Re: Homework V.S Robotics
 

Well when i put this thread up, I was doing stuff and not paying attention to my typing. If my terms are correct though, the time spent awake is inversely related to the ability to type coherently.

Re: Homework V.S Robotics
 

Or do anything else coherently. Yep, it is an inverse relationship.

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What I meant by that is that we work togegether on assignments to try and figure different problems out. Then we trade them before school, and then we talk about how we got that answer. I by no means meant to make it sound like we divided up problems and then copied the other persons. Sorry for the misunderstanding, I now realize my post was worded very oddly.

Re: Homework V.S Robotics
 

Except falling asleep. Man I get REALLY good at falling asleep the longer I am awake.

Re: Homework V.S Robotics
 

Used to do high school & college homework while riding the bus or carpooling. Save time, save a tree.

Ditto the comments about turning off tv & other distractions. Just like a computer running too many programs/apps at once, it slows down productivity while the survival part of your brain is continually monitoring the background noises.

Eliminate unecessary tasks.

Since starting this team with my kid & her friends, I've reduced household chores to a minimum. Who cares if there are new life forms developing in the refrigerator or in the jungle that used to my yard, anyway?

Seriously, thanks for posting to this thread. As a non-school affliliated team, myself & the other adults have lamented the fact that we can't utilize school time for robotics and see it as a real challenge for the team to learn & do everything required of a FRC team.

Re: Homework V.S Robotics
 

On our team, we would take our homework with us to the shop since there was a group of us who had a ton of homework. I found it easier because if I needed a break from homework, I got up and went to work on the robot and vice versa.

Study groups are the way to go! Time management is a tricky but invaluable lesson from your FIRST experience.

Good luck!

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I heard this somewhere before... only with "social life" instead of robotics. :D

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One of the most difficult things I have had to do is balance my IB and AP workload with attending Robotics meetings. In my second year of IB, starting January of 2011, I had numerous essays (Extended Essay, TOK Essay, World Lit essays, Math portfolios, Physics labs, and more) to write and perfect, as well as presentations to do (Extended Essay Presentation, TOK Presentation, English Oral Commentary, Spanish Oral Exam). All of this came right in the middle of the Robotics Build season.

However, I decided even before build season started that both IB and Robotics were important, and that I would not compromise on either. I made sure never to fall behind on my IB work and even worked as far ahead as I could whenever I found a slot of free time, so that in the future I would have less work to do and hence more time for robotics. I ended up having to miss only a few meetings, and I was able to do quite well on my IB diploma, receiving a 38/45 points.

In short, I had a ridiculous amount of work to do, but I managed to stay on top of it by getting work done whenever I had free time.