Posted by Josh at 1/22/2001 6:44 PM EST
Engineer on team #419, Rambots, from Wentworth Institute of Technology.
In Reply to: Authentic FIRST-related question!
Posted by Jessica Boucher on 1/22/2001 8:31 AM EST:
: This is a question in response to the strangely OT stuff that has been posted lately turned into an actual FIRST-related question!
What's so bad about being strange? (you thought i would say OT didn't you? DIDN'T YOU?! yeh, that's what i thought.

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(the following section is if you want to read about WHY some of these have been OT, viewer discression is advised
But seriously, we're engineers, not librarians, and i for one am not going to sit around being boring all day.
The general section IMHO should be used not only for FIRST related business (as it is a FIRST forum) but it should also be used as a chance for us to have fun and get to know eachother. We are, after all, striving toward the same goal, why not use this to our advantage and not only work on our engineering skills as well as our social skills (ok, so i'm still lagging in both areas....shoot me why don't ya).
Yes i'm proud to be one of the 419 ninnies with powertools, and yes, we do pots a lot here. I joined this year and that's the first thing anton told me to do, he said, "GO HERE, and pots a lot so that we can meet people from other teams and interact with them, make some new friends." So i do, and i have fun doing it, and it helps me clear my head when i'm thinking too hard and i start to smell something burning...
That is the reason for my OT pots at least, and also the reason for the strange and somewhat confusing links i put on the page, so that i am not completely turned into social vegetables and can have a little fun with this outside the technical content. And in the process, i hope i give a few other people a laugh while i'm at it.
by now you've been reading and thinking, "this guy is a jerk" or "is he serious?" or maybe even, "he's overreacting". If you think i'm overreacting, then i'm sorry, but i do tend to get a little sickened when i see pots that say "I skip lunch because then i don't have to be with kids who talk about non-first topics" (paraphrased of course). and i would hope that at least a few of you feel it too...
Sorry this was so long, i don't think it will happen again, it gave me a headache writing this much...
Josh
Proud to be on Team 419
"Is he NUTS?!" -Yes, yes i am.