First Year Students advice here please

[Ianworld]

I know my first year, I wouldn't say i actually did much. There is so much to learn about building a FIRST robot and you come in with basically no knowledge. Its hard for me to explain to new kids that the best thing they can do for their first year, is to watch and learn. If you're always following around somebdoy who knows what they're doing you will learn do things. Then later that year or the following year you can lead the group that the person led before. After three years of doing that, I could almost say i know everything there is about building a robot but i know that wouldn't be true. Every day i still learn something. Of course i have to leave next year and another student will be my succesor after he watched and learned for three years. Its the FIRST cycle of learning and graduating.