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Ah, the FIRST Community, aka The Land of Little Patience :) |
Jessica Boucher |
KathieK |
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But frankincense and myrrh will come in handy after your team starts to smell during that first design meeting. |
Jessica Boucher |
Koko Ed |
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I am sad that the Patriots lost, and I am happy for both teams that won...but I am even more thrilled that for the next two weeks robot building in the midwest comes to a standstill. ;) |
Jessica Boucher |
Billfred |
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Note to self: Before turning 30, remember to remove the birthdate year from Delphi. |
Jessica Boucher |
raymaniac |
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High heels on a Segway takes quite a bit of adjustment - as I learned the hard way. |
Jessica Boucher |
Billfred |
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I don't really care that the best on Curie may or may not be better than Newton, since we're going to spend the rest of the offseason discussing it no matter how the decision fell. |
Jessica Boucher |
Ian Curtis |
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Solutions are more likely to be implemented if you provide the solution along with the concern! |
Jessica Boucher |
Michael Sperber |
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Just be yourself, be honest, and most importantly, be present. The best role models are the ones you can relate to. |
Jessica Boucher |
JVN |
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The only constant in FRC is change. Learning to adapt to change in competition is the best way to prepare for change in real life. |
Jessica Boucher |
Libby K |
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This isn't a golden ticket - it's a golden opportunity. It's up to you to earn it. |
Jessica Boucher |
Whippet |
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Play FRC like Bruce Lee, not an MMA fighter. |
Jessica Boucher |
connor.worley |
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It's official: we've run out of things to talk about. |
Jessica Boucher |
Jon K. |
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Everyone please breathe before you post. |
Jessica Boucher |
cadandcookies |
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I have learned so much from this program and am forever changed by FIRST and its community. You have made me a better person in so many ways. Thank you. |
Jessica Boucher |
ctt956 |
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"automated chaos" nuff said. |
Jferrante |
Astronouth7303 |
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The great thing about autonomous mode is that it doesn't require any additional effort from anyone else on your team... (You could do that yourself...but I've noticed that people will usually offer to do it for you, rather than let the programmer touch power tools.) |
jgannon |
Billfred |
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The first law of programming is that there are always ways of doing things quicker and in less space than you already are. |
jgannon |
Billfred |
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Aw... am I too late to suggest a water game? |
jgannon |
Billfred |
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Isn't that, April showers bring Woodie Flowers? ;) |
jgannon |
Beth Sweet |
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(I'm sure that Dave is holding his breath for "welding with Jello".) |
jgannon |
lukevanoort |
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In any case, don't beat yourself up over it. Only 24 teams get to play in elimination rounds. Sometimes you're in the 24, and sometimes you aren't. |
jgannon |
Billfred |
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Paul: "IDK, my BFF Karthik?" |
jgannon |
AdamHeard |
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Remind me again. Why do we let the GDC hold us captive to these hints year after year? |
jholman |
billbo911 |
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Spoiler: There will be no plasma cutters available in FIRST Choice |
Jibsy |
Billfred |
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Using my Little Orphan Annie Secret Decoder Ring, I have determined that the game hint reads:
"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine" |
Jill_ls101 |
brrian27 |
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It only takes micro-seconds to release the magic smoke and empty the teams' budget. |
Jim E |
NickE |
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There's a balance to it all, when the engineers guide the students, and both cooperate to build a robot. There can be no better way then when both sides are in cooperation - the true spirit of FIRST. |
Jim McGeehin |
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FIRST showed me how to succeed at one of the most difficult, yet important things: Life. |
Jim McGeehin |
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Measure it with a micrometer, mark it with chalk, and cut it with an axe. This is not an exact science. |
Jim Meyer |
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I cannot inspire greatness with mediocrity! |
Jim Zondag |
Paul H |
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The major items of FIRST are still what they always were.....understand the game, build a reliable quality machine to play it, train you drivers to use it to its full potential. If you do these things, you can win with or without any specific machine feature. |
Jim Zondag |
Paul H |
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Wow, I am beginning to feel like a member of the fabled "vast right-wing conspiracy" :) |
Jim Zondag |
Tristan Lall |
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So basically, the advantage of #35 is that it allows you to be sloppier in your design and fabrication. If you pay close attention to these details, you will never have a problem with #25 chain. |
Jim Zondag |
Collin Fultz |
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A winning robot is not a winning robot unless you have winning drivers too. You need the time to develop both. |
Jim Zondag |
Jared Russell |
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I still believe that if we are legitimately trying to make FRC be recognized as a real sport, then the GDC must treat it like one. |
Jim Zondag |
martin417 |
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Focus on solving the problem, not on being deliberately creative. If you effectively solve the problem, creativity is naturally leveraged as part of finding a great solution. |
Jim Zondag |
rsisk |
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This is what happens when Engineers try to design a sport. |
Jim Zondag |
Kevin Leonard |
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You can sometimes step outside the box if you have properly thought through the question. |
Jim Zondag |
cadandcookies |
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I think applying Gracious Professionalism to strictly legal game play trivializes what is a much more important and fundamental FIRST concept. |
jimfortytwo |
Billfred |
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Go get Al, he probably isn't busy! |
Jimmy Nichols |
RogerR |
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Well, we put it in the bag at 11:58 last night. Needless to say we had to pull guys off of it to put it in the bag. I hope we didn't miss somebody and bag him up too. |
jimwick |
Hallry |
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I keep on accidently seeing (and pronouncing) it as Chef Deli. |
JJG13 |
Conor Ryan |
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I know it's hard to believe, but there actually IS life after FIRST. |
jleibs |
dlavery |
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When you tell any of your kids that winning isn't important, or isn't [I]that[/I] important, the flapping sound you hear is your credibility flying away. |
jlindquist74 |
martin417 |
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For example, you can make a car as safe as possible. It may get the highest safety ratings in it's class, but if you drive it off of a cliff there really isn't much you can do about that. |
jmanela |
Karibou |
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The best moments of our lives fall in two categories: those that did happen and those that did not. |
Jnadke |
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Duct tape is like the Force - it has a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together. |
Jnadke |
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Education doesn't have anything to do with how much money a person can make. Experience, Perseverence, and Character do. |
Jnadke |
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It is crucial to keep experience and keeping collected under pressure as high points that can't be measured in a test. |
jnelly |
kwam dawg |
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The bulk of the hardest fun you'll ever have is opening up that box in early january, and the six week of chaos that that box of parts puts you through. |
Joe G. |
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