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The programming team was LabVIEWing some blinky lights for practice...
Me: Our blinky light is having seizures.
Mentor: Good.

"I'm trying something new. If it works, I'll tell you what I did."

Lactose-intolerant student eating cheese pizza: I figure the worst that can happen is crippling pain.
(Note: this was a sarcastic response. She was asked if she had taken her lactase pills before eating cheese.)

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Mentor: Put the energy chain down!
Freshman: *sarcastically* but i'm not allowed to have coffee or mountain dew....
everyone:*facepalm*

my dad works for igus =P 6 feet of 4" wide energy chain is quite fun.

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"What we aren't playing Quake.";)

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Me: Hey, come over here.
Student: Hold on, my ADD is distracting me.

Edit: Also, I said this while working with a student.

Me: So, we can use this to measure things accurately (I forget the name of said device, it's like a scale with a sharp bit on it for marking lines in layout fluid.) I think it's in 32nds of an inch.

*We mark the line and double check it... it's off*

Me: Uh, maybe I'm wrong here. Maybe it's in 64th.

*I count the lines, since it's not labeled*

Me:40ths? What the hell? Why is this in 40ths of an inch?

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I'm sure a lot of people get this classic statement in brainstorming.

Something along the lines of:

Someone suggesting a crazy idea
- Hey! We can (move it/do it/lift that/etc...) here _____ with a thingy over here and another thingy there.
- So what exactly is this thingy you have in mind
- I don't know I thought you might

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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)