As I sat on the bus ride home from Chesapeake with all my teammates sleeping around me, I had occasion to wonder how I had gotten so far from where I started.
When I started high school I was planning on becoming a history teacher. I didn't have a lot of friends at school because I spent most of my time in Hartford at the theatre.
I joined the robotics team Junior year, I was still planning on becoming a teacher, but I had more friends at school and I was having a great time.
Well, now I am going to College in the fall (almost definitely Syracuse University) for either Chemical or Electrical Engineering. This was never something I would have considered without FIRST.
I hope to get a chance to work with a team while in college. If not, I will definitely mentor a team once I start working.
Did FIRST change my life? Definitely, sometimes I don't even recognize it anymore. But I like it so much better this way.
