Are your mechanical team's suffering withdrawl???

[Elgin Clock]

The reason I ask this is because I learned that on the afternoon of 2-20-02 one of the guys on our mechanical team went home after school and took apart and then put back together his parent's toaster.

I asked him why he did it and he said, "I'm suffering build-season withdrawl already."



Ok anyone else have this problem?????
Or are you like me and catching up on something unfamiliar..Oh what's it called.........Oh yeah...Sleep!

[Ian W.]

Yes, i'm feeling very strange. Today for like, the first or second time in my life i slept until 11 AM. Normally I'm up around 8 or 9. Oh well, good thing there's no school this week, cause sleep is my new best friend. Although, I can say I'm rather anxious to get to the regional (only 21 more days!) just to make sure the robot is ok. i guess that feeling comes when you're one of the 3 or 4 "hardcore" people on your team. Oh well, the build season was fun, can't wait till next year!

[Stephanie]

I know the exact feeling. I nearly cried when our robot was crated and picked up, and the next day, I was ready to go to robotics, but I realized that i wouldn't be working on anything like that til next year. I'm really going to miss working so closely with my friends and staying on campus so late.

Our math teacher assigned us the task of designing a simple machine, and to build a scale model of it, and I went nuts over it. I started drawing the moment I learned about it, and made plans for using motors and stuff My partner told me, "You're having waaayyy too much fun with this, let's just keep it simple, k?"

I actually got really sad b/c I realized that I will only be doing this twice more before I go to college.

That's life. Now, to go work on that design for the math project...

[Ian W.]

why'd you have to point that out? (i'm a sophmore too). now i think i'm going to go and cry. unless....

when i go to college, i have a feeling if i have the time, i'm going to try and help a local FIRST team, just because I love this so much.

on the plus side though, i might actually get sleep, and i might actually be able to hang out with non-FIRST friends. that's always good.

[Wetzel]

Hopeful whatever college I go to has a FIRST team, or there is one nearby, or I will go crazy.

[Joe Ross]

Now you see why programmers have more fun, we aren't constrained by the 6 weeks

[Jessica Boucher]

Originally posted by Elgin Clock
The reason I ask this is because I learned that on the afternoon of 2-20-02 one of the guys on our mechanical team went home after school and took apart and then put back together his parent's toaster.

I asked him why he did it and he said, "I'm suffering build-season withdrawl already."



Ok anyone else have this problem?????
Or are you like me and catching up on something unfamiliar..Oh what's it called.........Oh yeah...Sleep!

Who did that?!? PM me, Elgin, you know my aim is shut off.

Silly mechanical team

-Jessica B, the only person with a roll of duct tape in her entire dorm

[Jnadke]

Originally posted by Joe Ross
Now you see why programmers have more fun, we aren't constrained by the 6 weeks

Speak for yourself. My programming is done.

I'm reeeeeaaaalllyyy bored now. I'm gonna probabaly program the game of life in ASM. Maybe instead I'll create a dashboard interface in ASM instead...

[Rick Gibbs]

What are you talking about mechanical teams being done? Isn't anyone else jotting down drivetrain design improvements for next year's bot? I've got some drawings already!

Rick Gibbs
T-Rx - 145

[dlavery]

Originally posted by Rick Gibbs
What are you talking about mechanical teams being done? Isn't anyone else jotting down drivetrain design improvements for next year's bot? I've got some drawings already!

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one! In a phone call with Dr. Joe the other day, we were discussing lessons learned (so far) from this year's designs. Some of us are already thinking about how to improve the systems for next year. The conclusion? This is really, really sick! FIRST is way too addictive!


-dave


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Things you don't want to hear from your airline captain: "Don't worry, that one is always on 'E'."

[Ian W.]

well, i had the week off from school (mid winter break), so i was really bored after tuesday. then, i started my homework, and realized how much bio i had to do, and i quickly lost much of my free time. but, it's so boring (i like more mechanical sciences than life sciences), so i decided to waste time here.

[Wetzel]

Originally posted by Ian W.
well, i had the week off from school (mid winter break), so i was really bored after tuesday. then, i started my homework, and realized how much bio i had to do, and i quickly lost much of my free time. but, it's so boring (i like more mechanical sciences than life sciences), so i decided to waste time here.

Sacralige! CheifDelphi a waste of time!?!?!
mutter mutter sacrific...mutter mutter heathen...mutter

[ReijiH]

As for our team, our school happened to have a winter break right on the last week of robotics building.....well, pretty much by the end of the building period, most of our team's core member had got some sort of sickness or health problems and were too burned out to feel withdrawl

[Ian W.]

Heh, we had a break this week too, so by tuesday night, i was reallly tired. The next morning, i slept until about 11 AM or so, which is a record for me, considering i'm usually up by 8 or so. if we didn't have a break, i have a pretty good feeling i would have missed more than a bit of class and had more than a few pissed off teachers.