What have you given up for FIRST?

[team1203 4life]

Originally Posted by minic@HYPER69

I have given up happiness in my relationship. I went away twice with robotics this month and one of which was on my 1.5 year aniversary, so she is pretty pissed.

this is where it helps to have a girl friend who is in the club

oh and ihave given up all my hours at work to the bare minnimum so idint miss a minnet of the build season,my entire life 24 7 365 days a year
and millions of hours of sleep

[pfreivald]

LOL. Last year I got married the day before kickoff -- and was at kickoff. This year kickoff was on my anniversary. My wife isn't involved with the team (except as the unofficial team baker of evil deliciousness every Saturday during build season), but she's totally understanding about it.

Patrick

[petek]

Things I've given up for FIRST:
Over a month of vacation and personal days
Way too many ski trips
Any chance of becoming a couch potato
The joys of being a grumpy old guy

[LightWaves1636]

Sleep, a relationship, theatre, and excessive free time, but the people I've met, the new friends I've made, and the kids I've helped inspired; stepping back and looking at the work I've done with and for FIRST, I'm pretty satisfied and happy currently. Being in college, most of my old friends back in high school go to liberal arts colleges and don't like math so I really rarely see them anyway but we keep in contact through the web no matter how technologically inept some of them are(I have one friend who runs away from computers because she doesn't like using them).