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Mentor: "Now we need to make an if statement."
Programmer: "What do the curly brackets do?"
Mentor: "They define the beginning and end of the ifness."

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!! You too! This is awesome....last year I wound up going to Championships with another team as their videographer, so I sort of now have two teams' worth of history and jokes. On my first day with the team I was informed that I must now call safety glasses 'safty glasses': apparently someone misspelled 'safety' on a box of safety glasses and it stuck. I'm attempting to introduce the concept to my own team.... :D

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From several mentors, to all of us seniors: "You're alumni now! Assign it to a student!" (We had our end-of-year awards ceremony on Tuesday...)

Several members (and alumni, I guess :| ) : "WE MADE IT TO EINSTEIN!" (We were unrolling one of the carpets to set up for MAYHEM in Merrimack tomorrow, and it was covered in confetti and came directly from St. Louis.)

Me, to a teammate: "You're an enabler." (His Zune is controlling the speakers during setup, and he has an entire Queen playlist.)

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"Lets do the fork in the garbage disposal"

and

"The nice sweet smell of burning motors"

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Thats everyday at my high school. The engineering+robotics kids are the worst and it is HILARIOUS. lol

"That is not going to fit" (when talking about a screwdriver with a screw) then they reply "thats what she said"

So........everyday! lol

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Us too, Some accidentally made a safty FIRST button 6 years ago and it stuck.

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Me talking with another mentor
"The regional isn't complete until someone ask for some strippers at pit admin"
"It worked on the first try with nothing imploding.....we obviously made a mistake somewhere"

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Me: <explains to a group of programmers what we're doing next>
Student 1: "So, what are we doing?"
Student 2: "We're coming with Josh."
Me, very frustrated: "No, it's not time to come yet!"
Female student: "That's what she said?"

I was unable to recover any semblance of authority for the remainder of the day.

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I gotta say that is pretty darn cool from the pictures I've seen of it.

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I'm raising this thread back from the dead in hopes that it will provide entertainment during the "off"season.

Also, a certain friend of mine who will remain totally anonymous said this about the college we're entering: "Do you think that there are enough FIRSTers at RIT to get a movement for brown and orange alliances instead of red and blue ones?"

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I just said:

"No worries, this thread will never die"

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Here's a good one...

I've been following this thread from the beginning...and I can't believe it's still around.

I think the cockroach has finally met it's match.

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I am told that once, many years ago, our sleep deprived team representative actually said "Team 1160 rejects!" followed by the head mentor yelling "RESPECTFULLY DECLINES" from the viewing area by the playing field.

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This week we have a RoboDawG camp going, and we were working with a simple claw, but we were at a loss as to how to power it. My coach walked over after seeing us argue for a good 20 minutes and said, "So what are your ideas?"

We listed them off and He said, "You know, since you guys are now seniors, we haven't had any experience with belt drives. We have done nothing with them since before your freshman year. Seeings as it is summer and you don't have any time constraints...." and he walked away.

My friend turned to me and said with a bit of annoyance in her voice "Gosh, I hate when they do that."

"Do what?"

"Challenge you indirectly. It makes you want to figure it out just to prove them wrong..."

"So... We are working on a belt drive?"

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"You're still here?" - one mentor after seeing me show up at a summer training
EDIT He was teasing, of course!

"Notice that the SOFTWARE guy made some of the nicest welds." - I forget who, but it was funny to see.