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Originally Posted by vhcook
Find a geographically convenient event that's during your spring break and volunteer. That gets you a couple of days of immersion, but doesn't eat up so much time it affects your grades.
In your free time, you can follow the season here, but I'd advise against mentoring a team as a college freshman outside of school breaks. If the end of your winter break is suitably timed, you might be able to do kickoff and perhaps week 1 with a team before going back to school.
Once you've got your feet under you, you could consider doing more, but take it easy the first year.
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Seems legit. I would definitely not want to miss kickoff - even not being on an FRC team this year, I watched the kickoff the day it aired, and I've been watching lots of regional events via live stream. What's important to me is to have some level of FIRST involvement (preferably outside of just watching online), because even after the first couple of weeks into my first year, I knew that I would be in this program and related professions for a very long time. Being away from it for too long isn't good for my sanity.
Thanks so much for the great advice.