If You Could Start Over With Your FIRST Experience...

[AcesJames]

I think if there was anything I could have changed, it would be my involvement in my freshman year. I did a lot of sitting around, and a lot of watching. I did end up on pit crew that year, just because I lurked around the pits so much. It did teach me a lot, but I think I could have learned even more, had I really dove into it and tried to explore, rather than just carefully observing.

As for the time past freshman year, I wouldn't change much at all, except for a few small things. I would have liked to have a larger impact on the way my team is run. For the past season and a half, I've been seeing such great examples of genius ideas from other teams on CD, and then bringing those ideas to my own team and asking why we couldn't do something similar. At this point, I'm now ready to take it one step further, and motivate my team to be the best we can be, and not follow and copy a team that I wish we were more like.

Finally, in going along with my previous point, I've almost made a habit out of saying more than doing. At the shop, or at competitions, I've been the one to push others along with words, rather than pushing forward with them in my actions, and physically doing the work with them. The old adage of "leading by example" is perfect here. I need to do much more of that in this coming season.