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Originally Posted by ehfeinberg
Took 172 posts for a student to weigh in on the issue. Tells you something...
See what you don't understand about us students is that we don't know when to stop. By the time build season is over, I find that a large majority of the students are burnt out and need to take a break from robotics. I know a lot of people who towards the end of build season already start to fall ill and fall behind on school. Making build season longer would just hurt these students even more.
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I agree with this-- I'm an AP student that loves to take challenging classes (mostly because I just love learning about things), but even with my desire to do well in school, it's often difficult for me to balance the two-- and I do try. The problem is, of course, that building robots is so fun, and school can be, well, not.
As a student, I would have a good deal of difficulty restraining or spacing myself when it comes to a longer build season-- even when I'm not in the shop, it takes my mind off of whatever I'm doing that isn't robotics. More time would just burn me out more-- I don't get sick during build season, but I often get sick right after it because the adrenaline wears out.
In theory, I love the idea of a longer build season, but in practice, it would distract me far too much from my studies (and please, although I am a student and I'm complaining about focus issues, it isn't from a lack of effort on my part that I get distracted by robots; I'd much rather be able to focus on what I'm currently working on, but it's quite difficult, and that's coming from someone that balances far more honors/AP classes than I probably should).
That being said, I won't be too upset when districts finally makes its way to Minnesota-- I don't believe that longer build season and district system have to go hand in hand, or even that a longer build season necessarily follows the district system.