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wilshire
29-06-2005, 04:10
when you go through all 1,250 posts to this thread and still can think wait what about sleeping with the CNC machine. I don't think anyone mentioned that. :)
FIRSTnameisJay
07-09-2005, 14:45
when you search the forums looking for this post that you started three years ago. Wow 1250 posts and still goin!
MChapman
07-09-2005, 16:23
When you decide to have your robot in your senior pictures instead of your girlfriend or friends.
(he chose the robot over me..haha)
Billfred
07-09-2005, 19:14
When you contemplate borrowing your team's robot to drive up and down the halls of your college residence hall to recruit some college student mentors.
MChapman
08-09-2005, 16:13
...when your default homepage is your teams website
...when you start counting down the hours left of school before your kick off meeting for new members
...when you give your parents the shop phone number in order to get ahold of you for 6 weeks
JVGazeley
08-09-2005, 18:11
lol...
You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
...your biggest worry about your re-sits is that they fall during the build time...
...you actually try to turn up for the team meeting when the new Captain messes up and says it's at 2:55am on the otherside of the county...
...you get annoyed because you missed the receipt with your team number upon it by a few minutes in Argos...
sure_smile
13-09-2005, 21:38
when its september and you're not counting down to christmas, you're counting down to build season!
MChapman
14-09-2005, 15:56
...when your shop number is the 1st speed dial on your cell phone
MChapman
23-09-2005, 16:16
(i got bored in asian studies class an was thinking about FIRST)
...when you know that from today there are 106 days till kick-off :p
You know your addicted to FIRST when:
you know more about FIRST than anyone else on your team.
you have your senior pictures taken with your teams robot.
you have ridden an old robot around school hallways during lunch.
SugaRaXie
24-09-2005, 23:24
...when you'd rather spend your lunch and after school hrs with your team and robot rather than your friends
...when you stay up till morning hours working on robotics related things [haha...last week was suppose to be up working on a new layout for my website but ended up coding the entire layout for my robotics team website...]
...when all you'd rather do are FIRST competitions [lol, after the wonderland competition today a bunch of the team members went to BK to chill and one person was like how it'd be crazy wicked if all you did was like drive all over the country in a coach and participating in FIRST competitions/events...]
...when you're willing to miss your favourite [insert something here -- class, tv show -- etc...] just for robotics
...when all you do is talk about robotics no matter who you're with
Denalin Fusion
25-09-2005, 15:55
-You are willing and wanting to spend ten hours a day, every day of the week, for at least three weeks, just to finish your robot (at the end (or in my case, the animation).
Aburame Shino
26-09-2005, 15:45
...when you can come up with 85 pages worth of stuff that shows you're addicted to FIRST.
Steve Horn
30-09-2005, 21:00
When your desktop background is a FIRST field.
artdutra04
02-10-2005, 02:12
When the following apply to you team...
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/4162/01caffeine1fy.jpg
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/4797/02clockam6nf.jpg
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/8739/04classrooms3pp.jpg
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/8288/07thinking5zb.jpg
http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/4302/08schoolbus9hb.jpg
When all you have in life is posting on this site!
spadercool
07-10-2005, 08:57
you dream about building robots in your sleep.
mechanicalbrain
07-10-2005, 11:22
When you post on this site in the middle of school! :D
MChapman
07-10-2005, 20:27
when ur at a restaurant an u have crayons an they table cloth is paper an u start doodling the FIRST logo! :D
(even after drag racing for a day)
SugaRaXie
08-10-2005, 07:12
...when you'd give up your mornings, evenings, nights, weekends AND holidays/breaks just for working on the robot
katiyeh07
08-10-2005, 21:44
when you write papers about FIRST...and you're the only person in your class that understands it at all
When the basis of your SAT essay in on FIRST
When you cut back on the hours spent at a well paying job with few challenges, to take a job that gives a small honorarium, way too many hours and endless challenges, but gives you an excuse to talk about FIRST to anyone who will listen. :)
when you know the names of every robot made with your team and atleast a dozen other teams since you were in the fifth grade!
katiyeh07
10-10-2005, 10:33
when you've been with the team longer than you've been in school, and longer than some of the mentors...and you've still got a year to go
Pat McCarthy
15-10-2005, 22:56
When you decide that it would be fun to do Physics II problems at 11pm on a Saturday night, and you don't really have anything planned for Sunday... :rolleyes:
Nitroxextreme
20-10-2005, 18:00
...when you visit chiefdelphi more than 3 times a day at school
...when your teachers accept the excuse "i was doin dean's hw"
...when you will spend all the light hours of the day at school
You're on a Carnival Cruise and you see the entertainment room and think "Hey this'd be a pretty cool place to hold an off season event!" :rolleyes:
...when you're up at 4am to beat John Boucher getting on Chief Delphi...
...when you're up at 4am downloading the FIRST logos from the website so that you can make a banner for a demo you're doing...on your vacation day!
...you're walking around the new convention center in Hartford where you're supposed to be doing the demonstration saying, wow, this is where the robots and toolboxes and crates will be coming into the pits in March when we're here - no more mud and snow to slush through!
anna~marie
21-10-2005, 07:36
When your friends come over and you make them watch your team's 'memory video'
When if you dont get on chief every morning it's a sad day where you always are wondering what is going on in the (FIRST) world
114gopher
23-10-2005, 01:01
When you look forward to getting up at 7:30 to go to a robotics workshop, then actually do it! And then when you're sorry its over.
Alex Burman
30-10-2005, 10:04
you miss major high school events like prom or homecoming to go to competitions. ( I already missed homecoming this year DUEL ON THE DELAWARE WINNER TOTALLY WORTH IT!)
you pass up a trip to Disney World and get out of a couple days of school because you would miss a robotics regional.
Steve Horn
19-12-2005, 19:07
When you spend the weekends of your spring break going to robotics regionals.
SugaRaXie
17-01-2006, 21:43
...whenever you look at the time and its your team's number you tell all the people on your msn list what the time is...[like when time hits 12:19...i tell everyone on my msn list...haha...they've gotten use to it now]
Leo 1529
20-01-2006, 20:10
You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
- you spend more time at school building and driving than you do at home
- when you realize that your shop is your home for 40 days.
- school goes by and all you can do is think about robotics
- a teacher gives you time out of class to go to the shop to get your homework done.
riboSquirrel
22-01-2006, 20:45
I've been having dreams about robots alot lately. I am the driver for team #171 and the night before the last day of competition in St. Louis, I had a dream the we made it to the finals, but we got beat for the second year in a row by the Baxter Bomb Squad (#16). But my dream was wrong, we made it to the finals and won the St. Louis Regional. We never played Baxter at all.
And my parents informed me this morning that I was sleep walking last night. They say that I walked into their room at 3:00AM and kept crying, "My robot won't go up the ramp." HaHaHaHaHaHa, I think its really funny. Its taken over my life.
Everyday since I've gotten back from St. Louis, my Algebra 2 class has done nothing but talk about the competition and the highest score possible. I'm OBSESSED!:D
my mom told me that i slept walked and started trying to take apart things with imaninary tools .. when i woke up... i was frustrated because i never finished taking apart the object in my dream... :(
orelinde
22-01-2006, 21:56
i liked that last one
- When your son's teacher asks about the measurement of the bumper from the floor and me being mom and yet not involved spew out the answer because i heard it to many times
- When I am mom wake up at 5:30 on a saturday before coffee to drive my son to robotics so he can be the first one there and get a jump on it. (still trying to understand what part he is "jumping" on)
- When you as a mom sign on to a forum that son uses to post about how i am becoming addicted and i have not even touched the thing yet.
When you spend the weekends of your spring break going to robotics regionals.
you know your addicted to first when you spend your entire spring break going to regionals and helping teams you dont even recognize
Brian Lesser
26-01-2006, 23:32
You know you're addicted to FIRST when, deep down, you feel offended when you hear one of your teachers say "robots are tools"
Aburame Shino
27-01-2006, 15:40
...When you're walking around, see a random number, and can determine which FIRST team has that number.
BluePotPie
06-02-2006, 19:59
You have the Kickoff, Game animation, and the Transmission/Chassis videos on your iPod.
alithanar8
07-02-2006, 19:39
When your friends all leave you because you are so exhausted after building.
When you are ALREADY breaking down the teams registered for the championship into divisions.... :o
mizscience
07-02-2006, 22:22
...you can find a way to twist anything robotics related and make it sexual :P
:]
mystrdylan
09-02-2006, 01:22
you stay up late to browse the McMaster-Carr catalog.
(That company is so cool, they have almost EVERY PART IMAGINABLE)
-Dylan 1722
Marshall Tapp
11-02-2006, 00:11
- if you go crazy when you leave your thumb drive at home.
- if you more of your team than your family in the past four weeks.
- if you can remember every detail of your robot, but have no clue where your mom is
when you get home.
- if you decide it is just easier to stay at school for the night than go home.
Cody Carey
11-02-2006, 00:35
If you have the choice between closing a mid-term essay that hasn't been saved or a Max presentation that was saved 5 minutes ago... and you close the essay :)
If it's 3am, you really should be sleeping or doing homework, yet you check on ChiefDelphi for the latest news first.
Artless_Grace
25-02-2006, 00:29
...your hands perpetually smell like metal.
...you can tell the size of a bit/nut/bolt/screw (and the threading on metric nuts/bolts/screws) just from glancing at it.
...you consider how awesome it would be for your team to do something out of Monster Garage.
...you're seen carrying power tools around school.
That is definately me..
-When, at the end of the day, you're scratching your head and a bolt falls out.
-When you shrug at the bolt casually and go back to work.
-Your cuticles are screaming for mercy.
-When you find yourself making rings out of metal tubing.
-When those rings are accompanied by duct tape.
-When you start a trend and this duct tape and metal becomes favored fashion.
-When aluminum shards become body glitter.
-When you drill and thread a hole in a school lunch table. It still.. wasn't me. >.>
-When you spend your friday and saturday nights expressing your woes to a bandsaw.
When you have read all 1300 posts above you in a Chit-Chat thread.
X-Istence
25-02-2006, 16:34
When you have read all 1300 posts above you in a Chit-Chat thread.
Just finished :P
-- When your teachers wonder why you are in class
-- When physics homework suddenly seems a fun distraction
Michelle Celio
25-02-2006, 16:47
- when your mentors say "hey, no meeting Tuesday and Thursday, you kids need a break" you beg them for just one more meeting this week. :ahh:
- when one of the mentors is your 1st period teacher, and every day that week before even saying hi to them, you ask them "Can we please have a meeting today"
- when you finally (almost) accept the fact that there is no meeting that night, you sign on and the only people on line are those from your team
- when your room actually gets cleaned because of the lack of meetings
- when you've posted on this thread several times and are still able to come up with unique things
- when you have this thread subscribed so you can read the new additions :D
-You remember posting in this thread 2 years ago..
-Your team's head mentor say the following about you: "Joe knows everything about the team, He knows more about the team than the team does."
-You work on your teams robot during 1st and 2nd hour in school.
-You have a "Big Black Binder of Everything Robotics"
-You have a personal team "Archive" going back 4 years
-You carry a full copy of the Game Manual around school from Kickoff till you team's last competition
-you have 3 of the top 5 highest annual Build Season Hours
-the ammount of hours you worked on the robot is HIGHER the the total number of hours the team met for.
Rohith Surampudi
25-02-2006, 22:09
- your grades drop a full letter grade during the season
- your teachers wonder why you are sleeping in their class with your head in a binder full of CAD drawings
- you beleive a sawsall and a roll of duct tape can fix anything
- you wonder if the sqeaking the car is making is beacause of a loose set screw
- you cant look at an allen screw without trying to decide to use if it is a 5/32 or 3/16 so that you can tighten it
- you have consumed at least a pound of sawdust while building the field
-a group of people that were once strangers became some of your best friends in 6 weeks
Chrispy393
02-03-2006, 21:21
...When you say "I really need to stop reading these addiction things..." and then go on to read 4 more pages.
...When inside jokes from Robotics are the only jokes you know.
...You refer to your robot as sexy.
...The first day after shipping date, you go into withdrawl that you have to go to Wal-Mart for something to do.
...You think companies should be condemned for not sponsoring your team.
...People snap at you about "mentioning robotics...AGAIN!"
...Your preacher stops in the middle of service to ask how the robot is going...which also serves as a "Wake up!"
...When the manufacturing team looks at you funny when you offer someone a band-aid.
...First period is sleeping time.
...Breaks involve going outside to wrestle due to stress of just for fun
...When you feel close to allen wrenches.
...When you can't wait to meet all of these CD peple at regionals.
PIRATECAPTIN
03-03-2006, 08:47
-When begin to refer to your coach as "dad" and your robot at "brother"
-when your personal pet (dog/cat) don't recognize you any more
-you find bits of the poof balls everywere on your body
-- When you talk about robotics in a foreign language to make the German teacher happy
--You somehow find a way to connect robotics to your English project
--You quit doing the IB program because it limits the time for Robotics
--Your ITGS project is a tutorial explaining how to run a robotics team
--You talk about robotics so fast some people think it is a foreign language
--Your girlfriend left you for the robot
--You have cyclical relationships with getting back together at the deadline, and the breakup at the kickoff
--You convince your significant other to join the team so that you see them more often
--You look like an automaton for 6 weeks
Jill1022
03-03-2006, 09:38
-- --You convince your significant other to join the team so that you see them more often
Since I almost never date guys that go to my school that's not the case, but I DID convince my best friend to join the team so I could see her more often.
when you call the robot "my baby"
when you have a picture of you and the robot on your camera, phone, or personal site.
when you have that same picture framed in your room somewhere.
http://i2.tinypic.com/qyu5wm.jpg
^yeahhhh. you know it.
oops. done em al.
when you hear your school's PA announce your team's standings at last weekend's regional and you scream really loud.
and everyone looks at you funny.
wow. i've completely out-dorked myself.
...When you say "I really need to stop reading these addiction things..." and then go on to read 4 more pages.
...When inside jokes from Robotics are the only jokes you know.
...You refer to your robot as sexy.
...The first day after shipping date, you go into withdrawl that you have to go to Wal-Mart for something to do.
...You think companies should be condemned for not sponsoring your team.
...People snap at you about "mentioning robotics...AGAIN!"
...Your preacher stops in the middle of service to ask how the robot is going...which also serves as a "Wake up!"
...When the manufacturing team looks at you funny when you offer someone a band-aid.
...First period is sleeping time.
...Breaks involve going outside to wrestle due to stress of just for fun
...When you feel close to allen wrenches.
...When you can't wait to meet all of these CD peple at regionals.
isn't that the truth? i've gone through some of those things.....and it's ashame that the late night are over, so now we just go home and sit and do nothing.......whereas 2-3 weeks ago we were at school until 11 or 12 o'clock at night...and that was amazing.....i can't wait until next year....and until IRI.....now that's going to be fun..... :(
IraJason
08-03-2006, 10:47
You know you're addicted to FIRST when at 5 in the morning you're on CD and waiting to get one last post in before bed...
Danielle H
08-03-2006, 11:21
... you complain about building your bot THREE TIMES, but secretly, you love it.
... you're upset that you can't attend a regional with your team, and are prepared to royally tick off your parents to do so
... your friends could possibly know more about your bot than some of your team members
... you tell you friends who live near you to come to IRI
... you honestly have no clue when the last time you had a good night's sleep was
- you know what North Dumpling Island is
even better, you've been there.
SugaRaXie
10-03-2006, 00:49
...your best memory of Highschool will be Robotics.
...your team dreams that one day there will be a career where you just drive around to regionals all throughout the year.
...you spend more time at school working on robotics stuff than actually in class.
...you go to other random forums and make friends with the ppl that're in robotics FIRST, then the rest of the members of the forum.
prettycolors91
13-03-2006, 08:39
When you get frustrated when people can't remember what FIRST stands for...
When you start linking poof balls to random things in conversations....
When you get more nicknames during build season than the rest of your life combined...
When you buddy icon says geeks are hot.....
When you believe that geeks are hot.... :D
DjAlamose
13-03-2006, 09:32
When you schedule your college classes around participating as a mentor in FIRST...
When you spend more than 200 hrs during the build season building the robot and still work 40 hrs a week...
When you spend way too much time on Chief Delphi making sure you know everything possible about other robots and rules before going to a comp...
prettycolors91
13-03-2006, 18:37
When you come home from a competition and take up your whole economics hour trying to explain what FIRST is to the class...
When your friends disown you because they never see you during build season...
You know what button parties are...
When you have attended button parties...
When you quote Chief Delphi...
You personalize your safety glasses....
You carry safety glasses in your purse...
There's more than one pair in there^^...
Danielle H
13-03-2006, 20:12
...you're seen carrying power tools around school.
Does duct tape count as a power tool? It's certainly more powerful than most of the other stuff we use...
-When you have a week between Regionals and you decide to meet every night after school.
-you have teachers that tell you "You need to go home, I swear you're here 24/7." (Then again, I'm in drama and Indoor Precussion too.)
-you know for a fact you're giving up drama and indoor percussion next year(or insert other activity here) to spend all your time with Robotics
-you try to think of any possible way to get home a tad early from the Boilermaker Regional so you can still go
-You seriously consider running away from home to a Robotics competition
-you seriously consider asking Chief Delphi people that you don't know to hitch a ride back to G-field early Saturday morning, though you know it won't work
-you're sad that you can't go to any of the competitions, and are being pessimistic about being able to attend IRI
-You ponder for hours on end about how to get your team to Atlanta, because you all really want to go
Hah.. just experienced this one...
-When you want to go somewhere else on the web, you automatically open up another window entirely so you can stay logged on to Chief Delphi
Chrispy393
15-03-2006, 15:12
When you come home from a competition and take up your whole economics hour trying to explain what FIRST is to the class...
When your friends disown you because they never see you during build season...
You know what button parties are...
When you have attended button parties...
When you quote Chief Delphi...
You personalize your safety glasses....
You carry safety glasses in your purse...
There's more than one pair in there^^...
Ohhhh man... Safety Glasses. I "personalized" my safey glasses at Pittsburgh with a ton of frilly ribbon. You could ask anyone from that regional and I think they will remember them. Everyone should personalize their glasses, but er....at your own risk. ^_^ I had my picture taken lots of times by people I had never met before in muh life. :o
anna~marie
15-03-2006, 15:22
... when even your bus driver asks you about it (FREAKY it just happened today... to save gas I ride the bus and he happened to be our bus driver for GLR and today he stopped me and wanted to ask me some stuff... it was weird)
... when you convince your friends that the W MI Regional will be a great way to spend their weekend, even if it is on the opposide side of the state
Michelle Celio
15-03-2006, 17:23
Hah.. just experienced this one...
-When you want to go somewhere else on the web, you automatically open up another window entirely so you can stay logged on to Chief Delphi
Or when you use firefox and when you first come to chief delphi, you open each thread you want to read in a new tab and you land up with 15+ tabs.
mtaman02
16-03-2006, 23:56
You know your addicted to FIRST when.....
you decide to go to a local regional right after work and got lost in the process but was determined to get there reguardless of how much gas was in the tank.
This was a true incident Short and Simple Version.
I work in the BX (NY) decided to go to the NJ Regional The trip itself was pre determined to be max 1 1/2 hrs and I had a lil over 1/2 a tank of gas. What had happened was i wasn't paying ENOUGH attention to the exits and ended up in PA, so instead of the trip only being 1 1/2 hrs it ended up to be 4 hrs and I ended up in having a lil over 1/4 tank left and to add to that instead of fueling up in NJ where gas is cheaper I almost ran out of gas 2 blocks away from my house which only took me about an 1 hr to get to since I live in SI (NY) What I do for FIRST =)
you re-read the entire thread starting from where you last posted to the current post to see what you've missed
anna~marie
27-03-2006, 20:57
When people in your household are afraid to walk barefoot or in socks because they have stepped on metal shavings that you have accidently taken home from the shop... many times...
thatphotochick
27-03-2006, 21:21
when you sneak on the library's computer just to talk about FIRST with people you actually might understand you...without having to compare FIRST to basketball
Michelle Celio
27-03-2006, 21:26
when you sneak on the library's computer just to talk about FIRST with people you actually might understand you...without having to compare FIRST to basketball
When you can explain FIRST with out having to relate to "common people" terms :P
supertinni
27-03-2006, 23:30
....your robot is your valentine.
....your coach/teacher has to get you an extension on a class project so you can work on the robot.
Or, you know you are obsessed with FIRST when you try and nominate your robot for the sophomore class homecoming princess :)
When your in China on a business trip and are still on Chief Delphi. Not2b
i_am_Doug
28-03-2006, 11:07
When you start to abbrivate like a Nascar driver.
anna~marie
28-03-2006, 19:23
when somehow you get a tool magazine sent to you... and you have no idea how but you don't really care :rolleyes:
gizmoman1089
28-03-2006, 20:03
when you get your team number bleached then died on the side of your head and the first logo tattooed on your upper back :cool:
thatphotochick
29-03-2006, 12:31
when in the middle of a conversation, having nothing to do with FIRST, and you randomly blurt out your team name, robot, shooter, dumper, herder, or anything else only having to do with FIRST
(or when you start doing the MOE dance and you start imagining "we like to party" in your head....in the middle of a conversation having nothing to do with FIRST)
When at every night the dinner table conversation turns into what you read about on ChiefDelphi.
Sharkbyte
30-03-2006, 01:58
You relabled the speedometer in your parents car so that 0 is 127
WHen looking to buy a house the street number of the house matching your own teams number is an actual deciding factor in buying it!
Tim Baird
30-03-2006, 10:23
WHen looking to buy a house the street number of the house matching your own teams number is an actual deciding factor in buying it!
The exit number for Clinton off of 495 south is "26". The thought has crossed my mind more than once of how funny it would be to paint a "1" in front of the two to help people find the home of Gael Force easier.
The exit number for Clinton off of 495 south is "26". The thought has crossed my mind more than once of how funny it would be to paint a "1" in front of the two to help people find the home of Gael Force easier.
My wife would stab me in the neck with a pen if I tried to buy a house because it was numbered 191.
When you and you team's head mentor play the spot the team number game while on the 7 hour bus ride to Milwaukee.
anna~marie
31-03-2006, 07:30
When you and most of your pit crew begin to bet on the robot's (and the bumpers') weight... for a nickle a bet each
When someone on your pit crew bets the exact weight of the robot (and the bumpers!) - to the tenth!
thatphotochick
31-03-2006, 21:44
when you see the clock and it says 10:38 you're like..how long is it until the championships?
Shiny1629
31-03-2006, 22:51
i was half asleep and lying on the bed in our hotel when i looked at the pic above the bed. I screamed "It's a BLT!" The pic was supposed to be of a Roman column.
Pavan Dave
31-03-2006, 22:51
when you have your desktop as an active IE thing and on it it has a counter of how long until i leave for nationals.
or atleast that was the case until my dad got on my comp and told me to put up the old desktop that I made with the quote from hellboy :)
Pavan
Artless_Grace
02-04-2006, 01:07
You know you're addicted to FiRST when...
At the Arizona regionals, you spontaneously jump on the field with three of your friends during a time out and dance the Cotton Eyed Joe, while fearing that your dad might be laughing at you from a television another state.
And you keep dancing anyways, laughing as the camera zooms in..
Tee hee- I'm never doing that again. ^_^'
anna~marie
11-04-2006, 08:00
When on your physics test you answer using team names in place of team numbers...
When you tell another robotics person about ^above stated^ they talk about how they use team names to remember codes for cheeses at a local deli they work at (LOL)
*edit*
when you love the fact that your friend's cell number has a lot of 6's and 7's in a row :o
JaneYoung
14-04-2006, 12:23
Road Trip to LSR '06
- two of the cars can't make the trip at the last minute and we say, 'oh - no biggie - we'll find the room and the seat belts,' while team members wander among the cars.
- one of the cars' battery won't start and the rest of the caravan has left the school parking lot. We get the call and say, 'oh - no biggie - glad it happened now,' and we circle back to jump the battery.
- we get a serious flat tire with a fully loaded trailer during a lunch stop on the way to Houston and say, 'oh - no biggie - I'm glad it happened now rather than later -'
- we get to Houston and there is a room mix-up with our hotel and we say, 'oh - no biggie - it's nice outside, overcast, not raining just rumbling, it'll work out.'
Life is good. It's all about F.I.R.S.T.
Michelle Celio
16-04-2006, 04:14
When you're on ChiefDelphi at 4am EST and you're the only one not in cali.
thatphotochick
16-04-2006, 12:56
when you spend all your time after school doing extra work and thinking of ideas for buttons, mottos, and scouting instead of homework
when you rejoice when the time corresponds with your team number
Morgan Gillespie
16-04-2006, 21:35
You root for a certain nascar driver to win because they have the same team number as you do.
When you do a project on FIRST pneumatics for an engineering class and aim it more for recruiting more people.
...you fall asleep with your DeWalt drill.
...hearing restaurant order numbers makes you look around.
...you are constantly reaching up to adjust imaginary safety glasses.
...anything edible becomes a gourmet.
...you are asked to think of your best friend and you have to explain that they are all over the country.
...you set your alarm clock for 6:04 am.
...you've memorized everything in McMaster-Carr.
...you become addicted to ChiefDelphi :)
Who's the Big Cheese?
Michelle Celio
30-04-2006, 19:03
When you're cleaning out from underneath your bed and you find the following items
1. 2 Poof Balls
2. A FIRST information book (its got random information, I'm not even sure what it is..)
3. 2 years worth of your teams Summer Camp flyers
4. FIRST Impressions from Fall 2001 (Keep in mind, this is my first year...)
5. An AIM HIGH book
6. A "FIRST Frenzy: Rasing the Bar" book
7. A CD of pictures from before I was on the team..
8. A 186 Coach Badge.. (im on 1065 and 186 disapated before I joined FIRST...)
...you freak out every time you see a Segway(none any where close to here :mad: :( :mad: )
...you count down minutes to the next FIRST event whatever it may be
...you set numerous alarms when a FIRST event is occurring even if you are there
...you have your watch alarm go off at 1629 military time every day even though it doesn't read military time
...you have numerous windows up on your compuer and all of them relate to FIRST and 3 of them are CD :]
Tetraman
01-05-2006, 00:38
...You cheer everytime your team number appears anywhere
...You use your Nickname you got from your team members in fourms other than FIRST fourms.
...People think you are nuts when you start talking about Thunder Chickens, Explodeing Bacon, and Mad Cows.
...You call any intervention a Bovine Intervention.
...You swear Tricorner hats with long cyan feathers were stolen from Tech Fusion
...The weather forcast predicts wind and rain, you say 1511 is coming.
...You all Go Nuts (robots, robots!)
...You never have trouble finding Waldo.
...On your last test, when asked what was Newton's greatest accomplishment, you answered "He got my team to visit Einstien"
...You can prove to your friends Martians exist! And this time they broguth more!
...You tell your gym coach you want 10 seconds automous mode before the start of the dodgeball game.
...At the end of the dodgeball game to run to the end of your side of the field for 5 bonus points.
...to you: 4's company, 5's a crowd, and 6 is someone off-sides.
...You actually dream to be an MC
...Flowers is an awsome last name.
...Legos are a serious business
...Atlanta is your Mecca.
anna~marie
01-05-2006, 07:24
...when you go back to school and see people wearing pink and yell "go think pink!!"
...when you hear Bohemian Rhapsody and think of your field in ATL
...when you consider flying out to NJ to go to Monty Madness and meet up with some robotics people
Michelle Celio
01-05-2006, 18:23
...when you go back to school and see people wearing pink and yell "go think pink!!"
Or when you see a team mate wearing a 233 button, and proceed to tell them the whole story about the finals on Archimedes
Or when you yell at the rest of your team mates for not watching the web cast and refuse to tell them who won, that they must download it and watch it in all it's glory.
anna~marie
01-05-2006, 18:38
when you go to your POPs concert rehersal and see a guy in your school's other choir wearing this crazy outfit for this crazy number (aka cowboy hat and pink boa) and you can't help but think of tech fusion's driver
Tetraman
01-05-2006, 20:24
...You know at least 50 team names and their numbers by heart.
...You believe 71 is possibly the greatest number of all time.
...You know who's hot.
...You watch scary swamp movies and swear 179 leaped out of the bog!
...You see '33' enscribed on most bumble bees.
...You believe cheering for your high school's basketball team will give you the Team Spirit award.
...You've got designs, plans, names, and ideas all ready to begin your own FIRST team.
...To you, the name Technobots is like the last name Smith.
...You don't make Canada jokes anymore. It's not very Gratious and Professional.
...Your best English essay included FIRST
...You only listen to songs on the DJ list.
...You can't wait for Winter. (build season)
...Your Myspace has at least one Atlanta/Regional Picture.
...You don't feel akward when Dave, Woodie and Dean partisipate in the "You-ought-to-know" Gameshow during kickoff
...You want to play a FIRST video game SOOOOOOOO badly
...You want a water game challenge for one year no matter how hard it would be.
...Friends hear you talk about FIRST and they think you got draged into a cult.
...Mountain Dew is the beverage of builders.
...You have a medal from a year you mentored.
...You school grades drop a letter in Janurary than go up two after April.
...You have a FIRST keychain on your keychain. (I got ours and 71's)
...You accidently called a Triangle a Tetra in Math class
...Your photo project for Photography includes a Robotics picture
...Regionals pwn that Kindergarten Field Trip to the zoo you had.
Joe Matt
01-05-2006, 22:18
...you realize your student ID number is xx365xxx
Mark McLeod
02-05-2006, 12:30
...Your return flight# from Atlanta has to match your team number :cool:
You start wondering about next year's challenge 2 hours after you get back to your hotel saturday :p !
Tetraman
02-05-2006, 18:36
You start wondering about next year's challenge 2 hours after you get back to your hotel saturday :p !
...You design what you think next year's challenge will be for your Digital Animation project in similar fashion as the animations for showing the game.
Give me a few days and I'll post it on this site.
Pat Fairbank
02-05-2006, 20:43
...You realize that the best part of winning the Championship is the fact that you are now the proud owner of one of the ThunderChickens' coveted t-shirts, given to you by them after your win together.
brainonska
03-05-2006, 17:40
[QUOTE=Jeff_Rice]When you hit refresh every two seconds to read a new quote at the top of CD
When you consider implementing a mood matrix into the robot just because it would be cool
When you realize how absolutely cool it is for a girl to be in FIRST
When you tell FIRSTers thousands of miles away about your troubles
When you develop an intensive craving for caffeine at anytime while programming
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you pretty much got them all down except
-you start to talk in C (programmers know what im talking about)
-when you contribute to a list of the signs that you are addicted to FIRST
John Gutmann
03-05-2006, 22:12
when you have 2 brand spankin' new CIM motors lexan and a control system sitting on the floor of your room :D
AmayaSaria
03-05-2006, 22:16
-Whenever you hear the word 'first', you immediately think of F.I.R.S.T. (happened today when somebody was talking about baseball!)
-When you're waiting at the airport at 2am after championships, waiting for yer bus, and yer EXCITED for the next competition! (Me at the airport excited for Monty Madness)
-You wanna hug yer robot. NOW!
d.courtney
03-05-2006, 23:16
when you look at the time and the first thing you think of is a FIRST team and their robot... happened to me 2 min ago at 11:14 then my mind blanked and could only think of a team who could get 34+ points in autonomous (assuming the 10 point bonus)
Edit: Then the only thing after that you could think about was posting it on this thread (that is possibly the worse of the two)... yeah I'm addicted
StephLee
05-05-2006, 16:20
When you have more than one post on this thread AND on "You know you've overdosed on FIRST when..." AND on "Quotes that were said during the build season..."
When typing a paper and the word "first" comes up and you try to capitalize the every letter.
This happen to me today. :D
JaneYoung
08-05-2006, 15:12
you rate the utility truck's bungee work on the tarp over his truck bed of equipment as you wait for the light to change - after you look over ever single placement that you can see: 6/10. (It's been raining in Austin)
anna~marie
08-05-2006, 15:19
you know that your friends and you are addicted to FIRST when you tell them to go look at your profile because you put a quote (hopefully more random next year involving more random cute boys NOT from our team, its kind of like....inbreeding almost....) in it... and she goes and looks at your CD profile
prettycolors91
08-05-2006, 15:30
you know that your friends and you are addicted to FIRST when you tell them to go look at your profile because you put a quote (hopefully more random next year involving more random cute boys NOT from our team, its kind of like....inbreeding almost....) in it... and she goes and looks at your CD profile
OKAY so I had a slight blonde moment...I didn't know you ment AIM profile instead of your CD profile! Tis not my fault.
You know your addicted to first when you have this conversation while setting up a soon-to-be-noob's account on CD and you run into a friend from the team:
Sam: Why are you in here during lunch?
Me: I'm putting Candelaria on Chief
Sam: I'm sorry
Me: For...what...?
Sam: They've infected you
Me: Oh, I know
Sam: *funky look*
Me: They've infected me and I love it. I wouldn't have it any other way. I love being a geek.
Sam: *walks away shaking his head*
hehe
You're still dreaming about it! :D
spadercool
09-05-2006, 21:42
you see the number of students at your school is your FIRST team number
anna~marie
09-05-2006, 21:49
when you always smile and write your team insignia all over the page when you get to your team's number on a standardized test (sure makes for a happy point in the middle of the AP's and whatnot!)
spears312
09-05-2006, 22:03
When you don't go a single day without coming up with an idea that relates to FRC, FLL, or FVC, no matter how crazy it is.
your friend says "first" [in this case....SHOTTY GOING FIRST!]
and before she can continur, you cut in with....
"for inspiration and recognintion of science and technology. FIRST is a program designed to bring motivated students and engineers together......blah blah blah"
......oops. sorry.
BandChick
20-05-2006, 23:48
...you can no longer count how many posts you have in this thread.
987HighRoller
22-05-2006, 21:01
... you type up a paper in Microsoft Word and when you're done, you look for the 'build all' button.
Michelle Celio
27-05-2006, 12:04
....When you keep duck tape in your room "just in case"
....When you use Chief Delphi to see who really on AIM, even tough they are away
....When the majority of your email is from your team, team mentors or someone asking about FIRST
...When you know the answer to this..
...you can no longer count how many posts you have in this thread.
It's 29. *Look on subscriptions, if it's new.. click on the post number and a window will pop up with who has posted and how many times. I've posted 7 times :) *
anna~marie
27-05-2006, 13:53
....When you use Chief Delphi to see who really on AIM, even tough they are away
do that all the time
*Look on subscriptions, if it's new.. click on the post number and a window will pop up with who has posted and how many times. I've posted 7 times :) *
oh darn this is 39 for me....
When you do a parade for your church and see people wearing FIRST items in the crowd and you start cheering them
Vince lau
16-10-2006, 21:47
when u get one of these made :)
http://www.ontfluidpowerltd.com/flag.jpg
Beth Sweet
16-10-2006, 22:43
I think that my aunt wins the "Honorary FIRST addict award." She wanted me in her wedding so badly, she scheduled her wedding around Championship 2007. Love you Aunt Tracey!
PS. Yeah, she's getting a t-shirt...
[Edit] And scheduled her shower around West Michigan...
anna~marie
17-10-2006, 05:51
I think that my aunt wins the "Honorary FIRST addict award." She wanted me in her wedding so badly, she scheduled her wedding around Championship 2007. Love you Aunt Tracey!
PS. Yeah, she's getting a t-shirt...
[Edit] And scheduled her shower around West Michigan...
Hahaha I wish my aunt was that great... I'm missing her wedding 'cause it's on kickoff... but I think I will drive the four hours to get there in time for the reception...
Athleticgirl389
26-10-2006, 17:18
... you are in Engineering class and the teacher says, "Then, after the groups compete and a top person emerges, the top 8 will be seeded accordingly." And you ask, "Will there be alliances?"
BlondeNerd
26-10-2006, 21:38
Whenever anything looks like it might be a projectile, you suggest safety glasses. (or is that only safety captains)
You are usually somewhat of an introvert, but scream at the top of your lungs during a robot match
StephLee
26-10-2006, 22:18
...You ask your Chem teacher if safety glasses will work instead of the stupid goggles you're required to wear during labs.
...You tell said Chem teacher that you'll bring in "a few pairs" so she can tell you which would be best for the labs.
...Your purse you bring to homecoming has a team 22 safety sticker on it.
Graham Donaldson
27-10-2006, 10:02
...when you're sitting in class with your laptop out and you're surfing CD because you're bored.
ha ha TRUE!
The Canuck
Dhananjay T.
27-10-2006, 11:21
you know your'e addicted to FIRST when...
- you try to make a flash game involving all the robots that were made, in a head to head combat.(that would be cool though!)
- you know the profiles of every team intentionally(without it being your job), and know their history, and everything about their bots.
- you get into a fight with another guy who says something wrong about FRC
- you don't talk to your friend anymore because he/she gave someone else wrong info about first by accident
- you yell at your teacher because he/she spelled FIRST, not in capital letters lol!
Athleticgirl389
27-10-2006, 14:45
- you yell at your teacher because he/she spelled FIRST, not in capital letters lol!
Gotta be one of the best! And I think I have done that in recent past haha.
BlondeNerd
11-11-2006, 12:01
...Your favorite jeans have Liquid Nails (or PVC glue, I can't tell) on them; and that's why they're your favorite jeans
anna~marie
11-11-2006, 19:10
...Your favorite jeans have Liquid Nails (or PVC glue, I can't tell) on them; and that's why they're your favorite jeans
UGH I have this superglue all over a pair of mine 'cause of a physics project last year lol
The thing is, I was stuck to them too...
Eric W. Jones
13-11-2006, 19:16
-you sleep in the machine shop
-you think in machine code
-your purpose in life is to go to Georgia
-you giggle and clap when thinking about speed controllers
-you fail math because you answer in binary
-your mood depends on how fast your robot moves
-you dream in C
-you donate more things (nondescript...could be food...furniture... to your team than you actually have
-you forget that there are people that actually have no idea what FIRST is, and look at them like this: :eek: , upon discovering that they do not have any idea what FIRST is. *coughcougheverynon-scienceteacherthatiIhavecoughcough*
-you have wondered if you could program a member of your family
-you have started to write said program
-you have seen some of the signs on this thread and considered it a "good idea"
-you have taken these "good ideas" one step further by actually performing them (my cell phone welcome message now says FIRST=life!)
BlondeNerd
14-11-2006, 19:55
...you are looking for a Who Am I pic and realize that you have no shots of your face; you always have your head in the robot :rolleyes:
...you team mascot is all over your notes for school (Kilroy was Here!) and your History teacher/mentor thinks you are nuts :eek:
...you have decided that going to nationals is more important than looking at colleges over spring break (theres another week off school before nationals anyway...)
Eric W. Jones
14-11-2006, 21:41
-you doze off while underneath the robot
-you become emotionally attached to a piece of machinery
-you forget where your house is because it's three in the morning on Monday and you haven't seen it since Friday morning
-you spend most of your waking (and some of your sleeping) time in the machine shop
thatphotochick
16-11-2006, 21:03
you're not even technically a part of the team but you keep coming on here seeing what's happening
you can relate everything to something with FIRST: on-field, off-field, competition, the trip to competitions.
1. Your family buys a new car with good fuel milaege, and since the robotics team you're on is 45 minutes away, you immediatly christen it "The RoboticsMobile".
2. Since you had Taco bell so often during build season, the whole rest of the year its "robotics food".
3. The day when the mentors are showing the new members around the machine shop you (a) Remember just how much you like the smell of grease and metal shavings and (b) shout to the mentor talking about lathes: And NEVER leave the key in the chuck! :yikes:
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when someone asks you what time it is and you subconsciously reply, "BeachBots" when you were supposed to say "3:30"
you know youre even more addicted to FIRST when the person you said it to actually understood what you meant. :D
Dan Petrovic
17-11-2006, 22:23
When you start arguements between you and another FIRST addict over who has better teams on their licence plates.
(I have HOT's number :D)
BlondeNerd
19-11-2006, 13:44
When you spend your entire weekend running a FLL tournament so that you can go to your team's competitions
When you really did it so you could hang out with your FIRST buddies!
When all you want for Christmas is some safety glasses that fit :cool:
NerdPride_1212
13-01-2007, 22:27
...you can't seem to letter in your sport but somehow manage to letter in robotics...that's new this year at my school...pretty cool i guess
...you're writing your essay for the air force academy and can't think of anything to write about except robotics
Athleticgirl389
13-01-2007, 22:45
...you have decided that going to nationals is more important than looking at colleges over spring break (theres another week off school before nationals anyway...)
Who needs college when you have robots that we can build to go to college for us :D
You might be addicted to FIRST when you're talking to your moentor about where the team (digital) camera is and another teammate says "its right here" and pulls out the light sensor camera.
(Happened in my team 2 days ago!)
johnnymath360
13-01-2007, 23:49
you know more about mechanical physics than your physics teacher,
Buzz words like chamfer, I.D, projected, etc. find themselves in conversations really not meant for those words.
The night before ship night you stay till 7'o clock in the morning, pickup your backpack and go to class the "next day"
you are tri-lingual - English, German and C+
Inventor is used for more than just robotics - includes school projects
^^^your friends come to you to make designs for them - including a boat...with potato gun cannons on it
Everyone automatically thinks your going to go into engineering, but you are actually going into medicine.
230Robokid
14-01-2007, 14:28
-You come back onto the team even though your in collage
-Your a mentor
-When you talk, sleep, eat, breath Robotics
-When you talk, sleep, eat, breath robotics even though the season hasent started
- When even the other students on your team mock you for being way to attached to FIRST.
Sgraff_SRHS06
15-01-2007, 00:56
- You update the FirstWiki pages even though you have a few problem assignments due for your college classes.
StephLee
15-01-2007, 19:24
- When you open the glove compartment in your mom's van and a few robotics buttons fall out.
-Whenever you hear the word "chair" you think of food (recipe for sucess)
-Whenever you have a cough drop you think "man announcers have a hard time."
-You go to a basketball game and you think something's missing and you pull out sheets of paper and start writing out what the players' strenghs and weaknesses are.
-You come back from national and you can acually take detailed notes in history class
when people call u not by a human name, but chickenman, check out the photo if you havent seen me at the championship, http://robotphotos.org/v/first/fingerlakes/2006/229/IMG_9178.JPG.html
JBotAlan
15-01-2007, 20:05
when you find yourself posting on a very old thread on ChiefDelphi while listening to Weird Al's "Weasel Stomping Day" while thinking about how the heck you are going to align the robot with the spider legs.
when you hear someone at school mention Paris Hilton and crack up.
when your c:\FIRST folder clocks in at 5.2GB.
when you have a c:\FIRST folder.
when you know the phpbb tags and put them in without thinking about it.
synth3tk
17-01-2007, 20:05
...you find yourself reminding everyone else when the next build meeting is.
...your homepage turns to chiefdelphi.com and you're always on a FIRST related site
mtaman02
18-01-2007, 04:29
You begin reading the Spotlighted posts (or as I like to call them the pearls of wisdom) b/c all the open threads have been read. - I got to page 3 and then I started cheating a bit and skipped to Daves name to read the pearls of wisdom he had offered - most of what he said is true and the others was showing his funny & good sense of humor side.
You begin to Google Dean Kamen, Dave Lavery and Woodie Flowers to read their Bio's and whatever other articles are associated with them. - I wouldn't say I was completely bored, I just needed something to do to take my mind off of the build season (not like it weighs a whole lot on my mind to start with :D :p ;) ), My online PS2 Gaming and such. So I googled Dave Lavery - Got the phone number to his office and a mailing address =) Have no clue if it is still the same or not, and then I goggled Dean to read some stuff on him, I had no clue he had his own Island of the Long Island Sound and that it is its own unofficial country complete with currency and flag. Sometime today I will google Woodie and read up on him.
When you're on ChiefDelphi at 3:27 instead of cramming for finals like you should be.....zzzz.....
- When the only thing you ask for, for christmas is a holster for vernier calipers
- when your phone number ends in you team number :)
- Your email also contains your team number.
- At one point your Debit Pin num was your team number backwards
- When you hear the word "Gat" and you think of sodering...
-when you spend x-mas holidays, 400 km away with a girl from another Team
-when at one point she says that she Graciously Accepts.
-your grandparents no longer care how your cousin's hockey game went because they are tring to pay attention to what the challenge is this year
- every story you tell March through June begins with "During robotics....."
-when you actually think all 95 pages in this thread are cool.
Simon Strauss
22-01-2007, 21:09
You know your addicted to FIRST when your Rabbi calls you to fix his computer.
joshR515
23-01-2007, 23:02
when you call everything that deals with the robot 'sexy'
when u build a 3 foot tall snow first symbol. the nieghbors giv me strange looks now
sarah118
23-01-2007, 23:55
all of your jewlery was made in the machine shop...
you have a 'no dating during season' policy.
When you see a geeky NASA shirt and think "That would be nice to wear to a regional. . ."
BTW, I bought that shirt and am planning to wear it to St. Louis. :yikes:
StephLee
31-01-2007, 09:32
...You get the "you can only post once every 47 seconds" message three times while trying to post once. (I hate that message. I know it's necessary, but I get it too often...fast internet + fast typing.)
...You forget your purse somewhere and you aren't worried about not having your keys or wallet...just your safety glasses.
You know you're addicted to FIRST when. . .
-Your hands are a permanent shade of gray/black from all the dirt and grease.
-You have a grease stain on you arm from the beginning of build season.
-You look at your clock, which says 10:32, and immediatlely think of screws.
-You haven't changed your clothes in who knows how long.
-You suffer from withdrawl when away from the machine shop.
-You start singing "I love to lathe" to the tune of "I love to laugh". (hasn't happend yet, but give it time:p )
Edited to add:
-You forget to take off your safety glasses when you're out of the machine shop!
waiakea2024
02-02-2007, 20:52
[QUOTE=Trashed20;133621...run out of freshman to file things
[/QUOTE]
i agree. i am a freshman and i tend to do a lot of fileing!
BlondeNerd
02-02-2007, 21:15
...Your mom just rolls her eyes when you send a zip-tie through the wash
NeedMoreEngines
02-02-2007, 22:06
Seriously.. they do.
ABSOLUTELY.
...when you can transform anything anyone has ever said at any build meeting into a "your mom" joke...and it's still funny.
...when everyone knows the different between "the wrench that fits" and "the other wrench that fits"
...when every tool set you've ever owned is missing a 7/16'' wrench, a 1/4'' drill bit, and an 11/32 allen wrench.
...if the phrase "hey, freshman, come over here and put your head right here in case this hits me in the face." is ever said.
when even when you are sick at home, you call people who are at robotics at the moment, just so you can see what is getting done and to say hi to team mates.
insomniac6688
04-02-2007, 02:19
When your watching the Super Bowl while on Chief Delphi.
Tomorrow will take the cake though, well be watching the Super Bowl in the shop while atempting to get our bot ready to hand off to the electrical team. :cool: :D
insomniac6688
05-02-2007, 02:08
when you have a myspace (http://myspace.com/MTHSRobotics) and an email address (MTHSRobotics@Gmail.com) :D
StephLee
05-02-2007, 09:14
...When your first thought on hearing your school is closed for the day is "Hmm, I wonder if we can meet all day today..."
waiakea11
05-02-2007, 12:41
you know youraddicted to FIRST when...
...you look at you Tobasco bottle cap and wonder what size bolt it will fit on, mistaking it for a nut.
Caseavong
05-02-2007, 13:53
....You Give up going to indoor track sectionals to work on your robot.
....You give up indoor track completely.
Sure was worth it though
penguinsrock018
05-02-2007, 17:42
...you feel sorry for the GM robot while watching the Superbowl 41 commercials and actually take the time to think up ways that you would have helped it find a job. :p
RedHeadRobotics
05-02-2007, 19:44
...when you figured out that you spend almost thrity hours a week working on robots and the rest of your time thinking about robots.
waiakea11
05-02-2007, 21:21
...you notice that anyone who isnt in FIRST has no idea what your talking about...
...you notice that after you explain about FIRST to someone, they still dont know what your talking about...
...you wonder how much more time you have in school before you can work on your robot...
Mister_Juggles
08-02-2007, 17:43
you see the little gray box around the text-space in openoffice and think immediately of your robot's dimensions....(I like to call it the magic box)
NeedMoreEngines
08-02-2007, 19:08
...when there's a "You Know You're Addicted to FIRST when..." thread that contains over NINETY SIX PAGES OF ADDICTIONS...and you can relate to every single one of them.
...when there are more nuts in the shop-vac than on the robot.
...when your excuse for texting in class is "I have to work on my hand-eye cordination for...um...robotics" - and you're not kidding.
...when you meet someone named Victor and you immediately think of speed controllers.
...when build season is finally over and you feel like you have no place in life anymore.
...when you think of all the teams whose team numbers can be clock times, and get angry because mine can't be. (1279)
...when you take one of those weird-angled Myspace-type photos of yourself, and it's really just for CD.
...when you still wear the free (but AMAZING) safety glasses from nationals
NeedMoreEngines
08-02-2007, 20:05
...when you're at the security checkpoint at Newark Airport on the way to nationals and the metal detector goes BANANAS because you've got THE WRENCH THAT FITS, two allen wrenches, 1/8th inch keystock, locknuts, and replacements for the only three metric bolts on your robot, all in your pocket.
...when a girl on your team holds up the line for the security checkpoint at the Atlanta airport because she has to take the 100 some-odd buttons off that have been periodically pinned to her jeans throughout the course of the weekend.
...when your crate is over the weight limit and you're frustrated because you think "gee why don't we just drill holes in it", and then realize that you can't.
waialua359
08-02-2007, 23:26
WHEN YOU LIVE IN HAWAII BUT CANT WAIT TO ATTEND THE NEW JERSEY REGIONAL IN FREEZING WEATHER.:eek:
mormannoob
09-02-2007, 00:18
...you try to figure out how every appliance/machine in your house is programmed
...you finally realize why dew is the greatest drink ever
...you wonder why your friend dragged you into robotics then you remember you need to program some random function that involes a look up table
... you hate the semi-colon ";"
...you have no life (or sleep) between january and april
...you wish there was an FRC,FVC,FFL chanel (besides NASA TV)
StephLee
09-02-2007, 12:47
...you feel sorry for the GM robot while watching the Superbowl 41 commercials and actually take the time to think up ways that you would have helped it find a job. :p
When you laughed hysterically at that commercial and immediately texted a team member asking if he saw it.
Sharkbyte
11-02-2007, 01:28
When you talk about the "magic smoke" in front of a group of non-robotics people, and they think you're making some kind of drug reference.
You know you're addicted to FIRST when. . .
-You forget to take off your safety glasses when you're out of the machine shop!
What your suppose to take them off:yikes: maybe that is why every time our team goes to dinner everyone looks at us funny...just playing, but really we do roam around with safety glasses on.
Asiatique296
11-02-2007, 11:54
-when you bear -15 celcius at 7 in the morning so you can get to school just to watch the kickoff 9 (mostly in canada)
-when some of the teachers look at you suspiciously when your walking in the corridors carrying a drill, a few screwdrivers, zipties, duct tape, a ladder, hammer....
orelinde
11-02-2007, 17:37
when you suddenly realize it is February 11 and you walk in and there is an unopened kit and no design and people think it is your teams kit not realizing that your kit is at least opened.
did that even make sense?
...you feel sorry for the GM robot while watching the Superbowl 41 commercials and actually take the time to think up ways that you would have helped it find a job. :p
...when your family calls you away from robotics work to show you 'that commerical with the robot in it'...
...when you think of all the teams whose team numbers can be clock times, and get angry because mine can't be. (1279)
....when you set every clock you can to military time so it shows your team number. [19:23...and i haven't gotten all of 'em yet.]
-when some of the teachers look at you suspiciously when your walking in the corridors carrying a drill, a few screwdrivers, zipties, duct tape, a ladder, hammer....
...when you actually get pulled aside by a teacher to check that you're not carrying anything 'harmful'.
...when your robot's name is optimus prime.
When you stop and add things up,
Over 10 years:
2.5 years of all your "spare" time,
1190 hours of time off from work
and your thinking "I wonder what the game will be next year"
There should have been a warning label somewhere!!
StephLee
13-02-2007, 10:29
...when you're very, very upset because you can't go to the all-day team meeting because your parents have decided the roads are too bad.
...when you watch the webcam in the corner of your building because you can't be there.
waiakea11
13-02-2007, 12:37
when you realize that you actually got up at 2:00 in the morning just to get up to watch the F.I.R.S.T kickoff.
When you start robotics their isn't as much snow, but once you leave there is 5 inches.
When you wish that you could just be snowed into your build area till you finish the bot
Mister_Juggles
14-02-2007, 19:16
... you use FSU's to measure everyday occurences.
... you post in the Valentine's Day Spotlight thread.
StephLee
14-02-2007, 20:50
When you wish that you could just be snowed into your build area till you finish the bot
I wished for that. I almost got my wish, we haven't had school since monday but we've been working every day almost all day.
waiakea11
14-02-2007, 21:04
well since it dosn't snow here we would have to be rained in for us to permanently stay at our build site.
animemonkey84
14-02-2007, 21:23
your mother finds nuts and bolts in your pokets while doing laundry
waiakea11
14-02-2007, 21:26
you find out that you still have duct, electrical, and tephlon tape in your car from months and months ago.
when you wont drive through a foot of snow to school but you make it through 2 ditches, a 3 foot tall snowbank and cant see anything in front of you just in your little 1992 ford ranger just so you can work on the robot.
Welle417
15-02-2007, 00:19
-Your team has special names for a majority of the tools for your robot, the "GanonDorf" (link breaker) the "VictorialTranferers" (Victors), "UberCrimper" (wire crimpers), FluxCompacitor (robot controller) :D
-If they ask BattleBots after you say First Robotics Competition, they arn't your friend anymore.
-the sole Food in the work area becomes Pizza, WaWa, and Subway
-You wonder if something can be completed quicker using a robot
-You start to come up with sayings such as "WD40 is not the answer" and "Our robot is made from Canadian Fairy Dust and Magic--its completely indestructible, it costs nothing, and it does everything!"
-You'll kill for a Segway
-You see red, white, and blue shapes in your dreams
-You wake up to Mr. Roboto or Reel Big Fish (depending on our playlist)
-Feb 18th is Armadgedon
-You keep thinking up ways your robot could be used in daily life- ie: Seat mount so you can ride it to class
-Everytime your not with the robot/workin on it- you keep saying whatever it is your doing is a waste of time, or could be done AFTER build season
-ALSO - your excuse to why you cant do something after school/whenever is "It has to wait until AFTER build season"
:rolleyes:
1807-One Goal, One Ambition, Multiple Minds
"And you never saw it coming..."
-"Our Robot is made from Canadian Fairy dust, Velcro, Zipties, and UnObtanium!!" :p
....... when you start talking to allen wrenches
....... when you refer to robotics as "my life"
raymaniac
15-02-2007, 20:06
you start feeling a little sad when school is cancelled because it means you won't get to work on the bot...but only a little
StephLee
15-02-2007, 20:59
...When you come home with grease *and* blood on your jeans.
Elgin Clock
18-02-2007, 20:36
You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
Your code names playing Laser Tag the last weekend of build before ship are as follows:
Ringer,
Stinger,
Spider_Leg,
Rack,
Stuey, (our pet name since forever ago for our RC)
Spoiler,
Keeper,
Spike,
Victor, &
LightBox
Andrew Blair
18-02-2007, 21:43
You're crushed when CD is down for 15 minutes and you can't find how to enable the user byte.
Cody Carey
18-02-2007, 21:44
^^^ When your buddy asks you how to enable the user byte, and you can't tell him because CD is down.
Sharkbyte
19-02-2007, 01:00
Your team keeps all of its drill bits in a ceramic food dish, and you only look in the drill bit cases if you can't find it in the dish.
vic burg
19-02-2007, 13:25
Those few weeks in between shipping the robot and the regionals you spend all your extra time making extra parts, making posters, making lists, doing last minute fundraising, going on CD, and forgetting about everything else like I am right now.
:D
ambie_o7
19-02-2007, 20:35
you use your team's mascot (stitch, used to decorate the robot) to play monkey in the middle on the last day before you ship!
...When you force your chem teacher to show the kickoff video during class one day.
...When you realize you see more of your robot that your family.
...When you make your robot drive _exactly_ 12930 mm during autonomous mode. ( team 1293 + 0 )
...When you cannot start a conversation other than one relating to robotics.
...When you try to sneak links to your team's page (http://d5robotics.org) anywhere you can. (You shouldn't notice that one. :yikes: )
...When you think that a few carpet squares and a ringer (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/27045?) are more comfortable than your bed at home.
...When you make posts on this thread the night before ship at 1:30ish. :p
_Taylor
Wigginsgame
09-03-2007, 19:46
When you fix the whole in your pants with electrical tape because.. its easier.
cooker52
09-03-2007, 23:07
...You can't figure out why your parents want you to come home early one night for dinner.
...You come in the next day and find one of your mentors on the couch sleeping(at least once a week).
...You get so little sleep you can't stay awake for your biology class.
...You try to figure out what classes you take next year that relate to robotics(so far three that fit).
FishCaptain
17-03-2007, 14:02
...When, after gouging a small hole in your finger, you go straight back to the drill press.
...When people ask if you're free only to say "oh wait, you still have robotics"
...When you want your school to have another hat day just to show off the awesome fish hat you made at robotics.
waiakea11
17-03-2007, 15:49
...when you realize that you are finally at the regional you signed up for, and you are no longer working on your bot...
...you have guys vs. girls game of basketball at your house families court...
...you hear a number and think imedieatly of a team number that you saw at the regional...
...you have everyone in your groups cell phone numbers and you call them from car to car, house to house, whenever you feel like bugging someone...
...you instantaniously forget life before kickoff when you walk into the stadium with your team...
...you watch the regionals online if you cant make it to watch it in person...
...all you can talk about is FIRST....
i think i have added enough
;P
...You come home from a weekend of volunteering at the UTC Regional realize that this year you can watch the NYC Regional on Sunday for that addtional FIRST fix!!
BlondeNerd
18-03-2007, 14:18
...When you seriously wonder if the keeper you got from a regional is allowed under the school dress code (as a skirt)
hereaftermouse
18-03-2007, 23:36
...when you start debuggin code that you haven't written yet.
(whoever said the thing about programming until you get a bloody nose - that happened to me)
-When the only thing larger than your hard drive is your button collection.
-When you take off your saftey glasses and it feels like they're still on your face.
-When you wake up in the morning and realize that the robot that wasn't finished yesterday won't be finished today or the day after.
-When you lose your voice more than 6 times while cheering for your team or alliance.
-When you feel like your heart is going to stop because your team made it to the semifinals.
-You see nothing but a mill and random aluminum parts for 6 weeks starting in January.
-You can memorize team numbers from the alliances you were with last year (675, 670, 1120... 2006 "Aim High" Quarterfinalists, San Jose/Silicon Valley Regional)
-It's easier for you to remember FIRST team numbers or names than it is famous people or major "sports" teams.
-You think that FIRST (including FRC, FVC, and FLL) is the only real sport. (I think this because you actually have to work to get to compete, then you get to watch the fruits of your labor perform a challenge, plus all of the time and energy put in before the competitions even start.)
-You start seeing orange and black hats in your sleep. (Curse you, Team 100!)
-You begin to think up new, crazy strategies, and they comply with the FIRST rules.
-When you see Team 100 out of the corner of your eye everyday
- When you lose your voice at competition
- When you're heart seems to stop when you're picked
- And because of this you feel the installable urge to hug 100's mascot
- When you go home after competition, sleep for 15 hours, then get on CD
- When you spend 2 hours telling your World of Warcraft guild about FIRST
- And then try and get your Aussie friends to start a FIRST team
cooker52
19-03-2007, 20:49
...When you try to figure out why you didn't know about the earlier leagues in the first place. (Plus they quit that before I had the chance)
...When everyone at school knows you from the articles in the news paper.
...When all people can ask you about is your robot.
..When you come up with ways to make your robot lighter after regionals. (we were right at the 120 lbs limit, then the guy went "let out the air", and it actually work)
...When the first thing you do everyday is checkout chiefdelphi.
...When you find out ways to apply robotics to Boy Scouts. :cool:
...When you find out ways to apply robotics to Boy Scouts. :cool:
When you come up with ways to get Boy Scouts to a robotics event (Yes, I did that--SCRRF Fall Classic.)
waiakea11
22-03-2007, 13:27
-when you finally get back home from your regional, and go through robotics withdrawls.
-when you discuss the next time your group is meeting on the plane because everyone will miss each other.
-you cheer (even with an airport filled with people) at the fact that you got money to attend the nationals in atlanta.
-you hope that your whole team will be able to make it to atlanta, because it wouldnt be the same withought everyone.
-you start telling everyone the inside jokes that happened on the trip and they dont seem as interested as you thought they would.
-you keep your cell phone on all night the night you get back, thinking someone will call you in the middle of the night.
-you have a hard time adjusting to the time zone changes...
waiakea2024
22-03-2007, 13:49
ha ha. time zone chages i havent adjusted to hawaii time again. im still on california time for waking up and hawaii time for going to sleep. therefore i havent gotten much sleep last night scince we got home. but hey your not a true robotics student unless you have been through sleep deprivation.
cooker52
22-03-2007, 15:34
I went through all of the main time zones here in the states in about 9 weeks. I adjusted, I forget how fast, but what I remember is that I always fell asleep at sunset.
You know your addicted to first when...
...you wonder why you don't meet more before the nationals.
...You figure out how soon the nationals are comming up.
...You figure out how to convince your parents to let you stay later next year.
dipmeinaluminum
10-04-2007, 10:20
I know your addicted to first when...
I get a tattoo of the innovation controller. and yeah it did hurt.
Jeff Rodriguez
10-04-2007, 11:05
...you give presentations about FIRST in spanish class.
.... my two teenage sons start calling off team names as the speedometer goes up while driving down the road. My youngest wants to be able to say "WildStang"! Although, most times I prefer the "Beast" or "Hot"! Maybe someday I'll treat the kids to the "WO-BOT"!
Joe Matt
10-04-2007, 11:45
...you give presentations about FIRST in spanish class.
Tehehehehe
I'm doing a persuasive speaking speech on FIRST in about 2 hours. Attention grabber, proof of authority, etc.
I know your addicted to first when...
I get a tattoo of the innovation controller. and yeah it did hurt.
I saw that, and it was AWESOME.
StephLee
11-04-2007, 07:39
.... my two teenage sons start calling off team names as the speedometer goes up while driving down the road. My youngest wants to be able to say "WildStang"! Although, most times I prefer the "Beast" or "Hot"! Maybe someday I'll treat the kids to the "WO-BOT"!
:eek: I know some people on the team who should NOT see this post...that's just too tempting of an idea.
You know you're addicted to FIRST when you warn your teachers a week in advance that you'll be paying very little attention for the entire week of Championship; you'll be too busy wishing you were there and trying to sneak a peek at the webcast. (Yay for understanding teachers!)
mgreenley
12-04-2007, 05:44
...When it's the day everyone has left to go to Atlanta...you know that a large contingent if not the majority of FIRST'ers are in Atlanta at the Championship event, not checking/posting on Chief Delphi...and you are still checking CD simply because that's what any sane person would do at 5:40am.
Or something like that.
StephLee
12-04-2007, 07:16
...you wear buttons/bandanas to school from the teams you're keeping a close eye on in Atlanta.
...you also wear t-shirts from Atlanta, and your sweatshirt from last year.
ScoutingNerd175
12-04-2007, 10:02
While studying for a Physics mid-term, you have to tell your friend to hit you if you mention Championships again because you keep talking about robots when you should be talking about rolling without slipping, massless pulleys, and frictionless turn tables. Even though you aren't going to championships.
ambie_o7
13-04-2007, 04:42
...you posted on this thread with more than one team number...
...you stay up late making a spreadsheet of each event station with each team and the amount of ringers they hung, their strong and weak points, and if they can score and descore points...
...this is the second time within the last month or so that you've done this...
...you do all of this while knowing that you have 2 chapters worth of calc, 2 chapters of latin, and 4 essays to write because you've missed about 10 days of school this semester...
...you're sick of airports because you've made 3 round trip flights (2 of which are to the mainland) within 4 weeks, from the big island of hawaii...
...you STILL carry your safety glasses in your coat pocket a month after your last regional
...you beg and plead to all of your teachers to let you watch the webcast
...you have a legit reason for how robotics is related to each class and why we should get to watch it
...all of your teachers would consent if they had the correct technology
...you wear your team shirt and a necklace with all of the buttons of teams that you know that are going to Atlanta to school and end up sounding like windchimes, but really don't care
...you try to make out the speeches of the opening ceremony by lip-reading because the computer that you are watching the webcast on has no sound
... When your on spring break and all you can think of are robots.
... When you know theres other thingsyou should be doing, but your too focused on robotics to do them
... When you spend all your time wishing you were in Atlanta
... When you keep trying to contact other teams your friends with, even though you know they won't respond.
JBotAlan
15-04-2007, 08:19
When you've decided that you are wearing the championships team party armband until due to wear it no longer complies with the FIRST logo guidelines.
When your friends all tune out whenever you mention robotics or anything related to the Segway.
When you see a worm gear pictured in your physics book and notice that you'd better let the mechanical team know--there's no grease on it.
When your boss immediately assumes that when you mention you will not be able to work certain days that you are doing something FIRST related.
When your teachers have given up on trying to get your late work from you; they take it "whenever they get it".
...you spend all afternoon on Saturday of Championships watching robotics, then spend approximately 5 minutes getting ready to go to a dance afterwards
...you attend the dance wearing a long dressy dress...and the 375 bandanna in your hair to celebrate their National Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award
...you freak out when you find out that your after-prom is called "007 in 07" and wonder if you can invite 007 or at least their robot to come
BlondeNerd
15-04-2007, 10:49
...everyone on the same MARTA trains as your team in Atlanta now knows about FIRST
....The pilot of the plane you took home also knows about FIRST
...you are more excited about the fact that Dean Kamen signed your robot than your upcoming birthday
cooker52
15-04-2007, 12:06
...When all you can talk about on the way home is about the IRI in July.
...When you talk about making a segway and designing it on the way home (all of our mentors just sighed at us, and looked like that wanted nothing to do with it)
...You hate the fact that your dad is going to kick you off of your only connection to any other robotics teams.:(
Dizzy_Lizzy
15-04-2007, 12:49
... you have loads of work to do but blow off your frees watching the webcast of Atlanta wishing you were there
... you get home and find at least three pairs of safety goggles in your bag
...you plan your team's trip to Atlanta when you're not even going
..you wear the buttons and bandanas of the teams you're supporting at nationals, around your house
ambie_o7
16-04-2007, 02:00
your team becomes your "ohana" *giggles* hawaii joke
vic burg
17-04-2007, 14:02
....you continue attending championships even though you are sick.
....you cheer during the matches even though you can't talk.
....you are sad that you came back from championships with only one shirt from other teams.
....ChiefDelphi is the only site you want to visit DURING competition. lol
....even though your mom goes to championships with you and you know she doesn't understand 'robot talk', you still talk like she understands you.
....you come back from a competition and 3 days later you are still talking in 'robot code'.
....you make references to real life using terms associated with ther current and past fields and games.
....you understand all of those references.
:D
Edit:
....you are already planning off-season events.
....2 flashdrives at 1 gig each aren't big enough to hold all your robotics pictures. from one year.
....you think of things to put on CD while doing other things then forget once you finally get on CD. ((more of a CD addiction, really))
lol
raymaniac
17-04-2007, 22:00
You're suffering from Championship Withdrawal
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