I've pulled 3 all nighters in my life. 1st, to finish up a report in my very first summer job/internship. 2nd, to clear my dormitory room of all it's stuff (desktop computer, desk, lots of books) and stack them into storage all by myself and catch an early morning flight. 3rd, just yesterday night to finish up the 6 .270 robot.


I value sleep over almost anything material, but I knew it was the very last chance we had to work on the robot, so I was gladly willing to stay up. And I was sleepy, but not a head-achy sleepy, rather what one feels when reading the clock in the morning to be 2 hours before you're supposed to wake up, the warm, fuzzy, light sort of sleepy. And Brett was there, amusing me with his silliness, and lightening my unhappy thoughts with his smile. We didn't get the robot done though. We have the physical structure built, but it's not coded as extensively as anyone of us would have liked. Imperfections of sensors and materials made it so much harder to program. It made me a bit sad, just because I felt with one or two more days we could have made something we would have been happy with. And up til yesterday, we were all happy because we thought everything was going just as planned. I hate to have ended the class on such an incomplete feeling. But, life is as it is, and it will be fun to watch everyone else's robots compete tomorrow. And our robot will be doing something, even if we're not quite sure yet what.


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