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When you take off your safety glasses and poke yourself in the eye because you took them off a while ago, and so you go to take them off your head but grab your hair because they're not raised up there either.

Re: You know it's nearing ship date...
 

Goodness, we haven't even finished putting the robot together, let alone weighed it.

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When you crate the robot on Sunday night and take the two days before ship off...

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when the jokes stop and work begins!

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When you leave a meeting at 10 pm, and come in the next morning to see everyone wearing the same clothes from yesterday because they didn't go home, you have a pretty good indicator that ship date is near!

hahaha.

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our head mentor has a horror story he likes to tell about the time the team arrived at competition to find that the robot was overweight, at which point "speedholes" were invented and a grinder was applied to help take off that extra pound. we've got a picture around here somewhere...
this is the point where everyone either starts panicing, or becomes totally cool with everything because at this point if its not going to make it, what's the use in trying so hard?