EXAM Week! What Should I Do?

[dragonpaulz]

Good. I'm not alone. I have a major lack of time with midterms and FIRST.

[UngsFree]

My midterms fall during the third week of the build, fortuanely we going in till like 11 on those days to jsut take the exams and then meetings dont start until mid-late afternoon... so I luck out there

[BlueOrion]

School always ideally, comes before FIRST. Sometimes, when you are in a real time crunch, like right before the shipping date, school gets sacrificed a little bit. I have the same problem... I'm planning on studying most days, but putting in about 10 hours in two days on Wednesday and Thursday. I wish our schools were smart enough to have finals BEFORE break, or else FIRST should make kickoff one week later. No break is better than overlapping things.
Good luck with everything...

[RabidWombat]

*Chuckle* Exam week actually gives me MORE time for robotics, since we get off if we don't have exams, and 639 works 8 hours a day for the whole week. If I don't have an exam (and I only know of one so far), I work on the robot. Hahaha, us dirty Sophmores. Not the lowest on the totem pole anymore, but with about the same workload. But, I do agree on the point about school before FIRST. I mean, FIRST might look good on a college application, but they look at GPA first. And our team has the same policy on grades: You fail, you're out.

[Jake177]

Our exams started last wed. and we have our last ones tomorrow. We met to watch the kickoff, bu the teachers decided to cancel the meeting that we usually have the day after kickoff to brainstorm. I'm getting antsy wainting for our next meeting on wed.

[IMDWalrus]

I've actually got FOUR finals tomorrow...as soon as I eat, I'm going to study. Lots. And hope I don't fail...

[kevin.li.rit]

I would try to do both but if you can't I would sacrafice Chem First, FIRST will be more important than eating for the next 6 weeks.

[SuperDave]

well i am in just about the same boat you are pal. except for at my school we have this program called A+A>5. if you earned an A BOTH quarters and had no more than 4 absenses (excused or unexcused) the exam doesnt count against you. you still get the grade you got on your report card, but our transcripts dont record the semester exam grades (therefore the colleges dont see that you failed the final but got an A for the semester). I have chem AP, what a great class, hahahahha, we have a great teacher and he is the advisor to our robotics club (which i am the president for). but lucky for me, i dont have to worry about the chem exam. we are meeting everyday this week after we have a break for lunch and exams. depending on your grades and what colleges you want to apply for, study for the exam. but if you are comfortable with getting by, GO ROBOT GO. thats my advice. choose wisely...
peace out from sunny and warm las vegas, NEVADA!

[Jessica Boucher]

I'm still leaning towards studying for Chem. I WISH I was in the same boat as SuperDave when I was in HS, but our advisor was in tech-ed and even though I spent about half of my high school year in his classroom I never took one of his classes.

But as he said, choose wisely. The money you save by getting those credits now will be your own

[Enslaved]

I'm really behind in my work...*sigh of relief*
Glad Beta Bot got over, before Exams!
Yesteday, I slept at 3, working on my assignment!

...It's funny, how doing a Psychology Essay on Insomnia, has made me an insomanic myself!

Exams next week....and I really do not want my average to go down!
I think I'll be skipping a few meetings!

However, our school stresses on not neglecting our studies, and making our grades suffer, because of extra-curricular activities...
I try to get everything over during Lunch, but there aren't a lot of committed people during this time of the year!
LoL!

Anyways....All the best everyone!

[Tom Bottiglieri]

ahh who needs school... ive never studied for an exam and i always seem to do alrite on them...plus if u try to study u wont be able to stop thinking about the bot and ull go off into little design rants and forget about studying , but then go back to it, not really learning anything at all, and then eventually forgetting about that killer idea u had to raise ur 7 inch high bot that runs on treads to get an arm 9 feet in the air....... so pretty much u wont be able to study or design if u choose to study, so go for FIRST stuff

[Enslaved]

Originally Posted by ToMMan b182

ahh who needs school... ive never studied for an exam and i always seem to do alrite on them...plus if u try to study u wont be able to stop thinking about the bot and ull go off into little design rants and forget about studying , but then go back to it, not really learning anything at all, and then eventually forgetting about that killer idea u had to raise ur 7 inch high bot that runs on treads to get an arm 9 feet in the air....... so pretty much u wont be able to study or design if u choose to study, so go for FIRST stuff

Jeez..that's me...
When i'm supposed to be drawing ray diagrams, and the next thing you know..I'm designing a robot on the paper!
Nothing new....but oh well, the fact still keep nagging at the back of my mind,..that I have an EXAM!!!!
..and then I end up getting nothing done, but I always do pretty good on exams...but it is hard to concentrate with so much going on!

[Arefin Bari]

dont feel bad... there are thousands people like you around the whole nation who has final exams next week when they have to be stressed about building a bot for this season...

[Alfred Thompson]

What is the team's policy?

[unixfreak]

Heh... well, im a slacker, so I just put all my time into robotics. (If you were on my team last year, you would know that I missed like a total of 5 hours in the whole building season. I would have to go with Robotics... like i did during exams last week.