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LemmingBot
11-03-2012, 17:41
You have a dream that one of your old robots is now working as a high end chef, is married and has a family.
one guess to who he married, no prizes
Andrew Lawrence
11-03-2012, 17:43
You have a dream that one of your old robots is now working as a high end chef, is married and has a family.
one guess to who he married, no prizes
Which year is said robot from?
LemmingBot
11-03-2012, 18:04
2010
I guess he graduated cooking school quick, surprising, considering his stubby wheel arms
Brandon_L
11-03-2012, 18:21
When you assume that every trailer you see on the way to an event is holding a robot
popnbrown
11-03-2012, 18:40
You get goosebumps and really excited when your old team from 3 years ago, goes to a third match in the finals. ahhhhh, it sooo was excitingggggggg.
quinxorin
11-03-2012, 18:43
When making this (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=104249) is what you do in your spare time.
When you spend your spring break from college not on vacation in some warm sunny place, but back at your college cheering on your high school FRC team while they compete in their first regional of the season.
Also, when you're done with your last final of the term at college and your idea of celebrating is watching week one regional webcasts with fellow FIRST alum in your dorm building and discussing robot designs. :]
Savvy578
11-03-2012, 21:46
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you go for a strategy meeting at someone's house, after being at competition all day, and you calmly ask someone "Why am I still wearing my safety glasses?"
THE DYNAMO
11-03-2012, 21:58
When you ask to get a cnc mill for your team on your 16th birthday instead of a new car.
quinxorin
11-03-2012, 23:49
When you ask to get a cnc mill for your team on your 16th birthday instead of a new car.A CNC mill? FRC teams don't get nice things like that! You need our oldschool manual mill. Nice thing is, it's in imperial! None of that evil metric in our robotics shop!
Savvy578
12-03-2012, 03:48
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when cooperation now sounds weird to you because you've become so accustomed to hearing cooperitition.
LemmingBot
12-03-2012, 09:35
your robots end up on one of these
⇓
http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/z383/WillowRib/1327102967gametheory_35_expressions_meme_moementum .jpg
Any Mouse
12-03-2012, 22:39
When your bag must be re-run through security because the combination of buttons looks suspicious.
Yipyapper
13-03-2012, 01:18
When you see a combination of numbers that has the same combination as a FIRST team (i.e. you see 817 and your team number is 781 and you go "ohmygosh!")
When you check the time and it's 11:14 and you think of Simbotics.
When, apparently, someone forgot the spatula, so we were forced to grill burgers w/ a set of angle aluminum scraps and a pair of pliers. (No names!)
This is actually hearsay, since I was off at college for another hour yet.
When you didn't fill out a NCAA tournament bracket prediction for the FIRST time in 25 years
Jollymollylou
17-03-2012, 05:50
When you graduated two years ago, you're studying abroad in another country, and desperately calculating time differences so you can catch your team's matches at the regional, and subsequently late to your French class and not sure how to translate "coopertition."
Jollymollylou
17-03-2012, 05:53
2010
I guess he graduated cooking school quick, surprising, considering his stubby wheel arms
I still have FIRST related dreams quite often and I graduated two years ago...
When you find yourself saying multiple times at one regional "...never coding at 1am in the hotel again... ...never again..."
Andrew Lawrence
17-03-2012, 17:15
When directly after an earthquake, your first thought is "Is the robot ok?!" :eek:
When the rest of your team members thought the same thing, and you all meet each other at the exact same time at the build room.
*Please note, this was a year or two ago. It wasn't a big earthquake, and nothing/nobody was harmed.
Savvy578
17-03-2012, 20:05
You had an earthquake?!?!?!?!?!?
Andrew Lawrence
17-03-2012, 20:09
You had an earthquake?!?!?!?!?!?
About a year or two ago, but it was brought up by a team mate today. Don't worry, CA is fine.
Savvy578
17-03-2012, 20:10
Oh so you guys are near the San Andres fault?
When you graduated two years ago, you're studying abroad in another country, and desperately calculating time differences so you can catch your team's matches at the regional, and subsequently late to your French class and not sure how to translate "coopertition."
According to the translation at the Montreal Regional.... "Professionalism Cooperatif." :)
Andrew Lawrence
17-03-2012, 20:18
Oh so you guys are near the San Andres fault?
Somewhat. We're in San Jose, so if there's an earthquake in San Andres, then we usually feel it, though never too strong.
ZipTie3182
17-03-2012, 23:27
When you are looking at a product on Andymark to get dimensions to add to your CAD model and you are confused why the picture is not rotating when holding your scrollwheel and dragging. Then, you realize the internet does not rotate in 3D space like CAD...
When i smile every time its 10:56
When you tell your teachers a mouth ahead of time u will need to take your midterms early and they say that they already planned to wait for your return.
When your teachers and school principal all ordered team shirts
When your teachers had a "multi-day class field trip" to the competition just because It is the only way they could get away with not marking the entire class absent.
nitneylion452
18-03-2012, 03:17
When you are on ChiefDelphi at 3:16 in the morning rather than sleeping like a normal person.
Taylor1023
18-03-2012, 10:39
When you sleep on the practice field.
When you hear someone say the time you try to think of what team's number that is.
When driving home from a competition you think the lights on the back of a semi are a red alliance bumper.
When you ask your mom for Thunder Chicken nuggets.
When someone asks what you did during the weekend and the response is always robotics-related.
ElvisMom
18-03-2012, 10:54
You sort your family's laundry into white, dark, and robot.
Michelle692
19-03-2012, 19:25
You're a college student learning polka in social dance class, and the instructor puts on the Cotton Eye Joe, and you get really excited thinking about volunteering at competition next week.
You have dinner with a fellow overdosed FIRST college student and commiserate about the fact that you really want to be at the regional your old teams are at that weekend instead of studying for finals, and your friend (who has a car) says, "Let's go!" so you make the 2-hour drive up and surprise everyone (and then you proceed to volunteer!) :)
...you have to decide which team shirt to have on each day of each regional
...you have to use another room to hold all of your swag.
When you think about checking the current state of the March Madness basketball tournament, and your fingers instinctively start typing usfirst.org.
rcmolloy
24-03-2012, 02:26
When you sleep on the practice field.
Guys over here have a picture of me asleep on our fender and one parent won't let it go. I guess its a bit funny :rolleyes:
dictionaria13
26-03-2012, 18:10
I had to go to school on Thursday and Friday of the Seattle Regional because I'll only be in school eight days in April, so my 6th period teacher let me out of class two minutes early on Friday because I was distracting everyone by bouncing up and down.
...you wake up at night in a panic because you can't remember how many days of build season are left, and then realize it is April.
When you wake up at home and wonder what your doing there.
When you let a few people buy prom tickets before you so that you can buy tickets #0067 and #0068.
When, for the aforementioned prom, you ask your girlfriend, who happens to be in Robotics, at a regional, on the field, and she says that getting asked in that method is the absolute best way for anyone to ask her to Prom, ever. :)
Walter Deitzler
11-04-2012, 19:43
When you dress up as Dean Kamen for your school's "When I grow up" day.
When people don't ask why you missed something anymore, they know it has to be robotics related.
When you are missing two days of school to attend the World Championship, and your team isn't even attending.
Redstone
11-04-2012, 19:43
you miss prom your senior year in order to go to the FIRST Championship
That 281 Guy
11-04-2012, 21:27
When you realize that you parked your trailer in front of your team number!
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-kYqesEHYqVk/T4Yu6SpnoiI/AAAAAAAACRQ/T6nafE_GVcU/s519/trailer%28edit%29.JPG
I was watching the hunger games and during the part when the children get called to the reaping there's a whistle that blows to let people know its time to go. First thing i thought was "End game, head for the bridge!".
Redstone
12-04-2012, 19:24
im still waiting to be post number 4043 :P
Damiaen_Florian
12-04-2012, 19:55
When you can name address numbers based on team names
You have a dream of winning the Inspiration for Engineering award... the 3rd day of Build Season
When you forget how to shoot a regular basketball because the muscles in your hands only respond to FRC basketballs
When you have a dream of what division you're in for Championships
I was watching the hunger games and during the part when the children get called to the reaping there's a whistle that blows to let people know its time to go. First thing i thought was "End game, head for the bridge!".
Oh good, I'm not the only one who noticed we seem to use the same whistles...
Redstone
12-04-2012, 20:36
When you go crazy making your new trophy case look awesome :)
http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o516/RedstoneMarine/552956_3275305515557_1055014337_32660924_27122379_ n.jpg
badger3.14
12-04-2012, 21:25
You are baking some bread and it calls for some baking soda. So you go to the cupboard only to find a half used box of baking soda with instructions for a battery spill that another team gave you a few years ago at a regional.
you miss prom your senior year in order to go to the FIRST Championship
So go to RoboProm!
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102587&highlight=roboprom
JamesB3467
12-04-2012, 23:05
When you walk anywhere in public and think "He looks like someone from team XXXX" or, "I think I saw her at a regional one time...."
When you see a t-shirt with a company logo on it and instantly try to figure out what team it looks like.
When you label your physics notes "2826 motion" when studying waves.
When you wonder why people use facebook and not Chief Delphi.
When someone is bragging about an athlete's abilities and you say you've seen robots do it better.
patrickr41
13-04-2012, 11:50
when there is a snow day and you still go to school to work on the bot
when ever it snows you think its a granite state regional morning(to any teams that have been there in the past two years you know how it feels ::ouch:: )
216Robochick288
15-04-2012, 16:49
....when you get a message from someone who is CADing out the robot that says "Funny fact, a piece of lexsan that is one square yard and has one hole every half inch up and down has a total of about 4900 holes. So I guess thats why 3D CAD crashed every time I tried to draw it."
....when you also are discussing with the girlfriend of one of your classmates about how he really would love to go to prom with her, but he will be at a robotics competition, and that as a captain I would really like to have him with me...
....when you deny your own significant other a prom date, only to have him realise that you are both going to nationals anyway.
.... when you would rather miss your senior prom than miss nationals senior year.
JonathanZur1836
15-04-2012, 19:38
...when 5 minutes after you sit down to do homework you find yourself doing something robotics related
...when you relate the smallest, insignificant things somehow to some aspect of your team
...when you've eaten pizza for six weeks straight yet still manage to lose weight
...when you have inside jokes about inside jokes with people on the team
...when you find metal shaving in your clothes... a week after build season has ended
yeah, that's all I have 4 now, go teams!!!:D
DominickC
15-04-2012, 20:03
When you find yourself saying multiple times at one regional "...never coding at 1am in the hotel again... ...never again..."
This.
Jenn Feathers
16-04-2012, 10:53
...when you wake up your roommate one week after a regional screaming at her to not touch the basketballs during Hybrid in your sleep.
...when you experience robotics withdrawls.
When you talk to your leatherman about your work, then it talks back about your work, then you wake up and realize you fell asleep in the stands from exhaustion.
Jenn Feathers
16-04-2012, 12:00
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you can relate to the majority of these responses.
Jenn Feathers
16-04-2012, 12:05
~The best English essay you've written has been about FIRST
HEY! i just wrote a 3 page essay for English on FIRST :D and it was definiatly the best essay i've written yet!
JonathanZur1836
16-04-2012, 13:03
HEY! i just wrote a 3 page essay for English on FIRST :D and it was definiatly the best essay i've written yet!
Nice Job! FIRST related assignments usually turn out really well, its an exciting competition that has good values at heart, so whatever the assignment is, you can't go wrong.
Ducky280
16-04-2012, 13:46
When you realize you have no life after the robotics season because you have nothing to do
When you look for local off season competitions so the season doesn't techinically have to end for you
When you go on a rampage at competition when they play another song right in the middle of sandstorm
When you try to come back to mentor after graduation because you don't want your robotics experience to end yet
When you can look someone in the eye, say you spent over 700 hours building a robot as a "hobby" while attending school and they ask "that's it?" followed by them adding up the time they spend at work and realizing they don't even get close to that.
When someone says you are crazy for spending so much time on one thing and you can't think of a better complement someone could have given you.
When people don't have to ask why your not having a good day. They know it is because you just got reminded the season is over.
Taylor1023
16-04-2012, 17:59
Some more:
You get sick the day after the Michigan State Championship.
You have a dream about your robot.
You draw an incredibly detailed picture of your robot (my friend, who got every detail right down to the motor placement right).
You see three FTC robots on the FRC field trying to pick up balls and balance on the bridge and think it's the most adorable thing you've seen. Ever.
You start to think about what next year's game could be when this season's not over yet.
You start to think of possible offseason activities.
You tell your friends you got your shirt signed by Dean Kamen and freak out when they say they have no clue who he is.
You know exactly how many days, hours, and minutes until the Championship.
You see numbers (phone numbers, time, adresses, math problems) and all you can think about is what team that is.
You try to explain all the exciting things that happened at your most recent competition and your non-robotics friends just stare at you.
Jenn Feathers
16-04-2012, 19:22
...when you are helping out with your band's rummage sale and you accidently ask the band director from across the room if you should get the robot
...when you have Cotton Eye Joe on you iPod because it reminds you of competition.
...when your weekend attire is composed of your practice day shirt and your competition shirt.
...when you spent the entire day [even at school] reading every reply to this thread and the majority of them are true about you.
...when you start writing reports on FIRST.
When you're actually wondering where to learn the famed Cotton Eye Joe dance that you don't recall seeing...perhaps it's because I spend so much time in the pits...
*Edit: THIS IS MY LAS GUERRILLAS POST (Probably overdosed because this is making me more excited than it should)
Jenn Feathers
16-04-2012, 19:46
When you're actually wondering where to learn the famed Cotton Eye Joe dance that you don't recall seeing...perhaps it's because I spend so much time in the pits...
*Edit: THIS IS MY LAS GUERRILLAS POST (Probably overdosed because this is making me more excited than it should)
im on the drive team. i was never in the stands, yet i learned Cotton Eye Joe in the queue... while pushing the robot.
...when you find a way to dance to Cotton Eye Joe while pushing a robot to the field.
When you have to stop watching human basketball because you can't stop wondering where the other 6 hoops and 17 balls are.
Walter Deitzler
16-04-2012, 23:33
When you're actually wondering where to learn the famed Cotton Eye Joe dance that you don't recall seeing...perhaps it's because I spend so much time in the pits...
*Edit: THIS IS MY LAS GUERRILLAS POST (Probably overdosed because this is making me more excited than it should)
Here is Cotton Eyed Joe in Kansas, 2011. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTQmr3JMD6g
Enjoy!
Edit: Its not the whole thing, but it is FRC so...
Andrew Lawrence
16-04-2012, 23:36
When 3 hours after your last regional you're already designing next year's chassis. :D
When your offseason consists of mentoring FLL and Botball teams until your team starts meeting again.
When you are known around school be literally EVERYBODY as the robotics kid.
When, no matter whom you're talking to, or what the conversation is about, you always manage to bring up robotics.
When 3 hours after your last regional you're already designing next year's chassis. :D
Haha, I'm working on this too. I'm also working on some base code to work off of so that the programming isn't such a mess like it was this year. ::safety::
...when you wake up your roommate one week after a regional screaming at her to not touch the basketballs during Hybrid in your sleep.
This is probably only relevant if you know what it's like to have one of the volunteer jobs where you need to wear a radio, but I'm a Volunteer Coordinator, so I'm counting this, as a similar story...
After Boston Regional this year (where I am VC and therefore constantly being called on the radio), I was trying to sleep after a very long, exhausting, fun weekend. I was drifting off, when suddenly, I jolt up, holding my hand to the spot on my shirt where I'd had my radio call button pinned all weekend.
"GO FOR LIBBY".
Apparently I'd been hearing the radios go off in my dream....
Needless to say, all the other volunteers that were sharing my hotel were cracking up laughing. It was a good moment.
Superllama12
17-04-2012, 07:50
....you come back from a sports game with more grease stains than grass stains
Redstone
20-04-2012, 01:24
When your friends get annoyed and tell you to stop talking about robotics and you bring it up again 5 minutes later without realizing it.
Skinkworks
20-04-2012, 16:12
...you do FLL, FTC, and FRC in the same year.
...(for WindRiver users) you are writing a report for English and you're confused as to why pressing Ctrl-B-B doesn't do anything.
...a Jaguar is a small black box that controls motors, and anyone who thinks it's a big cat is wrong.
...(for former FLL people) you can draw out the field, by memory, of FLL games from several years ago.
...you wear your safety glasses more than your normal glasses.
...you hear a foghorn and sigh in agony of a re-do (unless you were losing the match).
...you cheer "Red Alliance!" at normal people sports games.
...you hear three bells and want to walk up to the driver's station.
...you're looking for something in your house, and you want to go to Pit Admin and make an announcement for it.
... you really want a pneumatic programming wrench.
.
...you cheer "Red Alliance!" at normal people sports games.
when u read that statement and think: "Of course I cheer 'red alliance' at normal people sport games, It's the only kind of game I attend". Then you realize the speaker didn't mean FIRST team members when they said normal people.
MishraArtificer
20-04-2012, 18:37
...when you finally figure out why you're snapping at most of the people you meet: I missed the Great Lakes Regi-(cough), uh, Michigan State Championships for the first time since 2005.
...a Jaguar is a small black box that controls motors, and anyone who thinks it's a big cat is wrong.
They're also wrong if they think it's a car.
karomata
21-04-2012, 17:32
... when the time is 1:48, 2:17, or 11:14 and you always happen to notice
Savvy578
22-04-2012, 09:48
Honestly, I do the same exact thing.
Jenn Feathers
22-04-2012, 19:29
... when you're crying because you just found out FIRST's and BPA's nationals are on the same 4 days(i found out literally right before BPA awards ceremony) and now that you took first place at states you have to go with BPA and compete in Chicago whether or not you're robotics team wins Buckeye next week and qualifies to go to St. Louis.(we lost at buckeye)
... when you plan to watch the 2012 FIRST Championships online all 4 days in Chicago because you are stuck going to a different national competition :)
216Robochick288
22-04-2012, 23:01
... when it is your senior year and you bounce around the house happily about going to St. Louis, then you stop dead in your tracks and start to cry. You send your coach a text asking if you can be held back a year so that you can be on the team again....
dictionaria13
24-04-2012, 20:10
...When you should be working on your senior project, which is a graduation requirement, but you're on Chief Delphi instead. (I'll work on it soon! I promise!)
Savvy578
25-04-2012, 11:35
@Jenn Feathers I think I remember you from Buckeye. You were on your team's drive team, right?
When your half way through competition season and your already researching for a team summer project. :)
Jenn Feathers
26-04-2012, 02:37
@Jenn Feathers I think I remember you from Buckeye. You were on your team's drive team, right?
Yeah im Inbounder
demosthenes2k8
26-04-2012, 17:15
When you hijack the use of your college dorm's projector for watching champs feeds.
Savvy578
26-04-2012, 20:15
When you skip out on lunch to watch the Championships.
Sean Raia
26-04-2012, 20:34
... You download "Macarena", "take me home tonight", and "centerfold" because they remind you of competition.
When you build a website that hosts all the regional and district competitions, including the Championship and over 18,000 people come to see it. lol
When, after weeks on end of doing this, you've come to figure out that between the hours of 1am and 6am, ChiefDelphi vastly slows down in terms of new posts and people online. Then, you contemplate as to why this is and simply come up dumbfounded.
When you see this topic on the front page, read about 10 posts down before you realize that it started in 2006 (!!!) and it still applies.
When you get home, the first thing you do is start researching the WPI Java library and drool in anticipation of switching to it from LabVIEW (and shudder at the prospect of persuading your fellow programmers)
When on the plane home from Nationals, you're already trying to figure out next year's game.
Walter Deitzler
06-05-2012, 20:40
When on the plane home from Nationals, you're already trying to figure out next year's game.
There's a thread for that!
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=106055
I know I am overdosed on FIRST because...
I missed a Senior Water Polo game to attend Karthik's Presentation, and I'm not even attending Champs!
I think anything would be better with a robot addition (movies, books, you name it!).
I watch the avengers and try to figure out how to make the iron man suit using nothing but a sheet metal/ laser cut sponsor and the KOP.
I eagerly anticipate the "New Cool" movie.
I plan my whole school year around robotics.
I eagerly anticipate next year's game more than anything else.
I don't know what to do with my summer, because there will not be enough robotics!
hiyou102
06-05-2012, 21:50
When asked to not talk about robotics for an hour; you find it impossible.
There's a thread for that!
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=106055
Lets make this the new "theres an app for that" :D
z_beeblebrox
07-05-2012, 00:21
When the majority of your awake, not at school time is spent building robots, thinking about robots, reading forums about robots, watching videos of robots, and wishing you could have more time to do the above activities...
Anupam Goli
07-05-2012, 00:51
When the majority of your awake, not at school time is spent building robots, thinking about robots, reading forums about robots, watching videos of robots, and wishing you could have more time to do the above activities...
Where's the like button??!?!?
You know you're OD'ed on FIRST when you start making plans to build new robots with various configurations and want to play each of them against eachother.
Andrew Lawrence
07-05-2012, 00:56
When you're planning out next year's kickoff.....now.
kendra21093
09-05-2012, 10:06
:yikes: When it is an accomplishment that your grades haven't slipped because of Build Season and Competiton Season. ::safety::
kendra21093
09-05-2012, 10:16
When your robotics team wins more awards in two weeks then your football team has in 10 years...1727!
Savvy578
09-05-2012, 11:40
When your coach gets mad at you for missing a meet so you can go see Dean Kamen. Honestly, it was soooo worth it.
LafondaOnFire
09-05-2012, 22:09
When you're hoping you can manipulate your first year university schedule so you can attend an off-season competition with your team in the fall.
When you notice that they stole the 'end game train sound effect' and distorted it in The Hunger Games movie.
When you see an inner tube and you can't help but want to throw said inner tube backwards and over your head - as far as you possibly can.
When your first option for procrastinating on homework is re-living matches from many competitions via YouTube.
When you have well over a dozen robotics-created inside jokes with your robotics friends that always find an opportunity to re-surface.
When you realize FIRST robotics has made you a stronger, more well-rounded individual throughout high school than any of your courses or other teams ever could have done.
All of which I am a victim of!
I am sure there are more symptoms of being overdosed on FIRST that I can realize I am a victim of as well.
But being a victim is a good thing in this case!
When listening to Darude - Sandstorm is the same sensation as listening to an alarm clock go off...
You create a blog dedicated to the people of FIRST in all their glorious uniqueness! :D
http://peopleoffirst.tumblr.com/
-When you are transporting percussion equipment through crowded hallways and yell out "ROBOT" by mistake
when you are better at making a robot play basketball then you actually playing basketball
LemmingBot
11-05-2012, 09:02
... You are taking two college classes in the summer, you tell your parents it's because you want to have an easier work load for your first year but it's actually because you want to help out the local FIRST team.
... you do the team cheer in you sleep.
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you look up at the clock and think of team numbers before noticing what time it is. (E.g.Team 1219 vs. 12:19PM)
When the majority of your awake, not at school time is spent building robots, thinking about robots, reading forums about robots, watching videos of robots, and wishing you could have more time to do the above activities...
When the majority of your awake, at school time is spent building robots, thinking about robots, reading forums about robots, watching videos of robots, and wishing you could have more time to do the above activities...
Andrew Lawrence
11-05-2012, 19:25
When you have a flashdrive dedicated to robot unveil and match videos.
When you carry said flash drive at all times.
when your band conductor says start at measure 111 and you say start at wildstang to yourself.
browny996
15-05-2012, 17:31
You know youve overdosed on FIRST when instead of saying "like a boss" you say "like a bot"!!!!:D
browny996
15-05-2012, 17:32
When you have a flashdrive dedicated to robot unveil and match videos.
When you carry said flash drive at all times.
Yup thats how we roll!!!
[nope] multiple entries back to back are frowned apon, if u don't know how to add a quote while writing a post then PM me. [/npoe]
When you realise that everyone else in your AP class failed a curved test because you got everything right and gave a FRC reference related to that question next to each question... and they didn't even know what half the questions meant.
moonlight
16-05-2012, 15:38
When your teammates make bets about shaving your team number in their head if you go undefeated at your regional. Way to stick to your word Evan!
Wen your Spirit leader shaves our team numbers 3574 in the back of his head before each regional and championships for 2 years in a row! ;)
ttldomination
16-05-2012, 15:41
when you are better at making a robot play basketball then you actually playing basketball
When your robot is better at Basketball than you are.
... You are taking two college classes in the summer, you tell your parents it's because you want to have an easier work load for your first year but it's actually because you want to help out the local FIRST team.
You're willing to take an 8 AM for the team.
- Sunny G.
moonlight
17-05-2012, 14:36
When you are considering volunteering for the FIRST Robothon from 8am-7pm and Prom is at 8pm that same day!! :ahh:
S.P.A.M.er
17-05-2012, 14:42
-You purposely leave your high school's state-bound varsity softball team(I straight quit) for FIRST.
and
-when you tell your boss that he/she should plan on you being gone for 5 days next year because of championship
-when you tell your boss that he/she should plan on you being gone for 5 days next year because of championship
When you don't have to tell them, they already know
When you and your boss plan on carpooling to FIRST events
ZipTie3182
18-05-2012, 20:29
When you are super excited to learn the mathematical explanation of the right hand rule in math after seeing it in a 3D vector explanation for mecanum wheels over the summer.
When you're highly anticipating all the ways AP Physics will help during build season.
When you make your ringtone Sandstorm because it reminds you of competition.
:yikes:
jdunston94
19-05-2012, 22:43
When you are super excited to learn the mathematical explanation of the right hand rule in math after seeing it in a 3D vector explanation for mecanum wheels over the summer.
When you're highly anticipating all the ways AP Physics will help during build season.
When you make your ringtone Sandstorm because it reminds you of competition.
:yikes:
there is not one, but three right hand rules... have fun!
When you turn on your computer and check chief delphi before facebook. And then after checking facebook, checking chief delphi again.
When you try to explain IRI to your non-robotics friends, and they just don't get it.
When you somehow you incorporate your robot into a french project.
When it is 12:30, and you're still on chief delphi, and don't understand why others think this is odd.
When your homepage on your phone, your profile picture on facebook, and your cover photo on facebook are all robotics related.
When being at home on a weekday evening seems strange.
When you reply to this thread.
Robogineer1649
21-05-2012, 00:26
When instead of doing homework you are procrastinating by learning the basics of Java Programming.
When every ten minutes you find something that is related to robotics.
When you argue with your fiend that robots can get a total of 6 points(autonomous 3 pointer) in a single shot compared to 3 if a human shoots it.
When you lose your championships bracelet and you are looking for it at 11:00.
When your brother gives you a nickname of Delphi.
ehochstein
25-05-2012, 12:26
Chiefdelphi shows up twice on Chrome's most visited page while Facebook only shows up once.
Walter Deitzler
25-05-2012, 14:09
Chiefdelphi shows up twice on Chrome's most visited page while Facebook only shows up once.
Only shows up once for me, but it is my homepage, and Google doesn't count those visits!
dictionaria13
26-05-2012, 13:23
... Your team number is the answer to everything.
Backstory: During build and competition seasons, I hadn't been able to attend Girl Scout meetings, but there was a meeting the Tuesday after Champs. We were working with another troop, and one of their leaders asked me what our troop number was. What did I respond? 3574, of course! (Which wasn't the right answer...)
When you manage to incorporate the phrase "reasonably astute observer" into a Shakespeare essay.
When returning to school after being sick for a day, 5/6 of your teachers ask how robotics went.
Andrew Lawrence
03-06-2012, 00:56
When you spent the remainder of the school year going to middle schools and looking for incoming freshman.
When you spend the remainder of High School going to other teams' middle schools and promoting first. (True Story)
When returning to school after being sick for a day, 5/6 of your teachers ask how robotics went.
WAIT! Since when do our teachers care about FIRST?!?!?!?!?
Littleboy
03-06-2012, 18:20
Only shows up once for me, but it is my homepage, and Google doesn't count those visits!
Chiefdelphi: once
TBA: once
usfirst.org: once
3/8 are FIRST related, not bad
Walter Deitzler
03-06-2012, 19:49
Chiefdelphi: once
TBA: once
usfirst.org: once
3/8 are FIRST related, not bad
My others include (not in order):
youtube*
TBA
USFIRST.org
The FIRST alliance (are we calling that TFA?)
XKCD (duh)
Memebase (another duh)
Chief Delphi
Facebook
*For robot reveals (seriously, all of my recommended videos are robot related)
5/8 robot related. :cool:
dictionaria13
04-06-2012, 03:15
... When you are insisting on celebrating your 18th birthday at robotics. There's nowhere else I'd rather be!
ttldomination
04-06-2012, 08:24
WAIT! Since when do our teachers care about FIRST?!?!?!?!?
Lol, you'd be surprised how enthusiastic a tennis coach/math teacher gets when you tell them that you beat the rival school in robotics.
Competition runs deep and strengthens even the smallest of bonds.
- Sunny G.
Lol, you'd be surprised how enthusiastic a tennis coach/math teacher gets when you tell them that you beat the rival school in robotics.
Competition runs deep and strengthens even the smallest of bonds.
- Sunny G.
The problem is that our team is us and the rival school! (Brandon and Holly for those of you around the area)
And most of my teachers refuse to endorse FRC as a legitimate sport anyway.
jlmcmchl
04-06-2012, 21:04
When one of your hours' room number is the same number as a FIRST Team you know of pretty well, and can't figure out why their number is on a paper asking you to go down to the counseling office for Dual Enrollment papers.
When one of your hours' room number is the same number as a FIRST Team you know of pretty well, and can't figure out why their number is on a paper asking you to go down to the counseling office for Dual Enrollment papers.
When four of your hours are in Rooms 228, 234, 148, and 224, and the counseling office (a room I wish I didn't have to visit so often*) is Room 111.
*It's not because of WildStang, it's because I can't sign up for two of my core classes without the counselors doing it.
...you start planning for next year's season the day after the current season is over
...you randomly start doodling FIRST logos in class
...you replay matches over and over and over in your head
...you start making lame FIRST puns: "Priorities come FIRST." HAHA. HA. Ha. Oh, you don't get it...
...you obsessively check the FIRST website for any signs of updates or hints
...you scour Chief Delphi and other forums for any news
When as soon as you finish your teams off-season event, you start thinking about planning your FLL event in November.
Skinkworks
18-06-2012, 10:44
you desperately try to take the post with your team number.
ttldomination
18-06-2012, 12:51
...you start planning for next year's season the day after the current season is over
You mean people don't start planning for next year's season before the current seasons's over?
Dang, been doing it wrong the whole time.
- Sunny G.
You mean people don't start planning for next year's season before the current seasons's over?
Dang, been doing it wrong the whole time.
- Sunny G.
Don't worry, I think he's been doing it wrong this whole time :D
JohnSchneider
18-06-2012, 16:36
you desperately try to take the post with your team number.
Nice GET!
...you look for post #2212 (for obvios reasons) and thrilled when you find it on page #148.
...you missed the chance to take post #2212 so you wait for the time when you can post on page #2212.
...people who comment on stuff with "first!!!111" make you smile instead of pissing you off.
*the mentioned numbers are mere recommendations
...you look for post #2212 (for obvios reasons) and thrilled when you find it on page #148.
...you missed the chance to take post #2212 so you wait for the time when you can post on page #2212.
...people who comment on stuff with "first!!!111" make you smile instead of pissing you off.
*the mentioned numbers are mere recommendations
#2212 is on 148? i see it on 22
and it's "FIRST" not "first". one is an organization we all love, the other is a synonym to 1.
#2212 is on 148? i see it on 22
With the default posts/page setting of 15, it's on 148. I checked that just now.
If, on the other hand, you have some huge number of posts per page, then it would logically be on some lower-numbered page.
and it's "FIRST" not "first". one is an organization we all love, the other is a synonym to 1.
That's the joke...
When you spend your entire first week of Summer Break planning for your second off-season Event.
When 7 out of the first 8 days of Summer Break are filled with Robotics Demos, Meetings, and Competitions.
When you plan on spending the entire second week of Summer Break helping at your team's Lego Camp.
When you get an Email about AP Comp homework and check you calendar to see if it is going to interfere with Robotics.
When you wonder how your going to fit mentoring 2 FTC teams, 3 AP classes, FRC, and OCCRA into one year of school.
Andrew Lawrence
22-06-2012, 21:29
....you can't go to a single FIRST event without someone saying "Hey, Look! It's SuperNerd!"
when walking through a crowded hallway after a competition and realize that there is a cargo cart right behind you you instinctively start to yell "ROBOT" and then right before you do you realize that you aren't at a competition and the cart isn't a robot.
quinxorin
07-08-2012, 16:17
When you're astounded (and dismayed) that this thread has been off the portal page for so long, and feel it is your sacred duty to put it back on.
z_beeblebrox
07-08-2012, 17:53
When you're glad that this thread is back...
theawesome1730
07-08-2012, 18:05
You look at the You know you've overdosed on FIRST when... thread and see you have read almost a hundred pages when you should be sleeping.
when u realise just about everything that could be said on this thread has been said and resaid
When your friends get in an argument over whether it is acceptable to ask if anyone has a video of someone pronouncing Karthik's last name.
... The Chief Delphi forum is on your most-visited website list... And it's the middle of August.
When your friends get in an argument over whether it is acceptable to ask if anyone has a video of someone pronouncing Karthik's last name.
That sounds like a backhanded way of asking how to pronounce Karthik's last name.
you realize that this thread was started when a good chunk of your mentors were sophomores and freshmen in high school, and when you were 9. CD makes me feel really young.
When you're actually sad that school's closed.
When you spend your summer vacation sleeping and designing.
When you know more people living abroad than people living in your town.
z_beeblebrox
09-08-2012, 23:38
When I'm hoping that sometime during my FRC career, I can get post #4183 on this thread
When I'm excited to have a few green dots next to my name on Chief Delphi.
Your windshield wipers are leaving streaks and you start having brainstorming sessions about how to build a robot that can wipe the windshield for you, instead of stopping by the store and picking up new blades.
quinxorin
10-08-2012, 10:25
Your windshield wipers are leaving streaks and you start having brainstorming sessions about how to build a robot that can wipe the windshield for you, instead of stopping by the store and picking up new blades.
Don't windshield wipers qualify as robotic?
When your friends get in an argument over whether it is acceptable to ask if anyone has a video of someone pronouncing Karthik's last name.
It's pronounced "Kanagasabapathy"
You're welcome.
When you set display clocks at the store to times reflecting local team numbers
Walter Deitzler
10-08-2012, 11:26
It's pronounced "Kanagasabapathy"
Oh, I never would have thought. :rolleyes:
When I am playing soccer and keep thinking that you could save so much work if you could rebuild 2010's robot.
When swimming in water polo (right at the end of build season) and cannot stop thinking about the robots that are going to be unveiled in the coming weeks. This causes you to miss instructions and have to do more swimming as punishment, so you get to think of the robots again... a glorious cycle. :D
dictionaria13
10-08-2012, 13:50
When you're still going to robotics meetings, even though you've graduated and thus aged out, because you can't think of anywhere you'd rather be on Monday and Thursday nights.
Gigakaiser
10-08-2012, 21:19
You have read the entire thread for the 4th time to make sure you haven't forgotten anything.
whattsheorder
10-08-2012, 22:11
you're on chief delphi in the middle of the summer..
Kageshini
10-08-2012, 22:27
When you stay up all night wake up in middle of the night and come up with a new design for your robot
Andrew Lawrence
10-08-2012, 23:13
When you stay up all night wake up in middle of the night and come up with a new design for your robot
When you do that several nights a week....during the summer.
Kageshini
11-08-2012, 02:01
When you do that several nights a week....during the summer.
Yes needed to add that
Walter Deitzler
12-08-2012, 11:20
When you feel that Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, and Kevin Durant of the 2012 Olympic team should be replaced with 341, 1717, and 2056's 2012 machines.
When you think that real basketball should have a bridge balancing element.
quinxorin
29-08-2012, 23:23
When the first two people you meet at the University of Michigan were in FIRST Robotics.
SuspectedApollo
17-09-2012, 20:54
You know where you have six pairs of safety glasses(1 in my marching band locker, 1 in my school locker, 1 in my bookbag, one in my mom's car, 1 in my dad's car, and 1 on my bedroom shelf) and still are disappointed over losing the seventh pair.
When you have a pair of safety glasses in each purse you own (all eight of them) and two in your car
When you spend so much time in the schools front office working on your teams marketing/business plan your schools director asks you if you live in the schools front office.
When your teachers asked you to write all the things you've done in the past for your team on a sheet of paper and normally people only wrote down two sentences and you wrote three pages listing everything you've done for the team
When you hoard all the good safety glasses(7 iat school, 5 in my backpack, 6 at home)
When you help a fellow FIRSTer writ his English paper about FIRST.
When SLFF becomes more important then Fantasy Football.
When you talk about robotics constantly on Facebook with members of other teams.
When a quote from those talks ends up in your CD signature.
Andrew Lawrence
17-09-2012, 21:48
When you help a fellow FIRSTer write his English paper about FIRST.
When you talk about robotics constantly on Facebook with members of other teams.
When a quote from those talks ends up in your CD signature.
When for some reason you get half of the FIRST online community asking to revise Koscielski's paper.
When your plan of talking to tons of FIRST people on FB to get other non FIRST people interested actually works (+6 new members).
When, once again, something you've said ended up in Joseph's signature (He takes that stuff seriously)
CLandrum3081
18-09-2012, 03:16
...when you brought a cake to the robotics meeting before your regional and it said "Happy Birthday" on it but you didn't care that it was your sweet sixteen - you just wanted an excuse to treat the team
...when you would rather spend time with your significant other working on the robot than going out on a date
...when you say a ten hour bus ride to St. Louis and back without working air conditioning or heat and being sick as a dog was "THE BEST TIME OF MY LIFE!!!!"
...when your friends outside of robotics have stopped talking to you because you can only talk about robotics and you really don't mind
...when you realize you never fit in anywhere until you joined the team
...when you realize you spend more time in the wood/metal shop than at your own home and talk to your teammates and mentors more than you talk to your own family
...when you think the team is going to kill you, but you realize it probably saved you
...when you eat junk food for half a year yet manage to lose four jean sizes
...when you replay every moment since you've joined the team and find yourself in tears
...when you realize that when you graduate, you won't cry because you'll miss your friends or your teachers - you'll cry because you'll miss being on the team
...when you stop calling the people on your team "friends" and start calling them "extended family"
...when you only go to school because there's robotics that day
...when you stop explaining "sportsmanship" to kids and call it "Coopertition" and "Gracious Professionalism" instead
...when you're convinced every moment from the time your team won that finals match at your regional has been a dream
...when you hate physical contact but you cry and hug your whole team when they win said regional
...when you realize the robotics has made you a worse student but a better person
There are so many more, but this is my initial list.
bibleboy932
23-09-2012, 21:15
-When you cry, not that you didn't get to Quarter Finals, but that the Season's over.
... you cry not because You graduate from HS but because you are leaving your family(team) :Cry:
P.S. I Love you and miss you guys (Go T.E.A.M) 932
dictionaria13
23-09-2012, 21:25
... you cry not because You graduate from HS but because you are leaving your family(team) :Cry:
Ditto.
bibleboy932
23-09-2012, 21:27
... You cant be friends with someone because they like battle-bots.
P.S if you like this I dont mean to make you angry:D
Jenn Feathers
24-09-2012, 19:01
... when you start setting things to your team number such as setting all of the digital read-outs for the mills and lathes to 0.2252
Phoenix Spud
24-09-2012, 22:39
When reading books, you remember your page number based on which team number it is similar to.... (ie, Gael Force + 1 = page 127)
MARS_James
28-09-2012, 12:55
Chiefdelphi passes Facebook, Youtube, Memebase, and your college website as most visited
when you can look at the posts and tell who has read the whole thing before posting to ensure they aren't repeating....nobody
Kevin Selavko
28-09-2012, 18:48
When your reading Chiefdelphi and dont notice the fire in your kitchen...
When you just realized 5 hours ago that your elementary school room was room 111.
When you open of CD and you see your very own quote up top, and can't decide if it's a really awesome or "Well...this is awkward..." moment
... You cant be friends with someone because they like battle-bots.
P.S if you like this I dont mean to make you angry:D
When you say you're on a robotics team and you're friend assumes the robots fight...
When, even though you are way too sick for school, you give your mom a confused-you-already-know-the-answer look when she asks if you feel good enough to go to robotics.
browny996
17-10-2012, 23:28
You know your overdosed on robotics when you start dancing like one.
http://youtu.be/3uWTYqT6FA4
You know you overdosed on FIRST robotics when Amazon.com produces a recommended list of holiday gifts for you to buy for friends, and the top items are Anderson power pole connectors, bearings, wire strippers, and assorted fasteners. You have really overdosed if you think those are really good recommendations and order some of them gift wrapped.
jwallace15
16-11-2012, 12:09
You know your team members are overdosed in FIRST when they yell at you for not knowing FRC teams 1-200.
rachelholladay
17-11-2012, 14:00
When I was little (middle school age) we hadn't started founding FLL teams yet so I simply worked as an assistant to my older sister on the FRC team. One time I had a truly awful day at school and came home crying. My mother's response? "Do you want to go to the build session tonight? I will make you feel better.."
And it did. It always does.
You know you have FIRST Kickoff fever when you know when Kickoff is but not Christmas.
jeremy callahan
18-11-2012, 21:35
... When you know the release to the 2013 game to the second and at any point in time i can tell you how many months and days are left to first 2013 broadcast but you cant remember when christmas is
...you don't care about grammer or spelling but know the exact spelling of everything robotics related, down to the spelling of the name of some random guy in the credits of the launch vid.
Eagleeyedan
21-11-2012, 13:20
when you try to find some way to relate the game hints to a water game :rolleyes:
When your user auto-logins to CD in about 20 computers, 15 of which at school.
When you're bummed about the fact none of your classes this year are in rooms 1, 4, 7, 11, 16, or 25 (be noted that our school has only rooms 1-36, and many of them don't actually exist).
When you consider graduating from your team WAY more important than graduating from school.
When you seriously try to design a car with tank-drive (an ACTUAL car) and a ship (or boat, I'm not picky) made of stone.
When you know your computer has exactly 150,338 files.
When you can fall in love with a design.
Leeebowitz
05-12-2012, 11:08
...you reach in your pocket for your keys and come up with an allen wrench and realize you have been taking it with you everywhere "just in case"
Damiaen_Florian
06-12-2012, 23:11
- When in a math problem you're told to make a rectangle with random dimensions, and you choose 27x54
- When you open the new kit of parts and it's more exciting than opening presents on Christmas
- When you eat Subway and suddenly think you're at a robotics competition again (Getting subway for lunch is sort of a tradition for me and a few members of my team)
- You can look at any part of the robot and remember all the manufacturing, design prints, and laughs that were had during the time of building and assembling it
When you type "c" into your Chrome navigation bar and Chief Delphi is automatically filled in.
(Actually...this might be quite common).
when someone's glasses break, you ask what screwdriver head and size they need while showing them a complete computer repair kit you just pulled from your backpack just from being used to using it on the wires at robotics.
pmangels17
10-12-2012, 21:46
When you confuse your AP Physics teacher and an IB physics teacher on your overly complex gearbox/torque/energy loss gearing question, which you yourself cannot seem to figure out. (Happened today)
When you want to list FRC as your job so you can drive there with a Junior's License (NY Rules)
When you put your house wifi together blindfolded because you've done it so many times at robot demos
Your most posted facebook links are from Andymark and Vex on your friends' walls, some of whom are on other teams
When you do wattage calculations on your Christmas lights
When you know how to strip wires with both lineman's and needlenose pliers, because the wire strippers were never in the drawer
Nomadic Mentor
11-12-2012, 01:16
When you've read ever single post on this thread multiple times and start memorizing what and how many times certain things have been posted. :o
When you've read ever single post on this thread multiple times and start memorizing what and how many times certain things have been posted. :o
^ This was posted around 10 times I reckon...
robowrestler
11-12-2012, 20:03
when chief delphi is the number one visited site on your computer and its not even build season yet
Zuelu562
11-12-2012, 23:20
When instead of working on the draft of the college research paper due in 9 hours, you stare at code and documentation with music blasting in your headset trying to figure out how mechanum drive works in C++ (needless to say it's not working out too well)
lil'est lavery
11-12-2012, 23:52
When you're not allowed in certain rooms of your house because that's where the game animation is being made.
When you're not allowed in certain rooms of your house because that's where the game animation is being made.
:P
When it is almost 3:00 in the morning and you can't sleep, so you spend hours reading old posts.
Also when you realize you can remember back to when this thread started almost 6 years ago now, and think about what you wanted to post back then.
SarahBeth
15-12-2012, 16:42
I got up for work this morning at 7 and said out loud "I can't believe I'm up this early on a Saturday morning for something that's not Robotics related"
Zuelu562
15-12-2012, 17:22
... you're annoyed that you'll probably not be "all there" for kickoff because you have oral surgery scheduled 2 days before :(
[QUOTE=Maxpower57;801761]You definitely know you've overdosed on first when you wash the aluminum shavings off your hands AFTER you eat dinner.
... and the machining oil, and chain grease, and melted plastic smell. ;)
klmx30302
16-12-2012, 14:06
... when you realize you have so many robotics shirts that you could wear a different one every day for a month and still have a few left! :ahh:
... when you've had a countdown on your laptop to kickoff since the beginning of november and your phones home screen has a countdown to kickoff and ship day on it.
DarrinMunter
21-12-2012, 16:31
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you use zip ties in wrapping your wife's xmas present.
Disclaimer: She did use up all the ribbon when she did the kid's presents.
When you're not allowed in certain rooms of your house because that's where the game animation is being made.
When you're first thought in response to the awesomeness of this is IT'S OVER! (http://youtu.be/eZjSE3zM9h0?t=2m13s) and your second thought is "that video is so repeatedly entertaining, I really wish I knew who that game announcer was..." and then you watch it again.
CLandrum3081
21-12-2012, 22:58
...when you get to theater rehearsal from robotics and wonder why everyone is staring, only to realize halfway through that you had your personally decorated safety glasses still on. ::safety::
...when you almost cry about missing an FLL tournament for surgery on your foot. :(
...when you bounce up and down from class to class the day the GDC releases a game hint. :D
...when you explain to each teacher what that game hint is, and just laugh awkwardly when they look puzzled at your excitement over a bunch of numbers.
...when you imagine lyrics to "Robotics Style", a clever parody of "Gangnam Style", in your head.
...when you hug your robot before it has to be parted out and tell it you'll miss it very much. :(
...when you KNOW you'll spend all of winter break obsessing over the game hint. :)
runneals
23-12-2012, 01:56
When you buy safety glasses as a Christmas gift for yourself because they're comfortable :D
Austin2046
23-12-2012, 02:19
when you listen to rick astley and seal songs over and over for hours while trying to decipher game hints...
When youre practicing for Build Season over your christmas break by coming up with ideas and making cad models of robots from past games.
Oh, Im so obsessed...
jwallace15
23-12-2012, 14:21
When you just realized 5 hours ago that your elementary school room was room 111.
Mine was 33.
z_beeblebrox
07-01-2013, 23:10
When I chose locker 1114 not because it's easy to get to, but because it's LOCKER 1114!!!
My mother, God bless her, has become the FIRST momma.
It used to be that at family gatherings there was a nice pattern. Everyone would be talking and stuff and then *all turn* "So Bubba, what are you up to these days?" I would answer, giving a nice little Sparknotes version of whatever was happening with me. But alas, NO MORE!
Instead, it's:
Family: "So Bubba, what are you up to these days?"
Me: "Well, I'm on the robotics team-"
My mom: *launches into a detailed explanation of Rebound Rumble*
Me: "Yep, what she said." :D
One of us OD'd...I'm still not sure which.
Lydia Yeckley
10-01-2013, 16:22
...When your Physics teacher comes to YOU
...When you hear a song on the radio during the offseason and make a bet with yourself that you'll hear it a good 20 times at a regional.
Peragore
10-01-2013, 18:22
When you stay up all night making five different versions of your code.
When you get giddy over the idea of setting up programming environments.
When all you talk about, to the point of your friends avoiding you, is FIRST.
When you post in threads about OD'ing on FIRST :D
When you rewrite your Drive code about fifteen times because it isn't pretty enough....
Edit: One more: When you read the javadoc in your free time...
...when you begin planning next year's build season schedule less than a week after Bag-n-tag.
...when you spend more time looking at how Disney built their rides than actually enjoying riding them.
...when you instinctively look for the robot whenever you see a frisbee.
When by the end of practice day, there is no visible clothing left on our body that is not occupied by a button, pin, or other assorted things that the other teams teams hand out... And you're still waiting for Saturday so more teams can finish making their buttons so you can get more.
dictionaria13
09-03-2013, 20:36
When you have to stay home from a regional because you have homework (and you're a non-essential mentor, but that's beside the point), so you spend the entire weekend glued to the livestream to make up for it. (The homework can be done tomorrow!)
Fisher2486
09-03-2013, 21:01
When you are in your lab with the projector on San Diego, your desktop on 3 multi-streams and your laptop in your lap as you scout the entire competition for worlds on week 2.
blueghoul
09-03-2013, 21:03
When you are thinking of CAD models for both a 27x37 chassis from previous years games and a 33x23 chassis in case FIRST decides to keep the frame perimeter rules.
marcusb258
10-03-2013, 11:48
...When you're browsing Chief Delphi because your team didn't make it past Regionals but you don't want your first season of FRC to end. :(
...When you're considering building a scouting app in the next five days so you can adapt it for next year.
...When you're on CD instead of doing all of the homework you missed
When think about robotics so much you forget to find a date to prom.:ahh:
When you start carrying parts with you at all times just to play with.
...when you consider changing the code to allow driving with WASD keys and the mouse simply because you can
...when you wear safety glasses everywhere because they are more comfortable that way
...when you can identify students on your team from 100 feet away through a crowd of people
...when you have a day off and think to yourself "WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH MY LIFE NOW?"
...when you ask for a whiteboard in your room so you can design the robot or parts of it
...when you've changed your desktop background and skype photo to your team logo
Walter Deitzler
29-03-2013, 15:03
-When you liked the Poof's facebook page before they offered to release a 30pt climber.
-When you drink your last bottle of the best root-beer ever (Fitz, a St. Louis local root-beer) while watching regionals online.
...when you ask for a whiteboard in your room so you can design the robot or parts of it
...when you've changed your desktop background and skype photo to your team logo
(Quoted because I have done both exactly)
...When two days off from robotics is unbearable
...When programming your scouting system at home is a consolation for robotics
kristinweiss
29-03-2013, 20:45
...when you remember you are on the varsity tennis team at your school and have not picked up a racket in 8 weeks (aka since kickoff)
...when you cannot remember the last free Saturday you had
...when you realize you have been wearing robotics t-shirts every day since the competition to help cope with the fact that your team is not moving on
nicolejoie
29-03-2013, 21:41
....when there is a break in any conversation and you have to fill it by talking about anything robotics related
....when you'd rather be at a robotics competition than off on spring break
....when you go back to school after a robotics competition and wish everyone was as nice there as people are at competitions
^in other words....when you wish real life was as awesome as robotics :)
Kevin Selavko
29-03-2013, 22:58
....when you'd rather be at a robotics competition than off on spring break
When you miss spring break for a robotics competition :)
...when your commitment to robotics is so strong your mom gets hooked too and she tells EVERYONE about robotics before you get the chance to
...when Sunday after a competition makes you sad because it's not FIRST.
...when you feel like it's totally necessary to pray that the world be more FIRST-like
Zuelu562
30-03-2013, 19:21
... everyone in my classes asks me "How did your competition go?"
... your thinking time (aka Showers) is filled with designing things
... you've already planned out half of your summer to do offseason projects!
mcarobotics
31-03-2013, 00:53
...you don't know what to do with yourself now that build season is over
...you see random numbers and think of the FRC team
...the pits become like a second home
...you have a massive collection of team pins and robotics t-shirts.
...you have danced the macarena and the YMCA with 40,000 people.
...you are sobbing at the end of the competition, not because you lost, but because it's over.
...when its all over and your already thinking aboout off season projects
...when competitions are done you realise you havent talked to your friends outside of robotics in a month
...when its over you realise you can think and speak clearly again
...when you use a 7/16 wrench and 5/32 allen key more than a pencil in school
...when standing at a mill or lathe for hours on end is normal... super overdose on that 1 :ahh:
... when you are only at home to sleep for 4 hours
...when you sprain your ankle at competition then insist on staying for alliance selections before going to the ER ::ouch::
When you wish after-prom wasn't taking up the gym your FRC team uses for all it's practice.
RobotGeek
07-04-2013, 22:00
When you get in trouble for looking like you're texting in class while you're actually streaming Colorado reigonals
MrJohnston
07-04-2013, 22:10
.... you hear an announcement on sports radio for the "biggest sporting event of the year" and immediately think "Wow, FIRST really is growing!"
... you start posting daily on Cheif Delphi.
annabananapi
07-04-2013, 22:23
you walk into the LazerTag arena and dig through all of your pockets in a desperate attempt to find your safety glasses...
When it isnt losing, but the season ending, that worries you.
kristinweiss
09-04-2013, 20:33
... when you realize your speed dial list consists of your family and your robotics mentors
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