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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
music major? SUPER!
what regionals are you going to?
Ill bring my electric guitar if you will sing the songs we posted at the start of the days events "^)
Captive audience - thousands of people - would look great on your resume!
EDIT: Hey I found some music that fits the poem/prose in the first post of this thread
and I dont have to write it down cause you already know it (its a classic)
the tune from The Brady Bunch
huh? huh???
go back to page one- it fits the whole song!
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wow, i cant believe someone turned my midnight thinkings into a FIRST anthem so fast.
I also have some more to add.
FIRST not only teaches us engineering, construction, and planning;
It helps keep us off the streets; Hell, some of us could even be homeless.
If any of us are, it gives us a place to go for a few additional hours every day, at least during the build season. I don't know if this is actually the case, but i do know that there are high school students who are homeless, and dont have anywhere to go.
It truly is as Dean Kamen said: FIRST is for
EVERYONE
Its for the straight A student who is bored
It keeps the failing stoner off the streets
Its for the engineer who is frustrated with his boring day job
Its for the worried parent who wants to know what their kid is doing
Its for the teacher who still feels as if he isnt giving enough to the youth of the world
(none of those comments were meant to be male oriented btw)
FIRST challenges us all in ways school simply cannot.
FIRST keeps our brains working 24/7, if we're not solving the current year's problems, we're wondering whats in store next year.
If I feel this way only in 1075's 2nd year, I can only imagine how some of the vets on the teams that have been here from the start.
I can remember a while ago reading a post questioning the size of FIRST with a comment "Is FIRST getting too big?" I remember some of the posts inside saying that "FIRST will only become 'too big' when every living human is a part of it (ie. all 6 billion of us)". I completely and totally subscribe to this outlook on FIRST.
FIRST has impacted my life in unimaginable ways.
My mom was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in 1999, and I was really scared. I dont quite know how, since I only began with FIRST in 2003, but I feel as if it has changed the way I look on my mom's illness. (Before you all ask, she is doing fine). Perhaps this is because I feel more secure in knowing that we are the future. That we are learning how to build robots. Robots that perform surgery to insane levels of precision.
Perhaps I also feel this way, knowing that we are the type of people that participate in fundraising events such as the CIBC Run For the Cure which donates 100's of thousands of dollars to the Canadian Cancer Society yearly, where 1000's of Canadians run 5k for cancer research. Perhaps I feel more secure because i know there are thousands more like me out there.
I hate to write a book, but I cant seem to stop writing, just as I think I am done, something else comes to me. Just another example of how FIRST keeps our minds going
.
I remember reading a story of a team who built a lawn bowling machine for a disabled student in their school. This demonstrates to me, that FIRST-goers are very... large-hearted, for lack of a better term.
FIRST is teaching us things we will
NEVER learn in a regular school environment.
I hope 1075 continues next year... Our main teacher is questioning if he will be able to, because since he is the only truly dedicated teacher in our school, he lost out on an EXTREME amount of time at home with his WIFE and KIDS. He needs to be truly commended on his dedication to FIRST and the students, myself included. He spent close to 16 hours/day at school, forfeiting time with his WIFE and KIDS to teach us. THIS is true dedication to FIRST.
To Mr. Smith: 1075 THANKS YOU!
He has told us, that the wife may not let him do this again next year. This is clearly not because she has an issue with FIRST. She also thinks that FIRST is one of the best things that could happen to our school. But since there is not nearly enough teacher support at our school, FIRST may fall through the cracks. I will do my damnedest to keep 1075 alive, however I fear for the worst. I dont like to point fingers, but if FIRST falls through at Sinclair, it would be the fault of every other teacher in the school.
FIRST has removed boredom from school days, and replaced it with contemplation of many things. I can remember 2 or 3 weeks ago, after writing a test in my programming class (which i believe i aced
) on the back i was trying to figure out the triangulation for the IR beacons.
I must get to bed now, It is almost 1:30 am, I started writing this almost an hour ago.
~FIRST FOREVER~
(PS: I dont know if anyone knows, but FIRST is even recognized by dictionary.com)