You know you're addicted to FIRST when...

[shyra1353]

.. when you look at your watch in the middle of french class and realize that kickoff is a month away exactly and you almost scream out !!

[Arefin Bari]

... when you have a first logo on your jumpdrive... (random but whatever)... :p

[anna~marie]

when your team has a meeting to go over past drive trains and their adaptations to better the drive on the specific courses and you actually find it VERY interesting and are still thinking about it a week later.... :)

[BandChick]

Worse yet, when you schedule your classes so you have Tuesday and Thursday off COMPLETELY! :ahh:
(read: i have fridays off so i can go to out-of-state competitions and not miss school)

[Elgin Clock]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt Adams
Worse yet, when you schedule your classes so you have Tuesday and Thursday off COMPLETELY! :ahh:

(read: i have fridays off so i can go to out-of-state competitions and not miss school)
I have both days off.. re: in college most classes are only Tuesday & Thursday
or Moday & Wednesday.. Friday classes are a real rarity and I haven't taken any class yet on Friday.

[Arefin Bari]

... when you get up in the morning first thing you do is... get on chiefdelphi for any updates...

[anna~marie]

when every time you get on to check your mail...which is at least daily, there is another!!! update from CD that another person posted (which is quite annoying let me tell you....)

[BandChick]

when every time you get on to check your mail...which is at least daily, there is another!!! update from CD that another person posted (which is quite annoying let me tell you....)
try 20+ emails ;)

[Arefin Bari]

try 20+ emails ;)
thats why you just ask to not to notify you once ppl reply...

[BandChick]

yeah, see, but if i did that i'd forget to check CD

...when you become addicted to CD and need your emails ;)

[shyra1353]

.. when you are on a "mission" to find a pair of red triangle earings by january 10th .. so that for kickoff you can link together your blue squares with silver hoops and red triangles so the FIRST symbol is hanging from your ears ...

(I cant find them anywhere .. been through 2 malls !!!! .. maybe someone will want to give me them for christmas .. hmm ...)

[Ashley Weed]

Christmas morning..... you check CD before leaving your room to go look under the tree.

[Specialagentjim]

Christmas morning..... you check CD before leaving your room to go look under the tree.


...Chistmas morning, you go down to find your new MIG welder your parents got you so you can learn on your own. hehe...

up to 5/16" steel, here I come :D

[galewind]

... you volunteer to deliver a programming workshop in 2 weeks before you fully know all of the ins and outs of the language :ahh: :p

[Mike M.]

when after you post you sit there pressing refresh waiting for someone to reply

[Allison K]

When you set your homepage to chiefdelphi : )

Allison

[shyra1353]

thought some one else would post this .. but wtv ...

... when you translate FIRST into a different language

and then for my team ...
... when you have meetings throughout the holidays (sundays as well)

[greencelery115]

1. when you carry screwdrivers in your pencilbox
2. when you use screwdrivers to open oranges and food (quite useful; just clean off the grease)
3. when your computer crashes or goes beserk in school, you climb underneath the desk in high heels and a long skirt....to fix the cables underneath
4. you love the smell of solder- you hug the iron * unplugged and cold every so often
5. caffeine- must i say anything else? *you become an expert at mixing caffeinated sodas
6. you carry a usb drive around your neck- not those stupid floppies (a measly 1.44) and acutally kno what it is, how to use it, and how much MB it has
7. you want an arc welder for your birthday
8. when you see a nice car, you ask people to pop the hood so that you can check their CPU system and transmission :D
9. you don't mind when your finger stick together with expoxy.
10. duct tape wallet. :p
11. you speak l337 to your sisters * and try to teach them the difference between parallel and series circuitry
12. when you *fix the air compresser by taking the power strip plug out of the power strip, and affix it to the socket....and people think yer a genius, you give the credit to FIRST :D
13. you understand corny engineer jokes that your dad tells you....
14. life happens at school, between the electronics shop and wood shop...

your fave soap is jojo hand cleanser * orange power

you know the way to WRRF by heart

you want to do bionanotech for a career

[computhief263]

....WHen your team names thier zip tie gun "Jerry" and all vetern members refer to it as such

....When u begin to worship tapmatic and use for everthing

....When u use a plastic Apogee lighting cup used by a former advisor as a ode to them

....When ducttape fixes everything b/c everything can be fixed by duct tape

....When your in tigerbolt chat at 1 am local time and the topic of conversation is "scents of build season u wish u could bottle and sell"

....When a former member of the takes a sign that lists your team # as the max. of a restaraunt, and gives it to the teams favorite mentor as a gift

....When your wardrobe consists strictly of thinkgeek.com shirts and FIRST shirts

....WHen u feel u havent gotten much work done till ur hands are coated in oil and metal shavings (and then pull out a huge tub of jojo hand cleaner ;) )

:] :cool:

[jedilearner]

when you go crazy at scholl and draw stratagies instead of doing school work.
when you take of work to have fun listening to wody.
when you finaly get a small amount of sleep after ship date.
when you get a diserved rest after the competion season ends.

[BandChick]

when you realize that you should go to sleep so that you're well rested for kickoff but realize you will probably be up all night pondering

[Specialagentjim]

... when you're team already has at least 4 fully sketched plans for climbing stairs

[Alaina]

You know you're addicted to FIRST when it's the day before kickoff and your schoolwork is already being affected by [thoughts of] build season.

[BandChick]

...when you have viewed EVERY new post about the 2004 game and are wishing you knew more FIRST people with AIM to talk to/strategize with

[Firewolf]

When I got the new notorious team 25 shirt, given the size it was tent on me, I get home, put it on, and with a big grin model it for my parents ...
and my dad starts making fun of me...

just b/c I'm so happy about the ... very loud shirt


Not only that, I'm taking on the challenge of mr.c (adviser of 25) to where that down the streets of Newark, NJ which is my new home...
ooo you will see it Newark u will see the colours of raider robotix...


OK the addiction goes on

[Cappy697]

... when your stuck in non-moving traffic on the freeway when u glance over to the sholder and u see a funny shapped thing. :ahh: u shout, " THATS A VAN DOOR WINDOW LIFT MOTOR!" and then launch into a whole story about how u used that motor on previous robots and think dang if only i could just jump out of the car and grab that i bet we could still use it for next year! :)

[Ashley Weed]

When certain things in your life leave you with the state of mind, that you will no longer be able to participate in FIRST.... however, yesterday morning, I couldn't keep myself away from the local kick-off site. I also realized that I will be assisting three different teams by letting them borrow my brain at any time, and have spent almost all of my awake time on CD or other FIRST related tasks since kick-off......... --> I think my plan is failing. :ahh:

[Alaina]

You know you're addicted to FIRST when you're thinking about the new game more than you're thinking about your boyfriend. (who you love very much...but still...it's FIRST...)

[animater31405]

.....all you can think and talk about is how many ways you can blow up other robots in an animation.....
......You start building your robot to rival Kaimen's Segway.....

[Jay H 237]

When you stayed up all night to build a complete minature model playing field out of plywood and polycarbonate with LEGO "robots" to plan statagies.

[robot180]

...when the new game reveals a striking resemblance to one that you were day dreaming about in Math a few months before.

...when you are taking a shower early in the morning, still half asleep, invisioning a virtual reality type of control for a crab steering robot that hovers and makes a stack of bins, 6 bins high, in 10 seconds.

[m0rph3us]

... when you ask yourself if it would be considered cheating if you started dating someone (human) outside of the FIRST season.

[animater31405]

.......when you refuse to date any girl OUTSIDE of FIRST robotics.....

[BandChick]

...when you immediately find FIRST alumni higher on your list of college student dating possibilities just because they know what you're talking about

[Elgin Clock]

When you realize that this years game really is a combination of the past 5 years competitions and by chance your team has competed in all of them.

When you realize that new ideas by rookies and old ideas by veterans are going to collide with each other.

When you realize that the rookies do have good points, but the veterans have experience with what works and what does not work.

And finally:

You know you're addicted to FIRST when you learn to combine the ideas of rookies and veterans and you already have an awesome design within 3 days of brainstorming!!!

[Mike Heinowski]

When you talk to your fellow team mates and realize that you are the most experianced person on your team. (I have been on longer than even the mentors have)

[Eosoccer17]

i have to agree
i would be willing to get up at 4 in the morning if i had to work on my robot or go to a compitition.

[Specialagentjim]

i have to agree
i would be willing to get up at 4 in the morning if i had to work on my robot or go to a compitition.

I HAVE gotten up at 4 in the morning, many a time (flight to nationals, Robot Rodeo Off-Season)

[Mike Heinowski]

We would have to get up and be at the school at 3:30am for all three days of the West Michigan Regoinal. Then get back at 1:00am, then start all over.

[mtaman02]

...when your fellow co workers ask you what do you do for fun and you reply you go to the HS you graduated from to help build a winning robot!

[Cappy697]

...when your fellow co workers ask you what do you do for fun and you reply you go to the HS you graduated from to help build a winning robot!


lol YES! so true. people always give me weird looks when i say that

[Tytus Gerrish]

when your entire 1280x1024 desktop is covered in .DWG Files

[mtaman02]

...when you have viewed EVERY new post about the 2004 game and are wishing you knew more FIRST people with AIM to talk to/strategize with

don't worry theirs plenty of us here with AIM: its the preferred chat program amongst FIRST students and coaches. Yahoo is a close second and MSN a distant third and those with ICQ well running well behind number 3 ;) :D :] :p


...when your coaches come to you with questions about the game more then any other team player simply b/c you spend more time on CD then the team combined lol :)

[maxgebhardt]

...when you actually have considered using the left over pneumatics to build yourself an exoskeleton.

[Kiwi_queen]

- you go to VA with two friends from camp to visit one friend's family..and her whole family automatically assumes you're a computer whiz because you're on a robotics team

- while roadtripping with same camp friends, you see things that remind you of robotics, and you automatically launch into your stories

- you decide not to get a job this season because then you wouldn't be able to go to the competitions

- your main friends are divided into robotics and camp and anyone in between is just weird

- you cry when you see someone who bought a ducktape wallet instead of making it themselves

- you schedule your college classes so they don't interfere with team meetings, even if that means not taking a painfully desired class because the only one open is during meeting time

[lilszek24]

- when your english teacher asks u to write a paper about a hero and you choose, woodie flowers, dean Kamen, or even your robot...
-when you get more excitied about seeing dean kamen or riding a segway than winning front row seats your fav. bands concert
-when screw jokes become unavoidable in your work area
-you resort to talking to the robot during late nite work sessions b/c you realize thats your only true friend
-when your friends stop talking to you because u all you do is talk about the robot.
- Your friends say, " well if you love the robot that much why don't you marry it?" and you seriously contemplate being able to.
- your teachers tell you if they get one more paper handed in with scribblings of the robot in the margine they will fail you! ((its only happened to me once, but i didn't mean to...really!))

[shyra1353]

- Your friends say, " well if you love the robot that much why don't you marry it?" and you seriously contemplate being able to.


or you say "i would, and i will ... as soon as i turn 16 and its legal"

[Ashley Weed]

or you say "i would, and i will ... as soon as i turn 16 and its legal"

Even better: I have no idea who would be my ring bearer in my wedding, well - when talking with my best friend/maid of honor... her first reaction was "why not use one of your old robots?" :D

[mtaman02]

...when you use Team numbers to help you remember important dates (birthdays annervsary) or even phone numbers.
:D

...when the only thing in your favorites folder is chiefdelphis website and FIRST's website.

[maxgebhardt]

...when the you know more about the layout of home depot and electronics barn than anyone who ever worked there.

[Alaina]

...you describe a robot (or a robot part) as "sexy"
...you won't be "captain" until next year yet you're already planning on how you'll run the team.
...you think you're getting too much help from the engineer and the students should have more say.

[shyra1353]

... when family friends come over and you find out that one of their sons is in FLL and so you spend most of the night talking to him about it and talking about which schools in his area have FRC teams for him to go to in high school (in 2 years) ... all instead of studying for a major exam today ... (oh well i studied all night ...)

[Kiwi_queen]

...when your friend tells you (even though he is only joking) that he speaks through a voice box that makes him sound like a robot and you think that that's actually quite sexy

[Kyle]

When you still have the tickets from six flags in texas and the plain tickets still in your wallet so when u get bored u can look at them and rember "hey i ate really bad chicken at that park"

[Mike Heinowski]

When you realize that you have about 6 pairs of safty glasses in your coat pockets.

[Jay H 237]

When between work, robot meetings after work, and browsing CD when getting home you realize it's the end of January and the Christmas tree is still up. (as I sit here typing this staring at the tree across the room......Oh well, might as well keep it there, another 10 1/2 months and I'll just have to put it up again!! :D )

[mtaman02]

When between work, robot meetings after work, and browsing CD when getting home you realize it's the end of January and the Christmas tree is still up. (as I sit here typing this staring at the tree across the room......Oh well, might as well keep it there, another 10 1/2 months and I'll just have to put it up again!! :D )


do not feel bad

My nativity scene is still up. the weather up here in nyc is brutal to the point where i haven't gotten to take down the exterior decor. like you said 10 1/2 months and it will just have to be put up again might as well leave it there

;) :p :] :cool:

[Kiwi_queen]

~ when you have more pairs of safety glasses than sunglasses....and you collect sunglasses

~when you wear said safetyglasses for every-day tasks around the house so you can pretend you'redoing it for robotics

~when, during a movie, you point out every segway you see

~when your mom suggests that you stop with robotics and get more involved with college stuff instead and you give 20 reasons (off the top of your head) why you should stay with robotics...and then refuse to speak to her for the rest of the night

~when you're at the DMV and you're mesmerised by a ski ticket-stub on someone's coat zipper because it has your team number on it...and when you notice the person looking at you funny, you realize he thinks you're staring at his crotch because that's the height the stub is at.

~when you go shopping for clothes and ask yourself if it'll match your team shirt so in case it's cold out you can have something tp wear underneath without clashing

~when you go looking for fabric that matches your (incredibly loud) team shirt because you want to make more outfits for yourself but the place your team orders from ran out of the fabric. (no luck, unfortunately)

[Redhead Jokes]

- when everytime you see a garage sale, or stuff in or around a dumpster, you wonder, "Can we use that at robotics?"

[Alaina]

...when you literally have NO other priorities besides robotics, and you make sure it's the only priority you have at all times.

[Steve782]

When in your physics class the class finds useful information for building your teams robot

[Jay H 237]

When you carry a whole "robot first aid kit" in the trunk of your car at all times--you never know when something will go wrong. :rolleyes: Two toolboxes, a mini compressor, powerstrip, extension cords, ect. Then you realize why you're lucky to get six months out of your Camry's rear shocks! :D

[Specialagentjim]

When in your physics class the class finds useful information for building your teams robot

Exactly! This is the point of FIRST, to tie in the two worlds of academia with real-world application. Amazing, isn't it?

[Kiwi_queen]

~ when you stock up on hair colors months before competitions even start just so you know you have it incase of a worldwide shortage of haircoloring in the near future ;)

~when you seriously consider painting your car to look like a robot

[cbudrecki]

...you create a web page that has only one purpose, to feed you a new CD Spotlight every 17 seconds. You can even print your favorites!!! In true Tigertron, er, CD, colors of course! (it's zipped b/c i don't have it on an actual page, but it's lots of fun!)

[shyra1353]

.. when you buy a bra to match your team's colours and then when someone talks about changing the team colours at a meeting you say "no .. you cant .. it wont match my bra"

[melissa]

When you hear the word lego in class the first thing that comes to your mind is FLL...then FIRST...then all the good times you've had there...and then your just not paying attention and daydreaming for the rest of the class about robotics... :p

[mtaman02]

....when your buddy list is assorted by team numbers rather then names!

[anna~marie]

during finals week,you carry around a FIRST folder to brainstorm in when you should be studying

when you can't sleep because of the anticipation, get up and go to robotics, and somehow, once you're there, are so comforted you can finally fall asleep in your mentors office, surrounded by metal shavings and running mills! :D

[Lord Alpha]

--When you accualy finish a Pie throwing robot to lauch a cream pie in your headmasters face
-- the words that haunt your dreams are "No PAUL Dont lick that!, nooooooo " (paul is suddenly hurrled to the wall and falls twitching on the floor)
-- you spend enough time trying to fix your robot that when you finish you realise that school has been in session for 3 days since you started

[Breanne M]

- When you get bored at a meeting so you decide to paint your once red and white converse sneakers orange and blue.

- No matter how ugly the sneakers are now, you think they're cool simply because they're your team colors.

[Steve782]

when you are watching the super bowl and you suddenly shout "I was standing where that football player is!" when the camera shows where the field you played on was.

[Scott Shaw 237]

When you watch the superbowl just to determine where you sat and yell at the people sitting in your seat. And when you try the entire game to determine where your playing field was.

[anna~marie]

...when you spend hours looking at flames to put on your new hummer!!

...when the mentors decide that they won't airbrush, you create an experiment to spray paint the vinyl

...when it actually works......can't wait to see it on the hummer!

[MissInformation]

When you line up your stuffed animals and pretend to have a meeting after yours is cancelled again for weather... okay, so I didn't actually do this... I don't have enough stuffed animals... But I did dream that my team was part of a special edition of Survivor (which I've never even seen other than adds): FIRST Survivor! We lived in the school, sleeping in the hallway in sleeping bags. And for our first contest, eveyone had to name every single tool in the toolbox and say what it was used for, the person who guessed the least was out of there... I woke up wondering if they would accept twisty thingy and sharp pointy thingy and hammer thingy... wait, that would be a hammer...

Heidi

<==========>
"Sleep, Sleep, I know that I'm only dreaming" -Roger Waters

[Kiwi_queen]

~when even your checks have a diamond plate design...and your checkbook is decorated with duct tape

~when you go on a date and spend 10 minutes talking to the person about your love/obsession with robotics before you realize that 1)he doesn't understand what you're talking about (which makes you feel sorry for him) and 2)he's not interested (at which point you realize you can not date him again because you just can't see yourself dating a person who doesn't like robotics)

[shyra1353]

when you dream that it is february 23rd and your robot is and has been finished for over a week and a half ... and so there is no meeting .. but then you suddenly realize that autonomous was forgotten completely .. so there are absolutely no plans for autonomous and you run around trying to get everyone together (it was freezing cold and everyone for some reason was outside in the snow and i didnt have a jacket or shoes on .... ) but no one cared ....


-- sometimes i scare me --

[anna~marie]

dood! that is THE coolest dream!

[Steve782]

....when your buddy list is assorted by team numbers rather then names!
when you see lisence plates on cars seeing numbers of FIRST teams you know.

when you only talk about robotics to your friends outside of FIRST.

[Mike Heinowski]

when you only talk about robotics to your friends outside of FIRST.

Yes, I am sure that all of my non-FIRST friend are absolutaly SICK of me talking about robotics.

[Kiwi_queen]

~when you're on your first day of jujitsu and you turn to ther person on the right of you (whom you don't know at all) and tell them that the move the teacher is demonstrating could actually work for you in robotics (we were learning to hula..hee hee)

~when you stay up until 1 am brainstorming possible outfits to make that would match your team shirt so you could look uber cool at competitions

~when because of this brainstorming you're so psyched about matching that you decide to paint your nails that instant to match your shirt just so you're ready in advance.

[anna~marie]

when you actually attempt to paint flames on your nails in 4different colors....dont try it...trust me

[shyra1353]

dood! that is THE coolest dream!

not cool .. scary ... my mom had to reassure me that it wasnt feb 23rd ...



.. when you havent seen your friend in a while and you mention it to him on msn and he goes "thats because you are doing robotics 25/7 .. yes 25"

[anna~marie]

ouch...wake up in a cold sweat?

[Kiwi_queen]

.. when you havent seen your friend in a while and you mention it to him on msn and he goes "thats because you are doing robotics 25/7 .. yes 25"

there was a grocery store I once saw that proudly proclaimed "Open 25 hours a day".

[Alaina]

when you only talk about robotics to your friends outside of FIRST.

When you don't really have friends outside of FIRST...

[T967]

you claim/know that the fisher price moter can be rigged to lift a car.

[anna~marie]

..when you get so annoyed at waiting for the pieces to be finished so that you can assemble your robot, you find a broken joystick and decide to tear it apart and put it back together, just so that you dont crazy

[MisterX]

When your team attempts to make a petition making snow days illegal in your school idstrict during build season and was actually able to get others to sign ( it failed though and as we speak we our missing our 5th day :( )

When you woke up your little sister and mom by yelling "NOOOOO!!!! NO ROBTICS!!!!!" when you found out school was canceled

When the only thing that brought you joy this morning was knowing that they can't cancel school during weekends/vacations.

[Joe J.]

When your watching the Super Bowl while on Chief Delphi.

[maxgebhardt]

When your team attempts to make a petition making snow days illegal in your school idstrict during build season and was actually able to get others to sign ( it failed though and as we speak we our missing our 5th day :( )

When you woke up your little sister and mom by yelling "NOOOOO!!!! NO ROBTICS!!!!!" when you found out school was canceled

When the only thing that brought you joy this morning was knowing that they can't cancel school during weekends/vacations.
when dispite snow days you still work, and you cross country ski uphill to get to the build

[Steve782]

when dispite snow days you still work, and you cross country ski uphill to get to the build

when you hope there is school and the snowstorm misses your state so you can work on the robot right after school

[Mike Heinowski]

When there is a snow day and you think about giong to Visteon to work on the robot a 7:15 in the morinig.

[dez250]

when you shouw up at 6:30 pm on a snowday and are told your not meeting so a group of 20 students wait in the front of the builduing for a teacher to show up to flood down to the tech wing to work...

Muwahahahaha

[Elgin Clock]

when you see lisence plates on cars seeing numbers of FIRST teams you know.When you realize that "FIRST" is already assigned to a licence plate in your state... (sigh)

Also, when you realize that you are the author of 13 of the 25 newest posts....
Yeah.. ummm, I haven't had a chance to visit CD in a while and had some catching up to do!! lol

[Kiwi_queen]

~when you realize that there are only three people (outside your family) that you really talk to that aren't involved with Robotics

~when your room is covered in robotics paraphenilia and your lampshade is so flooded with team buttons that you have to hide some for the moment until you find another place to pin them up

~when you get more excited over the wonderful gift a teammate presents for the pit crew's usage than you do over the fact that your choir has been invited to sing for Nelson Mandela

[Katie Reynolds]

... When you wish for a snow day, not so you won't have school, but so you'll have extra time to work on your robot!!

[anna~marie]

when you come even though you get 2 hours of sleep.

when, after coming and falling asleep again only to get waken up and forced to do electrical work, you actually manage to strip your pinkie...

[Elgin Clock]

... When you wish for a snow day, not so you won't have school, but so you'll have extra time to work on your robot!!
You are evil.... lol
I wish I had a school district that would let us work when we had no school!!

[Katie Reynolds]

You are evil.... lol
I wish I had a school district that would let us work when we had no school!! I just recently graduated (at the end of first semester) and moved about 2 hours away from Appleton ... When I heard that the AASD had a snowday, my first thought was "great!!! That gives them 8 extra hours of worktime!!" ;) :D

[maxgebhardt]

You are evil.... lol
I wish I had a school district that would let us work when we had no school!!
our district does let us work, since the custodians are in the building anyway to clear snow. also the general reason we close school is because the busses which are further west have more snow than us, and cant make it on time. you might want to talk to your district, they might let you work, as long as the custodians are in the building.

[Jay H 237]

our district does let us work, since the custodians are in the building anyway to clear snow. also the general reason we close school is because the busses which are further west have more snow than us, and cant make it on time. you might want to talk to your district, they might let you work, as long as the custodians are in the building.

I know this thread isn't for this but I just want to answer Maxgebhardt. We have, it's useless, It's called "red tape". If school is cancelled they don't want anyone in the building--period. If we use the school on weekends or odd hours we have to pay the board of ed out of our team funds for use (custodial coverage) of the building. No other teams (swimming, track, volleyball, ect.) have to do this. Needless to say our team knows where it stands on the totem pole in relation to the school board. Like I said, red tape. If anyone wants to discuss this more we'll start another thread.

So, in keeping with the current thread,

When you start figuring out how much vacation time you have so you can take days of just to work on the robot.

[anna~marie]

See, we can work on snow days too, I think, because our shop is at the GM proving grounds!

[Steve782]

when you talk to your friends outside of robotics about FIRST, telling them what it is and all about this year's competition. I did that at a meeting I had today, getting people interested and excited about FIRST. (One or two people had heard about FIRST before, but many of them had not.) :D

[Specialagentjim]

Snow day? what is this snow day you speak of?...We've had hurricane days... Those are fun to go outside and play in.

Anyways...

...When you agree to spend four hours inhaling 2nd hand smoke just to get a robot frame welded. (for those of you who know this experience, I leave you with one word, Panzer.)

[Aignam]

Your dad accuses you of being involved with a cult.

True story. ::shudders::

[mtaman02]

.......when you start using the official FIRST logo as a wallpaper for any electronic device.

mobile phone, computers, any program that uses a wallpaper.


.......when you go to an FLL competition to do a volunteer referee job and you wear your team colors thinking your heading to and FRC competition.

to think where they held the FLL event is where they will be housing the FRC event just a month and couple of weeks apart from 1 another! NYC is great

hehe Feb7th. was the best thanks rich again for putting up with me. you might luck out for NYC FIRST! but thats pushing it lol

NYC FIRST FLL Competition and NYC FIRST FRC Competitions Rock!
;) :] :D :)

[Ashley Weed]

When you are traveling 400+ miles this weekend to see your fiance but are even more ecstatic that you are going to get to go to his robotics team for a while, since you are currently experiencing withdrawal from FIRST. :D

[anna~marie]

when you buy hot head to match your team colors

when you go to five different stores looking for orange and NO ONE has it :(

[Kiwi_queen]

~you consider getting custom made contact lenses with the FIRST logo in them...and the only reason you don't go through with it is because you don't have the money for it. (that upset me greatly)

[Joe J.]

When the first thing you do when you get home from camping is check your team's website then check Chief Delphi.

[Joe J.]

When your Spanish teacher knows why you want to use the computer before class

[Elgin Clock]

~you consider getting custom made contact lenses with the FIRST logo in them...and the only reason you don't go through with it is because you don't have the money for it. (that upset me greatly)
SWEETNESS..... How much??

I can wear them with my FIRST class ring I want to get!!

[Mike Heinowski]

When the last post was number 862, and I say "yay" because thats my teams number!

[Rhs953]

your answering this thread.

[anna~marie]

When after readin all the posts, you get curious to what 67's said and go looking....
(page 5, post 67,
-- You made it this far in to the list

-- You can recite the whole thing without thining about it)

[BandChick]

when you plan to take the train home to hang out with your team, and whine when your dad says it's time to go back to school because it's only 7pm and they'll be working for at least another 3 hours.

[Aignam]

your reputation points drastically reflect your self-confidence.

[Rhs953]

-You give up playing ddr (dance dance revolution) for 6 weeks to work on a robot.

-You ditch school to work on a robot.

-You answer this thread.

-You have no firends outside the robotics group

-You try to make a robotics class. (soon very soon)

-You actually read what i'm saying

-You read the thread and on 99% of them you say, "you know what, that sounds like me..."

[ngreen]

When neither ice, snow, nor the weather channel can keep you from making a two hour drive home to work 23 hours on a robot on Friday and Saturday.

When you have to finish something before you go home means your not going home.

When your best accomplishment happen at 1:30 am and either there is no camera, not enough people to take a picture or you take a picture and you forgot your safety glasses...retake.

When you go on a six week streak of always noticing your team number before you go to bed (11:08).

Studying for Chem 2 involves putting the book in front of you and reading CD.

[Joe J.]

When you spend your whole electronics class reading Chief Delphi.

When you want to smack people on your team for not knowing what Chief Delphi is.

When people say they don't need to check the team website because you tell them everything thats going on anyway.

[littleelectron]

you get mad at anyone who thinks your robots only goal is to beat on other smaller roobots...

when you spend more time at the workshop than you do at home.

when you yell at someone for not checking the post he never made on chief delphi.

[Spikey]

Your GPA drops ten points, and you eat more pizza in a month then you do in a whole year!

[Kiwi_queen]

SWEETNESS..... How much??

I can wear them with my FIRST class ring I want to get!!

so far the cheapest custom lense offer I've found is $450-$650 per pair depending on size, detail...etc etc etc.



~when you have a dream that you're running for president, and your whole campaign speach revolves around the theme of robotics and FIRST (somehow it made sense in the dream too....)

[Alaina]

When you don't mind eating pizza after working with chain without washing your hands, yet you wash your hands after eating becuase you don't want to get pizza grease on the chain.

[Aignam]

when the generic response to absolutely any question asked to you throughout the day is "Robots".

So, Anthony, what're you doing?
Robots.

Whatcha got for lunch, pal?
Robots.

How're you?
Robots.

It all makes sense, in some strange, sick, twisted way.

[Katie Reynolds]

... Moving 2 hours away from where you grew up is suddenly made easier by the realization that you know most of your friends through FIRST, you only talk to them online (for the most part), they live scattered across the country, and you only get to see them once or twice a year anyway! :ahh:

[Rhs953]

- when you give up playing ddr for 6 weeks
-when your only friends are in the robotics group
-When you read through this thread and on 99% of them you say, "Hey thats me!"
-When you get sick of pizza.

[shyra1353]

when the generic response to absolutely any question asked to you throughout the day is "Robots".

So, Anthony, what're you doing?
Robots.

Whatcha got for lunch, pal?
Robots.

How're you?
Robots.

It all makes sense, in some strange, sick, twisted way.

wow .. thats like my exact conversations with most of my friends .. he was soo shocked today when i said i could go to lunch with him (he stopped asking me for a while)

.. when you clean out your locker and one shelf is all robotics and the other is class stuff

[Joe Matt]

When doing chemistry problems, one of your answers turns out to be 3.65L, that's including correct significant figures!

[Pierson]

You and your whole team knows which Cell Phone Services work in which aisles of Home Dept and when you tell someone who is out on a hardware run, "Don't go down that aisle or you will loose your signal."

[Kiwi_queen]

~when even sheer luck leads to robots. ie: when you're walking in the parking deck to your car, and you see a button (something you collect) so you pick it up, when you notice it reads "This Robot Kills" (it's so purty! green background with black lettering. I'll cherish it forever!)

[Jim McGeehin]

Lime green jersey, black pants, and a bandana is a fashion statement
It no longer shocks you to sleep 2 hours
You can recite from memory the "Why FIRST is not Battle-bots" spiel
You ask everyone in a blue shirt to see your robot.

[blindguyinanorg]

how many pages are there? alot i dont think anyone will acually read this but its a good one

...you wash your hands BEFORE you go to the bathroom not after.

[nragod]

--when you traval 205 miles every weekend to be on a first team
--when you write an essay for english on pbasic
--when you hand in the program for the bot as an essay and get an A+ on it
--when your english teacher knows how to program the robot because you have written so much about pbasic
--when you only see your parents on weekend because you got to school before they get up and get dun with robotics after they have gawn to bed

[SarahB]

-You get in and win arguments with people at Home Depot about what keystock is
-You go to Toys-R-Us to look at the Power Wheels cars to try to find the one with FIRST motors in it

[Aignam]

you drive 14 hours to compete at IRI.

[TiA126]

Bored, tired, and waiting for food, so I thought I'd start up this list.

...you skip school to spend eight hours working on your bot.
...you have dreams about robotics.
...you talk about FIRST all day in an attempt to recruit people.
...you no longer have friends outside of your FIRST team.


yeah when people were asking me what i was doing for valentines day i said im going out with my boyfriend FIRST lol yeah get it ha ha!! :yikes:

[Joe J.]

When you have 3 pieces of bosh extruded alumimum and a pair of safty glasses on top of your computer screen.

[Mike Heinowski]

When you have 3 pieces of bosh extruded alumimum and a pair of safty glasses on top of your computer screen.

So thats were Ziff 2.0 went.

[mtaman02]

Wow 890 posts on here of nothing but truth and fantasy lol. What a great thread.

......when you go to your HS to help build the robot for a couple of hours and then leave to go to your actual job.

.......when you consider taking your circular saw apart to use the motor out of there to see if its better then the 1/2 drill motors FIRST provides

12p - 8p fri / sat off. thats the best schedule my job has to offer. i spend more time with robotics then i thought ever possible and thats with a job.

[shyra1353]

... when you are on the bus and you see the nuts being used .. and you automatically know what size wrench they fit into and where exactly on your robot you used the same nuts

[Alaina]

When you're the first to post that this thread is over a year old!
(It turned a year old on Valentine's day.)

[dlavery]

You know you're addicted to FIRST when...

... you use your robot to transport team members from place to place (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25666).

-dave

[Joe J.]

When you come home after working 12 hours on your robot and go straight on Chief Delphi.

[anna~marie]

When you're the first to post that this thread is over a year old!
(It turned a year old on Valentine's day.)
when you actually go and sing 'happy birthday' to a thread....now come to think of it, i'm sounding pretty weird right about now!

[m0rph3us]

... when you get addicted to Resin Core Solder's fumes :p

[SarahBecker]

When you come home after working 12 hours on your robot and go straight on Chief Delphi.

When you come home after working endlessly on the bot.. and yet still find time to read every post in this thread!!!! :rolleyes:

[Rich Wong]

You KNOW you're addicted to FIRST when you can't wait for the 900th posting of "You know you're addicted to FIRST when..."
(me #899)

Who will be famous and get the 1000th posting?
:p

[Katie Reynolds]

When you're the first to post that this thread is over a year old!
(It turned a year old on Valentine's day.) Oh wow, it's been that long already??? :ahh:

Well, I guess you know you're addicted to FIRST when you can the start of a year-old thread on Chief Delphi seemeed like it started yesterday!! :p

[mtaman02]

...When you continue to post the first thing that pops into your head to be the 1000th. post....!

[Tytus Gerrish]

when you go to school woth saftey glasses on your head and start a trend

[SlickChicFallen]

when you go to school woth saftey glasses on your head and start a trend

I might just have to try that sometime... :cool:

[Specialagentjim]

... when you walk into target not realizing you still had your safety glasses on

... when you ask your robotics teammate with you "how stupid do I look" while walking thru target with safety glasses on

... when he replies " Nooo, not at all! , I think its more so the zip ties hanging out of your pocket that do it."

[Rysith]

I beat you! 42 hours in 4 days! (Friday through Monday)

HAH! Working on animation over president's day weekend: 68 hours in 4 days (and two of those were 24 hours of animation)


More reasons:
Falling asleep on the ramp (2003) because it looks comfortable

Organizing a weekend around getting 2-hour breaks for sleep during renders

babysitting your mentor's daughter and taking her to play on the 2003 ramp instead of the park because it's more fun

You forget the day of the week but not the status of the robot

you get 6 hours of sleep a day and it's called school

"It's the day after the thirteenth. I'm not sure what number that makes it" 'nuff said

"Please contact us when we can think in straight lines" too much said

You spend enough time soldering that you get high off the fumes

When you spend so much time soldering that you feel cold when you stop

When you know the location to get every part in the kit

When you use the animation computers as heaters

when 4 of your 5 boyfriends have been on FIRST teams

when you have your annual team hairdying outside in front of your robotics classroom

when you spend months planning hairstyles to have at competition
when you plan to spike 1.5 foot long hair

when you have a list of over 500 quotes from robotics team members
when you can quote over half of said list

when you go to other classes while wearing your safety glasses

when your cell phone has more parts companies than people on the contacts list

(collected from many GRT people)

few more...
When you ask the robot to sadies
When you ask the animation to sadies

When you contemplate making a weight loss video about your robot ("I lost 20lbs in 3 days!")

[Heretic121]

When you have to quit your job, break up with your girlfriend (thank god it was mutal.. (we hadnt seen each other in 2 months due to distance reasons (a 45 min drive) and couldnt talk because she only could from 7-9 when i was w/ the team!) to practice shooting balls!!!! UGH!!! but on the up side i finnally have time to concentrate on school and the team =D

[Firewolf]

when getting dressed for a wedding, i give a rather logical explantion on fasion (how to wear what we were wearing) as we were getting dressed
and my sister turns to the rest of the family and says
"she's an engeneer... she thinks like that a lot..."
and all i can do is have a blank expersion saying
"but it makes sense... what do u mean... huh?"

of course they took my advice :D



when you are disapointed at yourself for not giving "Duct tape" as an ans. for something... :o

eg
my suitemate was getting dressed but the boots were not high enough to fill the slits of the jeans... so i tell her to just staple the slits togather due to the lack of saftypins...

she did it
and it worked
:D

[Yan Yan Tong]

You know you're addicted to FIRST when...

...there's a certain type of Body Shop soap that reminds you of robotics... :]
(weird eh?)

[nancienancie_47]

what? how do i know?well, okay, first my sister joined in, on the team (#47). She told me every thing that they have done. So, just by telling me that, i got so into it. Soon, i got into a after school program called "girls in tech." i didn't relize that it was part of what my sister was into. i went to their OCCRA games. so, i loved it so much and can't wait to go into high school and joined in also. :D hey, you got to love it!! :D
*nancienancie_478

[anna~marie]

"when you plan to spike 1.5 foot long hair"

really how?? ive tried sooo many times!!!

when the first thought that pops into your mind after breaking your finger was 'praise God its on my left hand!! now i can still use a screwdriver!!'

when you are still trying to type on chief delphi with a cast over your hand...doesnt work too well!

and, although not i, but
when you agree to go to a robotics meeting, but forget that that day is your wedding!!!

[Heretic121]

btw i just wanna post this milestone in this thread... earlier people were talkig about the 900 and the 1000th post in this thread... well i hit a new mark as well two nights ago when i posted =D

[Rich Wong]

btw i just wanna post this milestone in this thread... earlier people were talkig about the 900 and the 1000th post in this thread... well i hit a new mark as well two nights ago when i posted =D

....You know you're addicted to FIRST when you care a lot about these postings milestones.
:D

[mtaman02]

Nobody knows the trouble of seen. Nobody knows my sorrow. Oh wait Hi Guys.... Forgot where I was for a min there


......When you have a music lineup playing on your laptop that FIRST would use at a compeititon.

......When you volunteer to make the FRC 2004 Roster forgetting theres nearly 1000 teams to add or edit information on. ---- Hey its almost there got a few more states. States like Cali whose got nearly 120 teams. I was bored and on a break from doing the roster and decided to count the teams in California lol ~

...... When you keep bothering Rich Wong for FLL pics so you can prove to all your other friends that for once in your life you were in charge of kids playing habits other then parent hood. ---- Rich you OWE me FLL pics. lol I know where your cubicle is as well as Marks lol you both can't hide from me. I'll punish you by taking away the donuts.

......when your up this late recapping all that has happened in the last 6 weeks knowing fully well that the fun has just begun.

......when considering to talk to the thread started in making a top 100 list of the best Your addicted FIRST posts.

..... When realizing if I were to get to the 1000th. mark I should have posted this instead of in one post but 6 posts just so that I can get there quicker.


GOOD LUCK TO ALL TEAMS WHO ARE NOW IN THE DRILLING MODE

"Those holes are not weight reducers in our robot. There a part of the design. Don't you see the pattern" :) :cool: :] :D

[shyra1353]

... when you are sitting in bio class talking about the change in Gibbs free energy and how it relates to entropy and the first thing you think of is "wow .. the same thing happens with motors between torque and speed"

... when you have two 1000 word english essays due in 2 hours and you are posting this ...

... when the said two essays were assigned about a week ago and you havent done them because you have been too busy with the robot


Good Luck Today !!

[Mike M.]

When your falling asleep during math class and then are immeditaly(sp?) awoken when you hear your team number.

[Dr.Bot]

You know you are addicted to FIRST if the only way you remeber your birthday is during build season is because of a ChiefDelphi forum posting!


(This is true ---- just ask Andy A.!!!!)

[anna~marie]

when you actually try to convince your friends (who by the way have absolutely no idea what a FESTO switch is) that is was nessicary to remove it and replace it.

[Joe J.]

When people know what you are doing over break without you haveing to tell them.

When the team's crazy mentor imatates you just because

[TiA126]

When your falling asleep during math class and then are immeditaly(sp?) awoken when you hear your team number.

or you talk to charging batteries asking them if they are done charging.... :D

MIKE U ROCK!! lmao

[Dr.Bot]

O.K. You know you are addicted to FIRST when you write songs about being addicted to FIRST named "Addicted to FIRST."

I worte this last year:

With apologies to the late Robert Palmer:

Addicted to FIRST! (The Tune of Addicted to Love)

----------

Your lights are on, your voltage's low,
You can't get autonomous mode.
Your finger's twitch, your body aches
Another round is all it takes.

You can't sleep, you can't eat
There's no doubt, you're in deep
Your throat is tight, you can't breathe
Another round is all you need.

Ohh oohh
you like to say that math and science are tough,
It's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough
you know you're gonna have to face it
you're addicted to FIRST.

You see the score, but you can't read....
You're gearin' at the wrong speed.
You motors smoke, the belts they strip,
Don't get flip, you're losing grip, not hip.

You can't be saved....
Another round is all you crave
If there's some action left for you
You don't mind if you do

Ohh oohh
You like to say that math and science are tough,
It's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough,
you know you're gonna have to face it
you're addicted to FIRST

Might as well face it, you're addicted to FIRST(5x)

Your lights are on, but your voltage's low
You can't get remote control,
Your joystick's stuck, your feelings sink
Your drive trains lost another link.

Ohh oohh
you like to say that math and science are tough,
It's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough
you know you're gonna have to face it
you're addicted to FIRST

Might as well face it, you're addicted to FIRST(5x)

---------

[Steve Horn]

when you have a button that says "I lost sleep for six weeks and all I got was this stupid BUTTON!" and you know how true that statement is. :D

[maxgebhardt]

...when you actually made buttons of all the fortunes you have from chinese eaten during the build season since you got bored with making team buttons.

...when your bling is a 3/4" bolt on pneumatic tubing.

[Mike M.]

or you talk to charging batteries asking them if they are done charging.... :D
yes i actually did this the night before ship at around 11:00 pm :o

[mtaman02]

Between Tia126 and Mike M! :::: Here I thought I was the only one Talking to charging batteries. And Yes I still do. It's a bad habit when you throw one on charge and its the only one you got so you try and rush the charge by talking to the battery lol

Dr. Bot I think your addicted to FIRST more then I am. lol cool song.



...when you record the time it takes for the robot to start sending recieving messages and compare it to the equipment you use at work - not funny but its something I do when I get bored since the equipmemnts on a LAN type of network. hehe

This is for the alumni who are on teams and really don't build the robot anymore!

...When you go to work or school and during the 6 weeks of building your assignments for work or college are the hardest assignments of the year and after the 6 weeks you begin telling your self building a robot is not half as bad as doing all this paper work that gets shredded after a few yrs.


:D

[Jonathan M.]

...when your internet friends wonder where you've been for the last 6 weeks. And you find your self explaining how your highschool has a robotics team to about 29 people.

[Heretic121]

when you go to shaws... see there of your teamates WHILE working (students and alumini) in a small circle talking about robotics while still on schedule

[Phyz121]

When you see robot design ideas in the weirdest things/places (ie: my dogs playing in the yard....odd, but true.)

--Phyz :)

[Joe J.]

When you've got the second most hours during build season of all the students on the team and it's only your second year on the team the only student ahead of you is the team president who is a senior.

When you say "I'm management" on the second day of build and it not only sticks with you the rest of build but you get a button that say "I'm management" on it.

[Kiwi_queen]

when your current mood (whatever it may be) always has something to do with robotics, so that wherever you are (ie: Webster Hall...hee hee, yeah, it's true) and someone asks you how you are, you have to go into explaining about robotics to get them to understand ...at least slightly...what you're feeling. (I managed to get a few more people interested in participating in FIRST this way)

[jacob_dilles]

.... when you set your homepage to chief delphi's fourms

[mtaman02]

yeah thats fun but when it comes to reading emails its harder to access them b/c you gotta type in the link and everything

[Jonathan M.]

...when you watch the movie Frequency and automaticly notice the adress number to be a FIRST teams, "343" Lol. (Yay Metal-In-Motion)

[Joe J.]

When your at Target the day after ship and you try to find the cheapest tools they have in the sizes your team used this year.

[jacob_dilles]

...when you come home and empty your pockets producing a roll of electrical tape, 3 screw drivers, a pair of diagnal wire cutters, a razor blade, a sharpie, a tape mesure, a pair of neetle nose pliars, and a standoff
...when you then say to your self "so THATS where that standoff went"

[Steve Horn]

.... when you set your homepage to chief delphi's fourms

I did the same exact thing on my computer.

...when you don't know what to do on the weekend since you don't have a FIRST meeting anymore and it's the end of the build season.

[tiffany34990]

i just have to say i know when i'm addicted is when my photography teacher says why don't u just create something that moves because you are on the robotics team-- quote "you know things about gears, your project can be move, it'll be great"--- and in your head u think omg yes but like i really want to do that yes but ummm i better get a good grade on it

[Shu Song]

...when it starts governing your life.

[anna~marie]

.... when you set your homepage to chief delphi's fourms
uh, when you set your homepage to CD after your first visit there (which just happened to be about 3 hours long)

[Joe J.]

uh, when you set your homepage to CD after your first visit there (which just happened to be about 3 hours long)


CD isn't my homepage thats my team's site but CD is always the second site I go to.

When you find pnuematics couplings in your pockets, metal shavings in your shoes, and your pants are covered in metal shavings and machine oil.

[Jay H 237]

When you purchase a second laptop off Ebay so you don't have to carry your "good one" around to robot meetings all the time.

(As I type and submit this on my "second" Toshiba Satellite)

[AmBiE]

and that would be where?

-when u plan to spend ur entire 4 day weekend(9am-11pm) building ur robot

is that all? we worked several weekends nonstop from like 8 am- 12:30 pm... and weekdays from right after school till after 12 midnight... 3 days in a row!

[Specialagentjim]

...when meeting end times are determined by the state of florida law (17 year olds driver's license dictates that you may not drive after 1am or before 6am...our last meetings were pretty much "uhh...guys? its 12:30 and it takes me a half hour to get home...")

[Jonathan M.]

...when meeting end times are determined by the state of florida law (17 year olds driver's license dictates that you may not drive after 1am or before 6am...our last meetings were pretty much "uhh...guys? its 12:30 and it takes me a half hour to get home...")

Ah since when does the law matter Jim?- I MEAN.. uh yeah.

You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
...you sit down to draw an illustration as a birthday present to a friend, and five hours later you realize all you've drawn are concepts for next years Team Logo, then you spend another three hours in photoshop working on the new logo design. Well now I have a new logo (*points to signature*)... but no illustration.

[shyra1353]

.. when its your sweet 16 bday party and your cousin makes a short speech about you and mentions robotics (and how you are addicted to it) at least 7 or 8 times

[Bharat Nain]

... when you think that the meetings are more entertaining than your TV favorite shows

[Elgin Clock]

... when you think that the meetings are more entertaining than your TV favorite shows
When you think that your meetings will make a better reality tv show than most of them that are already being broadcast.

Definately...

[jacob_dilles]

...when at 6:25 your motivation to get out of bed is checking cheif delphi

[Greg Perkins]

ok... this is kinda weird...


I got a Chicken soup for the soul book for my anniversary. and i like to read it w. my fiancee, well its kinda scary that when ever we pick a page number, i immediatly run off a team name who correlates the number to. pretty sick eh?

[anna~marie]

Ah since when does the law matter Jim?- I MEAN.. uh yeah.

You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
...you sit down to draw an illustration as a birthday present to a friend, and five hours later you realize all you've drawn are concepts for next years Team Logo, then you spend another three hours in photoshop working on the new logo design. Well now I have a new logo (*points to signature*)... but no illustration.
ooh, thats cool looking~!!

for all of those book nerds out there, this a huge one...

when you almost completely quit reading your favorite book because the words on the page seem to form and outline of a robot.....hmm.....

[Joe J.]

...when at 6:25 your motivation to get out of bed is checking cheif delphi


That late huh? Your school lets you sleep in 5:00 am is when I need to force my self up to check Chief Delphi.

When you and another member from your team spend your electronics class recovering from build season even though you haven't done much work in that class since build started.

[Elyse Holguin]

...when you have permanent splinters in the seats of all your pants because of time spent in the shop, and sitting on stools covered in wood or metal shavings.

[Joe J.]

when you almost completely quit reading your favorite book because the words on the page seem to form and outline of a robot.....hmm.....

Yeah I've done that a few times .

[shyra1353]

when you are spelling out a word on the phone and you use robotics related words for each letter (so that they know they have the right word ... )

[mtaman02]

.. when you start counting down the amount of posts till the 1000 post.

after my post here there will be 47 remaining posts till post 1000

you know what happpens after 1000 right, brandon resets the thread to post #0 and we'll have to do this all over again....


hmmm better not give him any ideas i know he lurkes around this forum. lol j/k

[Mike Heinowski]

Yeah I've done that a few times .

Joe, your crazy... naw, who am I kidding I have too.

[Joe J.]

Joe, your crazy... naw, who am I kidding I have too.


I think we are all a little cazy after build season. Akuu.

[anna~marie]

that makes me feel all happy inside....im not alone!!

*tears*
when you know you will miss this post after it goes buh bie

when you hope people will type realllly long posts so that this thread can get to page 67!!!

[Heretic121]

when you hope people will type realllly long posts so that this thread can get to page 67!!!

*offtopic* i thought that page's were judged by how many posts... not how long they were... just thought...

[Joe J.]

Well I got post number 862 so I'm happy!

[Jonathan M.]

ooh, thats cool looking~!!

for all of those book nerds out there, this a huge one...

when you almost completely quit reading your favorite book because the words on the page seem to form and outline of a robot.....hmm.....

Thanks, and I've also done that.

...when you're talking to a friend and ask if they're "comming to the meeting tonight" and they look at you, put a hand on your shoulder and say: "Jon build season is over now."

[Iain McLeod]

....when you look at the quotes at the top of the screen at CD and think,
"I remember that thread" :yikes:

-I live here.

[shyra1353]

... when you are still wearing the bracelets from last year's competitons that teams handed out ...

[Aignam]

...when JVN and Andy Baker say goodnight to you in a FIRST chatroom, and you sleep better.

[Joe J.]

When your at the Pep-rally at the Detroit Science Center and you reconize Chief Delphi users.

[Kiwi_queen]

~you volunteer at the NJ Regional and get so into it that you end up losing most of your voice the first day, and are pretty much mute for the other two days because you just can't stop putting your all into what you're doing.
..and then you gotta spend the next few days enduring the wrath of a certain robotics members *cough*DJ and Coco*cough* as they call you Kristopher because you sound like a guy.

[Bluesky55J]

... when you push up your saftey glasses but they are not there and you poke yourself hard in the eye.

[Jonathan M.]

...when you've already packed your suitcase and your first regional wasn't for a week. Yes it's still packed, 2 more days to go! :D I can not wait!

[Pierson]

When you walk into the hotel restaurant first thing Thursday morning and say "That's Andy Baker" and the only reason you know that is because you spend so much time on Chief Delphi!

[Joe J.]

When you write FIRST team names on their corresponding pages in your Spanish workbook.

[danielkitchener]

...You can't get rid of the smell of aluminum and machine oil, no matter how much u wash
...You have multiple soldering iron burns, both on your body and on your clothing
...You've learned more colorful put-downs, insults, and general linguistic devices at the shop in the past 6 weeks than anywhere else in your whole life
...You've read all of this thread, and can still add more
...You know the pinouts for the competition port by memory
...You're sitting here, night before you leave for the regional, reading posts and writing
...You do phone interviews for major scholarships just so you can go up with pit crew
(If anyone sees me at the UCF regionals at 10:15 thursday and my ear isn't glued to a cell phone, hit me across the head, please)

[mtaman02]

(If anyone sees me at the UCF regionals at 10:15 thursday and my ear isn't glued to a cell phone, hit me across the head, please)I'll be sure to keep this in mind. j/k


...when you go to a regional and remembered to bring a digital camera and 2 batteries but forgot to charge both em.
...when you look forward to attending the next regional competition b/c you know this time to bring charged batteries and docking station (lol i will bring it to NYC) so that you can take up close pics of the robots while reffing the matches.
...when you start ranking the most posted in threads and you know for a fact that the top two are Word Assoc. and This particular Thread


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[Kiwi_queen]

~when your friend tells you that over his spring break he's actually going on vacation instead of going to the regional that lands on those same days and you can't understand this concept of doing something other than robotics.

[Jay H 237]

~when your friend tells you that over his spring break he's actually going on vacation instead of going to the regional that lands on those same days and you can't understand this concept of doing something other than robotics.

Or you wind up using all your vacation and sick time going to competitions! :D

[mtaman02]

Or you wind up using all your vacation and sick time going to competitions! :D
Im guilty of that more then she is hehe Not only do I use Vacation for Competitions but I also Strickly use Vacation for Building Season. I must admit I was very lenient in what days I used this yr compared to last yr.


... when even after the Build Season you still stay up late nites simply b/c your bodies used to the idea of not sleeping regulary (spellings off)

[Joe J.]

When you check Chief Delphi before leaving for your regional.

[Elgin Clock]

When you check Chief Delphi before leaving for your regional.That is just a prerequisite for attending competitions IMHO.

[Aignam]

When your grandiose ideas for the expansion and improvement of FIRST cause you to laugh maniacally. Out loud. In Spanish class. :o

[Alaina]

When you count down the days until SVR, but not the days until you go to Hawaii, which comes before SVR ...

[Heretic121]

when your body is shaking when its still 2 & 1/2 days from the competition.

When you are bowling w/ team members, and you are praying for 2 strikes and a 5 to get your team # for a round (or when you bowl another teams number)

[Mike Heinowski]

When you count down the days until SVR, but not the days until you go to Hawaii, which comes before SVR ...

Wrong one but...

Only 30 days, 15 hours, 58 min, and 22 seconds left until nats!

[mtaman02]

When you go to work which has no relation to FIRST what-so-ever wearing An official FIRST Hat, Tee Shirt, And Sweat Shirt. (I'll post a pic of myself eventually sporting FIRST Merchandise which to my knowledge was made available to the NJ Regionals)

When the Head Regional Volunteers contact you and ask you to pick a job to do at the regional and you can't choose cause you wanna do all of them. (referee etc....)

When you continue to think about if anyone would be addicted to FIRST so much to create this years (or future years games) to be played on your cell phone. (not a bad idea if you don't have a Palm Pilot / Laptop)

Edit:// When you constantly wonder if theres a way for php to be translated to cell phone languages so that you recieve delphi updates on your cell phone. (this goes for PM's to)

[Brm789]

When you continue to think about if anyone would be addicted to FIRST so much to create this years (or future years games) to be played on your cell phone. (not a bad idea if you don't have a Palm Pilot / Laptop)

When you read the above and you go...Oh my god! That'd be sooo cool! And then wonder...hmm...could that be done?

Your parents go away on Vacation to Las Vegas and the only thing you ask them to bring you back is anything in your team's color...

You show up super early to meetings, stay super late at meetings, and when you're not at meetings...you're wondering when the next one is and then you start counting down the hours...

[Ali Ahmed]

-When school time becomes sleep time.
-When you look at a car and think how you can build its drivetrain using Drills and CIMs.
-When you look at anything and think how that can be used on your robot.
-When you think someone should make a FIRST video game so you can a robotics fix during non-FIRST season.
-When you refer to mid-April to Decmber as non-FIRST season.
And last but not least
-When "robotics" becomes an excuse for everything.

[ZZII 527]

...your regional competition in three days is on your mind than tomorrow's admissions letter from MIT. ("Oh you got in...congrats. Now come comment your autonomous code." -Mr. Gandolfo, best mentor ever)

...you have "borrowed" an official FIRST field element.

...(for fellow sparkies) you know the wiring diagram, including wire guages, by heart and can put it together in under an hour.

...you understand the power of zip-ties.

...Radio Shack and Home Depot runs are commonplace.

...99% of the things on this list don't seem strange to you.

[Steve Horn]

...when you give up half of your two week spring break because the first week is the regional your team is attending

[Jonathan M.]

...when a friend comes over so you two can study for a very important spanish test and you suddenly slip into a conversation about the next regional you're going to. The clock rolls by and it's been two hours, he's got to go and you've got very little studying done, BUT you still talk about robotics as he's getting into his Jeep to go home. Lol :p

[mtaman02]

....When after reading this thread and see just about everything posted that you can think of and yet you still manage to come up with an Addicted to FIRST thought.

....when you purposely take off of work thursday and have friday saturday off automatically just so you can attend and help teams at a local comepetition which is fastly approaching in the closing week(s)

14 more posts to go to get to 1000 lets see if we can get there b4 the beginning of sunday.

remember be creative. j/k

[Brm789]

You see an adult mentor outside of your team meetings and it surprises you for atleast a minute or so that they actually have real lives outside of Robotics...(think about the feeling you had when you were small and going to school. If you ever saw a teacher outside of school it was weird cause...didn't they live at school??)

Not sure if this one was said but...

Need safety glasses? No problem! You've suddenly become the proud owner of about a million safety glasses that now cludder your car, room, locker, and even bathroom!

A non-FIRST friend thinks your team mates are cute...you look at her like she's come from the funny farm. I mean...that'd be like dating your brother or something...ew.

However...you have tried to date someone else from another FIRST team atleast once!

[jacob_dilles]

Edit:// When you constantly wonder if theres a way for php to be translated to cell phone languages so that you recieve delphi updates on your cell phone. (this goes for PM's to)
lol i know this can be done, my cell phone grps browser can read PHP sites, even download small pictures. if you have a browser enabled phone it would be very easy... im gonna try to do that thats an AWSOME idea.

...when you actualy implement a crazy idea like this

[Steve Horn]

...when you spend a whole day making buttons for the competition, go home, and make more buttons the next night with all the remaining artwork you have and asking your team to send you the artwork on e-mail so you can continue :ahh:

[mtaman02]

However...you have tried to date someone else from another FIRST team atleast once!
Darn I got snagged guess I'm gonna have to find potential g/f's elsewhere lol


.....When even as an Alumni member of a team you still get the battery changing job during the regional competitions. ( during my 4 years of battery changing I only had two mis-haps. One in 2001 At Bash at the Beach where I inserted the battery and it somehow pulled the wire going to the speed controller causing only one side to drive and in 2002 @ NYC when I forgot to secure the battery connector and the opposing robot accidentally snagged that same wire and dis-connected the battery )


.....When not only does the 99% things here does not seem strange to you but you can relate to at least 1/2 of the postings here!

.....When you notice 9 more postings to get to 1000 and you start placing bets if the 1000 post will be accomplished thursday night or friday night

[andy]

When people compare your team to American Chopper:

I am Seinor
Kevin is Juinor
James is Vinny
William is the brother....

And people think its funnier to watch us yelling at each other then the actual TV show.

[crazyone]

[QUOTE=DanLevin247

.....When given the name of a team or a team's number, you can tell them the name or number of that team ( ex. "247" would warrant "'da bears" as an answer and "da bears" would warrant "247" as an answer.[/QUOTE]


Don't joke about that, my adviser (Mr. Harding) can do that with just about any team. :D A skill, few on my team(222) have mastered.
.... when your idea of fun is creating a scoresheet and running scenarios just to see the score for that years challenge

......when your idea of a wieght loss plan is drilling holes

......when can list the wieght of each item on your robot from memory

[Joe J.]

When you walk into the gym storage closet of your old elementary school and the first thing you see is a 30 inch yellow ball (the same brand as the ones shipped in the kit of parts) and you know you have been at robotics too much in the past few months.

When you walking past the buses at your school and see bus number 47 and buss number 71 and you instanly think of Chief Delphi and Team Hammond

[Brm789]

[QUOTE=DanLevin247

.....When given the name of a team or a team's number, you can tell them the name or number of that team ( ex. "247" would warrant "'da bears" as an answer and "da bears" would warrant "247" as an answer.


Don't joke about that, my adviser (Mr. Harding) can do that with just about any team. :D A skill, few on my team(222) have mastered.
.... when your idea of fun is creating a scoresheet and running scenarios just to see the score for that years challenge

......when your idea of a wieght loss plan is drilling holes

......when can list the wieght of each item on your robot from memory[/QUOTE]

You can name a team by it's colors/mascots. (example: Someone goes "You know...the orange team with the tiger.." and your response is "Tigertrons." Or..."The lime green team..." and you go "Oh yeah..MOE 365")

[shyra1353]

.. when youre in india and you are wondering what is going on in the world of FIRST because you havent had access to the internet for a while

.. when HP no longer stands for hewlett packard or harry potter .. but only for human player

.. when you meet a 3-year old cousin of yours for the first time and think "when he is in high school ... hell definitely join a FIRST team" and then you realize that because he lives in india there are no FIRST teams so you start to think about starting some ....

[crazyone]

...on your free time your building mock models of previous years robots.

....you look at the clock and see a team number and not the time.

[mtaman02]

....when you look at a serial number and see 2 team numbers and think that would be a great alliance (e.g 922303)


....when you go to type an option ( 1st , 2nd or 3rd ) you somehow always capatilze the word FIRST, Second, Third rather the First, Second, Third.

[Jonathan M.]

...when you see some one wearing a pink shirt and automaticly you THINK PINK! Lol.

[mtaman02]

...when you decide to paint your hair and dress in pink so you blend in with the florida team.

...when you hit the refresh button on FIRST site to see if any regional updates have been posted (same goes for CD)

...when you go to the regionals wearing all the corresponding shirts concerning the teams and volunteering you'll be representing (as silly / stupid as it may be i shall do this got 4 of em to wear already)

...when you get a shaved hair cut with the FIRST logo faded into the cut

...when your phone gets the faceplate with the FIRST logo on it....

I think in april 2002 I saw maybe 1 - 2 people with the FIRST logo'd faceplates for Nokia phones


...when after reading the local newspaper(s) you log onto CD to read more interesting things that seem more logical and have more common sense.

...when wondering what kind of motor pushes the newspaper through the newspaper making machine.

...when you have read this thread fully more then once in the past hour.

...when your buddy list is divided into groups :family / friends / FIRST / CD and Team # (Insert team numbers here)

...when said buddy list contains more various team members names then your grouped family names

...when you have 2 different AIM accounts one for FIRST / CD and one for personal life yet the FIRST / CD contains more names and you use it more often then the other one

Edit:// To: BRM789 you know all this time I was doing this editing I never once looked up at that. So here it is the 1000'th post. Sheesh a few seconds of happiness for reaching that far lol kinda reminds me of New Years and as soon it changes to 12:01 the fun is over. The next goal for this thread shall be set to 1100, 1250, 1500, 1750. 1900, 2000 I think Erin will make it to those points before I do. hehe

Anyways heres to the 1000th. post. happy 1000th post.

...when celebrating top postings of this thread becomes a monthly event.