineering, but he wants to be an astrophysiologist"
Me: *face palm* "You mean astophysicist

Lead programmer: "I don't know what you are doing, and I don't want to know what you are doing"
*team laughs*
Lead programmer: "You guys sure laugh at a lot of things I say"

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"AHHH it FireWall!"

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Mentor: This here is really the danger zone... which makes this ramp up into it the Highway to the Dangerzone.
-Later-
Me: So I've decided we should name the robot Kenny Loggins.

Mentor: Does anyone have a deathwish so someone can hold this?
College Mentor: Oh, oh, oh, me, me.

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We are in the middle of an ice storm and a week long power outage.

Louie: "I've been crazy without technology for a week."
Eric: "You haven't had a bath for a week."

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"I'm fluent in russian tools!"

"They get on...with encouragement" - "You mean the hammer?"

"This is so cool! Aluminum shavings all over me. I feel like a princess."

- When are we leaving today?
- When A gets hungry.
- I'm hungry....
- You missed the point. We're leaving when A gets hungry, not you!

"Seems like all I've been doing today is hurting myself and hurting others..."

"There's a scratch across your forehead." - "Yeah..I walked into the robot."

"Hey, it looks robotic now!"

Me: What'cha doin'?
Programming student: Failing :)

"Debur like mad!!!"

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Another one I remember now.

Me: It doesn't matter what it's called, it just matters what we call it.

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"check if theres any joel left in the robot"

one of our members faceplanted into the robot in an attempt to ride it like a bull.... using only his hands.

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"I really want a guy from a metal rock band to follow me around and say the last few words of my sentance. Happy Birthday. 'HAAAPPY BIRTHDAAAAAAAAY!'"

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I keep asking the question when do we usually get programming ready?
"5-minutes before the first match at regionals."
"At the competition."
"Never" (so I made that one up. But I'm sure it could happen)

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Josh and Ben walk into the hallway where the french fries are. Down the hall are the cheerleaders getting ready for the varsity basketball game. Josh says "Those (the french fries) look disgusting." Ben is eating a fry looks up. Says "I know." Josh looks at the cheerleaders and says "I wasn't talking about them."

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"Ooh, Colors!"

Also:
"Ahh! UNDO! UNDO!" (Commonly shouted by programmers, but also heard after the sound of metal getting angry.)

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We were talking about the robot's status when...

Mr. C- So, Richard, where are we?
Me- The one room the Janitors don't know about.

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"I'm drowning my Windriver sorrows in Metallica and root beer."
-Me after everyone else's laptops connect but mine won't even if I follow exactly what they did

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"Aha! You should've been wearing your safety glasses!" The team coach, after explaining to some teammates how I got a cut under my left eye. (I walked into a tree... but a very poorly trimmed tree!!!) :ahh:

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"One rivet per hole..." :ahh:

One of the fabrication mentor during the assembly of our frame.

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*looks at part off of CNC mill* Well, i guess that one will go on the practice bot...

-Keaton

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I said this at the end of an e-mail I just sent to the team about paying for Portland. Don't know why, but I guess I wanted to end on a positive note:

"One final note to all rookies: the regional competitions are absolutely incredible and it is hard not to have a good time. However, don't go in with a win-at-all-cost mindset; focus on having fun and that will make your team way cooler than if you just focus on winning all the time."

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"Come on man..."
"What???"
"I have cut this piece 4 times and it is still too short!"
"Wow"

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"What's wrong with the accelerometer"
"It's reading 1g on the z axis"
"But its not moving"

Me; "and were still stuck to the ground"

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[apologies if any of these are repeats...it's getting hard to keep track of which ones i've posted already]

"As opposed to a weld, it could be a rivet"
*like a frog* "Rivet rivet..."

"Will you eat my computer for $5?"
"No"
"How about for a piece of blueberry pie?"
"..."

We never got an answer, but his face light up quite a bit.

Mentor *listening to the music that's playing*: "Wah? Oh, I'm sorry, I couldn't hear what you said, I was listening to the guitar solo"
"You have beautiful eyes."

"The internet is not a truck!"

"Lunch break!" *pulls fruit cup out of his pocket*
It was 8pm.

"I don't fail at computers, computers fail with me!"

"Culture, torture, it's almost the same thing"

"Old McDonald had a farm, e-i-e-i-o...And on that farm there was a Kara, e-i-e-i-o...With a rule G6 here and a rule G7 there, here a rule, there a rule, everywhere some more rules...uhh...e-i-e-i-o!"
My co-captain is very interesting, to say the least.

"That's more better"

"Well, there's the problem" *holds up one end of a disconnected PWM*
"I'm not sure if that's a programming or a mechanical problem"
"It's a 'You need a longer PWM problem'"

"WHAT!? You mean I have to use TRIG!?"

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"And so, when we are in Autonomous mode, we are in the..Autonomous()...function. And our while loop depends on IsAutonomous(), which returns whether it...is autonomous or not. Make sense?"

(Listening to awesome 70's music)
"¿Te gusta este canción?" (translation: Do you like this song?)
"What about cancer?"

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"wow... batteries bounce..."

I hate 8020
Why?
Because my nuts dropped... again...

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We were making jokes about going to Hawaii, cuz we're so excited :)
"We'll have to wear coats with ice blocks underneath, we start melting when it gets above 32F."
"Obviously we'll have a huge advantage in Hawaii, we're the team that is likely to have the most experience driving on ice!"
"(Team member) will love it there, he eats SPAM sandwiches."

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"Won't anybody think of the moon dolphins?!"

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wow that is probably the worst part of working with 8020. everything seems to fit together, you slide a t-nut into a 50" long piece, and it falls all the way down past several objects which will later cause trouble in retrieving it. GAH

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"At least we have a rave box"-Eric
"Put that down Chris"-Me
"Hey guys?...(crash)...never mind"-Chris
"Is there an off button to him?"-Me
"Does he ever be quiet?"-Mike (mentor)

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tighten the bolt to where it bites the bottom of the channel

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"That's a lot more gooder!" This was said from a freshman (me) to a mentor who started cracking up. The freshman looked at the mentor for a minute and didn't get it...for an hour afterwards. :D

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Newb-"Don't question this wisdom of Mr. Ray"
and from across our lab, I replyed " Don't question anything of Ray!"


And another one just happened today, my boyfriend was asking me if I can hang out tomorrow;

Him- Can you hang out tomorrow?
Me- I live in a world of communist robots, I have to ask their permission to do anything outside of robotics.


Mountain Dew flows through the veins of my team, and it can't be healthy.


Same newb- Mr. Ray, who's your favorite newb?
Ray- My favorite what?
Newb- Newb.
Ray- Alex.

(Alex graduated a few years ago)

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Put the hammer down!
said to me many times by my teammates ever since I used a hammer to help join two wires....



Yay!!!! Page 100!!

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So I hit my teammate in the face, repeatedly, with orbit balls throughout the course of one of our meetings...A little while later, this happened.

Me: OH MY GOD. 18 Days til ship.
Heather: Reality just hit you in the face?
Me: Better than an Orbit Ball.


"For a team bonding activity, we're going to the rink for public skate on Friday night"
"OH MY GOD, REAL LIFE LUNACY!"

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Oh, I forgot one...or two...


Ray- You see this emergency stop button?
Newbs- -shakes head-
Ray- -slams button- it doesn't work.
____

Ray- Wait wait wait look at me your not looking at me wait wait watch.
____

Someone walks into our hotel room at nationals...
Person- Why are there red towels in your bathroom?
Us- What you don't dye your hair red in hotel bathrooms for team spirit?:P
____

1-Where's the wallowing bit?
2-Right next to the invisible chains, duh.:D

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this is our rookie year.
"i was only gone 3 days! how come the shop's a pig's sty?"
"it doesn't have to look pretty, it's a prototype."
"what?!? 5lbs each? that's freaking redonkulous!"
"we're protecting electronics, not the president! we don't need the whole thing polycarbonate!"

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"Yes! Ohhh Yes! I got it to come out!"

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Mentor (Referring to VRC and FRC robots):
"So you see, some people can be preparing for the big boy while the rest of us continue to play with the little boys"

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"what is this "sleep" that you speak of?"

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forgot one:

we were writing issues on the board that need solutions. A senior (our Build Captain) was writing them up. Board began as follows:

Issues:
1. Steph
2.

Hence the user title :p

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"It is like the reflective tape you put on your driveway so you can see where the edge is. It is just his built in Reflective tape"

::Talking about one of the bald mentors and the shine off of said ballspot::

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"well, I'm heading home"
"Have fun storming the castle!"

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Text messages:
"Why aren't you at robotics?"
"I'm sick!"
"...so?"
"Better question: why are you texting me from robotics? aren't you supposed to be working?"

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"L can't work on estimating the weight of our bot anymore. According to her calculations, we have a 128 pound manipulator piece!"
Then they told me to do the math, but I said I probably couldn't do much better than L...

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Our electronics/ Programmer head as he was working on the electronics board underneath a sheet of acrylic:
"I feel like a surgeon. . .at a salad bar."

"Bunnies and rainbows Will, bunnies and rainbows"

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"PVC shaving don't taste good." - Andrew

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We have two freshman on our team. One is a guy, one is a girl.
I was asking the freshman that is a guy to get something for me today
Guy next to me: "Male Freshman go get the tin."
Freshman: "I'm not a Male..."

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Brian our programming mentor sends the labview update to my laptop which is 1 foot away, not connected. I turn to him after i get the item loaded, "Isn't that technically considered hacking?"
"I told you to change your password..."

robotics quotes 101 (page 101 w00t)