[Elyse Holguin]

I've come to a sort of crossroads in my life, and am wondering if any other college students have felt the same problem.

I have decided to take a year off from a team. This does NOT mean I'm taking a year off from FIRST, but I no longer have the team affiliation. I graduated in June, and was dead-set on coming to college and applying to join 461 (I go to Purdue.) Only thing is, I got here, I went to the FIRST callout, and decided I really don't want to let go of the things I had back on my high schol team in order to join a new one. Don't get me wrong, I do want to help out kids to realize what a wonderful thing it is to join FIRST, and all the benefits you can get from being in it, and one day I want to be as good of a mentor as those I had while I was on 71. I just don't want to start this all now.

Has anyone else felt this too? Like, you really want to do something, but you just can't, and it's not like anything's physically stopping you?

Before I end this, I would like to thank Team Hammond for helping me grow, a wealth of knowledge, experience, and overall good times during my quite awesome run with them. You guys rock. I will always be proud to have been a part of the team (even the times when we argued like monsters, and those times you made me a human burrito and threw me on the ground outside my hotel room door. That really hurt. I had an ugly bruise.).