EXAMS

[rachal]

Heh, we have finals during the first week of build, which is always quite stressful because (a) we're worrying about finals all during kickoff and (b) thinking about robotics all during finals.

[K.Porter]

We just had exams over the last week. (half day every day)

We didn't get much of a turnout through the beginning of the week, but our meetings on Friday and today had great turnout of students, as we all don't have any real school work over this weekend!

[Pavan Dave]

Our district, to accommodate the new law passed in Texas, that school can not start before the fourth Monday in August, will be having finals 3 weeks after the new year next year. Which means the first week after holidays we have nothing, than the second week after the Kickoff, we have our exams. But the good think about that is we also have half days and if you are in certain classes, you do not have to even show up for your exams, but since you guys do not have Robotics during that time, I wonder what will happen to us? Maybe start early and finish early because we all get off early?


Pavan.

[Ben Englert]

Originally Posted by rachal

Heh, we have finals during the first week of build, which is always quite stressful because (a) we're worrying about finals all during kickoff and (b) thinking about robotics all during finals.

Word to that... although I sort of know that we would still end up in the same kind of time crunches we do now even if we DID have that extra week.

[synth3tk]

We had our finals this past Wed-Fri, with Friday being a half day, so we ended up gaining four build hours yesterday. Also, school was out for MLK day on Monday, so we just moved it to last Tuesday. And then we're closed for in-service day this Monday, so we gain another 8 1/2 hours. Pretty much, we actually got more done during exam week.

Originally Posted by Goldeneye

[...]As for snow. It did snow lightly yesterday but we all ignored it on the ground today.
Even when it does snow badly, we still have meetings.

Same here. We had blizzards during the last two meetings, but it didn't bother us one bit.

[RobotPirate]

Yah but its cool i only have like two anyway theyre uber easy to web page design and english.

[geeknerd99]

I had mine this past week. Thankfully, my first 4 periods of the day are my core classes, and then I have band, lunch and then two periods of photo. Thus, with two exams a day, I had two days of core exams, my photo exam (which I was allowed to design myself), and then my band exam. And then of course, my lunch exam, which is a speed-eating contest. Just kidding.

Unfortunately, the shop still didn't open until 4, but after Wednesday, I was there from open to close.

I guess my exams weren't that bad this year. Last two years they really sucked the life out of me. Guess that means I failed at least half of them then.

[Mr. Freeman]

We always have them the first week after kickoff. It's really quite annoying. I think our team attempted to have meetings during midterms a couple years ago but this year we decided to not have them because no one shows up anyway, so no work really gets done.

I wasn't aware so many teams had midterms during the build season.

[Gabe]

On Thursday I finally finished final exams. It's miserable not to be able to work on the robot because you have to study for finals; it's even worse how when I am trying to study I can think of nothing but robots. I envy the teams that have final exams before build season; I bet they also have good robots, too.

[synth3tk]

Sad part was, I didn't even study (I know, I know) but I feel I've done pretty good. Only one I don't feel so confident in is Biology, and I hate that class.

[rohit]

We have exams this week. But we do robotics anyways

[Seto Kaiba]

The kick-off to the new season has always been followed by the kick-off to midterms the following week.

[stuntman551]

MY school had exams the first week of the build season so we met every day at 12:15 so we could still get some work done. we left by 5 each day so everyone had time to study.

[Joohoo]

we have midterms all this week as well. We haven't had any problems with snow closing stuff down atleast not yet it does inhibit our team meeting attendance but the way I see it, I need to do well in school and it would be nice to work on robotics durring this week but school comes first.

[Daru]

Bwahaha... Our school exams are next week, wednesday through thursday. Each day we only have 3.5 hours of exams, so we get a good six hours of worktime all week this week. We have off on Friday, so we get a full day on friday and saturday...

The school lets us meet. Unfortunantly, we're kicked out of the school after school hours if there isnt a sporting event going on. The school opens for sporting events, but not for us. B.S.


I wanted our chassis done by the end of last week... if it's not done by the end of this week, with all the work time we get, I think I will go nuts

... Even though it's entirely my fault... $@#$@#$@#$@# myself for mismeasuring those transmissions! And $@#$@#$@#$@# the schools welder which for some reason doesn't work! ~frusturation~
[edit] the censors make it seem like I said something much worse than I actually did... can't believe that's censored. O.o

As for the snow.. We got somewhere around 8-10 inches of snow today... just one day too early, we could have had a full work-day tomorrow too