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Re: College Students: How is your experience in FIRST?

I am a college freshman this year, and I started a rookie team. Kind of. We didn't get our registration fee, and the feeling of failure constantly nags at me. We didn't give up as a team. We decided to use this year as a practice year. We are building a robot, and want to hold a competition in the fall. But what if i can't manage that either. I'm the only adult our team has, so it's up to me to do everything. I love FIRST. I was only on my high school team for a year (didn't know about it until then), but FIRST has been the best experience of my life. I know being a team leader affects my school work, but not always in a negative way. If fact most of the time it's "I have to do my work, because then I can play with robots." It's really frustrating sometimes being the only adult. Because everything that doesnt happen (like not getting a registration fee) is my fault. Sometimes I want to go shout over the treetops to all the sponsors that think I'm going to give up at this. So what if nobody around here has ever heard of robotics. Wait till I'm through with them. I think being able to handle everything depends mostly on the person, and other things affecting them, like stuff at home.

I'm sorry if that was a somewhat scatterbrained response. The lack of money around here is rather frustrating. I'll try and clarify later, it's just there's so much I want to say on this topic that my brain keeps jumping all over.

Allison
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