Freshman Positives

[Alekat]

Freshman, who needs em right? wrong! if you read enough forum pages your always going to fun into comments about know-it-all freshmen. But they're also good for other things as well. Here are the ones i can come up with off the top of my head:

The simple machines:
1.Shelf
2.support beam(warning: check the muscle on your freshman before applying too much weight)
3.Ramp(a little shaky but they get used to it)

The simple tasks:
1."fetch" (please be specific as to whether you meant drill bit or mill bit)
2."hold this for me"
3."get out of the way" (please be kind to our freshmen when using this one)

Please keep in mind this thread is all in clean fun, and try not to be rude to the freshmen(not sure if i set the best example). Keep in mind without Freshmen we couldn't have anyone else, whos gonna take over the robotics team!?
Feel free to post any quotes or incredible freshmen feats you have seen achieved! lol

Happy Robot Building!

[Tom Bottiglieri]

hahahah thats so great. It's really funny because it's true.

The simple tasks:
1."fetch" (please be specific as to whether you meant drill bit or mill bit)
2."hold this for me"
3."get out of the way" (please be kind to our freshmen when using this one)

That is so true...

[sirbleedsalot]

having them look for nonexistant parts is also fun ie: a metric cresent wrench
but seriously we need them if we want this organization to continue

[Redhead Jokes]

What about the freshman who know more than the seniors and are harder workers. Or the 8th grader who learns six machines in 3 weeks...yeh, we got 'em. Brains and hard work aren't necessarily about age or grade.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Redhead Jokes

What about the freshman who know more than the seniors and are harder workers. Or the 8th grader who learns six machines in 3 weeks...yeh, we got 'em. Brains and hard work aren't necessarily about age or grade.

I agree. When I hear of people making fun of freshmen, I tend to think more about lazy seniors then stupid freshmen.

[abeD]

Well as a freshman (I'm now a senior) the team leader/driver who was a senior at the time was in the same room as me in the hotels for both regionals and nats. Him and his senior friend developed what they liked to call "Freshman Privilege" in which they would do anything to torment us freshmen. I remember one such occurence was when i got locked out of my room and then only to have the door opened and have all this water dumped on me not the greatest of times..soo.. i treat most of the freshman ok because of my traumatic experiences but by no means do they get away with anything, and yes they still have to do the menial jobs but dont all freshman?

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally Posted by abeD

I remember one such occurence was when i got locked out of my room and then only to have the door opened and have all this water dumped on me

Awww ... that's horrible.

I know this thread was started in good fun and I'm glad to see it's stayed that way. I just wanted to throw this out there for the people who might take this thread a little more seiously than it was intended ...

When I was a freshman on 93, I wasn't treated lower than anyone else. True, I knew next to nothing when it came to electronics and mechanics, but that didn't mean I spent the year fetching aluminum magnets and metric crescent wrenches -- I spent the time learning from the people with more experience than me. I hope all the "lazy seniors" can teach the "stupid freshmen" a thing or two before their time on the team is up, rather than making the freshmen play 'fetch'.

Keep in mind without Freshmen we couldn't have anyone else, whos gonna take over the robotics team!?

Yep.

[dez250]

Keep in mind without Freshmen we couldn't have anyone else, whos gonna take over the robotics team!?

Yes I know this whole thread was started as fun but heres a little food for thought...
I know that freshman on my team are treated now as equals, all people on 250 are treated as equals and that is how we do things. I dont know how other teams do things but age and grade is no different then gender and race which has no effect to our team. Many of you should take a lil more time to think of what you post on here because these forums are read by many FIRST staff and what you say reflects upon your whole team.

P.S.~ werent we all freshman at a time and arent freshman the people who are taking over our teams as we graduate?

[shyra1353]

Originally Posted by dez250

werent we all freshman at a time?

not everyone .. i went from grade eight to grade 10 .. but still completed all the work for all my grade 9 courses ... try that one on ...

as to treating freshmen .. we have one on our team and we treat him the same .. sure i call him a freshman some of the time ... but its all jokes and he knows it ...

and going to find non-existant tools ?? making people (not just freshman) find something non-existant (not just tools) is common within the team .... my engineer told me (a junior) yesterday to find a left-handed screwdriver .. but then again he was calling a hammer a hacksaw and a nut a screw ... and one time he left us alone to have the motors hooked up by the time he got back ... when we saw him coming back we werent done yet so i led him around the building to find a monkey .. hahaha .. now thats a joke between the team ....

[Ryan M.]

I'm insulted. I'm way smarter than anyone else on our team and I'm a freshmen.

[steven114]

When I was one last year, I came at the perfect time - I was the only one who had a clue as to how to program the darn thing. I learned PBASIC in a grand total of a few hours, and earned some respect very quickly like that

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally Posted by abeD

and yes they still have to do the menial jobs but dont all freshman?

No.

[Elyse Holguin]

Originally Posted by sirbleedsalot

having them look for nonexistant parts is also fun ie: a metric cresent wrench
but seriously we need them if we want this organization to continue

or a wire stretcher

really though, our freshmen have been a tremendous help this year!

[Alaina]

My team doesn't treat members by grade. We're all treated equally no matter what our skill levels are.
First year members can learn what second year member knows very quickly. So they don't have any specific "simple" jobs...

[Alekat]

Could anybody bring some detail to the term Super Freshman? Dont have any on my team but i'd be intrested to find out what feats your freshemn have accomplished "sarcasm encouraged" . again, keep it all in good fun and for those freshmen who are reading this thread, please feel free to post your thoughts and/or feeling to the topics at hand