What and Why?

landon · Post by **landon** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 3:02 pm

Answers:

#1: I understand fully that space flight is not the glamor (if you wanna call it that) presented in some movies.

#2: Thats the #1 reason why I wanna go.

#3 & 4: I don't really get along with other kids very well. I have always been the homeschooled kid who hangs out with older adults. So I really don't think I'll make to many friends.. Anyway, I'm not paying $1,000 to make friends, Im doing it so I can experiance the "Space" part of it. I'm just so much more mature than a lot of other kids "my age" (No disrespect to anyone here, you all seem very mature). I just don't get into the same stuff kids do.

#5: number 2 main reason why I wanna go.

Overall, to me its not the "Camp" experiance I wanna go for, its what the camp is , I never did like camp. Mom sent me to summer camp a few years back and I hated it... I'm just not one for being around groups of kids...

Post by **Vincent** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 3:19 pm

landon wrote:I really don't think I'll make to many friends.

If that's how you feel going into it, you might very well not!

But understand that your fellow campers probably have a lot more in common with you than other people your age that you're used to meeting.

I've met some of the very best people I've ever met at camp!

Give 'em a chance!

SpaceCanada · Post by **SpaceCanada** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 3:45 pm

Vincent wrote:But understand that your fellow campers probably have a lot more in common with you than other people your age that you're used to meeting.

I'll second that... While there may be a few 'Kevin Donaldson' type kids (SpaceCamp the movie), there will be a lot of highly mature kids there too.

I'm a lot like Landon when it comes to my concern with the attitudes of team mates. Nothing irks me more than immature, irresponsible, inconsiderate people. However, my team turned out pretty good. You're bound to find someone who will share your take on things.

To sum things up... everyone can go to Space Camp and have a good time, even those Kevin Donaldson types. It is definitely worth the money, even if you have to fly from another country and pay the early arrival and late departure fees. (My flight cost nearly as much as the tuition!) While it is considered a summer CAMP, it is like no other camp I have been to (and that's a lot of camps).

Trust us when we say you'll have a great time - we can't all be wrong!

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:14 pm

landon wrote:Answers:

#1: I understand fully that space flight is not the glamor (if you wanna call it that) presented in some movies.

#2: Thats the #1 reason why I wanna go.

#3 & 4: I don't really get along with other kids very well. I have always been the homeschooled kid who hangs out with older adults. So I really don't think I'll make to many friends.. Anyway, I'm not paying $1,000 to make friends, Im doing it so I can experiance the "Space" part of it. I'm just so much more mature than a lot of other kids "my age" (No disrespect to anyone here, you all seem very mature). I just don't get into the same stuff kids do.

#5: number 2 main reason why I wanna go.

Overall, to me its not the "Camp" experiance I wanna go for, its what the camp is , I never did like camp. Mom sent me to summer camp a few years back and I hated it... I'm just not one for being around groups of kids...

For the record its quite unlikely that you'll be the only homeschool student there. Take what Vincent says very seriously as its very true. A lot of us make the best friends we've ever met at space camp because we have more in common with them than we do other kids that we meet. I think that you'll find its very worth the money even though it seems like an awful lot.

Fatal291 · Post by **Fatal291** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 11:24 pm

I hope it is not all Geeks..

.. i was looking at a few pics

http://spacecamp.ibnerd.net/main.php

and IMO it looks like Geek Central. BTW Do u get a type of certificate stating you attended for the records?

MAYTAG · Post by **MAYTAG** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:10 am

i dint have an album up there but man thats harsh, and believe most of the people there arent geeks or nerds amazingly they usualy are in the minority, especially at ac, and most of the time at sc too

ApolloXI · Post by **ApolloXI** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:30 am

Sorry I know this is a few post back
If you think anomalies like psychological ones don’t appear in space, such as astronauts would try open the hatch or air lock you are dead wrong. In Mike Mullane’s book he says the reason Commanders least in the days when he was flying was given the only key to the hatch was because one very bright astronaut was getting a little too interested in the hatch’s mechanism for his crew and Houston. Mike didn’t explain what happened to the crew member but after that commanders where given the only key to the hatch.

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When I was there a few years back I to landon didn't have a lot of friends too. I was not home schooled but I was an only child who grow up around a lot of adults, but didn’t hurt me at camp. I actually made some friends both trainees and counselors A) who are very much like me and B) I was able to make friends out of my norm. When I went to camp the first time I was nervous about what I was getting into but I decided to go with the flow the best I could. Some of them around here know that I have had some problems at camp with maturity of my fellow campers but I have been able to look over it for the most part. The maturity level sometimes is controlled by the counselor you have, from the past three time I have been there I have had almost the full gamit of maturity levels of counselors: the mature, the one who is both mature yet still have a goofy side, the one who needs to find the decaffeinated coffee, and the one who if mature but lets the trainees act like goof balls.

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I know some here will not like me using this word but must of us are geeks but we are on different levels of geekyness and there are those who just come to camp for various reasons. I personally feel like Fatal291 you are using the word geek in the derogative sense. Plus you are only using the basis for the term by looking at about some hundred pictures and the pop culture ideas of a geek. You should not make a claim like that until you have been there. At Space Camp there are standard space travel fans, the closet geeks, the geeks who can recite all the lines from Star Wars, the D&D players, the nonconformist geeks, the anime geeks, and much more. I went to Tech school for one year and meet more geeks there then I will ever meet at camp. Plus look what the space program is run by geeks, bean counters, and some military types.

tennisrox014 · Post by **tennisrox014** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:15 pm

I personally don't consider myself a geek, and I love AC!

I've made some lasting friendships at camp, plus my brother met his girlfriend of over a year at camp, and they are the cutest couple I know!

Fatal291 · Post by **Fatal291** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 11:26 pm

being a geek is not bad.. not to mention the subject were talking about. I'm not saying it as a negative thing.

ApolloXI · Post by **ApolloXI** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 11:51 pm

That is one of things I dislike about the net it is hard tell what the person is actullay saying if they actually joking, being mean, or being real. But then why where you asking Fatal291 if Space Camp is geek central? As I have said at Space Camp you get levels of geek, I would say that you don't get many Super geeks.
I am sorry tennisrox014 I should have made it clear what I ment, I was mainly talking about Space Camp and geeks.

tennisrox014 · Post by **tennisrox014** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 3:14 am

i'm confused, so many words lol.

ACluvR · Post by **ACluvR** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:13 am

Haha. Okay, I chuckled looking at this. I don't know if most people would consider me a geek (I don't think so though) but my friends kinda always made fun of me for going to Space Camp and AC... not so much AC though, they just said I was obsessed. Crap even a guy at AC made fun of me for going to Space Camp later... it just happens. I dunno... I like all the interesting people you get to meet. Whenever you do something like this you are going to meet tons of different types of people, its part of the appeal for me. And I like talking to geeks... I am a history major and 3/4 of my classes are "geeks"... I find them very interesting to listen to and always learn something!!!

And to the guy who doesn't wanna make friends, I would almost reconsider going, you're going to have a miserable time. I met some of the best people at camp... I still talk to a few couselors and campers starting from when I first went in like 4th grade (now about to start my senior year of college). Just my opinion though... half of camp is the social aspect, and it may help you to hang out with kids your own age...

I can't think of one person at camp I didn't like... maybe you can use this as a "growing experience"... Okay... I feel old so am gonna shut up. But give people a chance.

landon · Post by **landon** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 12:54 pm

I'm not saying that "Im not gonna make friends!", I'm simply saying that making friends is not my main reason for going. So in the long run, if I dont make any friends, I won't be sad about it. If I do make a friend or two, great! I'm just not holinf it as my #1 priority for going, thats all.

rycho626 · Post by **rycho626** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:01 pm

lol space camp stereotypes....

First off i would like to say, yes i pay (hemehem..my parents pay)for me to go to space camp 80% for the kids. My first time, it was just for the experience and the interst in space. But now, its mostly for the kids i meet. And i really have little desire to work for NASA. But i go to spacecamp. I mean, i go to tennis camp and basketball camp. I dont plan on being Shaq or Federer. My friend goes to film camp. He has no desire to be a director. It IS that way for some though, im just saying camp is not a bunch of kids striving to major in quantum physics and more kids wanting become CAPCOMS for nasa .

Yeah when people think SpaceCamp they think a bunch of nerdy, homeschooled kids who are anti-social and don't have lives. I've been three times to Space Academy and everytime there has been tops ONE of those in each of my group. And they make tons of friends just like everyone else. Then there are the kids who don't make alot of friends at home so they try to act diferent at camp (because no one knows what they really are like). They make no friends. Beleive me. Don't Try it. [ok im getting a little overly stereotypical but bear with me]. Then there are the normal, average, popular, goths, jocks (yes i said jocks), punkrockers, stoners, dropouts, ditsy blondes, cheerleaders, rednecks, skaters, etc. While i was at camp, i know homophobes who've become great friends with gays and radical atheists who become best freinds with devout-cristians. Yeah. I'm not lying.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:53 pm

I work my tail off during the summer and have paid for half of AC the last two years, but then I view Aviation Challenge as home and Georgia, my fall/winter/spring vacation. I LOVE AC. As for the kneepads, this really only applies to AC, but you get pretty banged up during E&E, and your knees take it the hardest, and knee pads could be helpful if you want some protection. Duct Tape does not really conern anything being broken, but theres always something you will find while your there you will need duct tape for.
As for friends, dont worry about it, my third year (2005) I wasnt going with friends like I usually do and I was worried that I would have a miserable time, quite the opposite, I STILL talk to a lot of my teammates, and it was without a doubt my best summer EVER!! Dont worry and just be yourself. Im kind of a hypocrite because I am me at AC, and not when Im at school. If you love Space Flight and have a passion about it, you'll get along just fine with other campers at SC

tennisrox014 · Post by **tennisrox014** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:28 pm

part of the fun though is showing each other the nasty bruises and cuts you get on your knees from E&E...

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:20 pm

Thats true, but if you dont feel like getting any, even though most true to thecore ACers will take the cruises and cuts with pride

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:47 pm

I remember coming away with alot of scrapes and bruises when i was done with escape and evasion.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:58 pm

oh yeah, I mean the last year I did E&E(I ended up in sick bay after SEAL OPS last year) I could not kneel comfortably for a couple of weeks, but man were those cuts and bruises cool looking

jagsvolleyball14 · Post by **jagsvolleyball14** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:45 pm

key on the brusies...yea i was really mad when i ran into the falcon(f16) bc my teeth were chipped and i had the scar across my face but now i think of it as a really cool scar bc i have this great story to go with it!!.. and im prolly the only one that has ever done that...lol