[Ryan Foley]

This is an interesting story for you. Last year (2001) I was a freshman, 1 of 2. Naturally I always got told to shut up and all the usuall stuff people do to feshies. This year I'm the team captain. Also this year, we didnt compete officially, we modified our 2001 robot to use at some post season competitions this year. It has been really fun, considering we have done more work on the bot than students of the past 2 years combined. Heres the bad part. MY TEAM IS 90% FRESHIE!!!!!! We have 2 sophmores (myself included, and 1 junior, then everyone else is a freshie. Some freshies arent that bad, i have one who has done more work than many people of the team, and is more mature than our junior. Every other freshie simply sits there, wastes time telling "your mama" jokes, goes on the computers and plays games etc. Thats mainly the reason why it took us 4 months to design the bot, missing about 4 mini competitions. So then the other day, my advisor told me to start chossing drivers, HP's, etc. So every freshmen that spent the months wasting time, not helping in any way, not coming to even half the meetings, all come up to me and ask me to be drivers. Gotta love the stupidity of most freshmen.