Anyone in FIRST feel like this?

[rcmolloy]

Usually I get really excited for things the night before. It's extremely annoying because I can't seem to fall asleep those nights either. Aside from that, all the other students who are on the team with me have all been excited and counting down till Saturday!

[Taylor]

My most sleepless night is the night after kickoff. My mind is swimming with possibilities and an incomplete understanding of the game. After sequestering myself Sunday with the manual, I usually calm myself down.

[IndySam]

I'm with Taylor, trying to get my mind to slow down long enough to get sleep Saturday night will be difficult.

I have always been able to get to sleep the night before Christmas, vacations, kickoff...... The quicker I get to sleep the quicker it arrives!

[Mahekp15]

Yes! i have the same feeling right now, haha, i probably wont be sleeping on time on this friday, and i also get the same feeling when we leave for competition.

[Tetraman]

I can sleep. Just during the day I feel like a giddy 5 year old all the time. Usually hours before the kickoff webcast I'll be going really hyper until the webcast starts - then I get serious and stop moving until reveal.

That's when I use up an entire notebook to cram ideas into at ludicrous speed

[Karibou]

The night before kickoff is usually pretty bad. I try not to drink caffeine on that Friday, because I know that I'm already going to have problems going to bed.

Waking up Saturday morning is more interesting. If I don't wake up to my alarm, it means that I woke up an hour before and then can't get back to sleep, even if it's 4:30am. Saturday night isn't an issue for me at all. Even though my head is swimming, I'm usually pretty burned out from being so giddy all day, and I collapse pretty soon after hitting the pillow.

[tonystark_23]

I think the busiest time for ideas for our team is when all 5 occupants in the main vehicle are all talking at once and trying to put their $0.02 in.

"What if the robot hung from the tower and shot balls at the same time?"
reply: "No, I don't think that's allowed in the rules"

"Awww.....I thought the fish hint meant a water game "

^^epic fail (team 469 FTW)

[Cyberphil]

I have been having insomnia also. School is getting progressively harder to pay attention to, and DT designing up to 2:00 is probably not good, but its better than laying in bed wide awake.

[synth3tk]

It's weird. I usually can't sleep early the Friday night before Kick-Off, and find myself heading to bed around 3am, yet somehow still waking up at 7am and feeling as if I had the best sleep of my life. The same happens for every day of the regionals, too.

[GaryVoshol]

For me, it's the night before competition.

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

For me, it's the night before competition.

That tends to happen with me too. Unfortunately, it happens most when I have to be awake at 4am and at the school at 5:30am, or something like that.