We’re engineers, fellow engineer friends are like fellow robots.
I made friends with the right people. I.e. my friends know how to design things, how to work to an objective, they take my serious approach while keeping things calm. We don’t slack off. When we were working on the first project we finished our design in the first session of 2 while other groups were still trying to get their act together. We were ready to build but had to wait since the build sessions were after the Xmas holidays.