“I made it work! Wait…how did I do that?” - Me, several times over during the design process.
Autodesk Inventor crashes on our oldest, most outdated, and just plain terrible laptop
Student: “Uhh…Inventor just crashed. Can we replace this computer?”
Mentor: “No, that’s just a software problem. All CAD programs like to do that.”
1 hour later, Inventor crashes on my laptop
Me: “Inventor crashed.”
Mentor: “See, I told you, it’s a software problem!”
We were trying to write a paragraph about our lead team advisor and team co-captains and we asked him what exactly he does on the team.
His Answer: “I’m the head nut that keeps all the other nuts in line.” (pointing at me and my co-captain)
Other programmer:Why do we have a function called “om_nom”?
Me:That’s what controls sucking the balls in
Other programmer:And what does “nom_om” do?
Me:That spits the ball out
“I think we should kill whoever designed this system with a brain aneurysm by forcing them to set it up”–said after 4 hours of trying to resolve this bizarre packet loss problem in the wireless system
one of our mentors: “ok so we’ve got our scoring strategies down to dumping, shooting, or superdumping.”
we got out a ladder and went on the roof of our school to "borrow a fan from an exhaust unit. after using a rope to get the whole assembely off the building and into the shop one of the students said “did we just commit grand theft air conditioner” (we put the exaust unit back up and assembled and bolted back onto the roof, the fan was not the right kind.)
This one happened just yesterday.
Sandra (Mentor): OOh right here (in the manual) is says that we are not allowed to put anything on the robot that would intentionally start a fire. Man, I guess that means no fireworks display."
Charles (freshmen): “Or Flamethrower” (looking really disapointed)
“I swear, this chain is LITERALLY 1/16 of an inch too short!”
M: We have extra parts from the gearboxes.
A: WHY DO WE HAVE EXTRA PARTS???
M: Um…because the construction is a simple one…
“She doesn’t need a hammer, she has strong thumbs!”
“What? Grease? Where does it say ‘put grease’ in the instructions? Oh…haha…it’s a footnote…”
“Lithium is an antidepressant…don’t breathe the grease in…”
“THEY HAVE NO RESTRICTIONS ON DUCT TAPE THIS YEAR!!!”
And, of course, the classic “Oops.”
“What do you mean the sweep would intersect itself! Now I remember why I have a love-hate relationship with autodesk”
“Great. Another error message that doesn’t tell me how to fix the error. How am I supposed to learn from THAT?”
“wait…hold on…HOLY CRAP THE IP ADRESS IS WORNG!!!” said about an hour after trying to figure out why the cRIO wouldn’t download code 
Scotty: So have we figured out how its going to work yet?
Me: Yes, we are going to use the black magic we got from selling our souls to Satan to make it work.
haha so it isnt just our team…i hear it happened to us a few years back—> GO “SL9” (675)!
John choose to give one of his sandwiches to one of our more hefty members.
Just then someone looked up and said: “But I’m skinny.”
We got a kid on our team who is like that.
mentor continues to talk to me and our small group, programming
“… so just let it go straight for 10 seconds…”
i look at out robot with treads and a maximum of about 2 horsepower and say
“you know, 10 seconds is an AWFULLY long time for something to go HORRIBLY WRONG…”
Mentor: points at the black crate things our kit came with Lets put these two black boys back in the closet
Students:…were white…and were not going in the closet…
Mentor: I was talking about the crates! I call everything boys you should know by now…
At the end of the meeting today I had Free Bird playing over our in ceiling speakers, playing guitar on a yard stick.
One of the other students said “Wow you are weird.”
so I says “This is robotics club, I’m supposed to be weird.”
They thing that Free Bird is weird? Or do they think that playing guitar on a yard stick is? I do that all the time, but instead of playing on a yard stick, I play on a sythe.
team is sitting in annother room when we hear one of our mentors scream, and it sounded like he had been ran over
me, running into roon- “are you ok Dr. Evil?!?!?!”
Dr. Evil is freaking out
Dr. Evil- “OUR ROBOT MOVED OUR ROBOT MOVED!!!”
looks down to see the robot moved an inch or so
in a meeting really early in the morning, everyone still half asleep
mentor, too excited- “are we ganna win?!?!?!”
us - “yeah…”
mentor - “we are ganna rock, right?”
us - “yeah…”
mentor- “are we ganna die?”
us- “yeah… HEY WAIT!!!”
WAIT I FORGOT SOME!!!
wiring with one of our mentors
mentor- “hey eric, go grab me some females!”
eric grabs me and marie and brings us over
mentor- “No! females as in electrical connections!”
eric leaves and comes back
eric- “whats the difference between male and female?” (as in the electrical connections)
mentor- "have you ever gotten THE TALK?
One of our members was standing by the window of the shop while we were waiting for our mentors to show up and the following conversation occurred:
Student 1: Are you waiting for Santa Claus?
Student 2: No, I’m waiting for the mentors.
Student 3: Close enough…