What have you given up for FIRST?

[swando]

oh dear... over my 3 years of FIRST, ive given up
hundreds of hours of sleep.
a computer (suffered a brain aneurism mid-render)
a couple shirts at competition
thousands of dollars (team dues, mountain dew)
and a girlfriend actually... she didnt get the robots thing.

[kevin.li.rit]

Originally Posted by swando

oh dear... over my 3 years of FIRST, ive given up
hundreds of hours of sleep.
a computer (suffered a brain aneurism mid-render)
a couple shirts at competition
thousands of dollars (team dues, mountain dew)
and a girlfriend actually... she didnt get the robots thing.

I'm sure my sanity was priced slightly higher than those things.

[swando]

Originally Posted by Coffeeism

I'm sure my sanity was priced slightly higher than those things.

i wasnt attacking the value of your sanity, i was replying to the thread.

[Pat Roche]

I have lost everything....everything....and gained it back completely new and different than before.

-Pat

[JakeGallagher]

I just thought of something else I gave up for FIRST--this week alone, 15 hours of sleep, and it's only the fourth day of the week.

Originally Posted by T134guy

I have lost everything....everything....and gained it back completely new and different than before.

-Pat

Correction: New, different, and BETTER!
Why? Because I was here the second time around.

[Ryan F.]

How many of you..like me...have developed a chronic insomnia sience the end of the build season? The sad thing is that half the time I find myself on CD.

[David66]

exactly, insomnia and WMR excitement have me.....you know what would be cool? a UP regional. Extra cold, but it would give us a fourth regioanl. i htink i would give the rest of my sleep to help make that happen

[Trinora]

Originally Posted by rforystek

How many of you..like me...have developed a chronic insomnia sience the end of the build season? The sad thing is that half the time I find myself on CD.

I have something worse; since the compitions have started, I can't sleep later than 8 o'clock IN THE MORNING. *sob* I miss sleep.

[Pat Roche]

[quote=JakeGallagher]I just thought of something else I gave up for FIRST--this week alone, 15 hours of sleep, and it's only the fourth day of the week.QUOTE]

dont get me going on that sleep thing.....its the week before nationals and i still can't get back in the habit of it....and that wiring....let me tell you.....


-Pat

[Tytus Gerrish]

Free Time

[Atman]

Sleep is the most obvious thing. A girlfriend during the six week build or pretty much my social life for that matter. My thoughts have been given to FIRST. I'll be in the middle of history talking about WWI and all of a sudden out of no where I get this idea about strategy and it takes over my train of thought. It will be all I can think about until our next meeting. I must seem pretty out there to the people around me. Its the same way with the nationals. Here I am on my spring break and I am scouting and posting on delphi while everyone else is out partying. Its worth every minute though.

[BlueOrion]

Sanity, hockey tournaments and practices (and the sport altogether now), sleep, sanity, homework, grades, having a life. But then again, robotics IS life. And that's just the point. You can find everything AND MORE in FIRST.

[Arefin Bari]

LIFE

[tiffany34990]

Originally Posted by mechman108

LIFE

i totally agree-- this is my life besides dealing with IB-- and well that's a horror story--

but yeah i give everything up for FIRST-- it's one thing that keeps me happy and going in life

[Michael R. Lee]

Do you have a LIFE to begin with? I mean.... does anybody's Head wants to explde like right after kickoff? I mean all the ideas and strategies.... mind overload. I think some people lose thier brains over the course of build season.