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waiakea11
17-04-2007, 22:30
...you wonder what life will be like when robotics ends...
...you attend the championships and you wonder how you got there...
...you just got off a plane from oahu after missing your flight to hilo because the plane from atlanta was delayed...
...in the whole experience you notice that you took a total of 8 planes, 2 for your regional, and 6 planes to atlanta and back to hawaii...
...you start to panick if you got more then 5 hours of sleep in one night...
...you realize that your friend has a hat full of buttons in his suitcase plus more...
...your group dosnt want to leave the airport because the bonding that went on was too much to just leave behind...
...you already plan for the next upcoming trip on oahu for another competition that you notice you only have a week to complete because you were working on first...
...you are still running off caffine from the coke you drand yesterday...
... Your still on competition reflexes
... When people start saying "Awwww" you look for the fallen robot
... Whenever you hear music you want to start dancing
... your constantly hearing music from competition
... you can't get the one two step out of your head
StephLee
19-04-2007, 12:39
You're suffering from Championship Withdrawal
When you're getting withdrawal, and you didn't even *go* to Championship this year!
Graham Donaldson
19-04-2007, 13:38
When even though the season is over, you still spend your mornings going on CD. A team member comes in, shakes his head at you, and then goes on CD himself.
vic burg
19-04-2007, 14:43
....when you absolutely FREAK OUT after meeting Woodie Flowers, Dave Lavery, and Dean Kamen....even though you've meet them all before.... but you got to see them al again on the same day!!!!.... and 2 of them signed the same shirt!!!!....and you try telling your non-robotics friends about these awesome guys but they jsut stare at you like your retarded.
....the only way you got away with going to championships was because your spring break was between your second regional and then.
:D
BlondeNerd
19-04-2007, 15:10
...when all you ask for for your birthday is FIRST Robots: Behind the Design...and you get it
...When you take it to school and show all your non-robot friends, despite much eye-rolling
BrittanyV
19-04-2007, 16:50
You have your own personal Lego Talbe in the basement. Yes, I really do.
Graham Donaldson
19-04-2007, 17:33
....when you absolutely FREAK OUT after meeting Woodie Flowers, Dave Lavery, and Dean Kamen....even though you've meet them all before.... but you got to see them al again on the same day!!!!.... and 2 of them signed the same shirt!!!!....and you try telling your non-robotics friends about these awesome guys but they jsut stare at you like your retarded.
... When you're at the Atlanta airport waiting in the line to go through security. You see Woody and a woman (who you assume is his wife) talking, standing in the opposite line (the ATL airport has two lines, they snake around each other, etc...). You watch Woody as he goes through the security lines, seeing how close he'll get to you so that you can get his autograph (on a printed-out sheet of HW no less). Finally, right at the end, he's as close to you as he's been, and you reach across another line to hand him the paper and a pen. He signs it, and goes into security. You gloat to your team that you got Woody's autograph. Then, after the team has gone through, you see Woody standing there. The team goes over and mobs him. ~5 people pull out their boarding pass envelopes and have him sign those. Someone on the team finds a button in their bag, and someone else pulls an unworn shirt out of their carryon. You give them to him, and let him go (this is after like 10 mins). After he leaves, your coach comments that everyone else in security probably went through scratching their heads in confusion because they couldn't figure out who he was but we were treating like a rockstar/celebrity/______.
^^- so much fun...
Taraxacum
19-04-2007, 23:49
....when you put on a pair of safety glasses and they make feel at home.
(as well as extremely miss the pits.)
... When you spend all of one class period looking through the text book to see what specifically numbered pages have on them. Aka, what your favorite team numbers have on their page.
raymaniac
24-04-2007, 16:59
... When you spend all of one class period looking through the text book to see what specifically numbered pages have on them. Aka, what your favorite team numbers have on their page.
Now I'm going to have to do that next time I get bored in class (which shouldn't take too long)
ambie_o7
26-04-2007, 00:44
...you can do a head count and tell exactly who is missing from the team at the school assemby...
...when the Lt. Gov. of your state knows your name because he flew to GA to support your team...
...when you have successfully memorized all the songs that were played at nationals and regionals...
...when you speak fluent robotics language to others and wonder why they're looking at you funny...
...when you finally realize that you missed a week of school for the atlanta trip, that you have a weeks worth of quizzes and hw to do, and that your team is flying out tomorrow night for another robotics competition...
...when you and your boyfriend (who was on the robotics team, but graded last year) compete to see who is better at robotics...
(I just had to share this because it's really funny to me)
You know you're addicted to FIRST when during your free time at the Las Vegas Regional, you have the reflex to put on your safety glasses without realizing youre entering a casino and not the event...
...resulting in you looking like an idiot with your safety glasses on in New York New York for over 30 minutes :rolleyes:
You get staight C's second semester because of robotics
You sneek into the bot shop some nights to work on the robot because it could be "better"
You are always thinking about ways to improve the robot when you arn't actually improving it
All you think about is robotics
Robotics come above a g/f
You are always eating pizza or fast food
Ductape is your best friend
You would rather stay and work through dinner than drive to subway and eat
You think FIRST should be a year round thing with a competition in the winter and then one in the summer.
You love the segway
Dean Kamen is you idle
You have tried to skip school to go to the shop and work on the robot
You have spent some school nights at the bot shop at 3 AM and completely forgot you had homework, went home, said "screw it" and fell asleep
You have sat in class without taking note or paying attention daydreaming about FIRST
You have made inventor sketches of the robot in CAD class instead of the project you are supposed to be doing
You have used metal shop to make robot parts instead of the projects the teacher assigns you
I might have more but its to late to think
MUST EAT MORE FOOD
ambie_o7
25-06-2007, 00:55
...you have graduated from high school after attending 8 robotics competitions, 2 mini robotics competition, taught at 2 summer camps, designed a robotics challenge, and are currently planning to attend ANOTHER robotics competition (botball nationals) just becasue!
...on the day after graduation you wonder what the robotics team is doing tomorrow in school...
...you miss having daily robotics meetings...
...you can tell exactly what lego peice you have as soon as you touch it, without looking...
...your team wonders what they will do with out you, and you wonder what you will do without them in college... then realize your robotics friends who have already graduated within the last 4 years have been waiting for you at college...
cooker52
25-06-2007, 08:19
[QUOTE=ambie_o7;632839...you can tell exactly what lego peice you have as soon as you touch it, without looking...[/QUOTE]
I could do that before I joined robotics.
...when the first thing you do in the morning is getting on CD.
Blue_Mist
13-11-2007, 00:46
- Five months later, you resurrect this thread after reading every single post over the course of a three-day weekend, occasionally bursting into maniacal laughter and alarming your mom working on the other computer, then wait wistfully for someone to post...
- You've read all the "You Know You've Overdosed on FIRST When..." posts, too, and posted there...
- You're playing Ultimate Frisbee, one of the guys who was welding two years ago runs across the field and you lose track of the person you're guarding because your mind is on bright light, hot aluminum and flying sparks...
- One day your team's driver is juggling a soccer ball and your mind suddenly darts to an OI design for this year... Then said driver bounces the ball in your direction, but you don't notice and almost kick the ball right in his face
- You are helping your younger brother with a school project that involves traditional Chinese pastries, discover you have extra dough and promptly make cookies in the form of the FIRST Logo
- You look up into the sky and realize that the clouds are making a collective triangle, circle and square in the sky...
- You are building a catapult for the Latin Convention, which is the weekend after Davis 2008, and you've had everything planned since September 2007 so that you didn't have to build during the Build Season
- Two thirds of the people on your catapult team are in Robotics and one is in Robotics, but doesn't actually take Latin
- A teacher mentions to a freshman that they should join the Robotics Club, and you jump for joy because they already have... the earlier you ensnare them the better...
- Most that I want to say has already been said, like sleep deprivation, seeing team numbers everywhere and writing papers about Robotics. In California, high schoolers take the Exit Exam to graduate and my English essay was about our build shop. Apparently, another teammate had done the same thing :D. The prompt was to write about a room that had character.
mrbob1000
13-11-2007, 19:09
i have actually noticed my teams number in random strings of integers...
anyway.
-when you reflash your roomba's firmware so you can add a home made bluetooth adapter and drive it with your phone or with a ps3 sixaxis controller.
Katie_UPS
30-03-2008, 14:25
....When you finally convice your school to veiw it as a sport.
(which is completely awesome by the way)
-When you remember IP addresses by team number.
-When you are watching Phelps at the Olympics, and think about how to build a robot to beat him.
-When you think that FIRST would do okay as an Olympic event.
-When you are doing summer work for your first physics class, and keep on having thoughts like "so thats why using all four wheels at angles on a holonomic drive is more efficient than using two at full power."
-When for your birthday, you only wand a few miscellaneous tools and parts for robots.
-When you don't know what you did on the computer before you got Inventor.
-When your avatar everywhere else is some miscellaneous robot part or tool, such as a chop saw blade (Its only one of my rockets here because here I don't get PM'd "Why is xxx your avatar" -- "Tells person about FIRST" here)
-When you recognize something, like Igus energy chain, from shows like How Its Made.
-When you already have a rough idea of what you will put in dave's "Okay, YOU design the 2010 game" thread next year.
-When you have ideas for robots for games that occurred several years before you joined FIRST.
-When you have convinced most of my younger brothers' friends to join FIRST next year.
EDIT: Sorry I accidentally revived this one, rather than posting the more active General Forum one. Could they be merged? Or would the sheer volume of posts occupy the moderators for weeks on end?
darthfroggy
17-10-2008, 09:47
when you read science fiction and think about how it would work then go and try making it
SlaminSwimster
19-10-2008, 11:19
when u watch eagle eye and start thinking about making a computer like that.
typharn91
01-12-2008, 20:49
When you tell your girlfriend that you want it to be kick off again so you can have your life back
...When you start redesigning last years robot so that it's a von neuman machine whenever your bored...
synth3tk
04-12-2008, 18:51
You know we're all addicted to FIRST when we can crash whole sites by clicking links in a Game Hint thread.
You know we're all addicted to FIRST when we cause Chief Delphi to become slow-as-a-snail....
Nin_estarSaerah
04-12-2008, 21:06
When you run around the house shouting joyfully about the game hint.
When you are going to miss the SEC Championship Game to help with FLL.
ROLL TIDE :yikes:
you realize that your becoming more and more like a robot
synth3tk
15-12-2008, 00:40
...you constantly "hint" to your mom that you'd rather get a gift card to The Home Depot over anything else, including that computer or guitar you've always wanted.
BlondeNerd
15-12-2008, 18:20
...you look up "FIRST" in the pieces of flair facebook application and giggle when one of the first results is an opah
guakam0li1089
15-12-2008, 20:16
when you get rick rolled and think of a way you could make a program to do it for you
MiniNerd24
15-12-2008, 21:46
When you feel like taking a shopping cart and adding the new system to it and submitting it as your robot for the year. :yikes:
(Not that I've done that... yet)
Robert Cawthon
18-12-2008, 14:33
Your wife refers to FIRST as your "Second wife" :rolleyes:
I think you have it backwards. My wife thinks that FIRST is my first wife and for six plus weeks of the year, she's right. :o
NorviewsVeteran
20-12-2008, 14:01
you get depressed at the beginning of winter break because the school is locked until the fifth of January
Torboticsmember
20-12-2008, 15:37
When you ask your mentor's if you can take home the new control system home over the break to work on it.
And they let you.
synth3tk
20-12-2008, 18:17
When you ask your mentor's if you can take home the new control system home over the break to work on it.
And they let you.
That's pretty freakin' awesome!!! Fortunately, our mentor convinced the school to give us two meetings during the break.
DMitriPetrenko
29-01-2009, 18:22
. . .When the robot attacks you in your nightmares
. . .Whenever you try to make a decision, Dean Kamen and Woody Flowers pop up on either shoulder
. . .When you start to talk in C++
. . .When you ask for "the strippers" you mean THE TOOL.
. . .You stay up till 3 in the morning working on the bot... WHEN IT'S ALREADY DONE- Random Thoughts from Joe
. . .You spend more time working on the robot than wth your own girlfriend or boyfriend
. . .When the show "Robot Wars" isn't as cool as it used to be
. . .When you smack someone because they called your bot "it"
. . .When the Robotics Competition is more important to you than the Super Bowl
eternalearth888
03-02-2009, 14:30
-you stay home sick from school but manage to push yourself out of bed and go back at the end of the day to build the robot
-when you had a day where you didn't do any work and still called it productive
-when you could less about your grades and worry about getting the bot shipped in time for the deadline
-what other people would call "social issues" become obsolette
BX HANNAH
04-02-2009, 19:14
...your local hungry howie's knows your saturday order....and your sunday order..before you call them
...you talk about Woodie Flowers and Dean kamen constantly and get frustrated when you realize people actually DON'T know who they are
...your best friend stops asking you to hang out during build season because she know there is no chance of you saying yes
...when you can say what FIRST stands for in less than four seconds
...all you dream about is robotics practice (and they arent good dreams..its the dreams that you cant figure out the problem is and its competition day!)
rotolomi
05-02-2009, 09:34
~ you've always got band-aids on your hands
~ you've got bruises from dropping metal on your foot, or being hit with something
~ you've broken a nail from accidentally sanding your fingernail, or trying to rip out stubborn staples
~ you've got sawdust all over your clothes and shoes
~ you think little wrenches and lockwashers are adorable :D
~ you must think before you speak or else someone will respond with "that's what she said!" :ahh:
~ there are so many "dirty" words that make you laugh: balls, nut, lubricant, rod, noodle, etc... :P
...You have nightmares about metal shavings in the victors.
kelseyroo112308
15-02-2009, 13:21
You know you're addicted to FIRST when....
One of your text templates on your phone is "Are you coming in to Robotics today?"
Your top friends on myspace are all people from robotics.... and your school friends are complaining.
thefro526
15-02-2009, 13:52
You go home and think about how to make your robot better.
You go to work and think about how to make you robot better.
You write really long E-mail's to you mentor outlining a modification because you won't see them that day.
You come up with names like "The Shumper"
You refuse to stop practicing until the robot doesn't move.
gorillamonky
16-02-2009, 19:48
when you think your safety glasses look good on you (mine actually do)
when you could go home but decide to wait for something to do.
when you know the answer before you finish hearing the question
when you think girls holding screwdrivers are sexy
ATannahill
16-02-2009, 21:36
When Thursday means the first day of your first regional, not the 19th.
When you have mastered the art of pretending to work on the robot and show it proudly when the TV camera is rolling
Raumiester2010
16-02-2009, 22:19
-when you could less about your grades and worry about getting the bot shipped in time for the deadline
actually, when grades become more important because if your grades dip too far, you dont get to travel... then go insane from trying to get the robot done while maintaining good grades in mostly AP or advanced classes (voice of personal experience there)
carolynn4848
17-02-2009, 19:04
-When your only motivation for getting good grades is Robotics. (it's not, but still)
mrbob1000
17-02-2009, 19:41
When you choose where you will live later in life based off of what teams are in that area.
kellyerin91
17-02-2009, 21:25
-your friends tell you to shut up about the new sims motor
-you beg your teachers to let you leave class to work on the robot
-you routinely stay at school until 8 or 10 at night
-your team argues over which name is better, "Vince" or "Dr. Sheila"
-you nearly cry when Vince (the robot) is shipped
-you get up early during a weekend/vacation to work on the robot
-you are suddenly trying to fix or re-engineer everything in your house
-you dont want your life back at the end of the build season
-you spend history, english, and spanish class dreaming about robots
-robotics=life
:cool: :D :]
When you've been at robotics more than any of your mentors.
-When you lose count of how many robotic competitions you've been to.
-When you put student on the consent form and have to reprint it to put mentor(mentoring FLL team)...its called filling it out without thinking about it.
typharn91
19-02-2009, 10:40
when you look at chief delphi 3-4 times a day totaling about 6-8 hours a day you look at it
synth3tk
19-02-2009, 13:09
...wearing safety glasses becomes a part of you, and you bring a pair of them home by accident.
you stay in the botcave till 4:23am the morning of ship day to put the finishing touches together
carolynn4848
20-02-2009, 12:47
When your 2 mentors have 3 leathermans (2 big 1 small) and your team as named all of them, and given them an entire life's story. (David, Fredrick, and Steve)
When you ask for a leatherman by name and your mentor hands him to you.
(i.e. "Hey ____, I need David!")
When you accidently cut your finger with a leatherman and blame it on him.
(i.e. "____, your leatherman just cut me.")
When the leaherman in question cuts you, you say, "____, your leatherman just cut me." and ten minutes later you say "____, may I see David please?"
GaryVoshol
20-02-2009, 18:52
When you read all the "witholding allowance" and "battery connection" threads in their entirety :eek:
When you read all the "witholding allowance" and "battery connection" threads in their entirety :eek:
When you debate whether or not to read the condensed Q&A--and then save it for later because a) you already read all the threads and b) you really don't want to read several pages of bumper rulings AGAIN.
SammyKay
21-02-2009, 06:31
When you leave the FLL meeting on a Thursday at 4 to be at the workshop working on the big robot at 4:30....And still making it there before the majority of the team...BEFORE 4:30 (it takes like, 25 min. at least to get from where the FLL team meets to where the workshop is haha)
...when you know everyone who works at Home Depot, can rank them on a scale of 1 to 10 and you rank 11.5 where as the employees range from -1 to 4, lol
...when you break up with your girlfriend because neither of you have enough time for the other(this really sucks!)
...when blood has been shed over the robot, lol:D
GreenReaper1735
13-03-2009, 10:56
-You laugh at a teeshirt that says "There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who get this sentence, and those who don't"
basicxman
14-03-2009, 20:40
When you dance around for hours after receiving the championship invite email :D
SammyKay
15-03-2009, 08:50
...when you spend all day at a mentor's house making orbit balls to hand out at the next regional
...when you have a playlist on your iTunes/iPod just for songs for robotics to teach the other students (primarily the guys) how to dance for the upcoming regional
...when you cut yourself on a zip tie on the robot, on a tub that you're taking out of the trunk of a car, get tendinitis while untwisting the PVC pipes for the pit design, and you don't care that your accident prone (sorry, that one makes no sense at all lol)
ATannahill
15-03-2009, 17:46
when your friends accuse you of being a stalker because you know the pink team's second regional.
-- when you walk into your shop and ask if the coffee is ready to drink( i have done)
-- when you sit in class drawing new ways to increase the way the robot moves
-- when everything you write is in alphanumeric code (i don't do thi5 th4t much or do i)
You develop a severe dislike of Thursdays.
Nawaid Ladak
29-03-2009, 02:23
you glue your face to a monitor to watch a postage stamp sized webcast
So I'm definitely am addicted to FIRST after just one event. I have been up late the last two nights, and probably will be tonight, thinking and/or dreaming about some combination of the Colorado Regional and Atlanta. Plus I spend all my time on here...
typharn91
01-04-2009, 09:36
when you spend any time you have on the computer on chiefdelphi like at school home work everything
Nawaid Ladak
01-04-2009, 09:48
when you realize robots slipping around isn't as fun to watch as trackballs crashing into your opponents alliance station, or balls being shot into a hole above your opponents alliance station, or robots haning on a bar
but you still spend EVERY single minute of your free time obsessed to the game.... even if it is boring
sheissunshine
27-04-2009, 21:48
-the building of your robot ceases for one single day, because the whole team is out sick with the flu from working so closely together for five weeks... but everybody is back the next day.
You can get cut by cardboard but not extremely hot, and sharp, flying aluminum shards.
This happens to me. For reals. It's incredibly annoying. Anyway....
-When pineapple and jalapeno pizza is a addiction, too.
Don't believe me? try it.
Thaine
rcmolloy
24-04-2010, 10:54
When you have a countdown to kickoff on your cell phone, room calendar, and in in your head.
Vermeulen
24-04-2010, 11:31
When you have a countdown to kickoff on your cell phone, room calendar, and in in your head.
Only 261 days!
xxjgdancexx
27-04-2010, 14:25
...in math you start writing down the corresponding team names to the numbers in the algebra problems
...you proudly wear your button suit-of-armor
...you download all the songs you heard at competition just so you can robo rave to them at home
...you find yourself writing your favourite team names, numbers, etc on your hand in class
...you are depressed at the end of competition; not because you did not win, but because it means the season is over
:D
Steven_585
07-05-2010, 14:57
...you are depressed at the end of competition; not because you did not win, but because it means the season is over
Yes! So true... and...
... when you start writing code in your calculus class on notebook paper because you can't take out your laptop but just had to write it down.
!
xxjgdancexx
07-05-2010, 20:29
Yes! So true... and...
... when you start writing code in your calculus class on notebook paper because you can't take out your laptop but just had to write it down.
!
haha that reminds me, today in algebra 2 we were dividing polynomials (uber easy but soo boring) and one of the numbers was 343 and i yelled out "OMG METAL IN MOTION!" everyone looked at me with confused expresions except for three of my robo friends :D
-When you refuse to return a part of your team's robot that fell off at a demo that at the time no one could find where on the robot it came from.
(Every day since a demo last august a bolt fell off my teams robot and i picked it up. Ever since that day, every day i wear that bolt around my neck)
-When you collect odd souvenirs from demos and events your team does.
(^ regalith from team 1502, ypsi fest '09 :rolleyes: )
onecoolc
07-06-2010, 15:14
When you see a hired man up in a pine tree cutting it down, and your first thought is, "Oh, wow. That's a cool pulley system they have going on, I wonder how it works..." instead of, "I wonder why they're cutting down that tree."
xxjgdancexx
07-06-2010, 16:19
When driving around town, you see house numbers and then search your memory to know what team that was. Ive found 1102, 281, 2751, 1771, etc lol
demosthenes2k8
07-06-2010, 17:54
When driving by your local offseason (I couldn't make it, I was too wiped out), you can spot, from a distance, members of several teams, and just from their t-shirts, name and number each team.
Youarefunny
07-06-2010, 18:02
...you spend more time at school then your teachers.
Carolyn_Grace
07-06-2010, 23:15
When buying airplane tickets you pick the row that corresponds with your team number....I'll be sitting in seats 33A and 33F on my way to California. hehe
...When while playing whirlyball with your team, and your alliance is up 22-6, your alliance decide it's best to score for the other alliance to get a higher coopertition bonus.
When you buy a 24 pack of Mt. Dew on sale at Walmart...so that you can save money at your next competition..in over 1 month.
Seriously though, 24 pack of Dew is $5!!!......so I bought two
806Blacksmith
15-11-2010, 19:36
------ You spend 24/7 on chiefdelphi.com
------ The only thing that runs though your mind on a test is robotics
... your valintine is your robot
... you spend 3 hrs building a duck tape tie
... all numbers you see add up to a first team you know
A classmate in AP Physics has a folder with various cartoon robots on it, and the first time you see it you immediatly start comparing the varois propulsion mechanisms and start writing psuedo-code in your head for how the various appendages would operate.
bibleboy932
16-04-2011, 15:29
...when ALL grades except ENGLISH R A's
adiadi81
16-04-2011, 16:22
- When you start using Solidworks for fun
- When singing out loud doesn't bother you any more
- When you realise you haven't spoke to your family since last sunday
- When your best gossip is " Did you see how &#$%& uses the driller? "
- When you start counting your wounds on your hands and just give up
- When you find home boring
-When you realize you haven't been to your ^$@#% class since the start of this seson
Love you guys !
kendra21093
16-04-2011, 17:18
haha that reminds me, today in algebra 2 we were dividing polynomials (uber easy but soo boring) and one of the numbers was 343 and i yelled out "OMG METAL IN MOTION!" everyone looked at me with confused expresions except for three of my robo friends :D
Happened to me in my class as well only it was 346 and i was like "OMG ROBOHAWKS!" My teacher just nodded in understanding...it was like 2 days after DC
kendra21093
16-04-2011, 17:21
When you spend all of your lunch in the robot room fixing the drive train
When you cry at the end of competition season
When you call the robot your baby and get to help put it in the truck. (Laura and I <3)
When you sing ultimate showdown and your team instantlyjoins in =)
Unicorn_Knight
20-04-2011, 16:34
... you start skipping sports practice to go to your "real" sport (FIRST)
... your team of 14 can seriously vouch that they can drink 56 cans of soda on a Saturday work day
... your boyfriend has to not only come to robotics, but help work on the robot if he wants to hang out
... when national "That's What She Said" day is your favorite holiday ever
lgaroppz
20-04-2011, 21:56
...you bring a robot to your prom (true story, he stayed in my car the whole time though)
Brikien93
21-04-2011, 10:14
-- When leaving the machine shop before 1 am is an unknown experience for you.
-- You've had dangerous romantic encounters with a large dangerous machine 3 feet away.
-- Sleeping at the robotics building is not a foreign concept.
-- You get lost on the way home.
-- The only time you're not doing something robotics related is during your robotics class period. It becomes your sleep catch up time.
when you type ... into your internet browser and you get ...
"c"...chiefdelphi.com
"f"...frcdirector.blogspot.com *not facebook
"u"...usfirst.org
"a"...andymark.com
LemmingBot
25-04-2011, 12:17
... The robot gets a hug and kiss good night, along with half your team.
... You watch an old Doctor Who episode and find yourself designing the Daleks a new body that can climb steps.
... Your tools have names, ALL OF THEM.
... Battle Bots makes you cry a little.
... You really want to ride on BigDogs back.
...you propose that your family's Easter dinner be scheduled for Beach Bot time (3:30).
..when you start taking part household items to build a robot
..when all you talk about is robotics
..when you get addicted to CD
..when you regularly browse DIY sites
..when you have a table in your room only for electronics
..when you have a cork board on the wall only for buttons, and it's nearly full
..when you get your whole team to skip everywhere during competition
..when all you do is think about how to improve next year
..when you type up a long post in CD instead of doing homework that's going to take 3 hours to do (ap world .-.)
I LOVE Robotics <3
when you order a new hat customised with your team's colors and number
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c208/xnightxxflowerx/100_5796.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c208/xnightxxflowerx/100_5800.jpg
emekablue
15-05-2011, 13:03
When you learn how to drive a robot before you learn how to drive a car.
...Yeah, I don't even have my permit yet.
demosthenes2k8
15-05-2011, 13:20
Don't worry, I don't have a license either...and I was driving robots before cars...and I'm a better car driver than robot driver D:
rifkinni
23-05-2011, 15:52
When you know that Chief Delphi goes down for a nightly back up at 5:02 am
When you get a hair cut from your teammate in the hallway outside of the shop because you don't have time to do it anywhere else.
When reading the speeches by Dean in The New Cool you hear them in his voice in your head.
When talking to a mentor from another team you notice that the last 4 digits are an anagram for his team number. Also, when pointing it out to him, he had never noticed, and his team just finished their 4th year. (Also, number is older than the team.)
Thad House
13-06-2011, 00:25
When you go to put a period at the end of a sentence and you put a semi-colon instead;
kendra21093
13-06-2011, 13:57
..when you start taking part household items to build a robot
..when you have a cork board on the wall only for buttons, and it's nearly full
I LOVE Robotics <3
My cork boardS are full...>.> <.<
LemmingBot
13-06-2011, 16:52
...You spend hours making plush robots.
...You are saving up money to start a team of your own.
...Your choosing your collage depending on the FRC teams in the aria.
...You call your bot pet names like 'baby' and 'sweety' and don't care who thinks your weird.
...You think every robot is cute.
...Your off season hobby is pacing around your house and waiting for build season to start.
...You will buy anything robot oriented.
Emily_2337
13-06-2011, 17:17
... When your Principle of Engineering teacher has to ban Chief Delphi and other FIRST web sites in class.
... When your Driving a vehicle in Halo and you start doing the controls of your robot ( our team uses a 360 controller)
... When you skip out on a family outing to go to a robotic demo for your team
I love robotics =]
. . . When you see a large engine being transported by hand rather than fork truck, and when the safety crew walking in front crosses the threshold from one building to the next you yell, “ROBOT!” only to find everyone staring at you. (I had to explain that one.)::safety::
Alyse3556
21-03-2012, 14:37
when you're supposed to be doing research for the robot, but you end up lost in a Delphi thread like this >.< haha
...you see a bunch of the field crew spending several minutes picking up "robot droppings" from one spot on the field...and you realize that you know just what kind of parts they are picking up, because a robot's turret broke.
In case you can't figure this one out: ball bearings.
GrosseVogel
27-03-2012, 13:51
.... when your pushing shopping carts for work and when people are in your way you yell "Robot".
popnbrown
27-03-2012, 16:23
After a regional, you spam all the social networks you belong to and try to generate people's interest in FIRST.
Andrew Lawrence
27-03-2012, 16:25
After a regional, you spam all the social networks you belong to and try to generate people's interest in FIRST.
When you do this all the time. And your friends de-friend you for it.....only to refriend you later forgetting why they defriended you only to find out a few minutes later. :D
Ricky_V_3392
29-03-2012, 07:35
~you're looking through your photo albums, and you notice that 99% of the photos from the past three years are robotics things (and almost one whole photo album has been filled in one year..and only 10 pictures are not robotics related)
.........when going through 10-20 rolls of Ektachrome/Fujichrome is a normal occurence, when those slides consist SOLELY of US FIRST regional pics, and when scanned, each 36exp roll fills 250MB __each__.
.........when you petition Southwestern Bell to assign your team's central phone system the number 214/264-3392.
When you spend extended amounts of time (3/4 days) deciding on the fastest way to solve various issues, all robot related.
Cailin3476
30-03-2012, 20:30
...when you walk into a non-robotics event and have this strange feeling there is something just wrong with the crowd, only to figure out a few minutes later that you thought there was something wrong because they aren't wearing bright, matching t-shirts.
When working for your appliance repair company, you walk into customer's home & in conversation ask if they have teenagers in FIRST. And if they don't, how you can convince them that they can get better scholarships this way.
...when you walk into a non-robotics event and have this strange feeling there is something just wrong with the crowd, only to figure out a few minutes later that you thought there was something wrong because they aren't wearing bright, matching t-shirts.
well, not to mention that people aren't cheering for everybody, you aren't hearing people cheer on inanimite object, there are "sane" people there, the fact u here boos...
alot of things are wrong with non-robotics events.
(and on topic: when you bring up things like this)
AaronLeondar
04-04-2012, 23:24
You absolutely despise the word "Treads"...
rachelholladay
05-04-2012, 00:57
... When your Principle of Engineering teacher has to ban Chief Delphi and other FIRST web sites in class.
GASP! who would do such a thing.. blasphemy
G.Arizpe
05-04-2012, 15:11
...when on of you FIRST friends makes a joke about the regional you just went to and no on but you and him laughs in class!!
When you spend more time thinking about robotics then about the 10 page English paper due tomorrow that you haven't started.
When you then go on to write said paper on robotics even though it is supposed to be on literary techniques and you still get a passing grade because the teacher doesn't want to have to deal with you next year. Edit: or with the teams programmers hacking their computer again like the last time she failed a robotics student. (programmers + boredom+ way to entertain selves=done).
PS: this wasn't my team!
every time you see a 4-digit number on an article, you think of the scouting statistics of that team.
ButtonUp_Goddess
06-04-2012, 20:32
...you have a FIRST "clique" at school and all you do is talk about robotics during lunch
BlandaTran
06-04-2012, 21:45
When you got a perfect score on the writing portion of the SATs because you wrote about making Anderson connectors.
Not that that was a personal experience. It happened to an alumni of our though. :)
When a tour is going around your school and you *cough* happen *cough* to be right next to where your team works/stores the robot and when the tour gets there, the teacher leading the tour has you talk about it and they have to tell you to stop because you were only supposed to only speak for a few minites (not half an hour :) )
(posting again because it isn't letting me edit)
...your friends say night at the exact moment you normally leave for team meetings, even when you told them in advance that there is no meetings for that entire week.
machman-2823
30-10-2013, 13:43
You know you are addicted to FIRST when you honestly think that telling your girlfriend you were late to dinner because you had to test out the drive system is a good excuse
and when she thinks its a valid excuse.
--when you are late for a date, and your girlfriend simply asks "robot?" and doesn't need an answer
Bryce2471
30-10-2013, 18:52
...when youn plan on spending the day on a research paper, and end up watching old match videos instead.
Invictus3593
31-10-2013, 10:53
You know you are addicted to FIRST when you honestly think that telling your girlfriend you were late to dinner because you had to test out the drive system is a good excuse :D
..when you don't have a date because..robots
J.Warsoff
31-10-2013, 11:46
...when you spend most of your introduction to engineering college classes browsing CD.
astronomical
02-11-2013, 18:25
...you've downloaded every single piece of Autodesk software offered for free.
You see a 3DS friend code and think it's an alliance.
machman-2823
25-11-2013, 12:21
...you have a FIRST "clique" at school and all you do is talk about robotics during lunch
... when the table you sit at, is your robot from last year, converted into a mobile folding table. (dont ask)
machman-2823
25-11-2013, 12:22
...when "don't ask" is your catch phrase.
Walter Deitzler
25-11-2013, 18:39
When you read an entire thread (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=122297) about how teams say their team number...
Wayne Doenges
26-11-2013, 07:05
When you look at your car's trip odometer and try to think what team matches the number you see.
This morning it was 101.8...Robo Devils
JohnBoucher
26-11-2013, 07:33
When you complain about spam.
Martian86
30-11-2013, 21:06
You're asking for more RAM for Christmas so that you can program and run the robot from your computer without the BSOD.
...when you spend most of your introduction to engineering college classes browsing CD.
and your Accoutning class...and your programming class...and any other class with a computer
Your signature is so true...when you miss your FIRST team more than your friends :'(
When you go to put a period at the end of a sentence and you put a semi-colon instead;
Ahhh, the wonderful C++ semi-colons, what would we do without them? ;
When you just realized you spent your entire accounting class reading and replying to this thread, have replied to waaaaay too many things, and the stuff in this thread is so familiar and makes you miss your old team so much that your crying in class. :(
When you have already graduated college, but STILL line dance with the students during competitions :D
When your morning shower consists of you thinking of hypothetical FRC games for the upcoming year.
... When it's 11:30 at night, you need to be awake in five hours to make it to the non-local kickoff, and you're still here, browsing Chief Delphi, with no sleep in sight for at least three more hours.
...You're marrying a guy you met from another FIRST team during high school and spending your honeymoon at an FRC regional with the team you mentor.
When you see pool noodles as impact dampeners, not flotation devices.
... you select locker numbers at your gym based upon FRC team numbers you know so that you can remember which locker is yours.
Last night was the Truck Town, 68.
Several times were Hammand 71, Poofs 254, or PINK 233.
Epsilon Delta 116 always seems to be taken, for whatever reason.
When your favorite time of the day is when the clock reads your team number.
Great! it's 7:01
Too bad for the teams past 1259 unless you roll with the 24 hour clock, then it's 2359
MechEng83
09-01-2014, 12:41
you wish they didn't cancel school for the weather because you can't meet when school is cancelled.
You haven't seen your team in a couple of weeks due to being in college, and you have nightmares about them building a robot that can't consistently score in the high goal, yet tries anyway.
Grey Mann
01-02-2014, 17:51
You can look at a robot and write down every single part used to build it within 5 minutes.
Cyborg Mustang
01-02-2014, 18:12
You don't buy lunch for a week so you can save the money for a non-broken jaguar.
...You're marrying a guy you met from another FIRST team during high school and spending your honeymoon at an FRC regional with the team you mentor.
Gotta say, thats really sweet
ianawesome
08-02-2014, 10:34
-When you haven't bathed for 12 days.
starbound1332
08-02-2014, 19:52
When your always on Chief Delphi!
When you ask your mom for a left handed crescent wrench for your birthday.
When you ask your mom for a left handed crescent wrench for your birthday.
Do they make such a thing?
Canon reeves
11-02-2014, 12:33
when you know all the teams going to your regional, when you can't sleep because all you do is think about your robot and designs and competition, when all you think about is strategy for the game and talk to a random stranger about it and go on for 30 minutes talking about FIRST.
Do they make such a thing?
No, but it's funny to send first year FRC members looking for it in the back room where we keep the tools.
Msumat17
17-02-2014, 14:14
when you find aluminum shavings in your iPhone case
...when you start asking yourself "What do normal people do on Saturday?":D
Grey Mann
17-02-2014, 22:37
You no longer have pupils.
Your wife asks you what you want to do for your birthday, and you say, "Let's get dinner and see a movie."
But, what you're really thinking is, "I want to work on the robot with the team."
After build season you have this dream. (Yes I actually had this dream this morning.)
Queue up Twilight Zone music:
You just have regained consciousness; it's Thursday morning in the pits. You can't find your pit, when you finally find the pit the robot is still in the bag and nobody from your team can be found. When you get the robot un-bagged. It appears to be almost completely un-assembled. As you frantically try to put it all together it appears to exceed the frame perimeter by at least 400% and weight by 100lbs. With a sinking feeling you realize you will never, ever pass inspection this season.
I am hoping this nightmare isn't someone else's real past life experience I am channeling. I think I have a new psychological disorder. I am calling it "FPRBTSD(FIRST Post Robotic Build Traumatic Stress Disorder)" The only cure is a big dose of FIRST.
.... and after Robert Palmer, if your dreams are like this ....
You better well face it, you're addicted to FIRST.
Canon reeves
25-02-2014, 12:50
When you seriously don't know what normal people do in their free time, and so you spend hours after school making to do lists for competition and posting on Chief Delphi.
adammiller3122
25-02-2014, 13:25
... When you skip out on a family outing to go to a robotic demo for your team
I do that all of the time :)
starbound1332
25-02-2014, 22:02
In my English class, when I have to write about an certain experience you had in your life, I write about how our team won Chairman's!
xXhunter47Xx
25-02-2014, 22:10
When your friends question if you have a life outside of robotics
When you start dreaming on how to better the robot in both programming and the 45 lb allotment.
When you start predicting what the next game is going to be.
When you start designing a robot for that game.
In my English class, when I have to write about an certain experience you had in your life, I write about how our team won Chairman's!
Try having the only thing you feel able to write about in English class be robotics. I put the over/under on 2 papers before my English teacher makes me choose a different topic.
adammiller3122
26-02-2014, 20:08
... 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!!
My school won't let us work on the bot if we have a snow day... all activities are cancelled :mad:
adammiller3122
26-02-2014, 20:39
-You try to make a robotics class. (soon very soon)
That would be sooooo cool!!! Yay FIRST!
With already signed up & verified for 3 district events, you look for more to attend/volunteer on your Sundays, even though you are working your normal job on Saturdays.
CaptainDanger
27-02-2014, 01:51
When you seriously consider taking the robot to Prom
It's definitely happening
When you relate everything to build season, or FIRST and your friends get annoyed with your references they don't understand.
you're willing to risk your life to go to a competition.
When you go on vacation and find out that there is a robotics competition there and beg your mom to go. (If anyone in Utah is going to the competition on Thursday, message me!! :D)
When these are a few of your "favorite things:"
1. The smell of ozone and thread tapping oil in the morning.
2. This hiss and crackle of a TIG welder as it lays down a perfect line of buttons.
3. The beautiful long aluminum ribbon coming off the lathe.
4. Pristine lines of code, code that can do anything from launch a mission to Mars or diagnose a fetal heartbeat.
5. The crunch of the crimper or the snap of the POP riveter.
6. The feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when the MC says - "Teams stand behind the line, ready, set.........."
Ashley Hartley
14-03-2014, 23:14
...you realize you've been around FIRST longer than you haven't.
...volunteers at competition look familiar... from seeing them on Chief Delphi.
Ashley Hartley
13-04-2014, 21:33
You just spent 4 hours on CD, then realize your dad (coach) is in the garage building your crate for St. Louis.
The Doctor
13-04-2014, 21:50
You see a cool project (http://jasperproject.github.io/), and your first though is robot voice control (as in Real Steel).
dubiousSwain
13-04-2014, 22:36
When you ask your mom for a left handed crescent wrench for your birthday.
I actually asked for the new crescent wrench for Christmas. And got it. And named it. Is that weird?
EDIT: This baby: http://www.amazon.com/Crescent-ATR28-8-Inch-Ratcheting-Adjustable/dp/B008NM6VIC
vladtheimpaled
26-04-2014, 16:18
When you have the urge to yell robot in the middle of a crowded hallway::safety::
jwallace15
27-04-2014, 22:34
You're more excited about seeing your button haul from Worlds than you are about seeing your Halloween candy.
Christopher149
28-04-2014, 19:46
When, for a circuit design project, you make this:
WillNess
28-04-2014, 22:03
... you waste $60 on FIRST merch at championships
cadandcookies
29-04-2014, 00:36
I actually asked for the new crescent wrench for Christmas. And got it. And named it. Is that weird?
EDIT: This baby: http://www.amazon.com/Crescent-ATR28-8-Inch-Ratcheting-Adjustable/dp/B008NM6VIC
To be fair, that is a pretty ratchet wrench.
TOTCoach
04-05-2014, 01:54
You are at the clothing store wondering where all the long sleeve denim shirts are.
vladtheimpaled
05-05-2014, 17:12
When ever you see your team number somewhere you have the urge to yell it out.
examples include the time,
in movies,
and readings for home work
You keep repeatedly rifling the refresh button on the team list to your off season so you can truly confirm that 1114 really signed up for your event.
AngelsWings
09-05-2014, 22:07
When your team has become one of the cults of the school
When during those precious days after build season ends we have to ourselves, we meet up outside of the workshop because what else are we going to do with ourselves?
No matter where we go, there's at least two of us together at any given time
GaryVoshol
10-05-2014, 07:40
When this is your 5000th post.
Grey Mann
16-05-2014, 20:39
When your official position in the team that's recognized by everyone in the team is Chief Delphi Browser.
Riverdance
17-05-2014, 05:39
Your math answer comes out to be a team number. You laugh, but none of your teammates are around and no one else understands your reference and instead everyone just thinks you're insane for getting really excited about 1,124.
Essentially your entire team is going to prom together.
You cry when your mother doesn't want you to stay for the entire Midnight Madness meeting.
You live for competitions.
You spend upwards of eighteen hours in the shop over the weekend and don't mind one bit.
Your best friends are all team members and you could never live without any of them because robotics people are the best people.
RobotDoktor
18-05-2014, 18:04
When your browser auto fills "th" into thebluealliance.com
Kayla_Wallet
21-05-2014, 20:25
When you class people in two catergories: robo-nerds and losers.
When you leave your advisory hour every day to do robotics stuff.
When you consider Dean Kamen, Wood Flowers, and Frank to be the Holy Trinity of robotics.
dubiousSwain
23-05-2014, 20:00
When you start marking years by competitions.
Normal people: oh yeah, 2012, freshman year...
you: oh yeah, 2012, rebound rumble...
Christopher149
17-06-2014, 10:13
When you start marking years by competitions.
Normal people: oh yeah, 2012, freshman year...
you: oh yeah, 2012, rebound rumble...
So true. I don't naturally remember which year was senior year, but I know Logomotion was my last year in high school!
tanogirl
29-06-2014, 14:40
When you use madewithcode.com to make yourself a 3d printed bracelet with your team name and number on it.
GaryVoshol
29-06-2014, 17:53
You see a family buying pool noodles, and you think, "Naah, they're not building a robot."
You see a family buying pool noodles, and you think, "Naah, they're not building a robot."
This year, more applicable than ever!
SuperVerl
13-03-2015, 14:16
When everytime you see the number 107 you freak out and yell your team's once-in-a-day chant, "What time is it?! one-oh-seven!"
Cole2999
23-03-2015, 13:57
... you start looking at colleges based on robotics clubs.
... you know you're gonna miss the competitions and building.
... after working on your robot, you go home and think about working on your robot.
... you suddenly have 500 extra points on your Subway rewards card.
... Subway freezes your rewards card after a "mysterious string of 8 purchases" (even though each purchase only added points...)
... you envy the sleeping.
... after a 43-hour day filled with 480+ miles (10+ hours) of driving solo, 4 hours of programming, all-night laser tag, and then 11 hours of driving a bot, you'd still rather be competing than sleeping.
... you register on a forum just to post what you love about FIRST :D
SoulianPride
24-03-2015, 21:57
When you see numbers and immediately know the team name and founding year.
When your entire family realizes that you are all in it for life.
alephzer0
27-03-2015, 20:29
When every one of those links in the New Tab Page of Chrome that are based on what pages you visit the most takes you to a different thread on Chief Delphi.
AndrewPospeshil
20-04-2015, 14:54
when even your dank memes are robotics related
http://i.imgur.com/4fLaXag.png
happy 420 btw
WillNess
20-04-2015, 22:50
You know you're addicted to FIRST when instead of doing work in class you're working on your logic for that nights programming.
Jacob Bendicksen
21-04-2015, 00:00
When there's absolutely no way you're sleeping tonight because you're leaving for St. Louis tomorrow morning.
https://i.imgur.com/YtKWRKk.gif
planetbrilliant
22-04-2015, 12:05
... when your passcode to your phone is your team number
NHoffmann
29-04-2015, 20:08
You buy gamepiece totes from AndyMark to take stuff to college... And gamepiece noodles just because.
It's July, and in your SUV, you have ten pool noodles, half a dozen new AM wheels, a brand new cRIO, PDP, VRM and talon breakouts. There's also blue and red burlap, a riveter, four boxes of rivets, a velcro strip that's going to be used as a tennis ball conveyor belt, two 8' lengths of one-by ripped to five inches wide, and a few other robotic odds and ends. You may also have about two cubic feet of pecan and 20' length of open cell foam, but those are separate stories.
Oh, yeah - and a long-sleeve denim shirt and two pairs of safety glasses.
RoboChair
17-02-2016, 01:44
You might be addicted to FIRST when Google keeps suggesting you to set your work location to where you have team meetings.
RoboMo786
21-02-2016, 16:02
You're more concerned about getting blood on the robot than the fact that you just got hurt.
MaGiC_PiKaChU
21-02-2016, 16:20
You see the sunset and the sunrise in the same build session
You might be addicted to FIRST when Google keeps suggesting you to set your work location to where you have team meetings.
I go right to the shop from work on build nights, and a few days ago my phone (Droid Turbo), which automatically gives ETAs to/from home/work at the beginning and end of the day, gave me the ETA to "Home"...except it was routing me to the shop.
HatterTingamaji
22-02-2016, 09:18
... you pull out the new radio and fangirl over the small size
... you spend more time with your team than your friends
... you start coming up with ideas of what to say for this thread
RoboChair
25-02-2016, 02:11
I go right to the shop from work on build nights, and a few days ago my phone (Droid Turbo), which automatically gives ETAs to/from home/work at the beginning and end of the day, gave me the ETA to "Home"...except it was routing me to the shop.
I knew I couldn't be the only one!
MaGiC_PiKaChU
25-02-2016, 02:12
you spam refresh here in hope to see 118's robot reveal come up
Domo_Arigato
25-02-2016, 07:38
When You join Chief Delphi and you try to read every post.:eek:
The Sofa
09-03-2016, 13:52
. . . when you have nightmares of your division leader yelling that you forgot to save the banner design in Photoshop.
3175leheh
09-03-2016, 23:14
When someone says "Allen" and you think of the wrench set.
MechEng83
09-03-2016, 23:17
You walk into a hardware store and reflex attempt to put on safety glasses...
... or Sam's Club ... or Kroger ... or any building, really.
GaryVoshol
10-03-2016, 06:01
When you're still hanging around when Rotolo calls you old: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1554785&postcount=37
When you yell "6 points!" when you put a pool noodle in a cardboard box.
Wayne Doenges
11-03-2016, 07:10
You look at you GPS and try to guess the team name from your altitude reading :)
blackbrandt
14-03-2016, 11:31
You accidentally go to church with your safety glasses on your head and don't even realize it.
Hitchhiker 42
14-03-2016, 12:14
When you read through every page of this thread and laugh with every single post.
When your old coach tells you not to come to the team's next competition because you don't have money for a hotel room and you promise that you'll sleep in your car if you have to
You accidentally go to church with your safety glasses on your head and don't even realize it.
When you finally take your safety glasses off your head and it takes until the next day to stop feeling like you have safety glasses on your head.
You know you're addicted to FIRST when instead of doing work in class you're working on your logic for that nights programming.
When instead of doing work in class, you're watching regional competition live streams.
When you stay up all night the night before the competition in a hotel bathroom working on autonomous programming, and, lacking pen and paper and not wanting to disturb the sleeping team members outside the bathroom, use a bar of soap and the bathroom mirror to write out equations and graphs to help with specs. Then you leave it there.
Our programmer did this.
When instead of doing work in class, you're watching regional competition live streams.
When instead of doing work in class you are using Chief Delphi.
littlemissLish
22-03-2016, 17:12
... your parents have a budget just for regionals.
... you're at robotics more than home
... when you are home, you're working on safety
... you only have friends on the team
... you come up with safety ideas in your dreams
... you eat mostly pizza and drink pop
... you actually convince to all of the teachers about putting posters up in their rooms
... robotics is all you can talk about
... you give all the members on the team animals that match their personalities
... you have good friends on 3+ other teams
... you recruit all of your friends
You graduated three years ago, and you're still the most active member on here from your team. :rolleyes:
Corollary:
Your team refers to you as "The CalTran, from Chief Delphi." followed by unnecessary fawning.
logank013
23-03-2016, 09:37
The first time, I thought it was a fluke. The second time, I realized it had to go on here:
...every time you come home from a competition, going over the railroad tracks in your car is what you imagine it's like for a robot to go over the moat.
When instead of doing work in class you are using Chief Delphi.
I do this too. (*cough* doing it now)
When instead of doing work in class, you're watching regional competition live streams.
When instead of doing work in class you are using Chief Delphi.
Totally a victim of both of these.
HatterTingamaji
05-04-2016, 12:12
... you give all the members on the team animals that match their personalities
Yep,
Although there is the one random taco on my team:)
HatterTingamaji
05-04-2016, 12:16
... you start blogging FRC memes
... you feel like you should yell at a team member who was gone from practice in the halls
... You get uber sensitive about a mistake in the coding
... you actually are helping with load in
MechEng83
05-04-2016, 14:11
... you start blogging FRC memes
... you feel like you should yell at a team member who was gone from practice in the halls
... You get uber sensitive about a mistake in the coding
... you actually are helping with load in
When you notice that the current post number is your team number....
You say the following: "From Thursday to Saturday, I will live in the Stronghold. Do not disturb me." (week 6 regional)
When you think about placing FRC announcements into the school announcements, such as "Driver's meeting on the field in five minutes" and "Opening ceremonies start in 5 minutes. Match no. 1 starts right afterwards. If you are in match no. 1, you are needed at queuing NOW."
roddonfire
05-04-2016, 20:47
You're doing a research paper on Dean Kamen, and you start it on his birthday!
logank013
06-04-2016, 12:53
You're doing a research paper on Dean Kamen, and you start it on his birthday!
Lucky. What class is that for?
Your home router dies, taking you offline for 24 hours. When you return, there is a CD thread created in response to your post with over 90 responses.
Why_A_Username?
13-04-2016, 12:18
You write a literal book on 101 ways to improve your team... the day after you fail to qualify for worlds.
You get visibly angry at the mention of "Battle Bots"
You spend an entire weekend CADDing an outreach robot. During the off season.
You bring up FIRST in every single conversation you have.
Chief Delphi is your homepage.
You seriously consider never getting a job and living in the machine shop to mentor the team forever.
Food becomes synonymous with Pizza, Mountain Dew, and gearbox grease.
You brag to non robotics friends about the speed with which you can rebuild a gearbox.
Most of your vocabulary is incomprehensible mechanic and FIRST jargon.
You buy a Lego Mindstorms set just to design ideas for drivtrains.
When asked to do something at home, you design a robot to do it for you rather than actually doing it.
You feel happier under build season stress than any other time.
You haven't slept since January 8th, and won't until May.
When someone says "cheesecake" you look for a climber mechanism, not a delicious treat.
You wear your team shirt more than any other article of clothing.
You consider quitting your job to spend more time with the team.
You have no friends outside of FIRST.
You know how to assemble a drive train in under 2 hours, but not how to talk to your fellow humans.
You are more used to the sound of power tools than silence.
If someone says the name Dean you seek them out with the unshakable resolve of an assassin to hear what they said about Dean.
you lack a knowledge of major news stories from during build season.
you wish you never had to leave the shop.
virtuald
18-04-2016, 03:18
When you wished so badly that FIRSTwiki still existed that you spent two weekends putting some of its pieces (http://firstwiki.github.io/) back together.
Twepeler
20-04-2016, 09:12
..When you have too many buttons to keep in a large container
.. When you start making the button making process an assembly line
.. When The Blue Alliance takes up 1/2 of your data on your phone
Derf Tobor
21-04-2016, 21:55
.... When reciting numbers aloud, you automatically pair digits up. Two thousand eight hundred eighty-three becomes twenty-eight-eighty-three, and must be delivered in a hoarse shout of support.
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