Disapointed in ending.

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Posted by mike oleary at 04/11/2001 9:08 PM EST


Student on team #419, rambots, from bc high and sponsors are overrated..go pocket-change robots!!!.


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Posted by nick237 on 04/11/2001 12:08 AM EST:



youre neice is 14 years old...that makes her what a freshman in high school, or 8th grade or something? i understand how there can be overprotective parents and whatnot but i have 2 sisters one is in 6th grade the others in 4th...when i come home from school they inevitably have the tv on...and its never on disney or nickalodean or something...it almost always has youre 'garbage' on. if seeing this would spoil youre neices FIRST experiance then id have to say that the entire game was not a success this year. the point of FIRST is to get young students interested in engineering. i just struggle to see how 2minutes and 30 seconds of questionable content can spoil 3+ days of awesome fun and excitement...
personally, i think that FIRST is overall successful in their objective. before i joined the rambots i hated sciences. then i got involved in with the team and realized that it was great...now i am considering majoring or at least minoring in engineering. and i know that im not the only story like that out there.
inevitably there are people who just arent gonna have fun with engineering and technology and you just have to accept that. the only way that i can picture one poorly chosen music video's spoiling the nationals experiance is if the person in question wasnt big on engineering and technology in the first place. just like some people dont like sports, or reading, or rollar coasters no matter how much you expose them to what you feel to be the best part of the sports or reading or rollar coasters, it wont make a difference, some people are the same way with engineering.
did youre niece complain to you, or did you take up this crusade of youre own initiative, using youre neice's 'virgin' eyes as an excuse? and if she did actually complain about the video, maybe she just didnt have a good experiance overall and was trying to find something to blame it on in a way so as to offend you as little as possible...i know that if i were to go to a hockey tournement or something that my uncle organised and participated in and put all his time and effort into, and didnt like it at all, i wouldnt say 'yeah the whole thing was horrible how could you possibley like this' id try to find a more discreet approach, like 'it was fun but the people sitting in front of me were too tall and wore big hats like the 'cat in the hat''
wow that was long...im impressed if anyone actually read all that
mike who needs shorter posts