EXAMS

[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.

[T3_1565]

Originally Posted by Imprudent

All of the Canadian teams in Ontario are faced with this dilemma - and our exams are a week and a half, so we only get 4.5 weeks of build time, which makes it quite stressful, on top of the stress from the actual exams

Yup not going to lie there. It does manage to be a problem. But our teacher will be in the shop anytime he isn't supervizing an exam, so if we don't have one we can go in and get some work done!

[burkey_turkey]

it sounds like exams are a big problem for most teams. i wonder if first would want to consider pushing back kickoff 2 or 3 weeks or so to avoid conflict with exams. I think it would make build season restraints more consistent if everyone had a very similar number of hours to work on the robot.

[technoL]

Luckily we had our exams before Winter Break this year, so we now don't have to worry about the extra stress during build season. Last year though, it was during week 2 or 3 when we were all eager to get in the shop, and even though school ended earlier, we still had to go home to study for exams the next day.

How about we just have an exam exemption for all FIRST teams!

[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.

[Hiteak]

We have exams Tuesday-Friday this week, but we are still having build afterwords. I use build time as a stress reliever after school, especially after I had my AP Physics midterm earlier this week.

And then there is snow. During the past week we have had ice, snain (snow and rain), snow, snow and wind, and ice rain all occur while building. This is especially fun for going back and forth to our pod which holds all of our parts and what we have built so far. Yesterday we had to force the key into the lock in order to get it open and someone shoved to make it earlier to bring our robot cart in and out of our pod which now needs a welcome mat to keep the place dryer. Safety glasses are becoming more useful when going outside because it keeps the snow from going into your eyes when the wind is blowing and making it hard to see outside.

[Caseavong]

Our exams are This week also, Tues - Fir.
The week before us sophomores had it relle rough with like 3 inclass midterms and also 2 test too take on top of it all
I think that was the day my brain was truly in shock

Anywho this week is cake.....

[GMAdan]

My school has mid terms all this week, 2 per day. But we are still allowed to do robotics, they trust that we know how balance school and robotics.

[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