Mentor: "Eric, you have a very annoying habit of calling people to tell them something they already know whilst they are carrying a very heavy object and have great difficulty reaching their phones."
Student 1: "Where's the emery cloth? The one we had earlier?"
Student 2: "I don't know; I can't find it."
<a few minutes later, after being unable to find it still>
Student 1: "Here, why don't we just use this sandpaper?"
Student 2: "No, that has a different grit; we need to find the sandpaper."
<five minutes later...realize this is 1:00 AM the day before competition>
Student 2: "You sure we can't just use this sandpaper?"
Student 1: "Give me that..."
<stomps into an unused room and throws the paper away>
Mentor: "I didn't know there was a storage room in there."
Student 1: "Actually, that's an elevator shaft."
Mentor: "Oh...okay."
While we were attaching some power cables to the Cypress board...
Student: "Can you hold it in while I screw?"
Announcer at VCU: "And it looks like 2168 is practically undefended but 411 is sitting right in front of them..."