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Me Yesterday not one of my best quotes
"What we really need to make sure we do is make our robot move."

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'Did the robot just twitch? It sounded like a sneeze...'


talking about the traditional friction between the programming and mechanical subteams:
Programmer: Mechanical usually has the upper hand...
Mechanical: Yeah, because they lift stuff all day...

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"You should've bought more hex keys!"

"I bought three! There's only three people working."

"You see your logic is flawed. You have three people building with Tetrix, that means you need twelve hex keys not three."
- Jason Patel after repeatedly losing hex keys for the minibot.

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"Ew RJ, your elbow tastes gross

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Some days I'm glad I can't attend buildseason meetings...

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I space out all too often, so I usually get...

"Welcome to the world, ***."
(censored name for privacy)

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This is not a lifesaving device.

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Mentor: So I've got 3 copies of the manual here, I need some volunteers to put them in binders. Here's the sections:
The Arena,
The Robot,
And The Game.
The Binders ar-

Students (together): I lost.

Said waaaayyy too much on our team haha

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"When in doubt, throw yourself."

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Mech Lead: "I don't have a brain *points to can* I'm on Diet Coke!"

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Five minutes later...

Mech Leader: "I don't use my feelings either, they get me in trouble!"

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I was trying to explain the scoring/seeding/coopertition point system to an English friend of mine. He enjoys sarcasm and complicating things.

'So, that's Sinx where x is <30 points to you, but Tan40 to the other team?'

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Mech leader "engineering isn't supposed to be fun!"

Mentor: "another Chief Delphi quote from you today!"

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K.I.S.S.=Keep it stylin', son

Contrary to popular belief, the fire extinguisher is not in Narnia. It is actually in Middle Earth.

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Cutting this way greatly reduces the changes of you losing a finger

said while telling another team member to use the band saw with thumbs tucked in