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StephLee
05-07-2006, 09:25
When you're the last person to post on this thread but feel the need to post yet again.
When you go through the bag you packed with extra clothes for after you were done painting and find your wristband from the Atlanta wrap party.
When you squeal joyfully at finding the wristband.
Astronouth7303
05-07-2006, 22:34
It doesn't finish the sentence, but this surely means something:
[22:30:01] Astronouth7303: it's one of those camps that could give FIRST a run for its money on strangeness
[22:30:11] Astronouth7303: FIRST actually seems kinda normal...
When you have a dream about welding steel. (I'm not kidding!)
anna~marie
10-07-2006, 12:13
you clean out your car and find God knows how many pairs of safety goggles and a motor...
Julia Magoolia
11-07-2006, 16:47
When you base where you'll work SOLELY off of what teams they sponsor/mentor.
Here I come, GM!
When you get into fights with a fellow FIRST-er, debating who will end up mentoring HOT.
Then you finally decide you'll both mentor them some day.
artdutra04
11-07-2006, 20:24
When you start checking ChiefDelphi - multiple times - during a vacation, you know you're overdosed on FIRST. :eek:
Nitroxextreme
11-07-2006, 20:55
When you go to a college summer program and only two people in your class are not involved with a FIRST team.
Chris Marra
11-07-2006, 20:56
When the last two posters in a thread are sitting within 10 feet of you, and instead of talking to each other, you post on CD instead.
When the last two posters in a thread are sitting within 10 feet of you, and instead of talking to each other, you post on CD instead.
And you look around the room, and half of the people are on CD. :)
Dan Petrovic
13-07-2006, 18:28
...When you realize that chain grease actually tastes good and begin to lick the rest of it off of your fingers.
...when you start measuring character based off of how many triplets you've seen on license plates.
Michelle Celio
13-07-2006, 18:36
...you go to summer school for your tech class where one of the teachers is also a mentor for your teams and a large portion of the day is spent talking about FIRST and the team :rolleyes:
...you've done countless layouts for your teams site in the past 6 months
....3/4ths of your buddy list is FIRSTers
...you have a FIRST bookbag
Josh Goodman
13-07-2006, 19:59
When the only nightmare you've had for years is your computer crashing... :ahh:
StephLee
13-07-2006, 22:24
When the only nightmare you've had for years is your computer crashing... :ahh:
When you had a nightmare (last night) about being the only member of your team at a competition at the time of your first match and you have to drive the robot by yourself. (And you aren't usually the driver.)
...When you read through the entire thread on bad pickup lines in Chit Chat
Julia Magoolia
19-07-2006, 09:32
When you volunteer for FIRST Place camps nonstop.
When you start a thread about FIRST Place camps (ahem, Libby....)
When you hug the old Wildstang 'bot in FIRST Place.
When you can't get through dinner without talking about FIRST.
When you're posting on CD from 200 Bedford St.
Alexa Stott
19-07-2006, 09:47
When you see a phone number with the last four digits "7111" and you think "Whoa, that's like a 111/71 hybrid! BEATTYSTANG!"
prettycolors91
19-07-2006, 10:04
...When your sad because you had to miss the fourth of july parade where your team was marching because you were on vacation
...your relatives can now tell you exactly how long a chairmans submission must be, what the woodie flowers award is, who won it on your team, all of the awards your team has won, what HOT stands for, what FIRST stands for, how long build season is, what your standings were at regionals, and can recite those facts off the top of their heads when asked. then they shoot me a dirty look for rambling about FIRST again :D .
...when everything goes back to robotics, no matter what your talking about
...when you start taking pictures of 67's, just for fun.
Michelle Celio
22-07-2006, 16:33
When a good portion of your friends on Facebook have a status that involves IRI in some way...
When your buddy list has only 20 or so people on, the rest are at IRI
When you get a letter from someone who isn't going to have power until the end of August, and they ask for a summary on IRI because they know you're gonna watch the web cast ::cough :: Kayla13 :: cough ::
when you're working at FIRST Place, with Julia [see above]
and you find this year's FRC Regional Operator/Championship Operator/Safety Captain badges,
...you root through them to find teams you & julia were just talking about,
and you & julia think about making a thread on CD with "pm me if you want your team's badges"
....and then you incorporate that into a thread that's pretty unrelated.
[we were told to "throw them out" and i couldn't bring myself to do it.]
carla_rose
23-07-2006, 16:13
-you see and clear donation box with a red circle on it and automatically go "wheres the green light?!?!?!?!?!"
-you start to refer to other teams as your "extended family" *cough*233*cough*
-you accidently call you team mentors mom or dad :p
MChapman
23-07-2006, 17:06
...when your on a college trip an you start planning out how to start a team up near the college your looking at
Nuttyman54
23-07-2006, 17:28
or when you rate your college choices based on which teams are affiliated or nearbye...
-you see and clear donation box with a red circle on it and automatically go "wheres the green light?!?!?!?!?!"
Hey, that was a perfectly legitimate reaction! You know you were thinking it :)
-When you stop to get ice cream after IRI and say to yourself "Wow, why is Wildstang working here?" because the employees are wearing tie-dyed shirts
-When, for the entire ride home from IRI, you relate all highway signs, mile markers, exits, etc. to the appropriate teams
-When you are still feeling the effects of a wild DSK show
-When you have a sudden urge to watch Annie while eating fish and chips
-When lame fish jokes suddenly become quite funny
carla_rose
23-07-2006, 18:23
-When you stop to get ice cream after IRI and say to yourself "Wow, why is Wildstang working here?" because the employees are wearing tie-dyed shirts
-you find yourself this close to asking one of the people working there if they would trade shirts with you
-when Sprinters are the vehicle of choice for long road trips :D
-when Sprinters are the vehicle of choice for long road trips
-When you are able to stay in a sprinter with 5 high school students for a long road trip
-When you discuss FIRST for at least 2/3 of the long road trip
-When you stop at a truck stop with a hardware store and immediately think "Wow, i could really use this to work on a new robot"
-When, at the same truck stop, you feel the urge to put random automotive decals on your robot
-When $5 for a huge roll of duct tape is incredibly enticing
-When you watch a video of IRI 2004 on the trip back from IRI
anna~marie
23-07-2006, 20:23
when you, a person who really gets nervous in cities, convince your parents and youth group to drop you off at some bus station in Chicago, trusting that you'll end up safely in Indianapolis.... terrifying. first greyhound.
so. worth. it.
379Robocat
24-07-2006, 04:39
-When EVERYTHING somehow relates to FIRST.
-When you are at a fair or festival and you see a former robotics team mate or current member and then 5 hours later you are still rambling about FIRST.
-When you are at work and your boss gets mad because you know almost everyone that comes in either through community service, fundraisers, students on the team or parents of students on the team and the people ask " Will you be joining the robotics team again this year" and when you say yes their face lights up with a big smile.
-When your boss knows the last detail about FIRST Robotics.
-When your boss is flipping through the channels and comes across a competition the weekend you are gone and watches the competition hoping to see you.
-When friends and family randomly call your house too see how things are going at competition.
-When you are at work and you look at the tickets and try to associate every number with a team.
-When you are late for your morning class because your team was doing a live feed on your valleys morning news show and you show up to class in full robotics attire and your professor and classmates say "Roman your late but you did a great job on the news this morning"
-When you are sitting in morning class doodling in your notebook during build season thinking about the robot instead of taking notes and your professor asks you a question and you weren't paying attention and squeeze out of it by talking about robotics.
-When you see a pig and think about our buddies from Florida Exploding Bacon. "Oink Oink BOOM!!!!'' then laugh
-When your room is full of robotics stuff and so is your car.
-When you trade in your car for a jeep because it's not big enough to haul robotics stuff in it.
-When your friends get mad because your myspace top 32 is full of all robotics teams and friends that you have met over the years and your friends are no where to be in site.
-When you don't sleep the night before competitions because you are to excited.
-When you win the lottery and give part of the money to your robotics team.
-When you see hulk hogan riding a segway and get excited
-When you spaz on someone even a stranger because they said something bad about robotics.
- When you plan a special trip to the mall with your robotics buddies to go "Competition Shopping".
-When you see a number anywhere and stop and take a picture because it's associated with a team.
I have lots more but I'll post them later. I know this is a lot to read right now.
...When your car is completely computer controlled and programmable.....And made in 1979
I will have my car like that eventually
...When you consider getting a truck for hauling robotics stuff, then remember it has enough power to tow anything and precede to build a workshop on wheels
Nuttyman54
31-07-2006, 01:11
When you see the RSS feed from CNN saying "Haas claims third title for year" and wonder what titles a CNC machine company can win...
...When you come back from a competition, and then on monday, you are ranting to your friends about what crazy things wildstang came up with that year
...When you start modeling random things in your robotics room because "We may have to use it at some point".
...Whenever you see tie die, you can't think of anything other than Wildstang
...When you screamed harder for Beatty at IRI than you have ever for any other match (even ones that you were involved in)
...When your car is completely computer controlled and programmable.....And made in 1979
We have a mentor who's car is like this. I has a self-programmed GPS system with an 8" touchscreen. He also has a wifi antenna that allows his car to download all of his emails and read them off to him while he's driving.
-When you immediately think of Robo-Dawgs when you see a bottle of mountain dew.
-When you think of Robo-Dawgs several times each day because you have to keep drinking mountain dew to stay awake.
When you run across a truck that is the same color as your team shirt and think that it would make a great team vehicle. This truck was seriously a green very close to our shirts.
Pirate_Nelly354
05-08-2006, 21:34
- You see your team number somewhere and start cheering it out
- You miss school after any competition to actually get sleep
- You bring up a story about Atlanta in every conversation
- You play basketball and wish robots would be on your team instead
- You put Dean Kamen in your "Who I'd Like To Meet" section of your myspace
- You google FIRST and/or your team to see what comes up
:D
anna~marie
05-08-2006, 21:41
when you can still hear "Please stand clear of the doors. Por Favor Metengan se alijados de las puertas" in your head and your friends/you commonly say such
when Sir Charles finds his way into conversations
when you show one of your friends a video of Sir Charles
LordTalps
07-08-2006, 10:51
Lose the game each time your see your team number (Does anyone here play the game?)
Lose the game each time your see your team number (Does anyone here play the game?)
ok, I'll ask...the game? What game?
"The Game" in our family is the "Who can close their eyes the fastest and keep them closed the longest" initiated by Grandpa long ago to justify his afternoon naps. :rolleyes: and that has nothing to do with being overdosed on FIRST, I'll have to work on that though.
StephLee
07-08-2006, 12:51
Lose the game each time your see your team number (Does anyone here play the game?)
YES I do and now you made me lose. Evil... :cool:
MChapman
08-08-2006, 10:42
..you're on aim talking about something with numbers then you go off on a rampage for 10min writing team numbers an names down back an forth trying to see how many you get...
(it was one of those nights!)
Nuttyman54
08-08-2006, 12:55
when you started rattling off every single team number and name (and any awards you know of that they won) while on a walk with a friend...he wasn't too thrilled about that
You start playing the Free Cell game numbers of teams that you know (175 is pretty hard. it took me at least 6 tries to beat it ;) )
anna~marie
12-08-2006, 13:48
when you hang out with your teammates at your town's festival (Milford Memories (http://www.milfordmemories.com/1/mm/index.asp?artID=4059))
when doing the above you meet up with more teammates and mentors (and one of the mentors is wearing a FIRST shirt...)
when you, while doing the above, discuss how you can't look at the tye-dyed booths without thinking of Wildstang
nuggetsyl
12-08-2006, 14:06
You know you have overdosed on first when your team has build a prototype base for next years game.
Freddy Schurr
12-08-2006, 14:51
When you do your final speech on FIRST!
StephLee
15-08-2006, 13:03
You start playing the Free Cell game numbers of teams that you know (175 is pretty hard. it took me at least 6 tries to beat it ;) )
When you KNEW your teammate was going to post something like this because you and several other team members had a good laugh about it.
joshsmithers
17-08-2006, 17:53
when your first keys are a hex set. (me and my dad had a good laugh about this when we realized that i dont technically have my own house keys)
Kristian Calhoun
17-08-2006, 18:06
...When you absolutely refuse to take the PSATs because it just so conviently happens to fall on the same date as Duel on the Delaware. :)
You know you have overdosed on FIRST when your team has build a prototype base for next years game.
That too.
...When you absolutely refuse to take the PSATs because it just so conviently happens to fall on the same date as Duel on the Delaware. :)
Now that's dedication to FIRST! But I think you can really prove you're overdosed by taking the PSAT in the morning and rushing to the competition for the afternoon even though you are totally drained! :ahh:
Sorry, that's the mom part of me thinking... and worrying about you missing out on big scholarship potential!
When your friend (who knows nothing about FIRST) mentions cheesy poofs, and you immediately think he's talking about the team, not the food.
When your friend (who knows nothing about FIRST) mentions cheesy poofs, and you immediately think he's talking about the team, not the food.
/Off Topic
This is a question I've always had.........is the food cheesy poofs or cheesy puffs?
lukevanoort
21-08-2006, 18:49
/Off Topic
This is a question I've always had.........is the food cheesy poofs or cheesy puffs?
/Also Off Topic
This reminds me of a time in 2005 when a mentor who made a food run pulled some cheese puff things out. Our teams founder, a 40+ y.o. lady saw them and her face immediately lit up and she said something to the effect of "Oooh, cheesy poofs!" and proceeded to, quite speedily, walk across the room and start to chow down. Doesn't seem so much now, but at the time I found it endlessly funny.
/Off Topic
This is a question I've always had.........is the food cheesy poofs or cheesy puffs?
When you're addicted to FIRST, its DEFINITELY cheesy poofs, even if thats not what the label says. ;)
When you're addicted to FIRST, its DEFINITELY cheesy poofs, even if thats not what the label says. ;)
Definitely true. Has 254 ever had a giant Cheese ball mascot?
Nuttyman54
22-08-2006, 00:53
Definitely true. Has 254 ever had a giant Cheese ball mascot?
Nope, their mascot has always been the Bellarmine College Prep "Bell". I would LOVE to see someone dressed up as a cheesy poof tho...
DevilChild
30-08-2006, 14:53
You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you see someone else from a team, no matter where, and proceed to freak out and try to get them to notice you. Yesterday I was in the middle of my 6 hours behind the wheel for my permit, and I saw a FIRST bumper sticker. I proceeded to switch lanes and pull up beside them to see if I recognized the person. I didn't, but they were wearing their VEX shirt from competition, which prompted me to talk FIRST to my driving instructor for about the next hour. He was scared when I switched lanes because he hadn't told me to do so, but he did complement me on how smoothly I did it! Which goes to show, FIRST improves EVERYTHING, including your driving!
anna~marie
30-08-2006, 14:56
haha that's great!
You know your friend's family has overdosed on FIRST when you stop by to pick up a movie for a girl's movie night and see that her mom is wearing a shirt from the 04 Championship
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when your friends start saying things like, "Yeah, frankly I've got mixed emotions... robotics is my anti-drug and yet it is my drug so to speak" -Dave "Tap Magic" Huston
And, in the holiday spirit:
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you keep track of the number of days until kickoff but not until, say, the end of exams or Christmas.
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when, to you, kickoff sort of IS Christmas.
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when the kit of parts and the encryption key to the game rules are the best Christmas gifts you could get.
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you use a green neon light as your Christmas tree topper.
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you and your mom randomly start wondering how they machine the holes in sliced Swiss cheese, and observe that one is countersunk.
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you see kickoff and next year's game in your dreams. (I saw stairs in mine:rolleyes: )
...when you wake up at 6:04 in the morning (yes, that's really what the alarm's set to) and find a Colson wheel under your blanket. :D
you know you're overdosed on FIRST when you have to write an essay on a 'family-taught value' that has impacted your life, and you write it about GP, and try to explain how FIRST actually is your family in the essay.
you know you're overdosed on FIRST when you walk into school with a hex nut on a chain around your neck, and your friends just roll their eyes and say '*sigh*....robotics season is coming up.'
[for the record, it's a really cool one. not just any old one off the robot or something.]
Alex Burman
12-12-2006, 08:27
you know you're overdosed on FIRST when you walk into school with a hex nut on a chain around your neck, and your friends just roll their eyes and say '*sigh*....robotics season is coming up.'
[for the record, it's a really cool one. not just any old one off the robot or something.]
Is it a gold plated hex nut?
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you and your friends start to develop a fake religion around it. We call it FIRSToligy
no, it's not, there's just a really great FIRST-related story behind it. so, i wear it.
p.s. burman, why are you on CD at 8:30? get back to work.
> When a picture of your robot is the background on your phone
> When you walk in to harbor freigt, see a winch, and think "what a neat premade gearbox... i'll bet i can make a robot out of that"
> When you actually do make a robot using modified winches for motors. :rolleyes:
> When you make a second copy of the offroad robot so you can have races. :ahh:
I think i'm going to go drive one after school :D
-Q
Protronie
13-12-2006, 20:14
When you use your study time at school to post / surf here instead of actually studying.
StephLee
13-12-2006, 23:04
When you look at pictures of yourself and realize most of them show you wearing some sort of FIRST item.
ScoutingNerd175
14-12-2006, 01:52
When someone at your University mentions a Segway and manages to get the concept completely wrong. An argument ensues, to which two of you respond "look, I've met the inventor, I know what a Segway is" at which point you realize that you were both on first teams (both UTC teams in fact) and start to go on about championships and regional’s and sponsors...
And your friends can chime in on the discussion, even though they've never even seen a FIRST competition because you talk about it too much.
(We're going to get a team going up here, I have faith. And nerds.)
BanksKid
14-12-2006, 16:28
when your more concerned about the '07 FIRST game then your girlfriend
when every other word out of yur mouth has anything to do with what was in the kit........or what wasnt...........
when you are stuck onn the fact that it was all %$&@@'s fault 2 years after the fact.
when you preach gracious professionalism to the world
when you open up a church of gracious proffessionalism
when you try to get your home state to recognize gracious professionalism as a ligit religion
when you read the first hand book like you read the bible
(all of wich i wish i did)
if your christmass list is more like a team parts list than anything else
if you are the FIRST to have your cell phone signed by WOODIE FLOWERS
(at least thats what he said, and i have it to this day, not only that but i show it off more then i aknowalege the fact MORE then that of my actual meeteing with the president of the united states.);)
but finally you know your overdosed on FIRST when you can refer to DAVE LAVERY, DEAN KAMEN, and or WOODIE FLOWERS as your close personal friends, and are doing so in every day life.:cool:
...you start refering to people from team numbers "that kid from 33" and your friends look confused. then you say "that kid from the killer bees" and they still look confused. then you say "hes a guy from robotics" and a look of dawning recognition comes over their faces and you walk away shaking your head....
:ahh:
this happens every day
YOu know you've OD on FIRST when you dream of how to better your robot and what a good drive train reduction would be. Or what would make you pit and your team safer or better luck at winning a safety award.
Not that i would know that form experience or anything :yikes:
FourPenguins
16-12-2006, 19:21
When you have a BS2 kit on your Christmas list.
When you have a multimeter on your Christmas list.
When you convinced your mom to give you your birthday present early so you could use it to take pictures at the state FLL tournament. (Canon PS A540)
When half your friends want you to post pictures from a party and the other half want the pictures from that FLL tournament.
When you've convinced about 15 of your friends to join the team.
When you're sick and a bright monitor makes you want to die, but you turn down the brightness and check CD.
- when you wake up for school and grab your safety glasses and gloves instead of your cellphone
Eric W. Jones
17-12-2006, 13:11
Hey guys, you do know theres another thread (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17937&page=94&highlight=you+know+you%27re) like this one, right?
edthegeek
17-12-2006, 17:37
When planning to do something with your friends, you think of doing a CAD party instead of a LAN party...
Hey guys, you do know theres another thread (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17937&page=94&highlight=you+know+you%27re) like this one, right?
Only one? I seem to be able to think of two or three offhand....New sign of overdose:ahh:!
Psychoflood
09-01-2007, 09:10
Personally i don't see the problem...
multiple times in this thread people have felt the need to point out other threads like it, yet people have continued to post more and more on this thread. If a thread remains active, lively, and has people posting, then there's no problem with it. After all, forums are for posting! So if people are posting, there's no issue :D
BandChick
09-01-2007, 12:34
I have no problem with multiples of these threads, as long as they are in the right forum. To me, that is the Chit-Chat forum. I wish a moderator would move it...
this happens every day
yep.....
StephLee
09-01-2007, 15:56
When you plan a rip-off of a funny Nextel commercial involving FIRST robots. (Check youtube sometime soon to find it...as soon as we film it, hehe...)
When a valid excuse (in your mind) for having no homework completed is "It's robotics season."
When your teachers accept the above excuse.
When the electronics teacher unlocks the computer lab early every morning so you can play with Inventor drawings of the robot.
When you have to choose which will be the last thing you fit into your backpake - the homework or the robotics notebook - and the robotics notebook wins by a landslide.
When you temporarily forget how to think due to sensory overload after an all-day meeting on kickoff.
When you're already so tired you no longer have control of your mouth and what comes out of it. (Don't ask.)
when you show up to school and work looking sleepy and your teachers and bosses say season start already?
when your robotics work place is more of a home than your real home
whlspacedude
09-01-2007, 16:50
You've changed your name to woodie flowers
Nuttyman54
09-01-2007, 17:50
when you endure a horrible 19 hour trip back to your college 2 days before the dorms open and 6 days before classes start, JUST so you can be with the team for kickoff
-when you look down in first period and realize you're wearing your FIRST fleece over an andymark shirt.
-you don't look down until your best friend look at you and goes....'why,oh WHY are you such a nerd?!'
[all I have to say is, i hope she's kidding.]
-your chem teacher looks at the back of your AndyMark shirt and yells at you. when you explain that it's SHIFT, she takes a good minute to doublecheck.
-when your team gets kicked out of the room you were working in, some freshman complains 'you mean we have to shift rooms?' and you just say....'well, shift happens!'...and leave it at that.
...that's it for now. :p
artdutra04
09-01-2007, 18:23
When you're already so tired you no longer have control of your mouth and what comes out of it. (Don't ask.)I've called the inner tubes both tetras and balls at two different points during the season... :p
When you're experiencing most of these things, And Its your rookie year
(okay, I've done FLL and FVC before, but still...)
StephLee
09-01-2007, 22:23
I've called the inner tubes both tetras and balls at two different points during the season... :p
I've done that AND made a rather odd noise that was some weird mix of two other words (nothing to do with robotics, but it was after a meeting and my brain was fried). It was funny enough without being in the middle of Wal-Mart.
You know you've OD'd when you get in (several) arguements about arm design viability in several different chat windows and manage not to get them mixed up.
When you've re-recorded your cell phone answering message to include something about robotics (because there isn't any reception in our workshop AT ALL).
You know you've ODed on FIRST when you wonder why anyone would even try to eat a Chicklet
When your bent 90 degrees back in the wrong direction on a tool chest half way under a robot with only 4 inches clearance and your head if at least 10. Thats me putting bumpers on at regionals
Psychoflood
10-01-2007, 11:04
Hey everyone, i just want to say that this thread was mentioned in Robots magazine, sent with the KOP. Thanks to everyone who has replied, and to every reply in the future!
(True story a friend told me)
When you wake your brother up in your hotel room because you've been doing the cotton eye joe in your sleep, and then your brother does the same thing to you 2 hours later.
Lovely Laine
11-01-2007, 23:08
[QUOTE=rocketperson44;552437]When you're experiencing most of these things, And Its your rookie year
QUOTE]
Yes. I agree with that. =]
When you're experiencing most of these things, And Its your rookie year
(okay, I've done FLL and FVC before, but still...)
I agree with that. This is my first year doing FRC and I already am in love with it. :p
When you find out that an Ipod Nano is as wide as a #8-32 bolt head:yikes:
When planning to do something with your friends, you think of doing a CAD party instead of a LAN party...
When you don't even know what a LAN party is. . .but you think a CAD party would be fun.
Molly Stieber
19-02-2007, 13:26
- when you think mechanical parts are sexy
- when you and your team spend too much time making up a "FIRST system of measurement" which includes a build season, and a poof ball, and you intend to use it on upcoming tests.
Molly Stieber
19-02-2007, 13:32
- when i hear the number 15, I think of how high our 2005 robot's arm goes
- when you see the "team mom" more than your real mom
BlondeNerd
19-02-2007, 15:07
You go skiing and think you see a mask that says VEX and get really excited.
When the mask really says UVEX and you are still excited because that is the brand of your team's safety glasses.
When, while in a ski lesson, you think that the lean right to go left method of steering is just like driving a robot.
Is it time for regionals yet or what?
ambie_o7
19-02-2007, 21:52
...you (and all of your friends) accidentally replace words with robotics equipment, tools, parts, etc on a daily basis... "by that point you should just get your LED..." (when talking about how many times a person...most likely in robotics... could fail high school)
...when you actually know what they are talking about...
...when you don't even notice someone has...
...when it takes multiple ppl to type 1 bloody forum...
...when you have to email yourself (as well as others) the information for chairmans award and e/o has about 6 copies of the EXACT same thing...
...when you live out of your school's library...
...when you take a trip (walking) to 7-11 for ice cream and come back with TWIX instead...
...when your friends (outside of robotics) understand EXACTLY what your talking about, no matter how confused you are at what you are trying to say...
...you live off DIBS for the entire build season...
...you can take attendance by noting hight differences of the members there...
... you are delirious past the point of being delirious...
...you can no longer spell words that you just typed...
...you type on this forum instead of working on chairmans award [[oops! lets not let our adviser hear about this...]]
...when you see a teammate playing neopets and get distracted for an hour [[ooh pretty colors!!!]] without being on any drugs...
When you use 90 weight as a deodorant.:D
joshR515
19-02-2007, 22:31
when you leave first go home sleep 4-6 hours and then come back the SAME day
.. when you've already got a pre-set, 5 paragraph formulated answer to a non-competing person's question of: "FIRST Competition? Is there a Second one or something? What's that?" (I have answered that Q soo many times!)
.. when rather than finding quarters in your wallet to buy a late-night snack from the very few vending machines at school, you find hex nuts instead (and if you're special, sometimes even the lock ones with nylon inserts)
.. when you play 'jokes' on other classmates at school by talking to other team members like so: " Amanda, you totally kept the strippers all night to yourself. You have to learn how to share" "Yeah, I had the strippers. I'll go out and buy you your own for tonight."
.. when all of your people on speed dial on your cellphone are FIRST-related (machinist, other teams' contacts, mentors, etc.)
.. when your cellphone background consists at least two of the following: FIRST logo, red/blue innertubes, a rack (your homemade one or elsewhere), or your robot itself
.. (for electronics) when zip ties and electrical tape become your best friends
.. when you're schedule usually revolves around your robotics worktimes/practices, and not the other way around
.. when you whip out your own personal safety goggles from your backpack during Chemistry (or any other science) class for labs, instead of using your school's provided uncomfortable ones
.. when you're pulled out of your Shakespeare english class by your Team Leader, so that you guys can order the Bimba cylinders in the morning rather than after school, and receive them ASAP!!
mgreenley
20-02-2007, 03:57
...When you haven't been on the team since you went to college last year, and even though you're over 180 miles away, you're still up the night before ship simply because it seems to be the right thing :rolleyes: .
Molly Stieber
22-02-2007, 09:55
When, on ship day, you miss your robot already
When, on ship day, you miss your robot already
When you literally go after the FedEx truck as it drives away.
[I wanted to, but I'm on crutches. I waved my goodbye to my baby!]
THIS JUST IN! No, really, it JUST happened.
You tell your friend sitting next to you about your regional schedule...[i have a regional, or at least the saturday, to go to every week but week 2]...
"I've decided I'm calling you Carmen SanDiego from now on."
"Why?"
"Because, for the next six weeks, just like the last six, I won't be able to find you"
...and they proceed to make up their own lyrics.
I'll post 'em later if i remember, they're pretty funny. For now, class is over.
- When you have skipped work to machine
- When you do not schedule anything, at all, for those special six weeks
- When you cant wait for lunch, so you can go machine
- When the end of your school day is whenever you leave robotics
:D
dbhellmith
22-02-2007, 11:16
you automaticly wash your hands befroe going to the bathroom.
Choi9111
22-02-2007, 16:32
when you wish the robotic arm you just made was your own arm.
when you talk in "C".
When you carry allen wrenches more than pens/pencils.
mormannoob
25-02-2007, 02:09
when you get scared every time you hear of a water game next year
when your mom is concerned when you don't get home till 330 AM on the same day of you preship scrimmage (it started at 7 AM)
legotech25
25-02-2007, 12:08
... after deciding to scrap an already built arm idea, you immediately figure out how to adapt it as an extention of your own arm.
... you are an honorary member of at least 3 other teams, and there ore people on that team who are honorary members of yours.
When you can not remember what you used to do to occupy your time before robotics.
thefro526
25-02-2007, 19:45
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when at breakfast this morning you tell your mother that your birthday party has to be rescheduled because it is the same day as Monty Madness.
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you close your eyes and see robots.
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you stay up at night contemplating how you are going to defeat MOEzilla and Evil Machine 5.
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you broke up with your girlfriend over robotics.
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you're more excited about the NJ regional then you are about anything else.
PhoenixFlyer
25-02-2007, 19:45
--You know that 1 steel axle weighs as much as 4 aluminum axles
--72 metal washers weigh 4.2 oz and 72 plastic washers weigh .4oz
Kaizer007
28-02-2007, 15:29
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
You think zip ties are the best way to hold everything together, even your relationships.
You hear the phrase, "But it's not heat efficient" in your sleep.
Your biggest upcoming fear after graduating from High school this year is if we are going to have a water game next year when you are mentoring.
All your art projects this year were of the winning championship team's robots last year.
You wake up with a solution to yesterday's problem of how to mount the ramps.
You try to think of a way to be shipped with the robot so you can perform the finishing touches before regionals. (Against the rules so you can't anyway.)
Your future children will be named after robots.
Your build day starts at 4PM, ends and 4AM and starts again at 6AM (Weekends are the best)
litchfieldc
28-02-2007, 20:02
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you go out of your way to draw pictures of the last years robot in your 3-D drawing class, and then claim you are "practicing" for this years build season.
JBotAlan
28-02-2007, 22:20
when all of these you know off the top of your head:
the slow loop runs at 26.2ms.
the baud rate of the program port is 115200
there's 1024 bytes of EEPROM, addressed 0 to 1023
When in church you see the big chalice and wonder if someone made it on the lathe.
When the hymn you're singing has "Jesus, our victor" and your mind drifts off to a strange cartoon of a Victor speed controller with a yellow circle behind it (in most pictures with Jesus in them, there's a yellow circle behind his head).
When 3 of the bookmarks on your toolbar have something to do with FIRST.
When you honestly feel more at home in the shop than in your own bedroom.
When you get on your computer to do lit homework and fire up MPLAB, IFI loader, TeraTerm, and Windows Explorer in your "07Code" folder before you realize that's not why you're on your computer.
You see a picture of a worm gear in a physics book and tell your friend (for the 20th time) how your robot has a tendency to break teeth off the gear inside its transmissions.
When said friend tells you to shut up.
When said friend tells you to shut up, and when you don't, he says exactly what you were about to say.
JBot
...something breaks during school and you immediately say "Can I try to fix it?" (happened to me twice so far once with one of those gum shocker things and once with a stapler)
...you decide to design your clinometer after a very mutilated FIRST symbol
freestylemotox
03-03-2007, 20:48
Every time you look at the clock you try to figure out whos team that is
You stay up till 4 am trying to figure out how to cut .1 Lb's :ahh:
Yours suppost to be cadding in class but your actually on chiefdelphi
Julia Magoolia
05-03-2007, 19:36
Dan, I'm really sorry to do this to you...
This is my favorite example of being overdosed on FIRST.
The day before regionals (talking about fonts):
Dan: arial
Dan: is as standard as it gets
Dan: without being TImes New Robot
Dan: wow...
Dan: I did not just do that
SPurekar
05-03-2007, 21:34
... when you tell a classmate something he said was totally not GP...
... when he gives you a confused look and you say "Oh, it means not doing something your grandma wouldn't approve of...
... when the whole class turns around and looks at you funny, and you have to explain what GP is, in non-FIRSTer terms (with the help of a robotics person in that class)...
... when they turn away, as soon as they realize it's robotics related (or else we'd go on forever)...
Duke_of_Hazard
05-03-2007, 21:55
...your watch has an alarm that goes off at your team number.
...you are convinced if zipties and ducttape do not fix something, then only through divine intervention will it be fixed.
...you hear the phrase "the red, white & blue" and think of the FIRST logo.
...you cheer at gas stations with your team numbers' price.
...you consider life after FIRST, then instantly dismiss the thought.
When you're sitting in church, and the number for the nursery (the one telling parents which kid needs their attention) says "207," and you think "Let's see, that's Hawthorne's team number..."
ScoutingNerd175
06-03-2007, 14:13
Your friends at college want spring break to come soon because they are hoping that once you get to go a regional over break, you will stop talking endlessly about robotics. (They are wrong)
hipsterjr
06-03-2007, 16:16
robots, robots,robots, robots,robots, robots,robots, robots,robots, robots,robots, robots,robots, robots,robots, robots,robots, robots,robots, robots,robots, robots,robots, robots,robots, robots;
Robots are good;
Robots are our friends;
"We welcome our new cybernetic overlords"
We must speard Dean Kamens's holy vision (FIRST rule book);
Regionals are pardise;
Finals are heaven;
I'm a crazy FIRST nerd, and love every minute of it!:]
You are addicted FIRST when it becomes your religion!
JBotAlan
06-03-2007, 17:05
...you see 68 new messages in your inbox 2 days before the regional and think of it as a good luck charm.
meatmanek
06-03-2007, 17:19
...your watch has an alarm that goes off at your team number.
I wish 8:68 was a time.
On ship date it was 15:19 and suddenly everyone started cheering.
K.Porter
06-03-2007, 19:02
-Words such as "Trout" and "Flaperon" make teammates double over in laughter for no real reason.
-You know the best place for a hammock at your sponsor's warehouse.
-You know that your robot is underweight by "53 cents, a pair of sunglasses, and a small leatherman"
-Pool tubes make a very good bed.
-Pool tubes make a very good straitjacket.
-Pool tubes make a very good jack for the robot.
-Pool tubes make a very good frisbees durring break.
-Pool tubes make a very good...anything really.
-Bolts, wire ties, toggles, and even tools show up in your pockets weeks after the build season.
-Wire ties have reached a legendary status, equivalent to that of Duct Tape.
-You don't know what to do with this thing called "free time"
-In order to fill this "free time" you have taken an old robot home to keep working on it.
-Apparently there is this thing called "homework?"
MercBenzAMG
06-03-2007, 19:22
playing Wii with a new friend from Merrimack (hi Tiff!), playing that darts game where you have 301 points, and you have to knock it down to 0.
we compared every score at the end of a round and determined if it was a first team, and what team it was (i got a 151 my first round. Tiff hit 166 the next)
StephLee
06-03-2007, 19:56
...When you wake up early on a two-hour delay because you mistakenly thought it was time to leave for your regional.
...When the only thing that'll get you out of bed at ALL is a dream about robotics.
...When you pack a week before your first regional.
* You put on safety goggles every time you walk into your kitchen
* You give team buttons to random people on the street
* You think of a Segway as "that other thing Dean Kamen did..."
* Every time you hear the word flowers, you start looking for Woodie
when someone says " god created the heavens and earth and all that is," and you correct them by saying that he just stole the idea from Dean Kamen
:D
JBotAlan
11-03-2007, 17:00
...you have shortcuts on your desktop for IFI loader, C:\FIRST, MPLAB, DeviceReader, and the custom VB app you wrote to talk to the 'bot.
...your laptop's wireless manager automatically connects to Sundial Network when you come into a regional--the profile's already been set up.
...you have 59 (!) zip files with different versions of the code in a backups folder.
...you have 12 Mini-DV tapes on your desk; 10 of them have FIRST video on them.
...you type something into Google for a homework project, end up on a homemade segway page, then start researching motor controllers, then finally give in entirely and post yet another post on this thread...
JBot
iPWNnoobs
11-03-2007, 22:32
.........You see a wheel chair and think hmmm.. i culd put mechanum..or omni wheels..on..that bad boi...... lmao..!!!!!!!
****xcuse my ghetto writin..****
TEAM 207..!!!
You enjoy spending 12hours between the pits and driving
You find out that this thing called "homework" is quite challenging
You start designeng new base driving strategy and concepts in calculus
Wifi in AP govmt can come in handy for typing your notes, or scanning chief while your spose to be typing notes.
mizscience
11-03-2007, 23:09
...when you start counting down in your mind the time until your next regional - during the awards ceremony of your first one :D
:]
Athleticgirl389
11-03-2007, 23:14
... you see any number and yell out the team associated with the number
... your team number shows up and you go insane and people think you are insane
... you go through withdrawl after leaving the regional on saturday
... when you go bowling and realize all your friends are now in robotics
... when you go bowling and a friend from Team 75 gets a score of 102 and you really want to get a score of 75 to make it fair (i bowled a 76... close enough haha)
mizscience
11-03-2007, 23:18
...when you are upset over graduating because it means you are no longer a student FIRSTer.
:cool:
- You know that Loctite tastes like candy.
- When your teammates ask you for "the wrench," you know that they are referring to the 7/16" open wrench.
- You always carry keystock, calipers, and a USB drive full of CAD files in your purse.
- You can rattle off the category hierarchy for most common McMaster parts.
- You have a folder labeled "pr0n" that's full of pictures of robot drivetrains.
- You think you have dandruff, but it's just aluminum dust.
- You get really irritated when people ask you if you do Battlebots.
- When you don't have scissors around, the bandsaw works just fine.
StephLee
12-03-2007, 00:20
When your primary concern between regionals is not catching up on homework, but catching up on sleep.
When, despite the above concern, you're posting on CD past midnight...
mizscience
12-03-2007, 01:16
- You know that Loctite tastes like candy.
- When your teammates ask you for "the wrench," you know that they are referring to the 7/16" open wrench.
- You always carry keystock, calipers, and a USB drive full of CAD files in your purse.
- You can rattle off the category hierarchy for most common McMaster parts.
- You have a folder labeled "pr0n" that's full of pictures of robot drivetrains.
- You think you have dandruff, but it's just aluminum dust.
- You get really irritated when people ask you if you do Battlebots.
- When you don't have scissors around, the bandsaw works just fine.
oh yeah, i definately have to agree with this one. psht, Battlebots? *shudder*
:]
Pavan Dave
12-03-2007, 01:22
-When 3/4 of your harddrive is full of first week matches broken down with notes on almost every robot as well as every rev of every update and manual released and a team picture of last year's robot and team as your desktop background.
Pavan.
ScoutingNerd175
12-03-2007, 03:17
-When your TA asks if anyone is doing anything interesting and you proudly tell him that you are going to regionals.
-When you tape your spring break packing list to your wall and it only has one thing on it- safety glasses.
-When you spend Friday-Wednesday of spring break looking forward to being dragged out of bed at a really unreasonable hour and dropped of at the CT convention center at 7:30 am.
-When you try to figure out how you will follow one regional while volunteering at another.
StephLee
12-03-2007, 08:00
-When you try to figure out how you will follow one regional while volunteering at another.
With text messaging, of course. How else? :p
-When you find yourself updating SEVEN people at a regional...and somehow manage it (mostly).
- You get really irritated when people ask you if you do Battlebots.
When your friends know to hold you back when someone asks.
Josh Fox
12-03-2007, 16:10
-when you spent the last three hours of life reading all these!
Athleticgirl389
12-03-2007, 19:55
...when you are upset over graduating because it means you are no longer a student FIRSTer.
:cool:
But we get the awesoness of being a MENTOR!!!! :cool: Teach the new students the tricks and trades of your team and FIRST!
... you realize all your friends are in robotics, were in robotics, or know so much about robotics now because it's all you talk about.
... you dream about an upcoming regional and hope the [good] dream comes true!
when you start to talk to your non first friends about mechanical stuff like drive trains and cathodes and victors and whatnot just to see their faces and thier replied:D
Tetraman
12-03-2007, 20:01
--days after a regional you are still finding broken zip ties in your pockets
BlondeNerd
12-03-2007, 20:06
...your Mom spends an hour explaining FIRST, the game, the robot, and the excitement of regionals to someone...just because she was saying that she was unavailable on a Friday because she is coming to see you compete. (or does that mean my Mom is overdosed on FIRST?)
Tetraman
12-03-2007, 20:31
--your new dorm chair is a collective of a Keeper, two ringers and a spoiler.
Josh Fox
12-03-2007, 22:21
--days after a regional you are still finding broken zip ties in your pockets
Same thing but with rivet ends:D
Jeremiah Johnson
13-03-2007, 11:07
You dream of the day you become a play-by-play announcer.
You search the entire Quad Cities looking for cold cathodes to pimp out your new lexan scouting clipboards and your newly completed Vex robot.
whlspacedude
13-03-2007, 11:08
you can only choose a university with a robotics team
when you spend an hour explaining how much more complex FIRST is than battlebots after someone says "so, you do Battlebots?
Rich Ross
13-03-2007, 14:13
You know you're overdosed when you read all the posts in this thread ( i did not, silly college gets in the way)
When your mom doesnt threaten to take away your Pc when you dont clean your room but when she threatens to take away robotics
Zuhaib Ali
13-03-2007, 18:43
I know when i've overdosed on first when i refresh the page for the scores of a regional every second!
Akash Rastogi
13-03-2007, 19:06
...When cheering becomes a competitive sport for you. :D
Jimbo5051
13-03-2007, 19:26
It is first on Google AND Yahoo!
Molly Stieber
14-03-2007, 10:03
When you own 7 pairs of safety glasses, and think it's relatively normal
When you find out you can get airfare to nationals you are so excited you jump around, and remain excited for the next couple of days.
Tetraman
14-03-2007, 13:02
--When you are asked your shirt size for your team's shirts, you tell them one size larger so the shirt will last longer.
JBotAlan
14-03-2007, 13:11
--when one of your pet cats comes up to you and deposits an orange zip-tie in your lap...just happened 5 minutes ago...:ahh:
--when you wrote your ACT writing prompt about FIRST (yeah, I know it's already in this thread, but I did it too and so did one of my teammates...I swear FIRST is infectious:yikes: )
JBot
hipsterjr
14-03-2007, 14:53
when you have a stack of regional fliers signed by Dean Kamen
Luckyfish05
14-03-2007, 18:24
A professor suggests that you can "build robots" to remember stuff and get better grades. :yikes: .... Yes, it was actually suggested today to me, and I'm taking her up on it.
Carpe_Noctem
17-03-2007, 00:40
-You come home with a suit of armor made out of buttons from random teams.
I have almost finished my button mail shirt....
When Championship rolls around i will have to get a helm...
Spencer E.
17-03-2007, 17:47
... you microwave something for 2 minutes only to blurt out, "Initiating shutdown sequence" when the timer reaches 15 seconds and you try to climb up your chair like a ramp. :D
Nin_estarSaerah
19-03-2007, 07:09
you know you are overdosed on FIRST when you close your eyes and you see robots, and you know how to say "kiss my robot" in Gaelic. pog mo robo, baby!
When you reach into the inside pocket in your wallet to pull out a picture of your kids to show someone and instead the photo of the team in 2003 at the Maryland State Fair falls out.
...you have more boxes of FIRST-related stuff in the house than you have furniture to sit on...
-When your sweatshirt that you wore during build season still has aluminum falling out of the pockets periodically.
-When you can say "thing-a-ma-doodad" to a teammate and they know to get you the 7/16ths wrench-et. (It's not a ratchet, it's not a wrench, it's a wrench-et!)
-When you've wondered what you could convert to Mecanum drive. (Parallel parking would be a cinch)
-When you almost burst into tears for making it to the Semifinal rounds.
-When you get upset at announcers pronouncing your bot's name wrong. (IT'S GLORIA MA-KEY-NA, not GLORIA MA-KEN-AH, ffs)
-When you enjoy looking at CAD Models of the KOP Parts.. mmm... 56mm 12:1 planetary gearboxes. Delicious.
-When you start seeing Quixilver's wheels in your sleep. (Delicious lightning bolt pattern... mmmm)
-Even your mom can explain what FIRST is about and give tech specs on your robot.
-When you like scouts because it lets you talk about the robot you so lovingly worked on for six weeks
-When you're disappointed that build season is over and the only thing you can fill the time with is sleep. (as opposed to more robotics)
-When you know the exact number of safety glasses you have and where they are (3, two on my desk, one on the floor approximately 3in away from the foot of my bed)
Athleticgirl389
19-03-2007, 21:12
You dream of the day you become a play-by-play announcer.
I do that all the time!! MC is what I want to do =)
Also when you plan regional hopping for 2008 and years after that with a friend and how you will become tag-team MCs [HI ZARA!!!] =]
You can feel and allen wrench and know what size it is
When you can look at an allen socket and know what size wrench you need
-When you know what size every single bolt, screw, nut, and rivet on your robot is. (Extra points for knowing where they are!)
When you regional-hop to two in one weekend and, on Monday in school, you have to explain to ALL your friends all the things that happened there. By around halfway through lunch, your mouth is taped shut.
When you go to one regional and come back with 5 shirts and a hat.
[One day, I'll get a good count of how many FIRST or team shirts I actually own.]
When you actually DREAM that you're an MC. [Yes, this happened. I blame Wayne for putting the idea in my head.]
BandChick
20-03-2007, 11:41
... when you get sick of hearing "OMG It's Libby Kamen!"
Nin_estarSaerah
22-03-2007, 18:10
if it has been a week since your regional, and you STILL look at something bright green and think to yourself:that could distract our autonomous. :D
if it has been a week since your regional, and you STILL look at something bright green and think to yourself:that could distract our autonomous. :D
Heh. If there were bright green things near me at all, I'd probably think it.
BlondeNerd
22-03-2007, 19:05
When, in English class while reading The Great Gatsby, you poke your fellow FIRSTer when Gatsby starts obsessing over the green light on the dock. "He must be programming for autonomous!"
MasterChief 573
22-03-2007, 19:08
You know your overdosed on FIRST when you carry your medal with you wherever you go for a week after winning an event.
... when you get sick of hearing "OMG It's Libby Kamen!"
DITTO.
:p
[edit] within a minute of posting this:
Morgan 25: OMG!
Morgan 25: IT'S LIBBY KAMEN!
Kristian 25: OMG
Kristian 25: IT'S LIBBY KAMEN
....thanks, guys.
Ericgehrken
22-03-2007, 19:46
When it's 2:54 and you think about eating Cheesy Poofs
James1902
23-03-2007, 00:18
Whenever you see a pig, see a rocket, or hear and oink, all you can think is OINK OINK BOOM!!!!
When it's 2:54 and you think about eating Cheesy Poofs
I never think about eating cheesy poofs (not because they don't exist, but because I don't like their real life counterparts -- cheetos).
But that's a good one, regardless.
ScoutingNerd175
23-03-2007, 02:13
When it's 2:54 and you think about eating Cheesy Poofs
When you're trying to talk to your family about the regional you were at, and some how the Cheesy Poofs come in to the conversation (I think I was talking about the Chairman's Award? I don't know how they got in to the conversation about UTC) and you have to pull up their website to prove to your mother that a team is actually named "Cheesy Poofs".
When your boss asks you to make a presentation about FIRST and your team to his bosses.
Im looking forward to it :)
RoyalRobo1070
23-03-2007, 23:00
When you see someone waving their arm and you think about the refs telling you to move your bot off the field
When you hear someone say "check-in" and you're up and ready to bring your robot in to get your flag
When you hear "Atlanta" and you think to yourself "God I wish I was going to nationals."
Bcahn836
23-03-2007, 23:31
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
After you have been away from FIRST for over a year and you are still addicted to mountain dew.
After a year away from FIRST you still associate any and all numbers with FIRST teams.
When you see someone wearing a soft top hat and say to your friend "hey, team 100!"
horoponhorr
24-03-2007, 07:47
When you refer to anything colorful as "Wildstang colored."
you know youve overdosed on first when your parents buy a laser printer to save money on the multiple copies of the manual and all the updates you print.
...when, in the week since you returned from your regional you have:
-compiled a 5 page list of things you wish your team would do
-been threatened with removing the list from your posession
-been overjoyed when you get to write about extra-curricular activities (i.e. FIRST) on your college placement exam
-invited your grandparents to a regional that you aren't even attending
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
After you have been away from FIRST for over a year and you are still addicted to mountain dew.
After a year away from FIRST you still associate any and all numbers with FIRST teams.
Did you make it to the San Diego Regional?
BTW, the Holiday Inn across the street from the sports arena had at least one or two slots for Mountain Dew in each of its vending machines. I suppose that the fact I noticed is another indicator that I'm overdosed on FIRST, like it or not. :)
Nitroxextreme
26-03-2007, 15:36
-when you take a shower after the competition and all the water turns green
Katie Hans
26-03-2007, 16:46
~ In physics you're learning about wavelengths and frequency and you learn that a CD goes from 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz. You stare at "CD" for a while, thinking, CD? Frequency? Why is this making no sense? before it actually dawns on you that it's a music CD they're talking about, and not the website. (It was early. I have physics at 7:30 in the morning. D=)
~ During swim camp over the summer, you have a break between lunch and the afternoon practice from 12:45 to 1:30. And every afternoon, without fail, you have a sudden outburst at 1:11.
~ You make excuses to visit the tech lab at school whenever possible.
~ You only have one friend that isn't in robotics.
~ You have dreams about competitions (and chickens).
raymaniac
27-03-2007, 18:39
You think:
"Overdosed on FIRST...overdosed...is that possible?"
StephLee
27-03-2007, 18:43
You think:
"Overdosed on FIRST...overdosed...is that possible?"
Only until your immunity to it builds up. :)
John Gutmann
28-03-2007, 10:01
I am in my calc lecture right now and the teacher brought out a over head projector, and to make it so we can't see the overhead sheet on the screen she put a green sheet of paper over it. At first glance I was like "omg why does she have a green light down there?!"
-John
StephLee
28-03-2007, 15:06
- When you make yourself feel slightly better about having to do your science fair display board over again by making it in team colors. With the team logo in random places. :)
- When you spend the day at the aforementioned science fair telling robotics stories along with a few other team members.
you get into a conversation with a Starbucks employee about robotics programs because she overheard you talking about chairmans
BlondeNerd
30-03-2007, 17:17
...When you go into a summer program interview thinking, "I will not babble about robotics..."
...When all four people who interviewed you now know about FIRST, Rack 'n' Roll, and/or your team
Oops...At least they seemed interested:rolleyes:
...When one of your vocabulary words is "pneumatic" and, well, your English teacher now knows how your robot's arm works.
StephLee
30-03-2007, 18:17
...When you help your mom clean out her van and find: 4 pairs of safety glasses, a 375 bandana, a Chesapeake Regional agenda booklet, and a robot tether...not to mention the dozens of buttons that have been making their way inside for two weeks now.
Nin_estarSaerah
31-03-2007, 13:13
when you you couldnt make it to your team's second regional, and you have had three windows on your computer open: the first website, chief delphi, and the webcast, which you havent stopped watching since this morning.
BandChick
31-03-2007, 21:08
...when you get dubbed the "spends more time at competitions than she does in the real world" officer of the "FIRST is a cult...give in now" facebook group.
... and it's TRUE!
TheIrishOne
31-03-2007, 21:21
...when you go to a competition in your Homecoming dress because you need to go straight from the competition to the dance that night
SPurekar
31-03-2007, 22:55
... When you think of the Gearhead's button each time you see a pedestrian crossing sign
Josh Fox
31-03-2007, 23:06
...your student teacher becomes academic enforcer and mascot
of your team in the time that he's going to be here. yeah Mr. E/Captain RUSH!:D
When you get interviewed about a internship / co-op and it turns into a conversation you feel like you've had before about 100 times while talking about FIRST. Oh, and you get hired :D
When you see a bright orange shirt and you think: "Hey, Team 100!"
When you get excited when you hear "We're going to Atlanta!" in a non-FIRST setting (yes, such things exist).
When you cheer as a of plastic, rubber, aluminum, and other things falls over.
ScoutingNerd175
03-04-2007, 00:18
You watch the final four in the GA dome and spend most of it thinking how weird it is to see some other event crown its champions there. And that most of the country doesn't know that FIRST will be taking over that floor in about a week and a half. But for those of us who do know, this Championship was just the warmup.
Alpha 997
03-04-2007, 02:25
-When you and all your team mates are wearing the team t-shirt and gold metal the Monday after you win your regional. Other students give you weird looks, think you are a nerd. Yet in your mind, you know that you, and not the jocks or skaters, are the future of the world.
-When you as a senior, is crying at home not because your team had a bad year. No, your team had just won two regionals and is headed towards national in one week. But because your last season on the team is coming to an end.
-When you have so much adrenaline from a bad call against your alliance team during the previous quarter-final match that your freshly smashed finger that is dripping with blood feels just a little warm.
-When all your A’s drops to F’s because you’ve been living at school for the 6 weeks of build season.
-When the only reason that you don’t want to move out of your little town and on to college is the feeling of emptiness when you think about life without robotics.
-When your friends stop calling your cell phone from January to February because they know exactly where you’ll be.
-When you think that the EXIT sign is green so that robots can get out during a fire.
-When your school’s robotics team does better than your football team, which took state.
-When you are driving home from a regional and see a car dealership with cars displaying on platforms and comments that the ramp to the platforms is too steep.
FF_1610_EMT
03-04-2007, 05:44
When even though i'm part of the military and there is not one team within 15 mintues of me i will still find my way to SE Raleigh High School next season.
Pavan Dave
03-04-2007, 06:20
When you have installed every possible media player to play every possible feed from every possible stream to try and ge EVERY view of EVERY regional you possibly can.
...when you are in Health class and...
Write "BAE" instead of "BAC"
Write "Safety Glasses" instead of "Safety Classes"
1359th Scalawag
04-04-2007, 17:31
-When you and all your team mates are wearing the team t-shirt and gold metal the Monday after you win your regional. Other students give you weird looks, think you are a nerd. Yet in your mind, you know that you, and not the jocks or skaters, are the future of the world.
-When the only reason that you don’t want to move out of your little town and on to college is the feeling of emptiness when you think about life without robotics.
-When your school’s robotics team does better than your football team, which took state.
-When you are driving home from a regional and see a car dealership with cars displaying on platforms and comments that the ramp to the platforms is too steep.
I can relate to ALL of those. I remember just a couple weeks back seeing the cars on those platforms at a car dealership and thinking it would be impossible for the car to get up. I still dont understand that... And my entire team wore our medals to school the following sunday. (though I bet every team does that)
Nin_estarSaerah
04-04-2007, 17:35
-When you and all your team mates are wearing the team t-shirt and gold metal the Monday after you win your regional. Other students give you weird looks, think you are a nerd. Yet in your mind, you know that you, and not the jocks or skaters, are the future of the world.
we so did that after Peachtree regional! and the other kids not only thought we were nerds, they thought we were crazy because we had so many private jokes.
MasterChief 573
04-04-2007, 17:43
You know your overdosed on FIRST when you see your team number as the amount of people currently on a forum and it makes you smile (that just happened to me).
675 members wore their shirts and medals (or most of us did, anyways, who went to Davis), but everybody knew what it was for. That's what you get for going to a school with about 250 students and no other sports teams. =D
You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you want a copy of the last 5 years' rulebooks so that you have some "light reading" on your flight to Atlanta.
MasterChief 573
04-04-2007, 18:43
675 members wore their shirts and medals (or most of us did, anyways, who went to Davis), but everybody knew what it was for. That's what you get for going to a school with about 250 students and no other sports teams. =D
You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you want a copy of the last 5 years' rulebooks so that you have some "light reading" on your flight to Atlanta.
How many members does your team have?
Branden Gee
04-04-2007, 21:06
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
you can still feel the safety glasses on your nose after the third day being home.
MasterChief 573
04-04-2007, 21:08
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
you can still feel the safety glasses on your nose after the third day being home.
I thought that was normal?
Andrew of FoN
04-04-2007, 21:15
When you are stuck with 7 hours of make up work in one night due to competitions...
It broke me.
Alpha 997
04-04-2007, 22:37
I can relate to ALL of those. I remember just a couple weeks back seeing the cars on those platforms at a car dealership and thinking it would be impossible for the car to get up. I still dont understand that... And my entire team wore our medals to school the following sunday. (though I bet every team does that)
Haha, glad to hear. All of those are true for me.:D
How many members does your team have?
About 60, total. So, about a quarter of the school.
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
you can still feel the safety glasses on your nose after the third day being home.
Uh, that's after an overdose?
I thought that was normal?
That's what I was thinking...
When you are stuck with 7 hours of make up work in one night due to competitions...
It broke me.
I've had to do that. Not fun.
You know you're overdosed on FIRST when the first you think of spending 2.1k$ on is parts for a robot. :D
234smidget
05-04-2007, 00:22
when everything you unpack from your suitcase has something to do with robotics or has your teams number or name on it
when you go home and tell everyone on myspace how good you did and they have no clue what you are talking about
when you hear "red alliance chant" in the back of your head at random moments
when you hear "we are the champions" you recall a robotic competition
when you see tubes in the pool you think about this years game
........all i can think of for now............
WillisRF
05-04-2007, 23:36
You know that you have overdosed on FIRST:
When somehow almost every food reminds you the game.
Donuts anyone?
When you spend the whole bus ride home making up rhymes about the competition.
James1902
05-04-2007, 23:41
when your working at a local fast food resturant and the customer's total come out to be 11.14 cents and all you can think of it "man that'd be a good FF pick"
When you segway topics really randomly and then one of your teammates says "That was the best segway ever, better than if Dean Kamen rode in on it himself".
Nin_estarSaerah
15-04-2007, 12:07
you know you are overdosed on first when you are trying to get the robots out of your head, but the only thing to replace them is spiked hair and segways.
you still have the bracelet on from the team social, and you really want someone to invent RoboRiddlen so that your robot can focus on the light long enough to go. your "rival" school gives you a ride to competition, and since both teams have FIRST in common, there is no fighting, and you cheer like crazy when they win a sportsmanship award.
... When the first thing you do when you wake up is: Check Chief Delphi.
... When the last thing before you sleep is: Check Chief Delphi.
... When almost every number out there makes a FIRST team come to mind instantly.
... When you start saying team names instead of numbers.
Stephi Rae
15-04-2007, 15:30
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
someone gets 3/16 for the answer on a math problem and everyone in the class that's on the team starts cracking up.
Monochron
15-04-2007, 18:47
When you went to see Dean Kamen speak and saw his robotic arm video months ago just so you could tell all you friends that that thing is old news.
When you get really agitated that the spell checker on CD says that Kamen is spelled wrong!
-your still wearing the same cloths you had on the last day of competition
-you still wish that competition was still going on because you miss it all ready
CHUCK 84 ROCKS!!!
You can't wait to get started on improving some things on the team next year and you write down your ideas so you don't forget.
You wish you could have done your research paper on robots...:D
when you spend your entire spring break designing an arm and mecanum drive train.:yikes:
when your parents prohibit you from using the computer for more than an hour a day...:(
when you learn more outside of school than you do in school.
RiffAffray
15-04-2007, 19:21
-you try to build a chassis out of toothpicks and marshmellows on the 14 hour bus ride home
You're in the Atlanta airport, and you look around and see a good 3 or 4 teams...
You're in the line for security and go OMG THE THUNDERCHICKENS ARE HERE! and the 5 people in line between you and said team look at you like you're crazy.
You step through the metal detector and it starts beeping, you start to wonder what could set it off...and the TSA agent points to your "Dave says that's pimp" button...
he says "I'm gonna have to take that"
"...You're giving me that back, right?"
"Honey, it's just a pin"
"NO, it's not JUST A PIN!"
....you arrive at Newark and get really sad that there's no team there.
[p.s. I MISS ATLANTA!!!]
ambie_o7
16-04-2007, 01:45
when it feels weird not spending every day of your life with every single member of the team (inc advisors)...*sniff sniff* we're going home tomorrow... 10 hour flight to Hawaii
when dibs, cooked pizza (unlike Mr. Olive's pizza from Murphy's pizza), and peanut m&ms make up your entire diet
two members of our team have hats covered entirely with different teams buttons just from championships... another could probably fill a shirt completely... actually, the kids with the hats could fill at least one shirt each with their buttons, their hats have tails...
when you know you will miss your teammates, even though we have about a week to perfect our botball bots before our comp, and therefore will be spending a lot of time together
When you start a "We got spirit, yes we do! We got spirit...how 'bout you?" war while waiting for Marta after the competition.
-- while trying to get through a crowd of people you yell "ROBOT COMING THROUGH" loudly, and then are confused as to why everyone does not immediately move out of the way.
-When you arrive at SFO and you notice that 5 other robotics teams were on your flight.
-When you're wearing a Team 100 hat and openly declare in the airport "MY HAT IS AWESOME".
-When you go to Baggage claim, and on the carousel, there's a piece of paper that says "GRT WAS HERE" on it. (speaking of which, PUT THE FISH IN THE CUP!)
-When you put a 1501 (Team THRUST) pin on your hat because you're going on a plane (The pin is basically flight wings)
-When you come home from Atlanta.... with 16lbs of buttons.
-When your voice is so horribly messed up from Atlanta... and you only want to keep cheering.
-When you see 114 in more than 5 places in a single day and each time think: "Hey, Eagle Strike!"
When you are returning to your room (really tired) at the Marriott Marquis at 1 am and in the hallway in front of you in big red letters is "FDC" and you wonder "which program is that?"
...you arrive in Atlanta after following the Buzz truck for 1,000 miles and you realize your face is permanently frozen in a smiley face position after viewing nothing but :) for two days...
...you're driving home from Atlanta following the Buzz truck and you start playing the mile marker game... 173 - That's RAGE! 176 - Aces High! etc. etc.
...you arrive in Atlanta after following the Buzz truck for 1,000 miles and you realize your face is permanently frozen in a smiley face position after viewing nothing but :) for two days...
...you're driving home from Atlanta following the Buzz truck and you start playing the mile marker game... 173 - That's RAGE! 176 - Aces High! etc. etc.
I just found a new use for Mile Markers.
Thank you =]
lol baker
when you here things during school and you think of different teams chants
lol baker
when you here things during school and you think of different teams chants
Or when you hear/see something in school and think of your sponsors (mainly MV Transportation)
Our science teacher said some physics equation with "mv" in it earlier today. I wasn't quite paying attention because, well, I was drawing out some chassis designs.
raymaniac
17-04-2007, 21:52
you still have the bracelet on from the team social
I think this is normal (and so do a couple other people on the team-we all still have them on)
During gym our teacher told us we had to do curlups in time with a CD (don't ask) and the first thing I thought of was Chief Delfi-then she told us that inorder to get an A we had to do 47 curlups.
waiakea11
17-04-2007, 22:52
...you agree with ambie07 on everything she said (not that i wouldnt agree with her on anything :P)...
...you realize that you are back in hawaii where the weather is just a bit warmer and you have to wear only one jacket if its raining...
...you cant wait till the botball trip because thats when your group will get to go on another trip together...
...you know that the person with all the buttons on his hat is still waiting for i t to come back because our luggage got lost (he says its the only thing that cannot be replaced in his bag)...
...you are typing on this fourum even though youve only gotten a total of 5 hours of sleep and youve had all day to sleep...
...you fought with your mother, insisting that you had to go to school (allthoguh i never did end up going)...
...you think back on your experience and you cant beleive that it was aroung 8 weeks ago that you were standing in the classroom watching kickoff...
and i think thats it so far :P
... when you know downtown Atlanta better than your own town.
Ben Martin
18-04-2007, 17:29
Your orchestra director claims that she hates robotics, but later takes it back, claiming that you'll support the arts later in life. ;)
Laura 1547
19-04-2007, 12:53
Your school basically bans every website and you personally go to the IT and get him to unblock ChiefDelphi and then spend your class time pouring over the threads because its the only website that works
You keep imagining people in team shirts that you know but you blink and realize that the shirt has no numbers on it and get depressed.
Your friends are sick off you bursting out in class "awww I miss them!!!" because you always talk about your FIRST friends.
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