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Exactly! Act like your doing something important, and no one will ask you any questions :P

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Mentor: "I don't care how the coffee spilled on the robot, clean it up before it gets into the electronics."

Mentor: "Wait you're telling me the coffee spilled out of the shop vac onto the robot? OK, you got me interested. Tell me exactly what happened."

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Last night, we couldn't find any duct tape. This afternoon:

"Guys!! I found the duct tape!!"
"What?! Somebody's been putting it away!"

The sad part is that we legitimately didn't think to look in the toolbox. While said with chuckles, the above was sincere.

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Freshman (holding a cordless drill and bit): How do I put the bit in the drill?
Me: If you have to ask you're not allowed to.
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Mentor: Get someone from the drive team
Me: I'm on the drive team
Josh: You are the drive team
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Mentor: JB Weld is not very strong anyway

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Today as we are drilling final mounting holes for a part:
student: We are just drilling holes on the fly. Nothing new.
Mentor: I would be careful drilling holes in the fly.
*Everybody cracks up laughing
student: on the fly, not in the fly
Mentor: well that changes things quite a bit, doesn't it?

Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season
 

Here is our annual blog post with quotes from this season. http://tahomarobotics.org/2014/02/18...final-chapter/

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Mentor (in all seriousness): "It's like I've been saying all along, we only really need two CIMs on our drive train."

(Groans from everyone else assembled)

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"I hate it when I get I up and it falls right back down"
Talking about our blocking arm

"I love balls in my face"
Said a mentor after a stray ball hot her In the face

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"Isolate the head then, stroke it"

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"Don't forget to turn the oranges!!"
We are attempting to make oranges solid and hollow, and this is what our mentor has said to me almost every day of the build season

Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season
 

last year our robot was called Ghetto Bhott

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if you can find it, its not what youre looking for.

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"Bouncy balls are bouncy."

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Mentor: "We are all just spare robot parts"

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"I should have put the robot on blocks"

(This was said after trying to test the robot revealing a huge lag issue that caused robot movement to be unpredictable...

Meaning that the robot ran full speed into a wall.
My Bad ;) )