working til midnight

[steven114]

Or Monday...

[Jeff K.]

We're actually definitely planning on working until midnight on Saturday, if we have to, to finish the robot for the Preship the next day. All of the long hours are really beginning to push some people to the breaking point.

Today, one guy was having another guy on our team drill some holes and the first guy just eyeballed it, which is a practice of mine (I won't deny it, but I tend to be very good at it ) and it turned out that when the guy had eyeballed it, he was off quite a bit, and started yelling/ranting at the guy that drilled it for him from the holes that he had marked.

Not too gracious or professional really.. but I think it's just the long hours and some people stressing out, happened around this time last year also. How many other teams have had some of these types of "problems"?

[karinka13]

come on now, late nights are just expected.
basement til 10:30 today, but only because it was the latest my dad would let me stay. And now I'm up working on awards, of course. My physics problems will have to wait.

[Josh Murphy]

man we stay till 9 to 10 o clock every night i have not ate dinner at home in 3 weeks we get here at abou 6:30 every morning and working ont this project most of the dayman it is just like hurry up ship dste but we are pretty much finished just some tweaking and adjusting

[jonathan_powers]

no more like 4 0r 5 am but sleep is way over rated

[Squirt_47]

Originally Posted by Josh Murphy

man we stay till 9 to 10 o clock every night i have not ate dinner at home in 3 weeks we get here at abou 6:30 every morning and working ont this project most of the dayman it is just like hurry up ship dste but we are pretty much finished just some tweaking and adjusting

Staing late til about 9_10 pm It gets vety hectic specially when your trying to juggle more than one activity and trying to have a social life with your friends. but it is worth it all when it gets to the competition. All of our drive team is going to be here even on our mid winter break but dedication is one of the many keys to haveing a successful year.

[DjAlamose]

I wish we could work on our robot during the day. Our sponsor won’t let us, but that’s because they have work to do. But we get there about 5:30 and for the past 2 weeks or so go home at around 10-12. Makes for a nice trip into work the next day at 6am...

[oaktown1188]

the latest we've gone is 10 pm but we do come in everyday after school till at least 7 and then we come in saturdays all day and sundays if theres the church at our school.

[the_short1]

its fun to see the dedication .. even thru a SNOW DAY some students said theyd come .. mentors too.. . and acually .. i have a field trip monday.. permission form and all.. . leaving school 9am, come back 9pm ... get to miss a day of school to work on robot.. thats grande...

[Nimmy]

Originally Posted by Squirt_47

Staing late til about 9_10 pm It gets vety hectic specially when your trying to juggle more than one activity and trying to have a social life with your friends. :

social life? huh?

I haven't dinner at home since the kick-off and on fridays\saturday

[Cory]

12:50 right now, with at least a couple more hours ahead

[BandChick]

I know a bunch of my team members have worked well past midnight. Some of them have worked consistantly into 2am for the past week. The snow day one student worked until 8am! and then came back at 10:30 to work until 1am the next day! Not to mention we work from approx. 10am - 3 or 4am on weekends.

[Courtneyb1023]

wow! I think our team has worked until midnight or later only a handful of times. Once last year the night before ship date, and once last year the night before great lakes regional to get the cart and other stuff ready. But other than that, we work everyday-ish for several hours from the beginning and try to avoid working really late. But, it still happens.

[Richsgt]

You're a lucky one, we're looking at doing it tonight to finish/debug everything for the scrimmage giving some time to fix what doesn't work beforehand.

[Chris Sturrock]

Originally Posted by Beth Sweet

I know for a fact that Team 1114 has been working until 4:30 am all week. And then they come back in at 10 am to work again. We arent even close to that thank goodness!

Don't forget about us, we're there too!
We work everyday after school untill at least 12am, and there have been a few 4:30am nights.

oh and school gets out at 2:30pm. talk about long nights.

Let me tell you... build season is the most tiring time of the year, I get MAYBE 5 hours sleep a night. if that. but hey, the more work you put in, the better the robot is in the end right?