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Posted by Matt Leese at 2/10/2001 9:31 PM EST


Other on team #73, Tigerbolt, from Edison Technical HS and Alstom & Fiber Technologies & RIT.


In Reply to: College & FIRST
Posted by Patrick Dingle on 2/10/2001 8:42 PM EST:



FIRST affects a good portion of my life, I think. I
guess it doesn't hurt that I spend a good part of my
afternoons either working at the High School or doing
administrative tasks (I hate them as much as anybody
but somebodies got to do it). Do they affect my
grades? Of course. But I'm not too worried about it
-- nothing major has happened either way. I guess
FIRST has something to do with me being completely
exhausted at the moment (&$*$* making me get up at 7 am
on a Saturday). Then again the fact that this gives me
the opportunity to get to know the Engineering Dept
staff doesn't hurt too much. I guess it's particularly
intersting because the Engineering Dept decided to get
involved about two weeks ago. We had talked to them
before but they hadn't really responded too much. They
thought FIRST was a good idea but I believe the general
consensus for them was that we wouldn't pull it off and
I don't blame them. The fact that they're giving us
money now makes me mostly not care but I could've used
the help before. I guess it comes to planning for next
year. All I know is that starting and running a team
is quite an experience -- both good and bad.

Matt who thinks the above doesn't make a lick of sense....