[EricVanWyk]

Whining on a public forum will only get you remembered as a whiner.


Honestly, this level of angst is a bit much for my tastes: It is exhausting. In my estimation, you are right in the middle of the pack for high school FRC participants - and that is a fantastic place to be! You have opportunities that are unavailable to the vast majority of people on the planet.

I was the last student admitted to my college class. Literally, the very last one picked. I could choose to interpret this as meaning that I was the worst student in my grade... or I could be proud that I made the cut. I chose pride, and happily worked my butt off for the best four years of my life (so far). Now I have a great job playing with robots all day. I couldn't have achieved that if I had angsted away my time.

So, quit being the living definition of self-fulfilling-prophecy and quit your belly-aching. You don't have to be the best to change the world - if that were the case, the other 7 billion of us could sit around waiting for the perfect one to get everything done.


PS: "I got a 186. I know 2 sophomores that got 220 and 228 on their's." is a really immature thing to say. How do you think it would make the sophomores feel? Comparing yourself to others in this way is the equivalent of saying "How did someone like that beat someone like me?"