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Honestly, as a college mentor I'd like to weigh in on this:

This semester, I took a lighter courseload than usual so that I could act in a serious mentoring role for FRC Team 4464. The team was in great need of help, and I felt an obligation to do so. And the experience has been far more valuable than any college course I have ever taken, bar none. Yes, it has been inconvenient as far as classes are concerned; it probably will have had an impact on my grades, and it certainly has had an impact on the amount of stress in my life. Knowing all this, though, I would not have chosen to act otherwise if I could do it again. Not even close. The amount of good that this opportunity has provided, both for me and for those I can help to teach, is more than anything else I've experienced in my life.

If the ultimate result is that I need to take longer to graduate, then so be it. For me, it's not even a question if that's a worthy trade-off. Being a mentor in FRC, I can make a real difference in the lives of a large number of people. I can learn more mentoring a FRC team than I can in any course. I wholly intend to schedule my course load for the remainder of my college education around my FRC mentoring obligations, and I have absolutely no reservations about it.