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  1. #71
    Exhaustion, complete exhaustion. And then coming back to the shop the next day to do it all over again.

    Which reminds me, I need to get some sleep...

  2. #72
    - Using Welding gloves for grilling
    - Letting our battlebot loose in the hall and feeding it whatever we could find in the shop.
    - Smashing old computers and random equipment out off the loading dock that the school was throwing out
    - Replacing the clean snowmobile section of the shop with a nice couch
    -Hallway Chair races
    -Finding chips from the machine shop in your clothes and pockets.
    -Finding randoms things to use as silverware, making spoons out of aluminum foil
    -Blasting random foreign songs found on youtube
    -Drawing pictures of what a Wiring Gremlin actually looks like

  3. #73
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    Originally posted by jaca:
    -watching our treasurer get a 13'6 tall box van stuck under a (marked) 11'6 overpass

    in the middle of harlem

    at 2 am
    He's not in the engineering school, that's all I have to say about that.
    Mountain Lion Motorsports

  4. #74
    Explaining to your female friends that MEGASQUIRT is not PORN

    Watching your girl give you that million dollar I-M-dating-A-Maniac look, when you excitedly tell her about the weight reduced on the engine.

    Realizing you are allergic to carbon fibre, after your thighs develop a rash thanks to the raw carbon fibre sample you put in your pocket(damn it was bad).

    Using nylon ties (straps) for holding possibly everything in place.

    +1 on the people asking for mileage

    doing up Megasquirt

    Getting abused by people you wake them up at 4 am, due to that all-important test run without the Muffler

    Seeing everything blurrrrr, when you set the drive ratio 4.2 and run unrestricted… ahhh!!!

    Sleeping peacefully by laying (balancing) on three chairs with the soothing sound of the grinder in the backdrop.

    Trying to find a pair of jeans without oil stains for a date, wearing ones with the least.

    Bumping into that hottie at college in the filthiest possible way when you are trying to avoid her.

    Drawing Suspicion from people when you carry a muffler(which looks like a bomb Shell) in the train, right after the terror attacks in the city.

    Getting the best Ideas for the car when you are studying for that all-important test.

    Having to Explain FSAE to everyone who asks, thinking they could help in sponsoring anything

    +1 on meeting your team freshman as your classmates as you end up dropping years.
    Hiren G Patel

    FS – Orion Combustion (Founder Member)
    -------Prototype '06
    -------Powertrain Lead '06 '07 '08 '09
    -------Composites guy '10
    -------Technical Director '10
    -------Technial Advisor/Mentor '12

  5. #75
    +1 to most of these, expecially:

    Getting the best Ideas for the car when you are studying for that all-important test.

    Having to Explain FSAE to everyone who asks, thinking they could help in sponsoring anything
    Mind the rad!
    Full Blue Racing Alumnus, Cambridge, UK

  6. #76
    I forgot:

    - Getting a highly sort after summer job at a mayor engineering company after the application deadline without sending a CV or having a interview or meeting the required GPA, just by calling and saying you're from the team.

    and:

    - Reading this post going "Yep done that" for nearly everything.
    Brent

    3rd world solutions for real world problems.

    UoA FSAE 2004-2008

  7. #77
    Walking out of an exam, hearing the dyno running and knowing that you're the only person who knows what that sweet sound is.

    Helping redesign/rebuild the entire drive train with seniors in caps & gowns while parents come by for a tour.

  8. #78
    Originally posted by jaca:

    this can work

    .. or you can light the torch directly from a tig arc, but that's arguably an even worse idea

    you know, hypothetically
    Worked many time.....
    Finished @ UofT Racing
    2003-2007
    www.fsae.utoronto.ca

  9. #79
    <LI> +1 to hitting a large highway pylon at 70mph
    <LI> Having the axle break on the side of the trailer which hit the pylon in Vegas on the way back from comp a full year later, and then having to leave it there for 6 weeks while a freighliner shop searched for new parts for it
    <LI> The only truck we can use is the old Ethanol Challenge truck. It has gone through 3 transmissions, one on the way back from detroit. Props to Chevy for making a truck that can drive 3200km in second gear at 80km/h with a large trailer.
    <LI>Welding an office chair to the robot project's old robot so you have a motorized wheel chair
    <LI>Discovering that a microwave is a better impact attenuator than anything that's made it on our cars in the last 10 years

    Marcus
    University of Alberta

  10. #80
    Moving random cars out of our testing parking lot with go jacks and no permission.

    That i rank school's engineering programs solely on their FSAE team's results over the past 4 years.

    The looks on everyones' face when driving the car through inner campus during the 5:00PM rush.

    That days end and begin at 5:00AM not midnight.

    The smell of GT100 (back in 2007)

    That we have had to cut off at least 3 sets of locks on our trailer because no one on the team has the keys.

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