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Originally Posted by Otter74
My main activity in engineering school was Formula SAE. My second or third year, there was a guy who showed up who drove a base-model Mitsubishi Eclipse with an automatic (come on, we had to tease him about that) and didn't know how to do anything more than check the oil. By the time he graduated he had been chief engineer of the team for two years. When they graduated, he and another teammate started their own company. There's hope for everybody with some curiosity and the will to learn who isn't discouraged by smarty pants' making fun of their lack of knowledge.
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nice. our mini baja team was one ME (team leader), and 4 CE. the ME department put all their resources into the official ALL ME team, and let us go in as independents with one condition; we gather all the financing on our own. we did. we got a computer company to write us one big check. one month before the competition, they shut down the other team and gave us the college uniform. that other team built a turd. UTEP was lucky we were there, since the competition was at our school that year!! they saved face. we came in 16th overall.
the team leader almost didnt graduate because he wanted to keep the car. his arguement was that we got all the money. it was a fun fun year. i almost failed out that semester.