Raise Awareness for Robotics After-hours Syndrome

[kobitate94]

Note before reading: this is obviously a joke, no such thing as RAhS
Robotics After-hours Syndrome (RAhS) is a recently discovered disease that is baffling scientists everywhere. While the symptoms are easy to spot, a permanent cure has not yet been discovered. Some symptoms include, but are not limited to:

• Talking to oneself
• Spontaneous Dancing
• Naming individual parts of robot
• Calling your ball feeder a Bagel Slicer

More information on this disease can be found at http://rahs.tk

If you have identified any RAhS-like symptoms, please contact us via this thread so other robotics participants can be diagnosed and, hopefully, cured.

[JosephC]

Is it bad that I fit all the symptoms besides the wanting to kill programmers one?

[kobitate94]

Probably

[mathgeek0001]

How about spending another 2 hours on CD after a 16 hour robotics shift?

[Anupam Goli]

Originally Posted by mathgeek0001

How about spending another 2 hours on CD after a 16 hour robotics shift?

Major Symptom!!!!

Is falling behind on school work also a symptom? That's what I'm experiencing right now

Originally Posted by Wing

Major Symptom!!!!

Is falling behind on school work also a symptom? That's what I'm experiencing right now

Yeah, it's tough, but you gotta learn to work through it. I'm doing my math homework right now. School's in 30 minutes...

[Pirkey]

How about naming the minibot after a guy who you met at a Taco Bell during MARC?
Or constantly quoting Office Space?
Or singing the same songs for the past 6 weeks?
Or going up behind a programmer working on his laptop and going "Soooooo whatcha doin'?"

[Anupam Goli]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

Yeah, it's tough, but you gotta learn to work through it. I'm doing my math homework right now. School's in 30 minutes...

I'm in school right now and doing an assignment that was due back on monday and a major project due tomorrow... I should stop spending time on CD... but being a second semester Senior doesn't help.

[Taylor]

Public Service Announcement:

Pressing the spacebar when the robot is enabled isn't nearly as funny the forty-second time.



On an unrelated note:

Has anybody seen our programmer? He was last sighted walking southbound in the rain, his laptop tucked under his arm, grumbling to himself.

[Jon Stratis]

How about complaining that your actual professional engineering job is getting in the way of robotics?

[jwfoss]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

How about complaining that your actual professional engineering job is getting in the way of robotics?

quoted for truth.

[Walter Deitzler]

How about willing to walk a mile through the snow to reach a 3 hour build session? Or writing love poetry to your robot on Valentines Day? Or when you wake up one morning, in your bed, wearing safety goggles?

[kws4000]

Complete absence of or recollection of the last time sleep was a mandatory activity, while carefully balancng excessivly long raw materiel in the last bit of space that is not occupied by WIP.

Complaints about how 42 is NOT the answer.

A burning desire to see a contraption thrown thrown together in six weeks work better than many years of proven expectations.

[Cal578]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

How about complaining that your actual professional engineering job is getting in the way of robotics?

Ouch, truth hurts.

Another symptom: dreading the end of build season. Are we gluttons for punishment, or what?

[kobitate94]

I will be adding some of these to the website later tonight. Because you know, build session.
Edit: The site's been updated with more symptoms and photographic evidence.