[MissDaisyGirl]

my personal reason for being on the robotics team is not just to learn more about engineering. in fact, i'm not interested in that at all. my main interest is computers and the reason that i valued my time w/FIRST so much is that i had so many opportunities to work w/video on the chairman's award, animation w/the 3dsmax award (which is biased anyways and i gave up on when PROS ARE HELPING EVERYONE BUT ME *bitterness*), and just plain old graphic design. but 4 pages of written word?! c'mon, i'm a designer, not an english major. what happened to the many opportunities of activities i could get into? now i'm faced w/writing yet another paper just like in english class? this is so awful. my team has put so much time into logging all of our videos and we came up with this great video idea for our Ramp Riot competition that we were going to pull off. but now...what's the point other than for making videos for yourself? i sure hope they make a new award or something b/c if they don't their missing a vital component of technology, in and of itself. that one point that was made about how will they present the national chairman's award will be interesting to see. what are they going to do, read it? the chairman's award is not going to be as special as it used to be. and as for the 'hollywood bang' stuff that everyone keeps talking about. if you have enough that your team does you don't need that, and if you're using it as filler the judges will know. but then again my team submitted an interactive CD-ROM last year. i was in charge of making the interface in macromedia director and while it worked fine on our computers we got to our regional at drexel and they said they couldn't view it! they were trying to use some old laptop to see our award which had many videos in it. grrr........where was their technology then?

to sum it all up: angry, disappointed, yet open to what others have to say, and thoughtful