This week I get to talk about my crazy life. On Thursday I went to robotics practice and about a quarter way through I over heard another team talking about the practice scrimmage (an unofficial practice event held by a few teams to see where their at) on Saturday. I asked them about it and they said it was at five. I had remembered I had it but thought it was in at least a week because October came so fast. So I practiced a little when one of my mentors (mechanical engineers that work at the place I do robotics) noticed that two of the six wheels on the robot where rubbing against plates and was causing a lot of friction so a loss of power and speed. To fix this I had to completely take apart the robot. I got few more practice runs in and it was already eight and the robotics place was closing. Not only that though I had procrastinated on an English essay due at 11:59 at night on Friday that I had planned doing some of on Thursday but I was brain dead and just went to sleep. Friday morning not only did I have to make my lunch get dressed and go to school, I had to do some of the essay too. So I got done about 2/3 of the essay which was harder than usual because I tried to right in a way I wasn't used to. School was normal accept the fact that my English teacher reminded us that the essay due date was extended and that all my worrying and rushing was for nothing. Then when school was over I at least didn't have to finish the essay but I had to go straight to my programming class at the same place as I do robotics that didn't end until 5:30 and I practiced a lot this time actually with my teammate (which doesn't happen often). until eight again. My brain was dead and I went straight to bed. Saturday I was very negative about the practice scrimmage and I practiced all day until the actual event that started at 5:30. It was only with four other teams one of which were the mentors because we needed at least one more team. At first my team (just me and one teammate) were doing pretty bad and it was like that for all 12 "qualifying" matches. Next came the finals where the top two teams and the bottom two teams were paired up. By some miracle we were 2nd by one point and got to be paired with the best team (which is a good thing because your working together) who was of course the mentors. We easily beat the 3rd and 4th place teams and WON.
YEEEEAAAAH the end and the real qualifier is in two weeks .
Good job on winning !!
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