Build Season Habits

[InspectorGadget1073]

I usually eat crap for breakfast
...More crap for lunch...
...And a burrito for dinner...
(All during midst robotics season and hockey season, and now I'm wondering why I don't throw-up every time I do physical activity)

[JoshWilson]

Originally Posted by Shrub

Does anyone have any healthy habits that arise from build season? I never procrastinate during build, and I really learned a lot more about self care. Build season shouldn't be a period of time to develop obsessive and unhealthy habits, much less to boast about them.

tl;dr: any good habits? or just a lot of mtn dew?

Personally, it's one of the few times when I'll actually do work without procrastinating, and it also makes me enjoy eating (mostly) healthy for the rest of the year, because I eventually get tired of junkfood.

Originally Posted by GreyingJay

Another healthy build season habit my previous team adopted (and new team will likely do the same) - when it got really intense we asked parents to rotate around a schedule and provide meals for the team. Instead of ordering pizza for every night we had a variety of tasty home-cooked meals.

Even though we eat a lot of junkfood, our weekend meals are usually good homemade meals brought in by parents, which is also really nice.

And kudos to you Shrub, that was a great idea bringing up the subject of healthy habits, and encouraging us to make better ones instead of just continuing with the bad and making fun of them.

[cjl2625]

Speaking of food habits...
We just relocated shops, and our new shop is about a quarter mile from McDonalds, and I pass by it on my way to/from robotics. Rip my health this build season.

[arc25565]

We have a dairy queen just up the hill from our school so we eat there a ton. We also had a barbecue donated last year so we have lots of hamburgers. Not the best diet ever.

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by Shrub

..any good habits?

Well, before starting with FRC, I drank a lot more beer during January and February than I do now. FRC build season and carnival season pretty well line up most years; FRC kicks off on the Saturday nearest the beginning of carnival, and in 2012 and 2015 they ended on the very same stroke of midnight. I don't do nearly as much carnival as I used to. Does that count?

[Billfred]

Every build season since I was out of college--from 2009 through 2015--I've been on teams that met five nights a week from 6-9. Since work ended at 5 PM, that meant eating before 6 because I was not gonna last until 9. I quickly learned which restaurants had which specials on which days, and I learned which ones had easy parking and returns to the road.

Now that I'm working from home, I hope I can shake that one at least some nights.

(And maybe even the handful of Red Bulls each season...)

[The Ginger]

My team likes to blast star wars music on a bluetooth speaker

[Zealii]

School ends at 2:55, but robotics doesn't start until 5:30 so that all of our mentors can be there. Parents sign up to bring food for us (dinner on weekdays and lunch on Saturdays) which is really nice. I can't always say that the food is super healthy but it sure beats fast food. For Saturday dinners, everyone carpools to a local restaurant which helps us to be social Our build space is at our high school near the center of town so there are lots of food choices (healthy and not).

Personally, I am on the Track and Cross Country team so I have practice right after school before robotics. It makes for a very busy day and not a lot of time for homework. It will be interesting to see what junior year and AP Language and Composition do for this habit!

[gbear605]

We listen to Intro by The XX on repeat. It's great.

[InspectorGadget1073]

Originally Posted by gbear605

We listen to Intro by The XX on repeat. It's great.

A whole lot of Darude Sandstorm is a necessity for Team 1073 during Build Season

[GreyingJay]

Originally Posted by InspectorGadget1073

A whole lot of Darude Sandstorm is a necessity for Team 1073 during Build Season

What, you don't hear enough of it at the regionals?

[Zac Schofield]

Originally Posted by InspectorGadget1073

A whole lot of Darude Sandstorm is a necessity for Team 1073 during Build Season

du du du du du du du du du du

He's so right though. We also will blast out relevant memes during our build season. Not to mention lots of BAAAAAAD puns.

Here's one from late in the build season of 2015: "Guys, -Takes out a mostly empty jar of thyme- We're running out of THYIME"

We had to briefly exile him from the room...

[InspectorGadget1073]

Originally Posted by Zac Schofield

We had to briefly exile him from the room...

*Shakes head* Only Mr. Goyette... It seems like BACS is the source of ALL bad puns ever.

[SoulianPride]

I don't know why, I can't explain it, but our business team ends up having at least 1 dance+lip sync battle during the build season in an attempt to concentrate on our work which is usually followed by some kind of McDonald's run and if this takes place in February, then Shamrock Shakes are required.

[InspectorGadget1073]

Originally Posted by SoulianPride

I don't know why, I can't explain it, but our business team ends up having at least 1 dance+lip sync battle during the build season in an attempt to concentrate on our work which is usually followed by some kind of McDonald's run and if this takes place in February, then Shamrock Shakes are required.

You make this sound like this is not a common occurrence on all frc teams ever