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

[w1n5t0n]

When you forget about that Mohawk you had until you try to lay down and sleep

[sarahg2543]

When your job isn't to make sure people are wearing safety glasses, it's to make sure they take them off when they leave.
LOL I don't even remember how many times I have left the Robotics room while wearing safety glasses:rolleyes:

[sarahg2543]

...When you think of Team 118 EVERY time you hear the song Can't Hold Us (feat. Ray Dalton)

...When you feel absolutely sure there is something in top of your head(safety glasses) even though you are outside of the robotics room

...When you sing the spirit chants of other teams in school

...When you go to CD before checking your school grades

...When you subscribe to this thread to see any more replies;)

[jcarr]

(For the FTC teams) When your fellow coach (and wife) asks "Did you pick up munchkins or rings at Dunkin Donuts?"

[moogboy]

When you're in public and you see someone wearing a shirt that's somewhat the color of a team's shirt and you think "HEY! I wonder if they're from team XXXX?"

When you go to a MakerSpace and bust out the side shields like it's nothing at all (which it is to you) to the confusion of everyone else.

[GeorgeM]

You see the Hunger Games, and when you hear "The Game Design Committee", you think of FIRST.

FIRST is our Hunger Games. May the odds be ever in your favor.

[Calvin Hartley]

When one of my several FIRST related dreams is of me getting to drive 254's robot, then the first thing I realize upon waking up is that the robot was not at all like what it actually is.

[Bonekiller407]

- When you think of the people on your team as your second family.

- When you spend more time at school than at home.

- Your on CD during the middle of Graphic Design while trying to do a comic strip.

- When said comic strip involves robots.

- When your favorite and/or most dreaded time of the year is kick-off.

- When "Call Me Maybe" comes on and you sing "Pick Me Maybe" instead.

[chiefsfan67]

When the answer to a physics question is 3,528 and you tell your teacher UpNext Newtons, and he knows what you mean because he's your mentor!!!

[C. De Vries]

...when you're up until 2 in morning the day before your regional finishing the CAD work and BOM for your robot. and you have to leave at 4 for said regional.

and for me personally:

You know you've overdosed on CAD when: you single-handedly did all the CAD/BOM work for your robot (no regrets about that, but it took forever) and you still want to make a motion study video of your robot assembling itself.

[hiyou102]

When you like the song "Can't Hold Us" only because 118 used it in their unveil video.

[Pratik Kunapuli]

...when you spend your lunch/free period in school watching the beautiful MSC webcast.

[CENTURION]

When you saw the video for PSY's new song Gentleman, and your first thought was: I'm going to have to learn this dance before Championships.

[RohitD]

WHen someone swears in school, and you instinctively call G18 on them.

[S.P.A.M.er]

you wake up and look at the countdown to Champs on your phone.

or
your college digital photography professor makes you bring in all of your shirts and spirit items for a photo shoot, and you get so into it you lose your voice.

or

you ask your team whether it would be "socially" acceptable if you date someone on a rival FRC team. ( I <3 My 1523 lover)

[brrian27]

When you're at school till almost 9 making crates to ship off your robot right before Championships...

[S.P.A.M.er]

To correct my last post, The last item is an inside joke between me and one of the guys on the team mentioned. Sorry to those that may have been offended by my post, no "fouls" intended.

[Skinkworks]

...when you automatically say "Flying Disc" instead of "Frisbee".

[dubiousSwain]

...you and your friends are playing frisbee and you think, "i built a robot that can do this 10x better than you can"

[Zuelu562]

... When you're called in to fix an issue with the robot and are sad you can only stay for an hour or two :(

[deshnik]

You come home during build season at 10pm to study for an exam the next day and your parents say "you're home early". Or you come home one day during build season and your parents say "oh your home"

The first one happened to me. The seacond one happened to another team member.

Or when your nonrobotics friends ask you if you even know what school is anymore.

[ErikEdhlund]

When you wake up at 4am just to be the first ones in line for seats at champs.

[deshnik]

when you haven't been up the st louis arch when you have been to champs 3year's in a row. when you do go to the arch you start to sing started from the bottom now we're here when you get to the top.

[LemmingBot]

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

your college graduation gift is a trip to nationals (I may miss my graduation ceremony, not that I'll be too torn up over that)

You have FIRST Sims.

Buying you a birthday gift is easy, just find something with a robot on it and/or in your team colors.

[Iaquinto.Joe]

When the season is over and your life has become stalking chief delphi.

[CENTURION]

When the season is over and your life has become stalking chief delphi.

Quoted for truth. I can't seem to tear myself away.

[Victor4400]

...when you say to everyone to wear safety glasses

[Mike Marandola]

...when you say to everyone to wear safety glasses

Well we always say that safety doesn't take a holiday:)

[c_hartman_00]

When most numbers you see trigger a name in your head.

[LucasM]

The only thing you can think about is, "Is the scouting system working?"

When most numbers you see trigger a name in your head.
Seconded.

[RufusBarbarossa]

... One does not simply
http://i.imgflip.com/1bij.jpg
overdose on FIRST

[jwallace15]

When most numbers you see trigger a name in your head.

Seconded.

Thirded.

[FrankJ]

Continue to check the Q&A even though you know it is closed so there can be no new questions.

[Denise Bohnsack]

You start thinking about getting your dog a FIRST bandanna to wear and wondering how you could get them involved. Then start thinking about the possibility of bringing her to World. She could meet Libby's dog Cooper if there was a FIRST dog venue. This year the dogs could have caught robot thrown frisbees!

[CLandrum3081]

...your favorite dreams involve thousands of beautiful robots

...and your nightmares involve battle bots (not the beautiful robot! Nooooo!)

[josmee443]

When you're already excited for the next season!

[Pault]

When at your first regional you lose your voice after every one of your matches, only to slowly regain it in time for the next one.

When you are waiting patiently for that driving ban due to a blizzard to be lifted so you can get to robotics.

When you have to go into school so that you can take a bus to a competition, and you arrive significantly earlier than anybody else. Including the mentor. Twice.

When your mother thinks your crazy because you just finished an intense build season, the next day you are almost completely incapacitated from exhaustion and a desperate need to relax, and your still staying up late because you volunteered to write an essay for the Woodie Flowers Award.

When you believe that said Woodie Flowers Award essay is the best thing that you have ever written.

[Jacob Bendicksen]

When you go to see Iron Man 3, and your first thought when the 20+ suits show up is "Wow, software didn't screw up this time."

[orangemoore]

When you got to Iron Man 3 and think coolest game ever.

[machman-2823]

...When you use ";"s instead of "."s;
darn Java;

[Zuelu562]

Instead of fancy electronics, the newest game system or any other thing, you ask for tools as presents.

[orangemoore]

When you wear safety glasses while play sports

[Anthony Galea]

When you see the price of a blizzard at Dairy Queen ($4.69), and think of robotics.

[Pratik Kunapuli]

When Chief Delphi is more of a distraction when studying for finals than Facebook

[who716]

When Chief Delphi is more of a distraction when studying for finals than Facebook

whenever you have contact with the internet chiefdelphi is the first website up.

[ekapalka]

whenever you have contact with the internet chiefdelphi is the first website up.
Ha! it's my homepage...

[Walter Deitzler]

When you finish your term paper for APUSH, just to be reminded over facebook, by someone not even on your team, that you have robots to build... during the off-season...

[Gregor]

When you finish your term paper for APUSH, just to be reminded over facebook, by someone not even on your team, that you have robots to build... during the off-season...

:cool:

[Johnnybukkel]

When you go to take off your prescription glasses wondering why you are wearing your safety glasses in public...

[jwallace15]

When you come home with robot parts in your pockets. I came home with 5 spacers and an axel, as well as a battery connector and a servo!

Not to mention PWM cables, PWM connectors, a bracket, pneumatic fittings and tubing, etc, etc...

[GBM2013]

....when you call your favorite mentor--who's now in Canada till next Build Season--crying to her about how you can't find all the drill bits....
....when that same mentor tells you that those drill bits are in the Guidance Departments minifridge....
....when the day you come back from Regionals, you're supposed to be in religion, but you're teacher (who's also a mentor) needs her speakers from the workshop so you sprint down there, and slam into the work bench from the excitement of being around tools again...
....when you speak in code to the programmers in the off season....
....during your computer apps class you have 10 windows up, 3 involving CD, 4 involving CAD, 1 involving youtube videos of BattleCry, and the last 2 involving team scouting....
....the fact that my teachers allow me to sleep in class during build season, ask to be excused to go share a design with my teachers that are also mentors, and to use the SmartBoard during class to draw up a quick CAD design to email to everyone on the team before that days meeting....

[machman-2823]

...When your emails are almost only from FIRST related things, you team, and
your girlfriend.
...When your Girlfriend thinks you look better in jeans and t shirt with chain
grease on it, than a suit and tie.
...When you Girlfriend considers a Regional as a date!
...When you give your Girlfriend a piece of the old robot as a necklace for her
birthday, and she actually wears it because she likes it.

Am I lucky to have a Girlfriend like this? Oh god yes!

[Wren Hensgen]

When you realize that you have spent the last hour watching your 3:07 season wrap-up video (http://www.techfire225.com/1/post/2013/06/techfire-2013-season-highlight-video.html#comments) over and over again.

[Mrcope9]

When you spend the last week of build season eating nothing but Doritos and Mountain Dew.

[Caleb Sykes]

When you check Blue Alliance for your team's match videos which are never there...and then you check again five minutes later hoping that they have magically appeared.

When you can't stop thinking about ways to improve the robot, even though there are no competitions left.

[gabrielau23]

When you continuously refresh the page on ESPN so that the "comments" counter will show your team number.
http://s14.postimg.org/g1o4849ld/2537_ESPN.png

[Kims Robot]

...you can't stop typing "FIRST" every time you want to type "first".

[Whippet]

When you feel like it is your sacred duty to revive this thread.

[Christopher149]

If you're not mentoring FRC, you're mentoring FLL
You're getting excited about the 2015 control system even now
You're on ChiefDelphi enough over summer (into fall) to quickly reply after the sacred-duty-reviver-poster

[Aaron.Graeve]

You are on Chief Delphi every day even though you are not on your team anymore.

[Nemo]

You upgrade to a smart phone and the only new capability you really care about is FRC Spyder.

[E Dawg]

You check Chief Delphi before school every day even though you know that pre-build season there probably won't be anything useful.

[brandon.cottrell]

When you watch videos of regionals that your team has never been to and never will attend.

[echin]

When you think about CAD and FIRST throughout the entire school day, and the first thing you do when you get home is design a new drive train and CAD for 3 hours.

[VexisDarksteele]

...You get unreasonably excited by the sudden realization that Kickoff is less than a month away, even if you're no longer actively with your team (AKA: a college student that's 400 miles away from your hometown/high school team). :p

[Vikingtech2054]

... When you go to college and start an FTC and an FRC team with other FIRST alumni...

[geomapguy]

-When you're constantly searching for potential sponsors
-AndyMark is always open on your browser
-You're on CD 24/7

[billbo911]

When just the announcement of new products from suppliers like AndyMark (http://www.andymark.com/), VexPro (http://www.vexrobotics.com/vexpro/) and WCP (http://www.wcproducts.net/) makes you start designing new systems for the coming season, even when the coming season hasn't even been announced yet.

[mhos1997]

When teachers just think you are living in the school.

When you store a two month supply of food for the build season in your locker.

When you come home at ten from working on the robot and instead of starting your homework your on Chief Delphi

When your in pre-season and you are just waiting for a game hint, but mostly Kickoff to come already.

[Abhishek R]

When you forget about that Mohawk you had until you try to lay down and sleep

When you have to sleep backwards on the bed so your hair hangs off the end and doesn't get messed up.

[Jacob Bendicksen]

When you unpack from moving, your first thought is "I have to find my safety glasses!"

[LunatickLauren]

when you don't remember the last time you left the lab before 10pm
when you call the lab your home
when you refer to your adviser as dad
when you know more about your robotics family then your real family
when you are willing to sleep on a table to take a nap, just so you don't have to leave the lab
when you sleep in the back of a truck at 4am just so you can back in the school when it opens at 6am

[The_ShamWOW88]

When you're up all night thinking about the new game hint....

[Trey178]

When the coaches tell you to back off the build and let the students do the work. It's at that moment you realize you are now an FRC Alumnus :o


NOTE: I say this because this is how a Team 178 season operates. Yes adults do still have input and are available in a pinch, but it's our students that put forth the effort for everything. A reason I keep coming back is to see what they do next.

[Oblarg]

When the coaches tell you to back off the build and let the students do the work. It's at that moment you realize you are now an FRC Alumnus :o


NOTE: I say this because this is how a Team 178 season operates. Yes adults do still have input and are available in a pinch, but it's our students that put forth the effort for everything. A reason I keep coming back is to see what they do next.

This was the toughest adjustment I had to make in the student -> mentor transition. 449 operates this way, as well, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

[MrsC_2338]

You see a picture of Togepi, and instantly think of LogoMotion tubes
(Togepi would make a cute FIRST mascot)

[themccannman]

When your snot is the color of grease and aluminum chips.

[brandon.cottrell]

...You always laugh when you see a clock at 2:54 or 11:14

[starbound1332]

When your the only person on your team who goes on Chief Delphi 😫

[RamZ]

When your the only person on your team who goes on Chief Delphi 😫

THIS!
I'm head of scouting this year because a mentor says that I waste so much time on CD, I've gonna know tons about other robots. :p

[CaptainDanger]

you make wishes not at 11:11 but at 11:14 instead

[thegeekguy]

Forget your bus number after build season.

[Whippet]

...it's the last friday of the grading period and you're at school with two laptops, one with Chief Delphi open and one watching multiple regional webcasts on The Blue Alliance.

[captain flubber]

i'm from team 2582 (Pantherbots) and i have overdosed on FIRST i also would like to add these.
... if you have taken apart 3-4 VCR's, so you can try to make a robot with the parts.
... if you have 5 computers at home and are using 3 of them to repair one of them.
... if you know someone who has done a CAD design in minecraft in less than an hour.
... if you are adding to this thread while in school

[BL0X3R]

When you are watching the competitions in class...
and showing them on the projector...
and the teacher is perfectly fine with it :cool:

[CaptainDanger]

You injure yourself on the robot and the first thing you say is "I'm ok how's the robot?"

[pmangels17]

When your biggest gripe with your high school's internet firewall is that is bans Chief Delphi and Blue Alliance but not Twitter.

[hans022]

The Chief Delphi forum is on your most-visited website list in the summer
http://watchfree.me/75/w.png

[Christopher149]

...it's the last friday of the grading period and you're at school with two laptops, one with Chief Delphi open and one watching multiple regional webcasts on The Blue Alliance.

-When you should be doing schoolwork and are watching TBA. Then realizing some events ended today on Sunday, and watched some more (when I should still have been working on homework)

-When you've been wondering for a while if a mecanum drive is possible in Kerbal Space Program

[captain flubber]

When your biggest gripe with your high school's internet firewall is that is bans Chief Delphi and Blue Alliance but not Twitter.

and i thought that my school's website blocker was screwed up... your school needs to get its priorities straight on what needs to be blocked :ahh:

[fsgond]

When your biggest gripe with your high school's internet firewall is that is bans Chief Delphi and Blue Alliance but not Twitter.

You need to get your IT department on your mentor list. I work for IT in our school corporation and you can believe that CD and TBA are unblocked :)

[rsegrest]

When you are watching the competitions in class...
and showing them on the projector...
and the teacher is perfectly fine with it :cool:

And the teacher switches the feed to their school computer when you have to leave for your next class :D

[KPSch]

you walk up to a co-worker and announce "I've got a robot that could launch your chair."

[SuspectedApollo]

When you include the tag from all robotics emails in a email to a teacher who is not an advisor.

[matthew_martin]

When you have nothing to do, so you CAD up some sunglasses to 3D Print.

When you take extremely careful scouting data when you're just watching the feed.

When you're bored, and you spend your time on Amazon, looking for robot parts so you can build again.

When Championships just ended the week before, and you take apart as many electronics, just to make something new.

[captain flubber]

-you are wondering how long has your team coach been overdosing on FIRST
-when you realize that right after an important interview for collage scholarships you immediately started worrying about your robot
-when you once again find yourself adding to this thread instead of doing research for an assignment in the middle of class
-you check this thread everyday to see if there is anything new and funny to read

[Evan W]

When after a competition you hear random teams cheering while going to sleep :ahh:

[wireties]

when the first CD search after your last regional is "off season events"

[MattRain]

..when your at work, but on CD....

[starbound1332]

Your passcode is your team number!

[Cam877]

...When you're bored in class and the teacher/another student gives you a weird look for doing your team/another teams competition chant totally absent mindedly. (M-O-R-T MORT! MORT! MORT!, 16! 76!!!, seventy! five!!!, Go MOE!, what time is it? Knight time!, tick-tick whoosh!, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.)(All MAR chants by the way)
...When you can't stop thinking about cool designs and mechanisms you've seen.
...when you can't stop thinking about about how much you can't wait for next competition,
...When you can't stop thinking about your past competitions and how fun they were and how things could have gone differently...
...When you can't stop thinking about cool new strategies and who you should pick first at your next competition(I'm strategy/scouting lol)
...When you look at the clock, see a team number, and say (team name) time !
...when you see team numbers everywhere, let alone the clock!
...When you stay up until 1 am looking through this thread! :rolleyes:

[Juan Martinez]

When your sitting in your 4th hour writing a paper and on Chief Delphi (teacher looks over your should and says get off of that site) :cool:

[5383robotsrule]

you spend your spring break on the blue alliance memorizing teams names and numbers :ahh:

[dubiousSwain]

when more than half of your final cut projects are about robotics

[DanielPlotas]

when you see a four digit number under 5300 and wonder what their team name
(happens a lot in history)

[JosephC]

When you're busy trying to find someone else to run a Fantasy First draft, because you'll be volunteering for the 7th time this season at MSC.

[greasemonkey]

-When this thread is over 200 pages long and you've read most of them.

[jspatz1]

...you are at Home Depot and notice the lumber carts use a 6-wheel, drop-center drivetrain.

[NaomiCS]

...when you go to a museum with tanks and think to yourself "Hey, I can design and build a robot with the same drive as this tank when I get home"

[LindsayC]

You know you're addicted to FIRST when you text your mentors more than your friends from school.

[Brad Hanel]

You know you're addicted to FIRST when you text your mentors more than your friends from school.

...and when your only friends from school are on robotics.

[kghaemi96]

...and when your only friends from school are on robotics.

Or when you end up dating someone you met through robotics.

[CaptainKirby]

Or when you end up dating someone you met through robotics.

And you get help preparing for those dates from one of the mentors you've been texting.

[Johnnybukkel]

...and when your only friends from school are on robotics.

Brad plz. I crie ever tim

[Johnnybukkel]

Or when you end up dating someone you met through robotics.

What's a dating?

[Brad Hanel]

Brad plz. I crie ever tim

You'll always have a special place in my heart.

[5383robotsrule]

when the week after championships you try to build the winning alliance robots out of lego's

[crafty]

Or when you end up dating someone you met through robotics.

And then you married the person you ended up dating that you met through robotics

[thatprogrammer]

...and when your only friends from school are on robotics.

oh um......
Maybe I n eed to get some more friends than. :cool:

[kghaemi96]

And you get help preparing for those dates from one of the mentors you've been texting.

This is actually super accurate. I got advice from our head mentor. Not to mention my entire team was constantly bugging me about it.

Also, an additional OD:

When you can't figure out what you're gonna do with all that free time after the season ends.

[Zach101]

You know you are overdosed on FIRST when your only friend is the robot.

[S.P.A.M.er]

You know you are overdosed on FIRST when your only friend is the robot.

Or when you cry on the robot when the final match of your senior season is played. (then get so much separation anxiety from FIRST that you start next Year's Chairman's award for your new team)

[Charles Boehm]

When you can't remember what the original versions of songs sound like before they were remixed for competitions.

[brandon.cottrell]

...you see people you know from other local teams acting like big "nerds" for a news interview or promotional video.

[VioletElizabeth]

You spend your prep period writing a color-coded, numerical, and words-based analysis of part of your team leadership...and you find it fun. :p

[LDiDomenico]

I think the picture says enough...
Just realized that I forgot to write in 447 and 1732 :(
17047

[Paperclips]

When you came in to the season not knowing what an Allen key was…
… And now you don’t know how you couldn't have known that
When as soon as you see Frozen you start parodying Do You Want to Build a Robot immediately
When your team goes to Championships, but you stay home… and you’re on Spyder all day in school
When your friends know about as much as you about FIRST, mostly because you can’t shut up about it
When you see team numbers everywhere
When this is your FIRST year, and all the posts in the thread pretty much apply to you…
…And you can’t wait for next build season

[SoulianPride]

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you go to a competition every week, even when you are not competing.

[John Retkowski]

Let me tell you about the dream I had two days before Battle of Baltimore.

I had a dream that our team was out on the field about to shoot when a robot that had a razor sharp piece of metal built onto its chassis ran into us and cut the surgical tubing we use to steady the ball once it's been picked up. Later our team found out the the robot had been built specifically to cut that length of tubing on our bot and only our bot. The team was disqualified, but we couldn't shoot for the rest of the competition. I then woke up at around 2 am, muttered some gibberish about needing to pack extra surgical tubing and then fell back to sleep.

Conclusion: I might need to take a few days off. :D

[Chadfrom308]

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you still are designing robots for FRC when you are in college.

Also, I had a Lego Mindstormers project in my engineering class and it had to follow a line. So I put a PID loop and threw away the regular example code. Only FIRST people got what I did, I just confused everyone else, even the TAs

[GaryVoshol]

... when you're in a hotel lobby where you're staying for your daughter's wedding, and you see a couple people in purple polos, and you think, "What team is that?" And she thinks the same thing.

(Yes, the daughter that some of you know - congrats Brittany and Blake.)

[tindleroot]

...when you look at the clock randomly and think, "It's 3:59. I know that team!"

[IronicDeadBird]

When you have nightmares of the interactions generated by people yelling ROBOT in the pit area

[M.Kong-Sivert]

When you try to think of your address and replace your house number with your team number. (I live at 2375 West Maldon-- Wait, no I don't!)

[Christopher149]

...when you remember your university ID number by taking your team number and rearranging it a bit and adding some other numbers.

[BriteBacon]

When you are listening to music and you think, "Hey, that would be a good reveal song!"

[g_sawchuk]

When someone asks you for your number and you just say your team number...

[Whippet]

... when you're listening to music, and instead of trying to remember the name of the song, you immediately search for the robot reveal video containing it instead.

[M.Kong-Sivert]

When you scream at a classmate, "If you tamper with my baby's drivetrain, I will dismantle your 3-D printer piece by piece!" Also, when you refer to the robot as "my baby".

[alexis tuggle]

when your passwords for everything are your team name/number

[BBray_T1296]

When you are listening to music and you think, "Hey, that would be a good reveal song!"

When your favorite song list IS your "good reveal song" list.

[Chadfrom308]

When your favorite song list IS your "good reveal song" list.

Now that I think about it, Can't Hold Us by Macklemore and Pinball Wizard by The Who has somehow become some of my favorite songs... Team 118 may be to blame

[icecube45]

When you talk about directions, and simultaneously act it out as if you were driving the robot.

[Rypsnort]

You flip out when your parking pass number is your teams number. And then you look at other peoples parking pass numbers trying to see if you find any teams you know

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/1394182_697434927002434_7908419408988032056_n.jpg? oh=3c43610dafbdbab5d8beabe3a6155a45&oe=54D08DEF&__gda__=1422697170_28a12ac39d9675d1c1e7aac08dcc606 9

[USAFRoboticsNut]

you get overly excited at a shiny new set of calipers.

you occasionally look on the floor in your own house for dropped robot pieces

your head perks up at the slightest mention of anything related to first

[The_ShamWOW88]

When you spend more time watching FIRST match videos from 7 years ago

When you've taken the time to compile every Regional Winner/Finalist, team match-win percentage since 2007, etc. in excel files....

[vladtheimpaled]

When you finish writing an essay for a class and then instinctively look for the compile button. :)

[techhelpbb]

Blinking yellow lights cause you to stop for at least 2 minutes while the robot loads code but there is no robot and the other motorists are impatient ;)

[devg29]

Counting down the days until PSAT's so that you can count down the days until driving practice so you can count down the days until the scrimmage :eek:

[dubiousSwain]

When you spend more money on Dr. Pepper during build season than anything else

[x86_4819]

When you have spent most of your free time for the past few months writing code for the next robot -- and it isn't even build season yet.

[dubiousSwain]

On your first date, you warn the them: "you won't see me for 6 weeks after January first"

[Munchskull]

You find your self designing a drivetrain for a robot that does not exist and it starts to consume your life. Also ever third Facebook post is FIRST related.

P.S. FIRST overdosing does not exist.

[asid61]

When you tell kids to join FIRST when you go trick or treating.

[techhelpbb]

When you go trick or treating with an FRC robot.
Watch out for the trick!

[aryker]

you occasionally look on the floor in your own house for dropped robot pieces


You occasionally find dropped robot pieces on the floor in your own house!

[runneals]

When you're on CD at almost 1 in the morning on a school night, and it's the off season.

[Chief Hedgehog]

You get home and empty your pockets into 3 different containers -

1. Loose change.
2. Earplugs.
3. Hardware.

[Whippet]

You keep multiple pairs of safety glasses at your house... and they all have names.

[runneals]

You have dreams about robots and working with your mentors.

[RamZ]

When your math teacher/robotics teacher notices that you're not paying attention in class and asks if you're in Chief Delphi...

...and is correct...

...every time.

[Mike Marandola]

When this happens at the meeting after your last event of the year.

http://i.imgur.com/Trs6EZv.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/gfajL3a.jpg

[Munchskull]

When you ask for robotics parts for Christmas.

[RobotGirl]

...when you spend your entire LA and Science periods on Chief Delphi, then realize that you missed the answers for the essay you are writing and almost miss a pop quiz in science :yikes:

[RoboMom]

When you know 2 FIRSTers in the same area who are each getting married this year on Pi Day - to non FIRSTers.

[GaryVoshol]

When you know 2 FIRSTers in the same area who are each getting married this year on Pi Day - to not-yet FIRSTers.
FYP

[Chief Hedgehog]

When your math teacher/robotics teacher notices that you're not paying attention in class and asks if you're in Chief Delphi...

...and is correct...

...every time.

Ginger Power (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/member.php?u=80139)...

[Ginger Power]

Ginger Power (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/member.php?u=80139)...

I feel the urge to deny this but it's actually 100% true...

[Team118Joseph]

---You make a website that counts down to kickoff

[techhelpbb]

---You make a website that counts down to kickoff

You have a website that's been counting down since last kickoff and will restart again as soon as this one happens.

or

Your countdown website uses T-minus and is attached to a display to play fanfare and change all your local TV to the appropriate channel at just the right moment.

[Team118Joseph]

You have a website that's been counting down since last kickoff and will restart again as soon as this one happens.

or

Your countdown website uses T-minus and is attached to a display to play fanfare and change all your local TV to the appropriate channel at just the right moment.

I like the fanfare option.

[devg29]

at our mixer with our brother school last weekend they played the cotton-eyed joe... I was all like "oh no, they did NOT just do that"

[Grey Mann]

When you are the official, team-designated Chief Delphi Analyzer. And there is always someone wanting you to look for something on CD.

[lamk]

You dig this:

>public class FooBar extends SimpleRobotNeed{
> public FooBar(){
> boolean foo, bar;
> bar = initBar(bar);
> foo = initFoo(foo);
> if(foo){
> this.get(foo);
> }else if (bar){
> this.goto(bar);
> this.get(drink, bar);
> }
> }
>}

[DarrinMunter]

I can't help looking at the new center piece my wife put on the dinning room table and think to myself, "non-functional decoration"

[nwall]

---You make a website that counts down to kickoff

--But then you realize it's too hard to keep switching tabs, so you add it to your window manager.
--It's more important to get the countdown working than it is to fix the hardware clock.

[EricH]

--But then you realize it's too hard to keep switching tabs, so you add it to your window manager.


The REST of your tabs tell the REAL story of overdose! 2 team references (one TBA, and your own team site), 2 programming language references, CD (open to this thread), and 3 Wikipedia pages relating to robotics, specifically motion (and judging by what they are, you've been reading some of Ether's posts lately, and are doing further research). Do I detect some mecanum programming going on?


(And I think I've OD'd too--being able to tell all that from just the tab titles)

[nwall]

(un)Fortunately I'm not working on mecanum code, depends on your point of view. Right now I'm actually looking into inverse kinematics for an arm with N joints and movement constraints. (It's not technically FRC specific, but could be adapted) I haven't really gotten that far yet, but it's still interesting to read the papers that have been written on it.

[caboosev11]

When you approach a crosswalk, and it's a red light for the cars, and as they approach the white line, you say "Drivers behind the line!" and when the light turns green, you make the sound you hear at the end of auton.

[Whippet]

... When you're at the grocery store with your little cousin, and he starts shuffling sideways. When you ask him what he's doing, he enthusiastically replies: "I'm a mecanum drive!"

He even pronounced it correctly. I've trained him well.

[OAXACA]

........When you spend the entire schoolday on CD and you miss 3 tests, have no idea what the other people in class are talking about and you suddenly end up with 10 different assignments to do that night....

.....and when you don't do the said assignments because you're browsing through every page on this thread.....

[Chief Hedgehog]

Wow. That was the fastest file transfer I've ever seen on pc.

[Ginger Power]

Anybody want to go smell the blue nitrile tread?

[Ginger Power]

I love big hard drives.

[Grey Mann]

When CD isn't even in your bookmarks tab. I don't know how people can't so obsessed with robotics.

[NHoffmann]

... When you should be sleeping because you're operating in OCCRA championships tomorrow, but you're browsing a years-old First thread instead

[lokistormbringe]

...You realize your posting on page 230 of a thread talking about how much you've overdosed.

[JamieKilburn]

... When you try and change your IP address at home, and without realizing it type in 10.6.10.32 (My usual IP for connecting to the robot)

[x86_4819]

...When you make your own network at home with a 10.48.19.0/24 ip scheme, because you got sick of switching your ips back and forth. :cool:

[CADerer_Matt]

Your a Rookie Team but think you can go against The Warlords, The Holy Cows, and The Supernurds with a barelly functioning robot

[brandon.cottrell]

...Your life is narrated in Blair Hundertmark's voice.

[devg29]

when you're on a coach bus, and the TV falls off of the ceiling, you shout "We're on robotics, we can fix this!" and proceed to try and fix it. Couldn't fix it because we were missing screws, so we thought of duct-taping it to the ceiling, but we resorted to holding it still in front of us for the entire rest of the 2 hour bus ride. It was hilarious to watch it swing back and forth when we hit a bump ;)

[OZ_341]

When you get excited because there are 3(44)1 replies. :D

[HelloRobot]

Then you post just to get closer to your team number ;)

[Whippet]

Just 856 to go!

[RockedShots]

When the answer to "what did you do in school today honey" always involves CAD or CD, and the first thing you want to put in a new car is a pair of safety glasses.

[Hgree56]

When you and the teams driver are in the same Engineering class and work with different people till the VEX Robotics project and discuss ways to build the robot by referring to FRC Team designs for their robots.::ouch::

[captain flubber]

you know you've overdosed on FIRST when you've spent the last 3 hours trying to find your previous post on this thread ::rtm::

[BriteBacon]

Your more excited about kickoff than Christmas.

[BN1557]

When you code a kickoff countdown clock for no apparent reason. :)

[runneals]

SANTA IS REAL!!!!!!!

Courtesy of Nicole D (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=796662900380565&set=p.796662900380565&type=1&theater)

[EricH]

SANTA IS REAL!!!!!!!

Courtesy of Nicole D (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=796662900380565&set=p.796662900380565&type=1&theater)
Yes, he is. Though he seems to have changed a bit.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40927

[HelloRobot]

When you have seen "FIRSTmas" and "#deanclaus" used on Twitter.:D

[Whippet]

When it's 4:15 in the morning and you're studying for AP U.S. History, but you're mostly wasting time on Chief Delphi.

[svpracer]

When all of your jokes and conversations are based around FRC and your build group...

[orangelight]

When you have this on your phone...

[alephzer0]

When you're at your sister's bat mitzvah sitting in the bathroom reading CD on your phone.

[jman4747]

When you wake up in the morning and the first thing you see is a vex pro 3.25" versa wheel, a 54t bearing bore gear, and a 34t 3/8" hex bore gear, and then the first thing you think is "I need some 1-7/8 long 8-32 screws for that."

[Logan Byers]

When you have to pass up free suite tickets to a NBA basketball game because you have a meeting to go to that night. Robots > sportsball.

[Sierra3883]

When you want your team to make it to world championships so bad that you're crying.....before the season even starts.

[dradel]

When you wonder if Jack is going to have new tie die gear this year

[*Rachelle*]

When you make your own version of the Twelve Days of Christmas:

On the twelfth day of build
FRC sent to me
Twelve volts a dropping
Eleven air lines leakin’
Ten mentors screaming
Nine students missing
Eight scouts a whining
Seven sensors dying
Six weeks a stressing
Five run-time errors
Four blown fuses
Three mice broken
Two crossed wires
And a game hint that turned my hair gray

And when Christmas is mainly a reminder of the coming hectic months

[The_ShamWOW88]

When you make your own version of the Twelve Days of Christmas:

On the twelfth day of build
FRC sent to me
Twelve volts a dropping
Eleven air lines leakin’
Ten mentors screaming
Nine students missing
Eight scouts a whining
Seven sensors dying
Six weeks a stressing
Five run-time errors
Four blown fuses
Three mice broken
Two crossed wires
And a game hint that turned my hair gray

And when Christmas is mainly a reminder of the coming hectic months

excellent

[*Rachelle*]

excellent

Any takers to record this so we listen to Cotton Eyed Joe one less time during competition? At least it's something new..... :]

[VioletElizabeth]

When you realize some people don't spend their offseason on Chief Delphi, when you read a thread about how usage is going to spike, and you're confused as to why.

[dradel]

Any takers to record this so we listen to Cotton Eyed Joe one less time during competition? At least it's something new..... :]


No more cotton eyed joe!!!!!!!!!

[MishraArtificer]

Any takers to record this so we listen to Cotton Eyed Joe one less time during competition? At least it's something new..... :]

No more cotton eyed joe!!!!!!!!!BLASPHEMY.

Never speak of this again.

[dradel]

Hearing cotton eyed joe is like people screaming robot!!

[JosephC]

When you're going to spend the majority of your Christmas making Fantasy FIRST picklists.

[216Robochick288]

Hearing cotton eyed joe is like people screaming robot!!


Its loud, annoying, said too much and needs to be toned down? I totally agree.


Went to California to visit a friend, tried finding local FRC teams to visit....

Then on the flight home I got pulled over by security for a bag check... in the Xray there was a large area of stuff they couldnt identify. After it was opened and the lady moved about 3 books and a rubiks cube, she discovered my stash of 3/16, 5/32 allen wrenches and 7/16 wrenches in the pocket of my bag.... about 12 of them.

[Ginger Power]

When you are awake at 3:30 AM CADing a robot right after building one in 3 days.

[bh202548]

-When you constantly try to justify the next game as being the underwater game
-when you try to see if there is any loophole in the rules that would allow you to build tri/quad/octo/etc copter
-when your AC += 1 and your Stealth -= 5 because of the button shirt you wear
-When you constantly think that how one of the top ranking teams would do something(in this game maybe one team will figure out tractor beams)

[jminer19363]

When you randomly find parts in your pockets after a build session

[2508electronics]

When you have a flashdrive dedicated to robot unveil and match videos.

When you carry said flash drive at all times.

Not a flash drive, rather a 1-2 TB external hard drive...

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
When you take all of the tech ed (robotics stories) for the school newspaper because you have the team media pass.

[2508electronics]

When you randomly find parts in your pockets after a build session

When you get home and realize that small piston that went missing while you were working with it ended up in your pocket.

[adciv]

When you consider your day job a vacation from the Robot.

When you spend more hours in a week on working on the Robot than you do at your day job.

[ForgotSemicolon]

When you changed schools so you can join a team. :)

[z_beeblebrox]

When you were removing a splinter with linesman's pliers while discussing how sweet blue Loctite tastes.

[Christopher149]

When you changed schools so you can join a team. :)

When like five of your team members change schools to the one the team is based out of, I guess to make it more convenient.

[M.Kong-Sivert]

When the Gantt.com logo looks like a set of poorly-stacked totes.

[Sophia2605]

When you changed schools so you can join a team. :)

When you're moving, and your family chooses what town to live in partially based on which schools have a team! (shout out to 1678 for being awesome and welcoming this year)

[Dave_4539]

...you stay up until 1:30 finishing the reveal video...

[MariOlsen]

Your mother thinks there's an intruder (who somehow has a key...) because you're home and it's still light outside.

[Rypsnort]

you are reading through homonyms in english and you see chute/shoot and you write "yes chute door" next to it.

[Green Potato]

...you hear a song, and remember the regional(s) you heard it at but not the author.

[frozenbot15]

...you read the Chief Delphi forums while waiting around at an FRC event (doing this right now at the Northern Lights Regional in Duluth, Minnesota).

[OAXACA]

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

-At competition you scream and clap so much, you're hands start to bleed
-The day after comp, you can barely keep your eyes open in class
-Team cheers stick in your head days after comp
-Everytime you hear the word 'potato", you think of team 3562 LiveWire throwing potatoes into the audience (Inland Empire regional)

[CTbiker105]

You scout for 8 hours straight and learn the proper way to sit so you don't get scoliosis.

[EricH]

-Everytime you hear the word 'potato", you think of team 3562 LiveWire throwing potatoes into the audience (Inland Empire regional)

*ducks reflexively*

I was a ref, and due to my location (Red, queuing side) I was on the "auto line patrol". If those guys were in Red 3, I dropped when they were announced, just so I didn't take a spud to the face. ::safety:: :D

[MrJohnston]

.. you take an evening off robotics and the highlight of that evening is the text you receive of your team's solo autonomous stack.

[carpedav000]

You know you're overdosed on FIRST when...
- There is a small amount of blood in your Mountain Dew stream
- You sleep walk around the house at three in the morning saying "We're supposed to be in the que guys"
- You spend hours upon hours looking at reveal videos
- You're a freshman and you can name all of the teams past robots and what challenge/year they were from
- You spend your free time thinking of possible robot designs/drive bases for future years

[devg29]

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

-The day after comp, you can barely keep your eyes open in class
-Team cheers stick in your head days after comp

Literally almost fell asleep in chem and algebra today... And it's two days later

[Tina Nguyen]

You wake up dazed and confused, believing that it's still build season and mistake the wall as one of your mentors.

[dradel]

When you hook the laptop up to the 70" tv and watch pioneer valley district event in your living room

[tStano]

You get ads which scroll through digikey's catalog while watching youtube videos.

[crazyrobochick]

when all of the picture thats come up in your Timehop around this time are of robots, building, or competitions.
when you realize you have been on 5 different teams in varying positions and that you dragged your whole family into it.
when you post more for the teams facebook than for your own
when you tell everyone at work you cant go out because "I have robots"
when you buy a new camera for the sole purpose of taking pitures at competition because when you print phone pictures out for the chairmans binder they arent as good quality wise.
when you start to think of your car as roboto transportation instead of a way to get around.

Just to name a few.

[gegozi]

--But then you realize it's too hard to keep switching tabs, so you add it to your window manager.
--It's more important to get the countdown working than it is to fix the hardware clock.
How do you do that in windows with google chrome?

[MikLast]

...you spend all saturday watching to see if your team made it to regional champs instead of doing AP homework.

[gegozi]

... your team's robot is a registered student at your school
lol... we have this thing called singing valentines in school, and we did one for our 2014 robot... truly hilarious

[RocketDean]

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you talk about strategy with your parents as if they were the drive team...