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I can relate

Posted by Kate Leach, Student on team #166, Team Merrimack, from Merrimack High School and Unitrode / RS Machines.

Posted on 5/7/99 1:06 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Hey, I'm just following orders... posted by Elaine Anselm on 5/6/99 1:23 PM MST:



I can *totally* relate to getting your emotions out and moving on.. Happened to me at the Mid-Atlantic regionals.. One of the robots down there was just out to break robots cuz they didn't really have their working at the time.. Well, we were about the 5th robot that they had broken during that regional.. And we were broken during our last match on Friday evening.. They grabbed hold of our cage and pulled down.. Broke the middle stage of our lift.. I know that it's our fault for not having a very stable lift.. But I never liked our design of our lift from the beginning.. And I'm still friends with people on the team.. No hard feelings anymore.. It's just that it was the middle stage of the lift and we didn't have anymore fiberglass to remake the part.. I cried.. A wicked lot too.. Sure I was ripped at first when it was broken, but that's not why I was crying.. It was frustration.. The fact that I'd put in 6 weeks to build that robot and it was broken deliberately.. It took over 2 hours to fix the thing.. I feel bad for my engineers who had to miss half the party fixing it.. I even cried after it was fixed.. That's how frustrated I was.. And then someone on my team had to come over and try to make me feel better.. 'It's only a game Kate.' Uhm, excuse me, no.. It's not a game.. It's my life.. Now that I look back on the breakage, it's not so bad.. Things break in real life.. Nothings perfect.. I really don't even want it to be that way ever.. $@#$@#$@#$@# happens, you hafta learn to deal.. Gotta learn to recover.. No one's expected to be recovered from something like this in 2 minutes.. Now that I think about it.. The break was more heartbreaking for me than losing and not getting picked to go on at nationals.. Granted I don't like losing either, but having something that you've put your heart and soul into for 6 weeks is even worse.. Sorry that I've rambled for so long.. But y'know.. It's all good.. :-)

-KATe-


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