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Originally Posted by alicen

On a different side of the sleep deprivation - it kind of lends itself to the real world. Sometimes you will have projects at work that cause you to work long hours for deadlines and get little sleep for a few days. Then once your deadlines are hit, you go back to a more normal sleep/work schedule.

So in short, I don't see a few days of exhaustion/sleep deprivation/stressful choices as negative. They are opportunities to learn from the experience so that when you arrive in the real world at a job you are more prepared for what gets thrown your way.

I agree. Sleep deprivation is pretty inevitable in the real world and that's how I took it too.. did I regret every time I woke up during the morning of a competition that I only got 4-6 hours of sleep? Yea, but kinda had no other choice.. especially before Saturday cause of the scouting meet Friday night which tends to take quite a long time.

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

I now have a rule to eat before alliance selections but whats going to happen when a kid passes out on the field because they had no time for lunch.

I made a rule for myself to eat lunch (or at least some sort of food) before alliance selection (since I was the team rep) after the Lake Superior regional this year. I didn't eat anything but a light breakfast that day, didn't eat lunch, and after the regional was over on the way back I literally crashed on the bus and other team members told me that I was pretty out of it.. ever since then I've been eating lunch at competitions. During 2015 I never ate lunch during the Saturday of the regional and somehow got through it.. TL;DR Food is good, don't skip out.. even if you are nervous about something eat at least something.