You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...

[r2davis2]

When you got Amir to sign your copy of The New Cool ;P

[Ogehsim]

When you get so into The New Cool that you start freaking out, and go "OMG it's build season, why am I reading?! .... oh, right. Not build season. That's just in the book."

(^and jealous. My copy is an e-book. Couldn't get it signed even I did get the chance to meet him.)

[Cyberphil]

When you get so into The New Cool that you start freaking out, and go "OMG it's build season, why am I reading?! .... oh, right. Not build season. That's just in the book."

(^and jealous. My copy is an e-book. Couldn't get it signed even I did get the chance to meet him.)

Haha. Sounds just like me! Luckily I got the hard cover and I am just waiting for the day I meet him!

[Dancin103]

When you reach into your back pack to pull out a pen and you get TJ^2 Team 88 wrist bands. It's totally normal. lol

[Kyoshirin]

When you're almost late to day 2 of a regional because your dream was of day 2, so you thought it was over. :yikes:

[XXShadowXX]

... Your realized you last updated your facebook or twitter wednesday.

[Banderoonies]

You're a mom that has a multi-tool, safety glasses and WD40 in her purse at all times.
Oh....and you somehow end up on VIMEO singing about FIRST...what WAS I thinking!

[demosthenes2k8]

...your room is full of people watching movies seperately, and then one of them notices that the C++ code in 21 (the bar scene, about 11:20 in) makes absolutely no sense, shouldn't run or even compile, isn't in a function, and is WAY too small to do autonomous (even with barely legible comments!), and the whole room spends a while laughing at it.

EDIT: It COULD be in a function, and page 2 looks like it might be, just with REALLY thin margins. Still, though. "twopi"?

[Zuelu562]

When you can't figure out if day 2 of a 3 day regional was preordained by a dream you had several weeks before.

[gyroscopeRaptor]

The week after learning about FIRST, yo udo a biography article in Writing abotu Dean Kamen.

I then saw him at Northstar and went insane.

[Cyberphil]

When you do your senior project on Robotics Programs and Student Success. :D

[KarenH]

...you go to a restaurant to eat with friends after church, and after the tables are suitably arranged, someone says, "OK, slide to the left!" and you think of that cha-cha dance from the competition.

[rutzman]

...when you start naming teams that won't exist for a few years, based on the numbers they'll have(#6022---Avogadro's Army)

[purpleandplasma]

when you are in taco bell and you hear them call an order, and you look around to try to find that team

[lscime]

When you pick your dorm room based on the number. Seeing as how room selection was right after Worlds last year I settled on 341, it must be lucky, right? :D

[Andrew Lawrence]

1.When whenever you hear a bell of some sort, you yell "MINIBOT TIME!!!!", and then after realizing that nobody is deploying after 3 seconds, you try yelling to your drivers, and realize that the bell was the school bell, and you are supposed to be in 3rd period at that time.

2. Whenever you are carrying a heavy load, or see someone carrying a heavy load in a crowded place, you start yelling "ROBOT!!!" at the top of your lungs.

3. When your team-mates are with you when you yell "ROBOT!!!", and they all start yelling.

4. When your physics teacher starts making jokes during class from the competition, and the next day an event from the regional about a robot falling over is on your test. The question number is the number of the team who's robot fell.

[flippy147852]

you dream of building a car with interchangeable red and blue bumpers

[CalTran]

4. When your physics teacher starts making jokes during class from the competition, and the next day an event from the regional about a robot falling over is on your test. The question number is the number of the team who's robot fell.

Either a low number team fell over or you have quite a few questions on your tests...

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when:
You're friends feel legitimately concerned you're too into robotics.

You've accidentally spent a class period writing down all the different drivetrains and designing out the ones you want to try out offseason.

You decided that as an offseason project you want to build a segway since you don't have the money to buy a segway.

You're idea of a great Saturday afternoon was being holed up in your room with a bottle of Mountain Dew watching the Michigan State Championships and being in the Chatroom on Ustream.
Also, the same night, you spent 4 or 5 hours downloading each and every MSC Video on the FiM channel on Youtube.

You're sure there are other moments that shouldn't go unsung, but you can't remember all of them.

You've posted on this thread more times then you feel you're entitled to.

[LemmingBot]

......You demanded a refund at the Blockbuster when you realized that 'Driving Ms.Daisy' had no robots in it.

..... If you come back from a competition sounding like you are wearing chain mail.

..... Your family has gotten the full chronicle of your build season.

..... You dont yell at the comp. team, you yell at the robot.

..... You want your team number tattooed on your forehead.

..... Your poems for English class begin to artfully describe your team/your bot/your last competition.

..... Your bot has a gender (Im guilty of that)

..... You give your robots hugs.

..... Your favorite bracelet is a roller chain.

[PayneTrain]

..you can't stop beaming over the 25 incoming freshmen who signed up for our team after seeing us at the Virginia Regional, and hearing your director say: "I don't care what anyone says, this is the best robot and the best team."

All the other clubs at my school can BUZZ OFF. :D

[KarenH]

......You demanded a refund at the Blockbuster when you realized that 'Driving Ms.Daisy' had no robots in it.

But "Driving MISS Daisy" stars Morgan Freeman, who is featured in the latest FIRST commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4n4xvObJwk). I wonder if Team 341 will let him drive Miss Daisy 10 (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92517&highlight=miss+daisy).

[CassCity2081]

When your a senior and all your friends have a count down to graduation but your countdown is for St. Louis. 15 days 8 hours 32 minutes 28 seconds

[LemmingBot]

But "Driving MISS Daisy" stars Morgan Freeman, who is featured in the latest FIRST commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4n4xvObJwk). I wonder if Team 341 will let him drive Miss Daisy 10 (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92517&highlight=miss+daisy).


YES! Oh my Lord, if the lady that played Miss Daisy was still around (Rest in Peace, Jessica Tandy) she would need to come too!!!

[ohhiitskelly1o3]

you know you've overdosed on FIRST when;
you see a giant banana or ninja and want to give them a free hug.
you replace sunglasses with saftey glasses for 6 weeks straight.

[Cyberphil]

you know you've overdosed on FIRST when;
you see a giant banana or ninja and want to give them a free hug.
you replace sunglasses with saftey glasses for 6 weeks straight.

She would. :D

[Dancin103]

You sit through an hour of stat class with safety glasses on your head and don't even notice. No wonder my professor was looking at me funny.

[LemmingBot]

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when:

... You talk to your tools because you feel that they work better when you do.

... You squee out loud when you see ear rings/ necklaces/ ect. in your team colors.

... You look forward to the robot apocalypse

... You will only go to a collage that has a FIRST team within driving distance.

... You have named one or more of your hunter pets in World of Warcraft after your robot/s.

[kendra21093]

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when:

... You talk to your tools because you feel that they work better when you do.

... You squee out loud when you see ear rings/ necklaces/ ect. in your team colors.

... You look forward to the robot apocalypse

... You will only go to a collage that has a FIRST team within driving distance.

... You have named one or more of your hunter pets in World of Warcraft after your robot/s.



I have done all of these...xD

[klmx30302]

...when so far this school year all you've worn is team shirts to school

...when you have a panic attack because you can't find your team shirt that Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers signed

...when you find the shirt and find a way to hang it on the wall so it wont accidentally get washed and the sharpie will come out

...when your mind wanders during your classes about minibot improvements and championships and you cant stop it

...when even though it feels like its 20 degrees during the fundraising event you're at and you cant feel your hands you still drive your demo bot around

[Kyoshirin]

-When someone asks you for your phone number you say (###) Impact-RoboRevolution
-When you give your number in that fashion, understand, and ask someone else for it.
-When you decide that after you get (Team Number) songs here on your ipod/mp3, that you will not ever get another song again, unless you remove an equal number to keep the total the same.

[BX MARK]

When you and your friend consider dressing up as a Potentiometer and “magic smoke” for Halloween!

[cbeavers6790]

you see a semi-truck with a three digit number on it and wonder which team it belongs too

[bam-bam]

When you silently squeak in joy of seeing your team number as total time played in Pokemon. Not to mention OP Robotics too.

[RayTurner1126]

you equate looking at colleges to scouting :D

[O'Sancheski]

While on college visits you pull out the camera to take a picture of all the exit numbers that are associated with FRC Team numbers. Seriously. I will post a Thunderchickens exit later.

[LightWaves1636]

Your team celebrates because the odometer turned to your team number.
Even though the competition just ended, you get right back to work on the award submissions.

[SammyKay]

when you keep safety glasses in your purse at all times and are able to pull them out and use them when in your lab ::safety::

[Karibou]

You're at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in WV, and you could swear that your tour guide was Dave Lavery, without the evil grin.

And then you remember that this isn't NASA.

[J93Wagner]

when you keep safety glasses in your purse at all times and are able to pull them out and use them when in your lab ::safety::

I always have mine in a side pocket of my backpack. ::safety::

[Eagleeyedan]

You go to Driver's Ed still wearing safety glasses and wonder why you are getting funny looks.

[tyronott]

You dance to any random song that comes up

you feel the need to dance to cotton eyed joe all the time

[demosthenes2k8]

...you have a playlist full of songs from competitions.

[cparker8]

When you notice that your team number is the number on an issue of manga this week. Go 662!

[kendra21093]

when you spend IED on chiefdelphi instead of doing a chess set or a bio project due next period...

[Zuelu562]

When after queueing at an offseason event you realize the following: you worked with a well appreciated name on Chief (THANKS AGAIN ED!), your legs fall out from under you, and you want to do it all over again.

[drumfreak]

When you ask for a LEGO Mindstorm NXT 2.0 kit for your 17th birthday so you can build mini-robots with your friends over the summer...

(My parents looked at me like I was crazy because a "normal" teenage girl would have asked for a car or something of the sort. haha)

[rifkinni]

When your parents are 30 minutes late picking you up because they drove to the wrong location when they automatically assumed that you were in the build room.

[Jreed129]

When you keep a thread about how you overdosed on FIRST alive for 5 years...

[MagiChau]

When you see Bill using "diabolical" in a blog post it means 4v4 for 2012.

[demosthenes2k8]

When you throw a birthday party for your dad, (a mentor), and you're both wearing team shirts, and then another mentor shows up, also wearing a team shirt.

[cadmanDOM910]

When you constantly talk about people from the HOT team as "the hot guy" or the "hot girl"

[TPNigl]

When you do your final stats project on the influence of minibots on the outcome of matches

[thurston2619]

When you spend more time on robotics than on work & school combined.

When you take time off work to fly out to St. Louis to work Scholarship Row for your college.

When you spend an entire day at work coming up with a new business plan for your robotics team.

When you create a separate resume specifically for FIRST because it won't all fit on your work resume.

When you go to college and start mentoring not one, not two, but THREE FRC teams.

When the only graduation parties you have time to go to are for the FIRST kids you mentor, all others receive a "Sorry, I have another grad party I HAVE to be at that day" message.

When you leave work early to go talk to your college's faculty members about the FIRST Ambassadors program at your school.

When your friends ask for a ride and have to move robotics buttons and pamphlets off the seats before getting in your car.

When you are debating whether or not it is worth it to skip a college class to go to IRI this summer or not.

When you set your last day of work for the term so that you can attend MARC without worrying about missing work.

When you have more FIRST contacts than any other contacts in your phone.

When your parents come to your teams' fundraisers and competitions even though you are now mentoring teams rather than competing.

When you go to the world championship to work scholarship row as a college recruiter and your parents tell you they missed going and want to go with you next year even though you personally aren't competing anymore.

When you have successfully addicted your family to FIRST too and they no longer ask you to come home on weekends from November - April because they know you are going to be at robotics (FLL & FRC).

[TPNigl]

When you start jumping up and down yelling "YESS" over and over when you learn your roommate in college was on a FIRST robotics team

[Duke461]

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when......

Everytime you see an address or a time on a clock you try and think of what robotics team it is.

P.S. I saw 191 as an address today, the street across from mine has 461 as an address, and i just happen to look at the clock when it's 11:14 at least once, if not twice, every day

[Karibou]

...Sandstorm plays at your senior all-night party, and you feel cool because you know all the parts to it by heart.

[torihoelscher]

~Go to Star Wars weekend and tell all of the "characters" that I work on droids.
~People wearing the same color and I wonder what team they are on (repeat) lol
~Go through robotics pictures and text people saying how awesome it is.
~Talk about robotics ALL THE TIME
~Felt weird wearing open toe shoes at school
~Sad that the season is over
~When you have a 5 foot LabVIEW poster hanging on my wall.
~Gained 10 pounds of luggage from the Championship from all the free stuff.
~Wears different FRC Team's T-shirts on an everyday basis.
~When someone asks "what time is it?" I say "Krunch Time"
~When you spend a couple hours a day on Chief Delphi posting stuff
~I have a moose that I got from the Florida Regional from 1065 hanging around my bed.
~When all you can think of when you are at Disney World is "Were going to Disney World!!!!"
~I have PWM wire hanging on my cork board that Alex gave me.
~Going to prom with all the Robotics friends and all we talk about is Robotics!
~Have regional medals hanging on my lamp in my room.
~Alot of buttons that I have hanging on my door.
~Have sensors and potentiometers in various places of my room.
~Taken apart every kind of Neopet toy to see whats inside. (lol)
~Has a huge 800 page book on LabVIEW that I study.
~Does an economics project on Dean Kamen.
~Saw a Segway and thought of Dean Kamen.
~Watching TV and a commercial comes and the number you see at the bottom is a robotics team number.
~When you go to the store and you see numbers you think of teams. (.79=KRUNCH!!)
~Text messages are getting full and the number is 233 (Pink)
~When you text people on other teams all the time!
~When you have 4 pairs of safety glasses in your room.
~When you have tubes and make skirts out of them!

I can think of more but then it gets pretty crazy!!

[Nomadic Mentor]

When you post 20+ things in one post and can still think of more

[davepowers]

You fall asleep in study hall the day after you get back from championships and all you dream about is that one match that you needed a blue tube to complete a logo, but the human players weren't paying attention, so you're having a flash back of yourself standing at the drivers station yelling, "BLUE TUBE, BLUE TUBE" in your head while your sleeping, and a buddy then wake's you up and you scream at the top of your lungs, "THROW A BLUE TUBE!!!". And everyone stares at you awkwardly except for the one kid in the room who's on the team who COMPLETELY understands.

-Dave

[J93Wagner]

You are going to start watching this thread like a hawk over the next few weeks hoping that someone from Wave Robotics posts on post 2826.

[Duke461]

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you dream about reading through the Chief Delphi forums. (Yes, this actually happened :eek:)

[KarenH]

You think about posting so that J93Wagner won't have to wait as long. Then you actually post!

[FRC4ME]

When people on other forums shout the word "FIRST" for emphasis, it takes you a few seconds to realize they aren't talking about robotics.

[Ankit S.]

When you search for the next time kickoff will be on your birthday (2016).

[Andrew Lawrence]

-You have a t-shirt made ENTIRELY out of zip-ties
-You attempt to get your team number's amount of points on a test just to be able to see it (256/300 isn't bad!)
-When your physics teacher gives a quiz after a regional, and all questions have to do with the robots at the competition
-When an extra credit question on said quiz asks about what type of animal The Wildhats made their robot look like this year
-When said Physics teacher gives assignments during the first 6 weeks of the second semester about robots and the game video of that year
-You stare into the robotics room at school every day you don't have practice
-When you weigh yourself and realize you need to loose 3 pounds to legally compete
-When you've at least once thought of dressing up one of your teammates in aluminum foil and having them compete in the competition

[dag0620]

You get very happy when The New Cool is on your summer reading list!!

[avanboekel]

... all 3 of your oral communications speeches are about robotics
-all about Midwest regional (personal experience speech)
-how to create a CAD drawing (how to speech)
-all about Dean Kamen (inspirational person speech)
... you think about how easy driving would be if your car had swerve drive

[J93Wagner]

... you think about how easy driving would be if your car had swerve drive

I ditto that.

EDIT: Also, you start up Pandora Internet Radio and you start to dance thinking you're at a competition. Then you realize that you aren't and continue dancing anyway since no one is around.

[Bethie42]

[I didn't know where else to put this.]
A few months ago I posted in the 'Quotes' page with a quote from build: 'Why do people gotta have a life outside of robotics?' (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=980687&postcount=2584)

Tonight, I became friends on Facebook with a member of another Oregon team with which I went to CMP with this year. Ever eager to see another robotics person's quotes, I looked and beheld: 'Why do people gotta have a life outside of robotics?' He said he saw it on CD :)

[PayneTrain]

You are awake until 2am working on things for your team... in July. And you have work at 8 am.

This is still the best problem ever.

[purpleandplasma]

when u've spent everyday of your summer vacation working on robotics.
when your only vacation was a spur of the moment trip where you had to represent your team at an engineering convention

[gondorf]

You know you overdosed on FIRST when you still check in to the chiefdelphi forums, even though you graduated from your team 4 years ago...

yeah....

[Tassemet]

- When you go to school late on friday and leave saturday morning for competetions...
- When you join the US Navy to learn more about electronics

[Tom Ore]

when you drive 450 miles (each way) to watch the Saturday matches of an offseason event that your team isn't even competing at and it was totally worth it.

[Cyberphil]

when you know the anwser to a question on cash cab because of one of the 2011 game hints. (The question had to do with the definition of the name of a song by little eva)

[EricVanWyk]

... when you check for your safety glasses when you go to a convention.


((Happy NI Week!))

[AlecMataloni]

When you feel special after realizing that your house number is 217.

[216Robochick288]

..When the highlight of your summer was a trip to California... With your middle school Botball team for Nationals.

..When on that trip, you decide to stay in from the beach with a kid to teach him how to program

..When on the plane trip there and back, you Happily get to explain to some of the students how a plane flies, complete with diagrams that were prepared weeks in advance......

[avanboekel]

When you feel special after realizing that your house number is 217.

When you feel special after realizing that your house number is 111.:D

[DarrinMunter]

I can see it now, the students taking team pictures in front of strangers house that the address matches there team number. It's the new planking.

[thisOrrthat]

You have a prototype chassis in your bed room.

[nikdude]

When normal people put their graduate tassel hanging from their mirror in the car, when yours is your alliance captain band and your operator button pined onto your Regional winning medal

[GCentola]

When normal people put their graduate tassel hanging from their mirror in the car, when yours is your alliance captain band and your operator button pined onto your Regional winning medal

When someone described what you do! Even though the medal is silver, and the button is a Coach button, and it's hanging in my room. :D

[Walter Deitzler]

You go to youtube to watch videos of last year's championship finals.

[Red2486]

...that one match that you needed a blue tube to complete a logo, but the human players weren't paying attention, so you're having a flash back of yourself standing at the drivers station yelling, "BLUE TUBE, BLUE TUBE"...

This totally happened to my team at our regional! The head ref. came to our pit at the end of the day just to make fun of us for it. Now we have a joke where when we see the kid who was our human player we all yell "BLUUUUE!!"

[Cyberphil]

You go to youtube to watch videos of last year's championship finals.

..... and the year before, and the year before that, and the year before that.......... all the way till you cannot find any more.

[Gir_450]

When ever you see a triangle, circle, and square anywhere near each other you subconsciously create the FIRST logo

[GCentola]

when you could identify most of the teams and robots seen (even in the background) in the i.Am.FIRST special.

[Walter Deitzler]

..... and the year before, and the year before that, and the year before that.......... all the way till you cannot find any more.

And when people ask what you are doing, you say "Scouting"

[purpleandplasma]

when you call team members yelling at them "we need to fundraise cuz WE ARE GOING TO NATIONALS!" after watching i.am.first and not making it in 2011 </3

[RayTurner1126]

when your idea of fun on a sunday night is making recruitment posters for next year

[pwnageNick]

When you start telling time based on team numbers.
Examples:
It's Wildstang time (1:11)
It's Thunderchickens time (1:48)
It's Cheesy Poof's time (2:54)
etc. etc. etc.

I find myself doing this a lot lately.

[Karibou]

It's Thunderchickens time (1:48)


Uhh, I know that the Thunderchickens and Robowranglers are pretty tight, but I wasn't aware that they switched numbers...

[CalTran]

You not only tell time by team number, but you also tell your friends the time by team number :D

You're willing to pay a friend rent so you can have locker 1114 (Simbotics)

[RayTurner1126]

when anyone asks you the time and you automatically reply 11:26! (or your team #...) before checking your phone for the real time.

when you stop asking members of your team the time because of this...

when you're cashing people out at work and with each total you say to the customer, in your head you attach an frc team name

[GCentola]

When your idea of a fun car ride home from IRI is listing as many teams as you possibly can in order. starting with the Juggernauts. Up to 3XXX.

[LeelandS]

When your idea of a fun car ride home from IRI is listing as many teams as you possibly can in order. starting with the Juggernauts. Up to 3XXX.
Hmm.. Whatever could you mean?

You might be addicted if you take that list, write it down, and count how many teams you know... 115.

You might also know you're addicted when...

You have two kids from your team post before you, and do the exact same things as both of them.
Your idea of spending your summer is researching drive bases
You draw sketches of Swerve drive modules in extra time
You watched the i.am.FIRST special on ABC. You then proceeded to watch it twice since then.
You have the finals matches your teams were in on your iPod
You're waiting for FRC Ice Cream bars, with your favorite teams' robots on them (Tell me that isn't a good idea!)
You spent 30 minutes replacing the first half of "Like a G6" lyrics with robotics stuff
When you get hit in the face with a flaming marshmallow, you're more concerned about the marshmallow that got on your team shirt
You graduated and have no idea what to do with your life now =/

[Nomadic Mentor]

You graduated and have no idea what to do with your life now =/
[/LIST]

When some post they don't know what to do you immediately think of the friends your trying to convince to mentor.

When you're determined to stay involved with mentoring your team after moving half way across the country.

[P.J.]

When you're already begging your boss in August for as many weekends off as possible in March, since you want to referee an event every week.

When one of the only things you need to do to make your life complete is referee on Einstein

When one of the only other things to complete your life was refereeing at IRI, and that happened your first year of reffing. (When I got the email, I literally jumped up and started yelling I was so excited)

When you and your best friend hope to one day be "FIRST famous" enough to judge the IRI talent show.

When you consider Gary Voshol one of your heroes.

[RayTurner1126]

When you get hit in the face with a flaming marshmallow, you're more concerned about the marshmallow that got on your team shirt
[/LIST]

=) at the time it wasn't so hilarious, but that above was awesome ^^

...and, when you still have scouting data from FLR and buckeye on your iPod notes

when you're using you're fake iPad that's actually a notebook of paper (given to you by your Xerox mentor) for taking notes at colleges, and you see the scouting notes you took down at IRI and spend awhile going through it and going "i remember that match..."

[Walter Deitzler]

You out three moniters on your computer so that you can code on one, CAD on another, and read CD on the third.

[dag0620]

There hasn't been a day since you've joined when you look at the time, see it's 11:24 , and you still think about the Uberbots.

[plnyyanks]

There hasn't been a day since you've joined when you look at the time, see it's 11:24 , and you still think about the Uberbots.

happens to me all the time... and on really superstitious days, going to bed at 11:24 automatically ensures the following day will be good

[littledogj2k]

When you've checked this forum everyday since you first saw it to check for new post.

[Walter Deitzler]

You have 1115 emails in your inbox, so you deleate just one to get down to 1114 (simbotics)

[GCentola]

happens to me all the time... and on really superstitious days, going to bed at 11:24 automatically ensures the following day will be good

When you do the same thing, 2 minutes later, at 11:26

[Darkeyes]

When after building a robot, preparing for regional, winning a regional, play catch up on some major assignments you skipped to save your sanity, winning Chairman's at another regional a week after the first, preparing for Championship's, going to Championships in St. Louis and having the best year your team ever had,

you want to do it again. :D

[Andrew Schreiber]

When you realize that the break you took from FRC has been the longest time between meetings since 2003. (6 months for the record)

[Mark McLeod]

When you realize that the break you took from FRC has been the longest time between meetings since 2003. (6 months for the record)

Are you saying you haven't read or posted on CD for 6 months:)

[Andrew Schreiber]

Are you saying you haven't read or posted on CD for 6 months:)

I define being involved as being at meetings. :P

[quinxorin]

...when you've spent an exceptionally large amount of your summer writing PHP for your team's website (http://www.lightningrobotics.com/Contents/index.php).

[quinxorin]

There hasn't been a day since you've joined when you look at the time, see it's 11:24 , and you still think about the Uberbots.
I always see 5:48 and 2:17. Why couldn't 862 be three numbers lower?

[Walter Deitzler]

I always see 5:48 and 2:17. Why couldn't 862 be three numbers lower?

You think you have it bad? Try 3397. I can't even find locker numbers that go that high...

[quinxorin]

You think you have it bad? Try 3397. I can't even find locker numbers that go that high...
Oh, the lockers most definitely go that high at my school, considering it has 6500 students and all.

[Walter Deitzler]

Oh, the lockers most definitely go that high at my school, considering it has 6500 students and all.

We only have about 1000 students... :(

[klmx30302]

...when you wonder why your team shirts are so worn out, and then realize its because you've worn them almost every day to school, and if you didn't wear a team shirt your were wearing a shirt that was in some way related to first.

I have just realized last school year there was not a day I was not wearing either a team shirt or a first related shirt.

[216Robochick288]

When your friend invites you to the Movies and says if you don't wear a robotics shirt that they will pay everything for you..... and you have to pay anyhow.....

When during physics class labs, 90% of the time is spent looking up numbers in the data to see if its a team..

When you look and SEE teams in Calc...

When your Physics teacher is your coach and looks for numbers with you...

[LondonBoy29]

The FIRST thing you do in the morning is check chief delphi

[Czukkiemonster]

... When you forget to take the side shields off your glasses and you realize you are still wearing them Monday at school ::safety::

[1986titans]

... When you walk around a parking lot looking for the spot with your team's number.

[Cyberphil]

... When you walk around a parking lot looking for the spot with your team's number.

When you know exactly where 103, 341, 67, 33, 330, and many other team numbers are in your schools parking lot.

[Dancin103]

When you know exactly where 103, 341, 67, 33, 330, and many other team numbers are in your schools parking lot.

And one of your students on the team gets spot 103. :P

[linuxboy]

... instead of arguing with parents for permission to go to parties you argue with them for permission to volunteer at offseason events

[KeeganP]

... instead of arguing with parents for permission to go to parties you argue with them for permission to volunteer at offseason events

I do that all the time!!! lol

[Walter Deitzler]

http://www.cooneyrobotics.com/images/Dean_Kamen_t.png

Ladies, when you look at this man you think "Deanalicious"

[CalTran]

^2011 Top Ten list^

[Walter Deitzler]

^2011 Top Ten list^

I didn't see it posted so I decided to post it. :D

[andgordo558]

...when you go on USAir.com to check the status of the flight your parents are on... and see if your team's number is a flight number (incidentally, 1126 flies in and out of Dallas) :]

[holygrail]

...you keep a notepad by your bed to write down cool ideas when you dream about robots...in the summer.

[Thad House]

... When you spend an hour reading through this thread

[Andrew Lawrence]

The FIRST thing you do in the morning is check chief delphi

And the last thing you do when you go to bed. (Not that you'd be getting any sleep)

When you set your alarm every 3 hours during winter break so you can check what people are saying about the game hints.

When you have dreams Dean Kamen is Darth Vader and tells you he's your father, and you celebrate (actually happened to me).

[CalTran]

You've done the math, and figured out that you visit ChiefDelphi on a regular basis of about once every 10 minutes (Yeah, I know that's a long wait in between visits XD )

You were looking through the thread "Most Recognizable Teams", and someone left a list of teams they can name, and you can name each and every one of them ALONG with the theme they fit too.

On your Facebook, your profile page says you're "Head over wheels for FIRST Robotics"...

[quinxorin]

...when your school has a lockdown due to a threat (they won't tell us what) and you manage to spend the time in the robotics room.

[Zuelu562]

When you actually plan out an idea for your build season, before the first mentor meeting of the year.

I actually have to make a choice what team I'm working with (yes, it's sad, but with age comes decisions).

[andgordo558]

~you're watching football on Sunday and you say "there's no way the Colts are going to get far enough down the field to deploy"
~a year is mentioned and you automatically try to recall the FRC challenge from that year

[xSAWxBLADEx]

we should make this a facebook group....i would check it every day lol

[Andrew Lawrence]

~you're watching football on Sunday and you say "there's no way the Colts are going to get far enough down the field to deploy"
~a year is mentioned and you automatically try to recall the FRC challenge from that year

I think we all do that! :D

[Nomadic Mentor]

When you have a paper due in 54 mins and only written one sentences because your catching up on everything you missed in the last week on CD.

[Andrew Lawrence]

When you have a paper due in 54 mins and only written one sentences because your catching up on everything you missed in the last week on CD.

You go on to check what you missed the last week? I go on to check what I have missed in the last 10 minutes!

[Mk.32]

This recently happened to me while I was talking with an College student:
Immediately after someone said “networking is difficult”, I launched into an anecdote about setting up/troubleshooting routers and getting FMS to work.. only to find that he was talking about social networking and is now very confused.

[thef.22raptor]

when you dance to youself in the shower

[216Robochick288]

When... in the past 3 days, and a few Colleges calling, you land a FIRST student on every call [besides one, but she was dating a first student]

Here is a shoutout to the Kil-A-Bites, 1024, I got a former member of yours from Ketterling just a few minutes ago^^

[plnyyanks]

Even with all the things going on in Connecticut right now, you're main reason for wanting power back is so you can check ChiefDelphi...

[Hallry]

...when someone says "CD," and you don't immediately think of 'compact disk,' and instead Chief Delphi. ::rtm::

[RayTurner1126]

when every college essay you can think of writing about the experiences that have changed you is about FIRST robotics...

[iPenguin]

when every college essay you can think of writing about the experiences that have changed you is about FIRST robotics...

Or when you start writing the initial prompt for the college essay and then link it to your experience with FIRST.

[plnyyanks]

You'd be willing to have a team meeting on Thanksgiving, just so there could be a meeting on 11-24

[maxwellt]

when you start dreaming about FIRST

[Walter Deitzler]

When you dress up as Dean Kamen for your schools 'When I grow up' day
When your family has to tell you to stop relating every number ou see to a robotics team number
When you have dreams about robotics games that you never participated in. (Overdrive for me :p )

[Cyberphil]

When you do this:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-DM7q0qY80GY/TtLrozEawPI/AAAAAAAAAYY/bWsrTGd-gyc/s816/11%2B-%2B1

You all were thinking it!!! :D

It just really bothered me that they were not interlocked.

[Andrew Lawrence]

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...

You don't "know". You ARE overdosed on FIRST, know it or not. And fortunately, there is no cure for this kind of overdose!

[Andrew Lawrence]

When you do this:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-DM7q0qY80GY/TtLrozEawPI/AAAAAAAAAYY/bWsrTGd-gyc/s816/11%2B-%2B1

You all were thinking it!!! :D

It just really bothered me that they were not interlocked.

You are my hero! My team wanted to have a bunch of students form the FIRST logo outside our shop right before the Google Earth satellites take a new picture, so our team will be in the form of the FIRST logo forever online.

[Garrett.d.w]

When you've read most of the posts on this thread.
When your wearing your team shirt for the yearbook photo.
When someone calls you "that robotics kid"
When you start finding 80/20 fittings in the dryer.


I'd consider it a good thing if you overdosed on FIRST :)

[Andrew Lawrence]

One cannot overdose on FIRST! As Will.I.Am says: "I just can't get enough".

[nssheepster]

You know you've been here too long when you think your mentors yelling, "And don't cut yourself!" is commonplace. That, and the scream when somebody doesn't listen. :)

[Walter Deitzler]

When you go into Hobby Lobby and tell them casually that your hobby is building robots, and go on to ask them if they have spare parts. When they say no, you leave the store and decide to stick to ACE hardware.

[Chris is me]

When you start finding 80/20 fittings in the dryer.

Now that's embarrassing. 80/20? FIRSTers mill their own. ;)

[Cyberphil]

You are my hero! My team wanted to have a bunch of students form the FIRST logo outside our shop right before the Google Earth satellites take a new picture, so our team will be in the form of the FIRST logo forever online.

That is in no way a reason why I should be your hero! And that sounds like an awesome idea! Even the fact that you can go around and show your friends the logo on google earth is worth it!

[Andrew Lawrence]

That is in no way a reason why I should be your hero! And that sounds like an awesome idea! Even the fact that you can go around and show your friends the logo on google earth is worth it!

Thanks! Now all I need to do is figure out when Google takes their next picture on my school..... Anyone have any info on that?

[plnyyanks]

That is in no way a reason why I should be your hero!
The real reason is because your name is Phil. It's a great name... ;)

Back on topic... how exactly can you find out when the Google Earth satellites pass by a certain place? Because that's kind of important to know if you're trying to get in their shots (and standing outside for days on end is not fun at all)

[Ankit S.]

(and standing outside for days on end is not fun at all)

On the contrary, it would be a great simulation of build season compacted into a couple of days, minus the robot building. :rolleyes:

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when your English essays start to include math in them :eek:

[Andrew Lawrence]

The real reason is because your name is Phil. It's a great name... ;)

Back on topic... how exactly can you find out when the Google Earth satellites pass by a certain place? Because that's kind of important to know if you're trying to get in their shots (and standing outside for days on end is not fun at all)

Ask someone at Google. I'm thinking about emailing them.

BUT, this is for another thread, this has gone off topic for too long.

Now, back to the thread:

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you cry at your last meeting of the year. :'(

[Cyberphil]

The real reason is because your name is Phil. It's a great name... ;)


Now that is a legit reason. :cool:

[ke7qcl]

-You take a tour of a robotics facility and spend most of the time talking about your team's robots and your experience with FIRST. :cool:
-Your senior project involves coaching FLL Teams. :]

[linuxboy]

- You are going to miss some of a day of build to volunteer at an FLL competition.

[Andrew Lawrence]

When after your first kick-off, you can never think of the word 'first' the same way again.

When later on taking the PSAT writing portion, and the word 'first' is mentioned to mean like the number, you stop reading, and start writing about robotics, and still get a good grade!

[Michael Blake]

WHEN you schedule surgery, like I am doing, to remove a major organ around making sure it doesn't interfere with Kick-off/Game Announcement and the six-week build period...

[kendra21093]

WHEN you schedule surgery, like I am doing, to remove a major organ around making sure it doesn't interfere with Kick-off/Game Announcement and the six-week build period...

I had to do that last build, I had to get minor knee surgery, luckily it got rescheduled haha.

[Peyton Yeung]

When the power goes out during a team meeting and nobody really wants to go home.

When you still try to demo a robot in said power outage.

[216Robochick288]

... When you are up at 1:30 in the morning and wake up the house bouncing around seeing that you get 4 emails from your coach.

..... When you quickly text your friend about how your coach is "still alive" (he's a very busy man, Emails confirm his existance. We are also pretty sure the man never sleeps)

... When you feel horrible at the end of your least LL meeting realising it is the last time you can mentor....... As a highschooler...

... When your 6th graders try to convince you to go to the local engineering college so you can mentor until they are throuh HS

... When you plan to make a list of numbers- from # of glasses of pop drank by your team at resteraunts to the amount of time spent traveling and miles gone...

... When the reason for the list is because your coach mentioned in an email that appx. 5000 miles are going to be traveled, as well as going to 2 countries for competitions and throuh 15 states for all of your competitions this year

[nssheepster]

When you start ordering your contacts by robotics and not cool enough for robotics. :)

[Trent B]

When you watch someone struggle to cut thin wire with scissors and without even thinking about it pull out your multi-tool and hand it to them.

[Natalie C]

When you start ordering your contacts by robotics and not cool enough for robotics. :)

Or one labeled "robotics family":)

[avanboekel]

...when you think that every Bill's Blog post is a game hint!

[Thad House]

You see -2.17 in you bank account and you say aw crap and sweet at the same time...

[CalTran]

When you're a Boy Scout and you go to District Roundtable to get your Eagle Project approved, and you somehow manage to intrigue your reviewer when you mention Robotics in passing...and he asks you more questions about Robotics then your project! XD

[EricH]

When you're a Boy Scout and you go to District Roundtable to get your Eagle Project approved, and you somehow manage to intrigue your reviewer when you mention Robotics in passing...and he asks you more questions about Robotics then your project! XD
You mean you didn't manage to have your Eagle project involve robotics? Sorry, not overdosed yet.:p

[Andrew Lawrence]

When the Vice Principal comes in and asks the teacher why everyone is working on the assignment except one person (you), and the teacher says, "Oh, that's just Andrew. He's on the robotics team."

When this is the same for EVERY teacher. :D

[Walter Deitzler]

On boy scouts related

When you tell your troop that you won't be able to make a campout or you have to leave a meeting early, and they automatically assume you are going to robotics
When you ae able to convince your dad to become a robotics merit badge councilor
When you suggest to your troop that they come over to your robotics team to check out your robot, as an "eductational" experience for them, but mostly so that you get a few more minutes close to your robot
When you are supposed to be working on Merit Badges, but are on CD instead

[CNettles11]

You're overdosed on FIRST when you consider your FRC team as your family, and your family as a bunch of people you receive free room and board from.

[quinxorin]

...when you are having trouble deciding whether to go to a Saturday build day or the Debate State Championship.

[216Robochick288]

When every time you pass a house (or 23) while on your bus stop, you keep thinking about making a thread about how your life is "run by numbers", and no matter how you try to look at numbers, you just see team names.

When you have started associating your newer friends names with numbers.... It's easier to remember...

[Andrew Schreiber]

You're overdosed on FIRST when you consider your FRC team as your family, and your family as a bunch of people you receive free room and board from.

There is so much wrong with this statement.

[Dragon Princess]

When your Boyfriend is someone you met at a First event because he was a driver for another Robotics team and you were the driver for you team.

[Andrew Lawrence]

When the "offseason" time between May and December is still robotics time for you, but not your team.

[Andrew Lawrence]

When the "offseason" time between May and December is still robotics time for you, but not your team.

When there is no offseason! :D

[gyroscopeRaptor]

When there is no offseason! :D

Off... season? You aren't making any sense. Stop speaking gibberish.

[/sarcasm]

[hbhyatt]

When you have been told you need to set up a tent in the machine shop because you spend so much time there.

When you start verbally responding to the CD thread you are reading and the people around you see it as completely normal.

[GaryVoshol]

Off... season? You aren't making any sense. Stop speaking gibberish.


You can have off days - Christmas and Fourth of July (or Canada Day, as applicable). All other days are robot days.

[KarenH]

You can have off days - Christmas and Fourth of July (or Canada Day, as applicable). All other days are robot days.
Since when is Christmas not a robot day? What do you think people put on their wish lists?

[Andrew Lawrence]

...You dance the Cotton Eyed Joe in your room because it reminds you of the competition. (25 days to go!)

[linuxboy]

When your phone says your most contacted person is your robotics mentor, and the other people in most contacted list are team members, your family, however, just manages to squeak onto the end of the list.

[sithmonkey13]

This might have already been said:
When someone asks you a tech-related question, and your first/only response is "Check Chief Delphi, and if there isn't a post, make one."

[CalTran]

When you're reading Bill's Blog, and you look down at your clock, and you make an audible noise when you see that you 1. Are reading Bill's blog. 2. You're not reading a new post, but an old one to try and get a hint out of it. And 3. you notice that it's Thunderchicken time! (Mostly that bit about Thunderchicken time.)

You were also hanging out with a friend today and you say that it's Robowrangler time and they give you a blank stare.

[O'Sancheski]

When you see a friends status on facebook has been hacked. You then realize that no one has commented on it. So now you can report its as spam to the moderators. I have done this. Kinda embarrassing when no one has any idea why you commented with the word "reported" in the status.

[Dr Theta]

When you open this thread just to see the post number matching your team number.

[bibleboy932]

When you watch (BASKETBALL) ::safety:: :ahh: on T.V. you could swear you saw a green light on the backboard. lol


GOOD LUCK !!!!!!!! 2012 FRC

[kendra21093]

When there is no offseason! :D

What is offseason? what is this? =D

[Phoenix Spud]

When your 9 year old sister wants to wake up at 2AM to watch kick-off....

When you sneak back to your room at 5AM after kock-off said sister wakes up and won't go back to sleep till she hears about the game!

When everyone in your family does FIRST, from your 9 year old sister to your 80 year old grandmother!!!

[plnyyanks]

...your family's dinner conversation consists of figuring out some of the math behind vision tracking

[mathgeek0001]

When your team starts monitoring members' grades to make sure they don't fall below a 95...

[Whippet]

...You have entire dreams in LABVIEW code.

[Andrew Lawrence]

...You have entire dreams in LABVIEW code.

...you have had an entire dream of nonstop cotton eyed joe. I woke up and knew how to do it 3 days before the competition last year. :D

[Whippet]

-You carry a pair of safety glasses on you at all times... in everyday life. I actually did and am doing this... Right, Mr. Safety Goggles? ::safety::

[CalTran]

I actually did and am doing this... Right, Mr. Safety Goggles? ::safety::

When you actually have MULTIPLE safety glasses you carry around and are never more than an arms length away ::safety::

[Whippet]

... When you start having conflicts because your FLL, FTC, and FRC teams are all having meetings at the same time... AND you're team captain of FLL and FTC.

[Flimsor]

You're checking chief delphi, bill's blog, and the first website for the latest clue to next year's game every 5 minutes.

[CalTran]

Hold on there Filmsor, let's finish up THIS season first

[Flimsor]

I was just describing how everyone is later in the year when kickoff comes around.

[mathgeek0001]

...when your family gets into a big fight over robot designs and build schedules.

[ThirteenOfTwo]

You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you sit down on a city bus, look at the seat opposite you, and start thinking about which tools were used to machine each component part.

[kendra21093]

When haircuts at the workshop become a regular thing

[kendra21093]

When you have built a pyrimid made intirely out of mountin dew cans that covers an intire table.

We are now going to do this...no joke.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

[bibleboy932]

:D When your leaders wont let you clock in UNTIL the team's # eg. 9:32

[Herbblood]

:D When your leaders wont let you clock in UNTIL the team's # eg. 9:32

that would be a little hard... besides what time is 3044?

When you wake up and the first thing you think of is Autonomous better work::rtm:: :ahh:

[LemmingBot]

The most upsetting thing about your senior year is not because your leaving your friends and family for college, its because your leaving your team... *sob*

[bibleboy932]

that would be a little hard... besides what time is 3044?

6:44? We R on Jupiter time right?LOL
:D

[bibleboy932]

The most upsetting thing about your senior year is not because your leaving your friends and family for college, its because your leaving your team... *sob*

TRUE TRUE:( :( :(

[bibleboy932]

when u get ideas for a robot part by playing a video game & vice virsa

p.s. actually happened

[moogboy]

...when you start to not only talk to the robot, but you have a dictionary of pet names for him/her/it.

...when your tools talk back to you.

...when you start counting the number of robotics-related injuries you suffer daily as a measure of sacrifice for the robot.

[Samk]

when you are in a history lecture, and you see robot parts

[atester]

... you go home very late with little to no time to do homework everyday

[2348humanplayer]

You also know you're overdosed on FIRST when you can name every game name from 1992-2012

[Walter Deitzler]

You are learning about the Pantheon and, when you hear about the Oculus (the giant hole in the ceiling), you think, "THEY SWISS CHEESED THEIR BUILDING!!!"

[robokiller]

When your in humanities class and finally figure out the algorithm needed to convert the pixels of the backboard to distance in feet.
Then can't wait to try it out.

[drew.spillers]

When you get home at 11 close to midnight, and your parents ask, "why are you home so early"

[Marina118]

....you write your division and classification essay for English about good robot ideas, great robot ideas, and awesome robot ideas, and then your English teacher promptly asks you what is robotics?
.... your mentor says, we will let you guys stay another hour , and you say "only one why not 4"

[LemmingBot]

You wonder how socially acceptable it would be to name your child after your team

[Andrew Lawrence]

...when you think the above is acceptable (Only for MOE)

[dictionaria13]

... You've never gotten along better with your annoying little sister, because you never see her!

[Squillo]

... you caught yourself saying, "OK, now that none of my 3 active video feeds are actually showing a match, guess I have a minute to check CD."

And you're an adult lawyer with LOTS of other things you should be doing this weekend...

[Savvy578]

...you think of yourself as the mother of your robot.
...you nearly get suffocated in a 45-person group hug because we just found out our teacher mentor won't be on the team next year:(

[Gregor]

... You've never gotten along better with your annoying little sister, because you never see her!

So true!:p

[demosthenes2k8]

You mean you guys haven't corrupted your little sisters toward robotics yet? Shame on you!

...when you're driving back from college and one of your main thoughts is "I wonder how my team's doing?"

[1986titans]

When one of your fellow alumni asks to help out with scouting... from 1,200 miles away in Florida.

(and a scouting sheet was emailed to him)

[moonlight]

~ When you think you can NEVER be overdose on FIRST
~whenever you see the word "first" you feel like it should be in capitals... the right way to spell it ;)
~You carry safety glasses with you wherever you go... and you forget you still have them on
~You carry a small screwdriver in your makeup bag
~The best English essay you've written has been about FIRST
~When you realize the only reasons you are a leader is because of the love you have for your team and because of the great impact that FIRST has been in your life.
~Family dinner conversations are all about strategy
~when you agree that "Legos ARE a serious business"
~you say "robot" instead of excuse me x) lol
~all you want for your birthday is a 7/16 wrench and a set of hex keys
~you think about the Championship every time you listen to the black eyed peas
~when you just KNOW that there will never be another basketball game as cool as Rebound Rumble
~You have an "elevator speech" ready for whenever someone asks about FIRST
~whenever you talk about FIRST you feel like you'll never find the right words to express how amazing your experience and the program itself is.
~ You go to bed tired from doing robotics and wake up excited to do robotics.
~the only reason you wish there were more hours in a day was to finish wiring
~You won't miss your team after graduation, because you know you'll still be there next year and the year after and the year after... to support, to represent, to mentor, to be FIRST

[first1622]

You can never overdose on FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[USSMISSOURI]

Whenever you are in a McDonald's Bathroom and you think you hear "Robot!" out in the main restaurant.

[kws4000]

When, on the drive back from competition, over 2way radios you develop a new dialect of the FIRST Language, "8020-speak", derived heavily from 1337/chatroom speak.

When, on the way back from competition, you attempt to figure out why so many cars straffed into the ditches without any fancy mecanum drive system and independant wheel control.:eek:

[littlejimmy1058]

... when you're in traffic you lean out the window and yell "ROBOT!!!!! ROBOT!!!!!".

[LondonBoy29]

You see numbers like 148, 254 and 111 in daily life or in textbooks, and you think of the robotics team, FIRST (also when you can only write FIRST in caps).

[littlejimmy1058]

...when you spend most of your time looking at other teams facebook pages or on chief delphi.

[1986titans]

... when you fill up your car and it stops at exactly $19.86. I didn't top it off.

[dellagd]

When you put on safety glasses after a competition while walking around your house, just to try to trick yourself into thinking you're still at competition

[dictionaria13]

When your friends ask when you will have free time, you reply "May," and they just stare at you...

So very, very true. I'm so glad I at least have 5th period with my boyfriend, or else we'd never see each other.

... When you won't be in school a single Wednesday through Friday in April because of competitions (and the band trip).

[davidthefat]

When your time spent on CD rivals Reddit....

http://i.imgur.com/WTRwN.png

[Andrew Lawrence]

When all of your top 5 websites are Chief Delphi.

[Savvy578]

You know you've overdosed on FIRST® when you know (and OCD over) all the FIRSTlogo rules... Also you're driving home from a competition, your parents, they have the windows locked, and all you think over saying when you fail at trying to open it is "Programming!!! The turret rotation is broken!!!"

[Andrew Lawrence]

When you wear your safety glasses while watching regional webcasts to make it seem more realistic.

[J93Wagner]

When you go nuts because this thread is at 3000 posts (and soon to be over 3000)!