Excitement while traveling with the team? Well I think my best memory is going back-wards down an offramp in downtown Chicago. The story goes like this. Our team leader had decided we would do a little detour through Chi-town and see all the big buildings and whatnot. Well, he picked the wrong exit to get off on to say the least. We got about 50 yards off the highway before we came to a complete halt on the off-ramp, with traffic backed well beyond on the surface street. After sitting there for about 20-25 min some of the "locals" all of sudden started going down the off-ramp and getting onto the highway. Well pretty soon this off-ramp had turned into an on-ramp with this mass flux of people going in the reverse direction. Than, our turn came. And as any good lemming does, we followed the crowd  . So after an impromptu U-turn on the off ramp we made are back down and back onto the highway to try our luck a little further up the road.
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"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct; will pursue his principles onto death."
"Thats what livin' is! The six inches, in front of your face!....."
Joe Lambie
Student Alumni (1999-2002) and Current Mentor - N.A.C. Team 93, Appleton, WI
Michigan Technological University Mechanical Engineering '07 and Alumni Mentor (2005-2007) Team 857
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