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Originally Posted by CraigHickman
Having been kicked off a FIRST team by a student with power delusions, I hoped to be able to keep involved through CD. For a time, it worked. I was still a part of FRC, and I enjoyed it. But over time, the same issues that have bugged me for a long time, and have dug at me since I joined have not gone away, nor even diminished. There are many here who were not part of the problem, and I'd like to thank them. I could name names, but it wouldn't prove anything, nor further any goal.
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I don't know about this quitting CD business, kinda actually makes sense, seeing how you’re going off to college (I should probably do the same lol
)...
But I think your real gripe is not with CD at all but with 114. Ever since they kicked you off you've been kind of upset and its shown in your posts (probably why people negative repped you).
I'm pretty good friends with some of the people on your team so I have a rough idea of why you got kicked off. For the sake of privacy I won't share that here, but it involved some sort of a fight over robot design/construction...
If there's one thing I've learned from being the "head engineer" for my team its "
never give up." People will constantly find problems with everything you design and build - sometimes going so far as to ridicule you. Even worse, sometimes physics finds problems with your designs
, and people are like “I told you so!” But guess what. That's what engineering is all about. If nobody pointed out the problems, the robot wouldn't work.
Take criticism as advice, listen to people's ideas
(even if they're really stupid ideas), be patient, synthesize ideas, and never, EVER, GIVE UP!
-Martin T.