[Pault]

When at your first regional you lose your voice after every one of your matches, only to slowly regain it in time for the next one.

When you are waiting patiently for that driving ban due to a blizzard to be lifted so you can get to robotics.

When you have to go into school so that you can take a bus to a competition, and you arrive significantly earlier than anybody else. Including the mentor. Twice.

When your mother thinks your crazy because you just finished an intense build season, the next day you are almost completely incapacitated from exhaustion and a desperate need to relax, and your still staying up late because you volunteered to write an essay for the Woodie Flowers Award.

When you believe that said Woodie Flowers Award essay is the best thing that you have ever written.