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Bomberofdoom
19-04-2007, 17:26
You know you've overdosed on FIRST:
-When the only reason you wake up every morning and go to school is to talk with your friends about what you'll do when you get to start working after school.
Or
-When the season is over and the only thing you can think of talking about with your friends is about FIRST.
You know your friends overdosed when they are the one's to start talking to you about FIRST and you join them(then you know you are too).
It happens to us in our team almost all the time. :D
When... The "You know you've overdosed on FIRST" thread has over 500 replies... :yikes:
-q
When your to weak to tell Amanda "No you can't have my HAT" Then we start a thread about it. We all need some prof. help :) I have also found out the hard way, don't try to explain this to a nonFIRSTER. :confused:
Stephi Rae
20-04-2007, 20:59
-- 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.
Or you laugh because they actually jump out of the way afraid for their lives like "what the...??!!"
(should've posted this awhile ago)
When you are at BMR, on Saturday, your team is doing great, and you have to leave to get back to Indianapolis for a winter guard competition. You put off leaving so long, that by the time you get back to the school, the guard is on the bus, and the bus is waiting for you.:p
And on the way to the guard competition, you are wearing your guard shirt under your Cyber Blue jersey, along with your guard warmups.
And then, you don't perform as well in the guard competition since you missed practices all week for the BMR.:ahh:
And after the guard competition (which happened to be state prelims), you get on the bus and frantically call one of your team leaders, to find out how the team did. (Wearing your jersey again, and this time you ditched the warmups.)
And then, you find out how well you did, and start jumping up and down on the bus and make everyone mad (except for the one guy on tarp crew who used to be in robotics).
When asked by the guard captain, "What, you like robotics more than guard?"
You boldy say, "Yes," and everyone ignores you and your excitement the whole way home.:D
And even though your team did great you are still disappointed that you had to go to the guard competition and miss out on all the excitement and fun.:(
And finally, you meet your team back at the school, because you feel the need to compensate for your absence by just being there (and helping them unload).
YEP, I OVERDOSED ON FIRST; GOOD THING THERE ARE NO NEGATIVE EFFECTS.:D
team 1094
21-04-2007, 12:41
you know you've overdoes on frist when ...you wear nothign but FRIST clothing and make your car look like your teams robot.
Brice Brenneman
21-04-2007, 13:46
- when your at work and instead of working you go through and read 350 of the 500+ relies to this post instead of doing what you’re being paid to do *cough*cough*
- when your homepage is Chief Delphi and you spend and hour looking through it before moving on to what you really got on the internet for
- when you wish everyday there was only two weeks in between Championship and Kickoff again :D
- when you keep writing on a sorta pointless thread ;) just because it is on Chief Delphi
- when in the middle of championship eliminations (go Curie!!) and you call home (using someone else’s cell phone) to your little brother who has faithfully been watching and say "ha ha you’re not here!"
- when the most used program on your computer is Inventor
- when you look at your internet history and see that the last 8 weeks of internet sites are all FIRST related
- when your having trouble not thinking of ways that you're overdosed on FIRST
- when this is only your first year on the team and this is happening
Chris Fultz
21-04-2007, 20:58
when you arrive at Home Depot and suddenly realize that you are buying things for your HOME, and not a ROBOT, and it seems kinda strange...
In my english class, I was working on an essay with a team member...I was trying to think of how to write it, and i was trying to say 'i'm racking my brain...'
It came out as "I'm rack n' rol-- oh god.'
2056isaac
26-04-2007, 12:24
-Every time you stand up, you check your pockets for your hotel key
-Every time you hear the word "unsafe," you pull your safety glasses out of your back pocket and put them on
-Every time you have to do something hard, you think of a way to create a robot to do it for you (i.e. making your bed)
I just got an email with the subject line "Your ARM is going to readjust soon", and I'm wondering why the shop is telling me now about this, after Atlanta is over, and why they are emailing me this information. (It was a spam about Adjustable Rate Mortgages.)
BanksKid
26-04-2007, 14:58
my personal faverite... when you start pointing out teem logo's in everyday objects....
You understand how a 150 pound robot can fit in a footprint.
Bree Tonte
27-04-2007, 22:01
when you look at random everyday numbers and think of FIRST teams
When you see numbers and take on an emcee, announcing voice stating the team number and their name, very dramatically, driving everyone around you insane and catching strange looks from passersby.:p
Ericgehrken
28-04-2007, 00:42
When you are at your local Mc Donald's and build a rack with a cup and straws and then make tubes out of straws and play rack n roll.
BanksKid
28-04-2007, 16:51
When you see numbers and take on an emcee, announcing voice stating the team number and their name, very dramatically, driving everyone around you insane and catching strange looks from passersby.:p
some people sing in the shower........i pretend to be an emcee at championchips......:cool:
Cooley744
29-04-2007, 00:03
when your at the airport to go back home, you walk through the metal detector with all your pins on, it goes off and you look at your friends like "I'm not wearing any metal". What is going on? (i did that :( )
When you freak out the security gaurd because you forgot there were buttons in your carry-on.
When your friends start to not talk to you after competition because all you talk about is robots.
Cooley744
29-04-2007, 14:26
when your english papers suddenly start talking about robotics when they are supposed to be on the odyssey.
raymaniac
29-04-2007, 17:40
You're at an event totally unrelated to FIRST where people are cheering-and you want to start the blue alliance cheer
When you make "FIRST pants" in addition to your "rocket pants".
When you have an FRC robot in your bedroom!:eek:
When you have an FRC robot in your bedroom!:eek:
OO im soo jealous
Heh, You know you're overdosed on FIRST when...
...everyone you encounter at work knows your face because they saw a picture of you with spiked purple hair posted in some newsletter...
...at work, people stop to talk to you more about your picture slideshow screensaver of the robot competitions more than they talk to you about your work...
...you buy a VEX kit and parts with all the spare change you have lying around (being young and single has benefits ;) ) just so you can invent new creative ways that push the envelope in your quests to terrorize your roomate's 80lb dog (4 motors, 1:14 gear ratio pulling the dog around as he sat on a rug, then was able to switch gears to a 5:3 and chase him around)...
...now the dog now realises you're trying to throw the ball to play fetch, not to throw it AT him, so maybe sometimes he brings it back to the robot instead of you...
...you hear a really cool song on XM and record it just so you can go back later and figure out how to do a team wrap-up or recruitment video with it and pictures/videos of this season...
...then you later talk with your boss about said video and he wonders if you're staying focused at work (doh!)...
Nin_estarSaerah
30-04-2007, 18:04
you know you're overdosed on first
when you still have safety goggles in your purse
and you thought of this in science, and couldn't wait to get home to post it on chief delphi....
when you know exactly how long, to the day, it has been since the team has met, and you don't think it is odd.....
When you still sing wild thing and instead of substituting wild stang for wild thing
When you still clap to your self the MOE chant
Clap clap clapclapclap clapclapclapclap GO MOE
Brian J. R.
02-05-2007, 00:54
You know you overdosed on FIRST when:
Nearly all the links on the "Recent Activity" box are all clicked.
When you are sitting in Geometry and your math teacher says "Points CD" and it takes you a good 3 seconds to realize he is talking about the points on the arc of a circle, not Chief Delphi.
You have homework due tommarow for said Geometry class and you are writing this post instead. (Mark would kill me if he read this.....)
You understand my reference to Mark, and can see why he would kill me
You cheer for Woodie wearing a suit and chucks to the White House.
UPDATE:
I did the math
Stephi Rae
02-05-2007, 01:20
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
you can identify with every post on this thread, even though you're a part of a rookie team and have just finished your first year
you dropped your senior project that was already under way in order to develop a new one that would basically make the team self-sustaining from now on
even though you should be studying for the AP history test, you're working on your senior project and spending abominable amounts of time on CD
when your AP English teacher has something about CDs (concrete details) up on the board at the beginning of the class, and immediately you have to seek out everyone in the class that remotely knows about CD and tell them about the new threads or posts that you found the previous night. Then when they ask you if you finished the homework, you smile, and know that they are
more than aware of what you did instead. :rolleyes:
when your parent meetings run 1-2 hours over and no one wants to reduce the number of meetings a week to 2 days because everyone is still going through withdrawal
when your withdrawal is so bad that you just sit around at school anyways until the normal time that you would go home after robotics even though there is no scheduled meeting
when other members of your team are doing the same thing
when you realize that you have way too many answers for this thread and are going to force yourself to log off and go work on your senior project instead :yikes:
waiakea11
02-05-2007, 01:53
you begin trying to type numbers, and you notice that the only number coming up is 2024 or your team number...
you think that not having seen any robotics student in less than 3 hours means something has gone wrong...
you attend your botball competition and you are the most spirited there...
everyone looks at you weird when you paint your face and no one else does...
you go see your adviser every day hoping to see any robotics student randomly sitting there...
you think 2 hours of sleep is an accomplishment...
your father buys a book related to robotics and you instantaniously relate to everything in the book...
you wonder why dean kamen was not put into the book...
... when you keep playing with Inkscape, and realize that the numbers you keep writing with the caligraphy tool are team numbers, complete with color... (btw if you want one just ask. =D )
... when you keep looking at the clock and going, "Wow, if this was build season I'd still be working."
... When meeting days are what you look forward to.
alex1699
02-05-2007, 20:44
--you read 18 pages of this stuff
--when you find out work in a small confined place makes you act weird
--when some one says or team name on cd you go crazy
--when you got to convene the board of ed to keep it in you school
--8 weeks before and after all you no is robotics
WillisRF
02-05-2007, 23:53
When the Calculus question on you AP practice exam reminds of teams.
"Find the integral from 0 to 108..."
When the Calculus question on you AP practice exam reminds of teams.
"Find the integral from 0 to 108..."
Ha I like that one!
...when the only jokes that you talk about are inside jokes from robotics
...when there is a multiple choice question on a test and you are very inclined to bubble your team number or a familiar team's number even though it is the wrong answer
...when you annoy people by reciting team names when you see their numbers
...you get excited in Chemistry when you finish balancing an equation and the total comes out to 19O2 on one side and only 2 other people in the class know what you are talking about
...you realize that you wore all FIRST shirts the week after the Championship for no apparent reason
...your family alerts you when they see anything remotely related to robotics on the news
...you do the math!
...when explaining something you can always somehow relate it to robotics
...you are already planning on how to revolve your schedule next year around robotics
...when you have two years left and you are already sad about having to leave
gamErfrEEk
03-05-2007, 17:22
...When you go through security in the airport with your robotics stuff in a desinated "robotics suitcase" and then the X-ray guy looks at you really funny while some guy rips apart your shoes looking for a bomb.
...When your grades start to drop below 60% and then you think to yourself, hey, that's about how much of the robot we had built at the last competition.
...When your parents just start ignoring you because all you talk about is robotics stuff they have no clue about.
...When you are driving down the road and see a billboard and at a first glance you think that it was one of the the winning robots from the 2007 FRC.
...When you get caught on Chief Delphi or VEXForum during school, they write you up and then when you get back to class you go right back on the website.
...when you lose 2 friends a week becasue you won't shut-up about robotics
Pretty much all of this has happened to me....
you know you've overdosed on FIRST when....
there isn't any new posts on CD; you've read them all
you talk to your programming teacher who lets you do robot programming instead of visual basic....
you can't wait 'till the next robotics meeting (there really isn't enough :p )
you're posting in this thread......
raymaniac
04-05-2007, 18:38
I still have the band on from the team social, and when another team member noticed it, they said I should never take them off and just keep on adding them every year until my entire arm is covered wtih them...and now I really want to, even though it will probably drive people (especially my mom) crazy. Of course that just makes it even more fun.
Bomberofdoom
05-05-2007, 04:02
I'm seeing lots of posts in here giving a hint that some teams don't have enough robotics meetings.
Niether in ours.
Anyone has an idea what to do to make more meetings?
nuggetsyl
05-05-2007, 09:18
you know you overdosed on first when you still typing on this thread.:ahh:
whytheheckme
05-05-2007, 15:08
you think (like I do), you can't be overdosed on FIRST!
Jacob
Stephi Rae
05-05-2007, 17:19
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when even your SAT essay is about robotics!!:yikes:
Dreadfrost
05-05-2007, 17:38
Overdosed on FIRST when you go to Wikipedia.org to see what was said about Dean and Woodie.
Overdosed on FIRST whenyou start to tell the most amazing story but remeber your friend hate hearing sbout robotics.
Overdosed on FIRST when you couldnt stop youself from telling this story and now your only friend are ones on robotics.
Overdosed on FIRST when you believe the best Hero duo would include Dean Kamen.
Stephi Rae
05-05-2007, 23:14
you know you've overdosed on FIRST when you fall asleep after you finish the second section of the SAT early, and you dream about robotics.... in the middle of the SAT!! then when you wake up you have a great new idea for the teams' summer project bot... and can't tell anyone because its the middle of the SATs!!:ahh: :D
and when you post on this thread more than once in a day...
Brian J. R.
06-05-2007, 01:29
You know when you have overdosed on FIRST when
your teammate has posted in this thread more then once in a day, and you go to read what she said.
You get home from school and the first thing you do is open the internet, in which your homepage is Chief Delphi, and you leave it on till you parents yell at you to go to bed, in which you stay online for another half hour before finally going to bed.
You REALLY want to know what the genius idea is for the summer bot is, but isn't going to bother asking because you are going to hear about it tuesday.
You take Japanese after school because you didn't do so hot last quarter, but the minute it reaches a B you are out of there for robotics like a shot.
Your parents ask you which you which you plan to go to, Japanese after school or Robotics, and it takes you a second to realize what they want you to say.
Instead of having debats on which football team is better with your friends, you have debates on which drive train is better, mecanum or swerve (go swerve!)
When the 37th page of this thread is nearly all your team's posts
Nawaid Ladak
06-05-2007, 02:08
You wear your FIRST hat everyday to school, even though no one else knows about FIRST or cares in your school.
You wear your FIRST volenteer t-shirt to SAT's, Tampa, and on I-Drive all in one day, and by it you get 2 people intrested in FIRST.
When the second your told about anything new, you start to think of how you can fit FIRST into it...
When you wonder why the rest of your school doesn't appreciate your button collection.
BlondeNerd
07-05-2007, 15:52
When you are STILL adding pics from Championships to your facebook
When you are upset that your SAT prompt had nothing connectable to FIRST
When you read your copy of FIRST Robots: Behind the Design rather than study for your upcoming AP tests
horoponhorr
07-05-2007, 18:56
You find out that one of your teachers wears #857 lipstick and you go nuts.
animemonkey84
08-05-2007, 02:05
you fall asleep in class then wake up yelling "and the red team wins 8 to 0!"
You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you're working on a paper and spell park- PARC, and it looks funny to you spelled right.
Bum Liaison Jr.
08-05-2007, 22:40
You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you spend hours every day trying to think of something clever to say in this thread.
You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you have dreams (And nightmares) about what next year's game might be.
You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you worry whether or not your school district will keep money in the budget for turning FIRST into a district wide program next year even though you know that you knocked their socks off in the presentation that your team made and one of the school board members commented that it was "The most positive board meeting that I have ever attended". (Am I bragging too much here?)
You know you're overdosed on FIRST when your username makes you (and your fellow team members) laugh, but confuses everyone else.
Andrea's Mom
09-05-2007, 11:04
You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you worry whether or not your school district will keep money in the budget for turning FIRST into a district wide program next year even though you know that you knocked their socks off in the presentation that your team made and one of the school board members commented that it was "The most positive board meeting that I have ever attended". (Am I bragging too much here?)
No, you are not bragging too much - how great is it that the school board is even willing to consider making FIRST a district wide program? If it doesn't happen this year, keep hammering so they'll be ready for '08-'09. There is obviously interest there. Congratulations!
when your in drivers ed and your trying to parrallel park and realize it would be much easier if you had mecanums
gamErfrEEk
10-05-2007, 15:17
You get home from school and the first thing you do is open the internet, in which your homepage is Chief Delphi, and you leave it on till you parents yell at you to go to bed, in which you stay online for another half hour before finally going to bed.
When you are upset that your SAT prompt had nothing connectable to FIRST
That was me all over it. My parents nag at me and I was so bummed that I couldn't fit anything in with robotics for my SAT. If I could have fit robotics into it, I'm sure I would have gotten a 6 on that. On the other hand...I probably got a 900.
...when you spend hours looking for various orange merchandise for team spirit.
...when whenever someone gives you something you try to relate it to robotics.
...when you see anything orange you wonder how you could make it into team spirit.
Orange is my team color, can't you tell?
Athleticgirl389
10-05-2007, 19:13
... you go to Virginia for the NASCAR races and every time you see a team number, you either take a picutre of it or yell out the team name... [this photographer had on a 103 ID bib... couldnt help but say "woooo cybersonics"]
... you're engineering teacher says, "oh my gosh ashley. you aren't wearing a robotics shirt today... gotta be the first time in like a month. are you feeling ok or something??"
EDIT: ...you just realized your post number is at 303 and your first thought was, "Bridgewater!!! Now I must change the post I just made and add this..." and then you do =]
Bum Liaison Jr.
10-05-2007, 21:35
... you dream of electric sheep
... your team's robot is a registered student at your school
MishraArtificer
10-05-2007, 23:49
...when your parents ask after build season if they need to cook food again.
...when you realize that macaroni and cheese and bratwursts are essential food groups, and Dr. Pepper has more caffeine than Mountain Dew.
...when you can't wait for the next regional to see if you can finish your button-mail armor.
...when you keep playing "One Day More" from Les Miserables the last week of build season.
...when the people around you start saying, "We know you're a nerd! You can stop playing 'The Cantina Band' already!"
...when said people say the same thing about the Badger Song.
...when Magic, the Gathering gets into Robotics. (For those who know...Coalition Victory. Look it up.)
...when you can name something "Sexy Lexy," and get away with it. (Lexan.)
...when you start passing notes in class written in C++.
...when you ask someone for an Allen wrench, and they always hand you the one you want. (5/16ths. Every time.)
...when a band director will retract a comment against the robotics team for fear of starting a revolt.
...when summer vacation is not considered a welcome relief, but nerve wracking as one waits to check on the robotics room.
...when noobs are a good thing for next year's team, as we are losing half of it, including me, to aging out- sorry, graduation. (Where did I pull that drum corps reference?)
...when Legos suddenly become cool again as a senior in high school.:]
...when your school is hosting Band and Orchestra Festival the weekend of the GLR, and you split the difference between them.
To be continued...
...you get really upset because you can hardly find your team number everywhere
...you solve the above problem by finding stuff that says 429 (1629 in non-military time)
Stephi Rae
12-05-2007, 01:28
... when John Dudas is applying for admission as a student in your high school, and is accepted without interview by two members of the interview team that are also in robotics.
... when John Dudas is also running for office in your high school ASB.
When you get weird looks because you're flipping out over the morning announcements.
Hey-- You would too if the principal said "Amanda Morrison and Andrew Baker please report to the main office"...!
& No, I'm NOT joking.
Akash Rastogi
13-05-2007, 22:44
....when Dean Kamen autographs your team uniform and you think, "Wow, this is gonna be worth a million bucks in a few years.":yikes:
....when most of your closet is filled with robotics shirts from your team and other teams
....when you have made more friends on other teams in the first year you've been involved in FIRST than you've made in your first year of high school :D
....when you sat the whole day on your couch thinking of things to write in this thread
...you go to PARC and want to buy a small t-shirt, but they don't have anything smaller than an XL and you buy one anyway
...you wear said shirt the rest of the day
...you want to wear the shirt to school, but decide that swimming is not good in school
...you leave for PARC on Friday, compete on Saturday, have a demo on Sunday, and another demo on Wednesday, and still think that you should have another meeting on Monday or Tuesday
You write an english paper about robotics.
You draw a picture of a robot on multiple IB exams.
Your chemistry teacher bans robotics related conversations.
Stephi Rae
17-05-2007, 23:23
...your third big test in two weeks (this time AP Language and Composition) somehow manages to include robotics... again... (regarding the topic of charity and incentives)
...when your spanish teacher, (who just happens to have a thick japanese accent) introduces a new term "dudar", and the three robotics members can't stop laughing for the remaining twenty minutes of class, coming up with phrases such as Juan Dudas... and no me dudas... lol... :yikes:
whatever would we all do without John Dudas :ahh:
MishraArtificer
18-05-2007, 18:03
[QUOTE=Stephi Rae;627753...when your spanish teacher, (who just happens to have a thick japanese accent) introduces a new term "dudar", and the three robotics members can't stop laughing for the remaining twenty minutes of class, coming up with phrases such as Juan Dudas... and no me dudas... lol... :yikes:
whatever would we all do without John Dudas :ahh:[/QUOTE]
I live out in the Midwest, and I don't get it. Hate me if you want, but...
:confused: WHO IS JON DUDAS?!!:confused:
Stephi Rae
18-05-2007, 19:50
hahaha, don't worry about it.
There was an ad or something for Jon Dudas on the big screens at the champs in Atlanta. He works at the patent office. Our team has been obsessed with the word dodeum (not actually a word, but a "creation" by a team member), so I guess the close connection set them off. When mentioned previously on this thread I believe, we were all astonished by a post acknowledging that we were not the only team to have noticed Jon Dudas. Therefore I really am not surprised that you have never heard of it. And it is definitely a sign to me that we have clearly overdosed on FIRST. Late nights create new words, and then more late nights and exciting competitions just take it to a whole new level!! :yikes:
234smidget
19-05-2007, 21:44
when you wait for your team number to appear ex.Cyberblue234 on your clock and you become excited when that moments come.
or you will just shout out in middle of your friends conversation to tell them it is 2:34. :D:D
When you sit and read all 568 posts in this thread because you are bored.
mormannoob
19-05-2007, 23:03
When you use your safety goggles to keep grass out of your eyes while cutting the yard.
Stephi Rae
20-05-2007, 16:05
...when you go to the dentist and they say "here are your glasses, sorry they're scratched" and you say, "oh that's alright I've got my own," which you pull out of your purse your pristine, shiny, streamlined personal safety glasses signed by Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers, and they just stare....
(did I mention that my dad's a dentist, and I've known this hygenist since I was born, but I haven't seen them since I started robotics in January... too busy... lol)
I live out in the Midwest, and I don't get it. Hate me if you want, but...
:confused: WHO IS JON DUDAS?!!:confused:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Dudas
.....When you spellcheck your Philosophy essay and you realize that you have many cases in which you've capitalized all the letters in the word FIRST.
i.e. "In Thomas Hobbe's FIRST work of philosophical theories,.."
HypnoticSheep
21-05-2007, 22:09
When you see someone on a Segway and your first thought is "Where's my safety goggles?"
when you want to destroy something you spent 6 weeks making so you have something to do :D
Stephi Rae
22-05-2007, 02:46
When you see someone on a Segway and your first thought is "Where's my safety goggles?"
... when you look in your purse, or reach and touch the top of your head, and say "oh, there they are..."
Josh Murphy
22-05-2007, 21:36
You are watching a basketball game and the score is like 33 to 25 with 3:65 left in the quarter or 47 to 45 with 11:14 left in the quarter and the FIRST thing you think about is FIRST.;)
Stephi Rae
23-05-2007, 03:04
... when you don't have any homework and finally might be able to get a little sleep, but you stay up later than usual thinking about your FIRST related senior project and surfing CD...
...when you finally realize that FIRST is really like a cult --once you're in, you really can never leave
...when you're almost late to get back to the meeting after dinner because you're busy talking about college plans with a freshman and sophomore that you drove to dinner
...when you finally also realize that FIRST has become you're true family, not to mention that you pretty much live with the team and not with those people who are technically your family just because you share some genetic patterns....
whlspacedude
23-05-2007, 15:00
You are watching a basketball game and the score is like 33 to 25 with 3:65 left in the quarter or 47 to 45 with 11:14 left in the quarter and the FIRST thing you think about is FIRST.;)
How do you have 3:65 left?
[QUOTE=Stephi Rae;628709
...when you finally also realize that FIRST has become you're true family, not to mention that you pretty much live with the team and not with those people who are technically your family just because you share some genetic patterns....[/QUOTE]
haha....you know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
.... you're non-FIRST friends don't see you except walking in the halls betweenclasses during build season.
....when the season is over you feel this giant void inside like your life is over...
...when you finally get over realizing that your life isn't going to end, you realize that your life is suddenly boring and you have nothing to do in your spare time except plan and program (and even sometimes build) for next year, not wven knowing anything about it.
Billfred
23-05-2007, 19:21
...when you write your essay for a program in the marketing department at college and talk about Mission Mayhem.
...when you take your mom's car to the car wash and realize "Hey, those wheel scrubbers are four-bar linkages!"
...when you fill two 1 GB memory cards on your camera, and then some, at the Championship, just on Saturday.
...you spend half of your Pre-Calculus class talking about robotics with the teacher and the rest of the class hoping to recruit new members
...the next week, you again spend about 15 minutes of the same class comparing why students should come to robotics in the fall rather than hassling with marching band tryouts/workouts all summer
...you realize that you wrote all of your essays for a summer program about robotics and weirdness...and it worked!
...you can finally talk about robotics in your German/English class without annoying the teacher
...you insert "If you were in robotics, you would know what we were talking about..." regularly into conversation to spark interest
Okay, I've got an interesting one...
This past weekend I was booking travel accomodations for when I go to CMU this summer. After booking my plane ticket I was searching for ground transportation from the airport to campus on the Port Authority website. Under the bus section I see Rack N' Roll under their customer info section and immediately think "OMG they have a FIRST bus! I must get on it! I don't care where it takes me!!" I click on the link...turns out that it is just the name of their program where you can put your bike on the front of the bus.:rolleyes:
http://www.portauthority.org/PAAC/CustomerInfo/RacknRoll/tabid/267/Default.aspx
-No L
*YAY POST 108!!!* (<--- you know you're overdosed when you're excited about this)
raymaniac
25-05-2007, 20:17
On my Spanish PALS yesterday, I filled up four or five of the necessary 15 sentences talking about robotics. The topic I was writing about was my daily routine.
Brian J. R.
25-05-2007, 21:44
...when you are in the grocery store and you treat a cart like a mecanum bot.
Laura_587
28-05-2007, 18:12
...you go to a museum and say "hey, we used those same nuts on our robot!"
(don't worry, we left right after that to get some sleep)
...after programming for 5 hours straight for omni wheels you don't have, you try to figure out how your dog is programmed...
if(food_in_front_of_nose){
goto();
eat();
walk_away();
}
Josh Murphy
29-05-2007, 21:45
How do you have 3:65 left?
I meant 36.5 seconds left
Nin_estarSaerah
29-05-2007, 22:19
your non-FIRST friends can identify team numbers and names, because you scream out numbers when a name is mentioned, or vice versa.
Stephi Rae
30-05-2007, 20:20
...when your purse breaks and you plan on fixing it with a bolt, nut and some locktite...
Athleticgirl389
30-05-2007, 20:27
... when your psychology journal for the day was to describe a routine and you describe everything you do prior to a robotics competition [I started from startegy til the MC says "3 2 1 GO!"
Chris Marra
30-05-2007, 20:29
You put a demonstration rack in your pool, and none of your family found that weird.
Molly Stieber
31-05-2007, 09:45
When you are taking the Chairman's trophy your team won home for your graduation party, and you seatbelt it in to the front seat so that it couldn't possibly get hurt, or broken.
BandChick
31-05-2007, 11:12
When you are taking the Chairman's trophy your team won home for your graduation party, and you seatbelt it in to the front seat so that it couldn't possibly get hurt, or broken.
Wait, I thought everyone did that...
-When you spend 41 hours in a week working on your robot, and it isn't even build season!
-when someone asks you the temperature and you say Beatty (team Hammond) inside, and Hyper outside. And they understand you!
-when there are frc tools in your foyer, (the robot is gone now:( ), ringers and keepers on your couch, bumpers on a chair, aluminum crumbs in your basement, a caliper on your desk, and soon to be a robot in your car.
...when you insist on telling your non-FIRST friends [in detail] a blow-by-blow account of what happened at Championships.
None of them really cared. D:
Stephi Rae
02-06-2007, 04:11
... when you are close to tears at the though of having to take off your bracelet from the after-party at the championships for the end of the year dance, and are seriously considering either figuring out how to get them back on, or just not taking them off.:rolleyes:
Athleticgirl389
02-06-2007, 12:21
... when you are close to tears at the though of having to take off your bracelet from the after-party at the championships for the end of the year dance, and are seriously considering either figuring out how to get them back on, or just not taking them off.:rolleyes:
took me about a week to actually take it off... i still have it in my photo album =]
took me about a week to actually take it off... i still have it in my photo album =]
I still have mine sitting next to my bed!:cool:
Stephi Rae
04-06-2007, 21:57
...when everyone stares at you in Coldstone because you're so excited about the new "Dew Iced"... who ever knew a mountain dew smoothie could make my day? lol
And I was able to get it off without cutting it, i'll be putting it back on tomorrow... I'm really excited!! lol...:D
Branden Gee
05-06-2007, 16:56
Would you call sitting around in class making up songs about robotics and the members an OD?
Athleticgirl389
05-06-2007, 17:32
Would you call sitting around in class making up songs about robotics and the members an OD?
Not at all. We call that... therapy for FIRSTers :p
I go around singing ANY robotics related song =]
raymaniac
05-06-2007, 19:41
... when you are close to tears at the though of having to take off your bracelet from the after-party at the championships for the end of the year dance, and are seriously considering either figuring out how to get them back on, or just not taking them off.:rolleyes:
took me about a week to actually take it off... i still have it in my photo album =]
I still have mine sitting next to my bed!:cool:
I still have mine on-and it's really annoying some people
BlondeNerd
05-06-2007, 20:26
...when your friend is talking about a noodle fight and you can think of a much better use for pool noodles
...when a team member mentions Madame Curie in a game and you call them a nerd, only to find that they were not, in fact, referring to a division
...when you spend your time online looking up CNC mills and toolboxes
...when you go to Border's before prom and your friend hands you a robot book
...when you actually already own aforementioned robot book
...when you are sad that you had to clean the robot pictures out of your locker a week before school ended. Now it looks so bare!!:(
...when you actually take off of work to go to an offseason robotics meeting
Stephi Rae
05-06-2007, 20:29
Would you call sitting around in class making up songs about robotics and the members an OD?
What class were you in bgee? there were no classes today... lol...
but anyways...
...when there is no class and a few of you spend the entire school day working on robotics related things... even during the presentations by college admissions people... lol and are the only ones that don't consider the day a waste of time
...when you're not surprised that your coach lights microwave popcorn on fire in the robotics room for the third time in three months, resulting in smoke, lights, buzzer, and another visit from the fire department. :ahh: :yikes: :D
...you spend an hour or so in borders in the engineering section wondering why there isn't anything about FIRST, or Dean Kamen, and especially why they don't have their own separate sections, or better yet, bookstores! (I ended up buying a giant calculus book so I can better apply what I've taught myself in independent study calc... lol)
when you are at a district choral concert that just happened to be in the same place as the nearest regional causing you to have strong urges to put on safety glasses and walk over to where your pit was in the past year
HypnoticSheep
06-06-2007, 22:08
...when you and your guidance counselor spend a full hour rearranging your entire schedule so you can fit in the brand new Robotics course. :D Lunch is overrated.
cooker52
06-06-2007, 22:11
...when you and your guidance counselor spend a full hour rearranging your entire schedule so you can fit in the brand new Robotics course. :D Lunch is overrated.
Excuse me, but, Lunch, and all of the other meals in any case, are NEVER! overrated.:rolleyes: Trust me, you really shouldn't miss any meals, it's bad for your health. At least have some sort of snack, an orange, something. Keep your energy constant.
HypnoticSheep
06-06-2007, 22:13
Excuse me, but, Lunch, and all of the other meals in any case, are NEVER! overrated.:rolleyes: Trust me, you really shouldn't miss any meals, it's bad for your health. At least have some sort of snack, an orange, something. Keep your energy constant.
Yeah, we get this pass that lets us go grab food during another period. Believe me, it'd take alot to stop me from eating. :D
Would you call sitting around in class making up songs about robotics and the members an OD?Don't leave us hanging! What are the words? What are the tunes?
You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you actually want to know the words to songs about robotics! :D
HypnoticSheep
06-06-2007, 23:16
Don't leave us hanging! What are the words? What are the tunes?
You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you actually want to know the words to songs about robotics! :D
You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you want to learn the songs and sing them at competition. :D
Stephi Rae
06-06-2007, 23:46
...you know you've overdosed on FIRST when you are angry that you don't have meetings everyday so you can ask your teammate (b.gee) what the songs are and learn them in person, therefore going into yet another deep round of FIRST withdrawal!:ahh:
Nin_estarSaerah
07-06-2007, 16:41
you know you are overdosed on first, when you still think anything bright green could distract the camera. when you are preparing for a robotics summer camp, and you cant decide which team t-shirt to take. when you start randomly taking things apart, just to be able to build something.
You show everyone you know this post and you have read it a million times. And you also know that you have done all of these things yourself.
955Tyler
07-06-2007, 22:16
...You find yourself writing Autonomous code during math class
you know you are overdosed on first, when you still think anything bright green could distract the camera. when you are preparing for a robotics summer camp, and you cant decide which team t-shirt to take. when you start randomly taking things apart, just to be able to build something.
Take them all!
ajisjesus
13-06-2007, 21:05
when you come to the sad realization that this actually quite acurrate...:eek:
Nin_estarSaerah
14-06-2007, 23:03
when you keep coming back to this thread to see what people have posted
Stephi Rae
17-06-2007, 17:02
...When you're in DC for the Naval Academy Summer Seminar and see people going down the street on segways and yell STOP!! so you can get out your camera and take a picture.
...when you see those segways, the first thing you think is to look and see if you recognize any of them (the people on them that is...lol)
...when you are seriously depressed that when you try to talk to anyone about FIRST they have no idea what's going on, but you find someone that's involved in FIRST, and it magically works out that you have the same afternoon schedule and end up winning the balloon car race, and talking about FIRST for 4 hours!!!
...when you're both super excited to learn that the Naval Academy is involved in FIRST, and are currently looking for which team they are involved in.
...when you go through withdrawel from CD after being w/o internet access for a week (resulting in a long post like this)
Stephi Rae
17-06-2007, 17:04
when you keep coming back to this thread to see what people have posted
...when every time you come back to check, you are disappointed at how many times you yourself have posted, but then come up with something new to say and say it anyways... even if you were the last person to post... lol :yikes:
Stephi Rae
17-06-2007, 17:40
...when you're on a FIRST related facebook group and just have to post this up right away
...when you no longer care that it will be your third post in a row on this thread
...when it's not the first time that this has happened
...when you will dive in front of the robot when someone (*cough* Tedrick *cough*) decides to figure out what happens when you mix a C-clamp and a water bottle, and points it at the robot... ! :ahh: !
Athleticgirl389
17-06-2007, 19:27
... you travel from Central Jersey to Worcester, MA for the weekend just to be at BattleCry and you're team isn't even competiting
HypnoticSheep
17-06-2007, 23:50
...your autonomous code doesn't work and your bot just spins in a circle and you start spinning along with it during a match. :D
BlondeNerd
18-06-2007, 15:00
...while emptying out your backpack for summer, you realize that most of your school supplies are team handouts.
...your friends actually know what you're talking about when you ask for your "Lenny Pen (team 2234)" or your "robot highlighter"
...when school ends next monday and you cant wait till it comes back so you're even closer to FIRST season, then when school starts, you can't wait till January when the season actually starts
overdose on first? impossible
Macdaddy549
18-06-2007, 20:20
You know your hooked on FIRSt when you check Cheifdelphi.com when you sign on in the morning to see if anything new is posted.
You know your hooked on FIRSt when you check Cheifdelphi.com when you sign on in the morning to see if anything new is posted.
i've done that just a few times...
...you check CD for new posts, then check msn, then come right back 30 seconds later to check CD
Pavan Dave
18-06-2007, 20:51
When you start making references to CD and to parts of Dave's speeches in normal conversations and on English assignments.
Athleticgirl389
19-06-2007, 15:37
When you start making references to CD and to parts of Dave's speeches in normal conversations and on English assignments.
Not just on English assignments, but any asignment that could possibly allow you to relate anything to do with FIRST... like math, science, psychology, gym...
cooker52
19-06-2007, 15:39
You are truly disappointed when you see nothing has changed on CD.
Nin_estarSaerah
19-06-2007, 16:53
when you are at camp, and have an oppostunity to get online for the first time in some time, and the first thing you check is chiefdelphi, and the second, your team message board.
when everyone you meet knows within the first 2 minutes that you are on a robotics team - including the doctor, the lady at the spa, admissions counselors for half a dozen colleges, the lady sitting behind you at the stadium adn her son, and countless other strangers and acquaintances
matt 1923
19-06-2007, 21:33
....you set as one of your home pages and now people think your on CD at 3 in the morning
...the only shirts you have to wear are for robotics.
Branden Gee
20-06-2007, 04:45
....you set as one of your home pages and now people think your on CD at 3 in the morning
you are on CD at 3 in the morining
Athleticgirl389
20-06-2007, 09:55
....you set as one of your home pages and now people think your on CD at 3 in the morning
Who's NOT on CD at 3 in the morning? Not like we have anything kooler to do than browse the good ol CD :p
But you know you've overdosed on FIRST when your least favorite month is one where there is no competition close to you to attend.
Adare180
20-06-2007, 10:07
...when your options for a prom date all are robotics kids, and the group you invite over for the after party are part of your team cult...
...when everytime you see a team number, you get an adrenaline rush and share some of the latest team stats with everyone your with, even if they are not fellow firsters.
GeorgeTheEng
20-06-2007, 13:12
... you take a year off your job as a engineer for a large defense contractor to work for FIRST and them grow their intermediate level program...
... you get personalized license plates that read "1ST VEX" when you move to NH
... you get personalized license plates again when you return to NJ
Akash Rastogi
20-06-2007, 21:09
....when you should be studying for your very first final exam tomorrow but you still feel the need to go on CD and post something.:D
....i should get back to studying
HypnoticSheep
20-06-2007, 21:25
...you recognize the way Best Buy programmed their online application form. (radio buttons FTW)
...you think the way Best Buy set up said application form is pretty cool.
...immediately after this recognition, you race to ChiefDelphi (halfway through the application) to post about it. :D
...when you nearly die after seeing the specs on the laptop you're working to buy this summer. (160gb hard drive and 4gb RAM for $700... easily 20 times better than my current desktop :D)
cooker52
21-06-2007, 10:36
When you have two internet browsers/ tabs opened on CD.
When you waste your time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time) on changing the color,size, and font (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font) of every word in one post.
Very Guilty indeed.:D
EDIT: Surprised they let that much code in one post.
MishraArtificer
21-06-2007, 23:45
...when you're stuck in Anacoco, LA for the summer and you're looking for nerds to hang with, and you go to CD to ask.
Anybody?
When playing World of Warcraft:
... When all of your guildmates know about FIRST
... When all of your Aussie mates know about FIRST, and you keep trying to convice them to start a team
... When all the GM's on your server know about FIRST
...when you look at the clock and instantly think of which team has that number and tell everyone around you everything you know about that team (it drives my mom crazy :D )
When you finally find a "robot" you can build, and you immediately think-I should post this on cd.
http://www.avam.org/brainfood/index.html# (look at links on left)
BTW-this is one of my favorite museums!
Brian J. R.
23-06-2007, 19:59
When you go to send in your laptop for repairs but 20 minutes later make a mad dash back to the store because you forgot that you have very important graphics files on there, telling the people at the store in detail why you need it back, and figure its only cosmetic damage anyways.
When playing World of Warcraft:
... When all of your guildmates know about FIRST
... When all of your Aussie mates know about FIRST, and you keep trying to convice them to start a team
... When all the GM's on your server know about FIRST
A bunch of my team is in my guild so guild chat often became robotics chat. That or we go afk in AV while we discuss gearbox design on vent. :P
cooker52
24-06-2007, 21:14
You look forward to going to IRI more than you look forward to getting your driver's license (which can be three days after IRI)
Nin_estarSaerah
26-07-2007, 21:20
when school doesn't start for a month, and your team is already planning for next years competitions, over your team forum.
BlondeNerd
27-07-2007, 11:40
when you remember your employee number for work because it is one number higher than a team you know
Jeremiah Johnson
27-07-2007, 11:55
...you wonder if they have white ink to do a FIRST logo tattoo.
when you specifically request the parking pass with your team number on it...
Tottanka
27-07-2007, 12:42
When there is an off season event coming up, and you find yourself sitting at a Lecture in Uni, drawing the new gripper you want to suggest eveyone to build...
waiakea11
27-07-2007, 13:27
...when you attend other competitions, spiking your hair and painting your face because thats what you did during FIRST.
...you tell the new freshmen all the time and energy you put into FIRST and see the excitement, fun, and the mild look of horror in their eyes :).
This is more a "you know you're a nerd if..." but i haven't seen a thread for something like that.
...you spend an hour walking the half mile to your mailbox and back waiting for your AP test scores.
Tottanka
28-07-2007, 07:28
You have dreams about posting on Chief Delphi...
Tottanka
30-07-2007, 07:38
When you have a class at room 148, and you recall how their robot looked, what has it done, and that it lost in semifina in Newton along with 1574 as Alliance 2
alex1699
30-07-2007, 10:40
...When you decide that its not only more punk rock but also more practical to have your ripped clothing held together by cotter pins instead of safety pins.
so ture so true 2006 hartford
cdennisxlx2
30-07-2007, 13:07
--When you took a week to read every single post in this thread only to realize you have done more then 98% of them ;)
Stephi Rae
30-07-2007, 16:34
...when you get end up in the hospital because of an infection and the first thing you ask the nurse before going into surgery is "there's wireless that i can connect my laptop to right?" for the sake of staying connected to CD, etc.
...when there isn't and after the weeklong hospital stay you are finally home and have read as much as possible and now plan to sleep for two days straight. :yikes:
...when reading "CD" does not instantly make you think of compact disks.
Jeremiah Johnson
01-08-2007, 11:33
...when you play for the state championship for Campus Legend in NCAA Football '08 and realize that Moline (648) and Rolling Meadows (111) high schools play against each other in FIRST, also.
...your at the warped tour, and you look back, and you see someone wearing a 494 shirt. haha
alex1699
06-08-2007, 21:22
I have almost finished my button mail shirt....
When Championship rolls around i will have to get a helm...
im makeing a wall
Akash Rastogi
27-08-2007, 12:15
When you should finally start your 5 summer assignments and there is only 1 week left of summer....but you still go on CD
Tottanka
27-08-2007, 12:51
When you can name teams from your home regional according to numbers. All of them.
Bomberofdoom
27-08-2007, 14:23
When you should finally start your 5 summer assignments and there is only 1 week left of summer....but you still go on CD
Gah!:ahh:
Thanks for reminding me, ahh I gotta' work!!!:eek: :ahh: :ahh:
When you can name teams from your home regional according to numbers. All of them.Try doing that for L.A. I can't, and that's my home regional! (I'd probably get about halfway through, if that.) It's only about 50-60 teams...
You know you're overdosed when you work for two weekends getting ready for an event that you already know you'll miss.
Nuttyman54
29-08-2007, 10:47
When you know other people's team numbers, but they don't...
When you're posting in Chief Delphi during the middle of your engineering class.
(Don't worry, I have permission/I'm actually a teacer's assistant/etc, always put academics first)
When you are mad that you can't recognize your locker number as a team you know anything about.
When you spend more time at home depot than at home.
When you have a "who's on first" style conversation every so often about the weather
Me: It's supposed to be HOT out today
Brother: Not really, it's only going to get to 67
Me: 67 is HOT
and so on
StephLee
29-08-2007, 19:48
You're told to pick a number for a new textbook that has no number yet, and you instantly respond with your team number.
animemonkey84
30-08-2007, 04:36
...you end up getting perscription safety glasses because you wear them so often
...you get kicked out of other school clubs from missing so many meetings to work on the robot
...you're homework has greasy fingerprints on it from doing homework on the car ride home from the shop
...when you step into the shop you yell "I'm home!"
...when you're mother finds spare nuts and bolts in you're pockets while doing laundry
...you have a whole set of clothes just for working in the shop
...you are so used to living off of 4 hours of sleep thats now you're max
BanksKid
02-09-2007, 19:02
.......if you consider kickoff to be re-hab..:cool:
... when your teacher says "Do the Math"
without realizing what you're doing, you yell "MARK LEOOOONNNN!"
and then your teacher gives you an utmost confused look. (haha just happened to me today)
When you wait just so that your post number is your team number.
;)
EDIT: (Drat, missed it.)
Tetraman
06-09-2007, 23:55
--After watching Wakko from animaniacs sing the US states and their capitols song, youstart devising a way to do it for FIRST team names and their numbers.
When you see a contest called, "Pimp My Bookcart" and start to design one in your team spirit. "Orange and Grey."
Yes, that contest really exists.
neutrino15
07-09-2007, 12:57
when you are excited to go back to school after an awesome summer, only because robotics is starting again.
Bomberofdoom
07-09-2007, 14:42
I firmly believe you're the most overdosed on FIRST in your team when you are the CEO/President/Team Leader of you team (or atleast somekind of leader in the team).
Tottanka
07-09-2007, 14:45
I firmly believe you're the most overdosed on FIRST in your team when you are the CEO/President/Team Leader of you team (or atleast somekind of leader in the team).
Ill have to dissagree.
Sometimes the leader is just bussy well, leading. While a mechanic can be much more into FIRST, and do more FIRST realted stuff than him.
Bomberofdoom
07-09-2007, 14:52
Should probablly fix what I said.
If no one in your team want's to be the leader, the one that is the most overdosed on FIRST will volunteer to do it.
Sounds good?
Tottanka
07-09-2007, 14:55
Should probablly fix what I said.
If no one in your team want's to be the leader, the one that is the most overdosed on FIRST will volunteer to do it.
Sounds good?
Yep =]
germansamurai16
07-09-2007, 14:56
you see girls with football players nubers on their cheek and think that thats their team
and then wonder y theyre at ur school
When you occasionally look off in the distance and say, "I want to go home...." but everyone knows you really just want to go back to competition, because to you its become home.
I wish Cal Games was longer....
StephLee
17-10-2007, 18:21
When you occasionally look off in the distance and say, "I want to go home...." but everyone knows you really just want to go back to competition, because to you its become home.
I wish Cal Games was longer....
Home for me is our shop. It just smells like home.
Yeah, I'm definately overdosed.
you write an English paper on FIRST vs. BattleBots and find it's the easiest thing you've ever written.
you get help for said paper by starting a thread (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=59179) on ChiefDelphi :cool:
MishraArtificer
18-10-2007, 22:15
Home for me is our shop. It just smells like home.
Yeah, I'm definately overdosed.
...you admit on CD that the shop is more like home than home, to find out you're not the only only one.
God, I miss the shop. One of these days, I'll pop in and see if the first bot I helped build is still there. It's probably been scavenged into nonexistence by now, though. That's what I get for graduating.
God, I hate getting old. Don't get old. It sucks.:sad:
You can memorize a combination not by the numbers themselves but by what FIRST teams are represented by those numbers.
You can memorize a combination not by the numbers themselves but by what FIRST teams are represented by those numbers.
YES! My bank account :p.
You write two essays about FIRST after hearing your entire life that you can't write and they come out reasonably well. A comment from a long-time friend: "shockingly eloquent."
hipsterjr
19-10-2007, 16:44
in essays, you use Jesus, Gondi, and Dean Kamen in the same sentence!
Bethany Mc.
19-10-2007, 17:05
...you wear a FIRST volunteer shirt and an intertube over your jeans to school:)
-When you reschedule your vacation so that you can watch the IRI webcast.
-When your pants weigh three times as much as normal during build.
-When you are involved with four different robotics teams, as well as two independent robotics projects, at the same time.
-When you spend a fair amount of your spare time coming up with FIRST related lyrics for songs.
-When you remember phone numbers, addresses, etc. by team number.
-When it takes you several tries to not put some kind of robotics reference in your definition of "Vex" for English class.
-When CD is your homepage, except during build, when it switches to McMaster-Carr.
-When someone on your team asks where you live outside of the shop and you respond "Home Depot"
-When you ask for and recieve lexan for your birthday.
-When you still have all your buttons from when you went to Atlanta with FLL in 2005.
-When you always, ALWAYS carry at least 5 zip-ties with you.
Come on, January 5th, get here:(
-When you reschedule your vacation so that you can watch the IRI webcast.
-When your pants weigh three times as much as normal during build.
-When you are involved with four different robotics teams, as well as two independent robotics projects, at the same time.
-When you spend a fair amount of your spare time coming up with FIRST related lyrics for songs.
-When you remember phone numbers, addresses, etc. by team number.
-When it takes you several tries to not put some kind of robotics reference in your definition of "Vex" for English class.
-When CD is your homepage, except during build, when it switches to McMaster-Carr.
-When someone on your team asks where you live outside of the shop and you respond "Home Depot"
-When you ask for and recieve lexan for your birthday.
-When you still have all your buttons from when you went to Atlanta with FLL in 2005.
-When you always, ALWAYS carry at least 5 zip-ties with you.
Come on, January 5th, get here:(
The thing about heavy pants is oh so true (I have my mini-maglite, a racheting screwdriver with a built in holder with the alan wrench bit, a philips, and flat head bits, my lucky rock, a pen or two, needle nose pliers, etc)
The zip tie idea is pretty ingenious, I'm going to start doing that.
You know youve over dosed on FIRST when you get nostalgic when smelling aluminum outside of the shop :D
-vivek
Akash Rastogi
19-10-2007, 20:28
-When an electrical system begins to look like a fun game to play with. :D
synth3tk
19-10-2007, 22:03
... you spend every waking moment telling everyone you know that another season is starting, over and over again.
..you look at a stack of ringers and wonder how many points it is worth
..you get ahold of a ringer and have it hanging up in your room
..you have another ringer in your room that you are using as a pillow/coach =p
Pat McCarthy
20-10-2007, 23:24
...you hear a song played often during the tournament portion of an event and your adrenaline levels and heart rate shoot up in a Pavlovian-like response.
StephLee
21-10-2007, 08:31
...Your birthday cake is in the shape of a keeper.
(Pictures coming later today. :) )
... When you think of how to put small steps on a robot so that all the small children asking about it can look in for longer, rather then relying on you to pick them up.
..you look at a stack of ringers and wonder how many points it is worth
..you get ahold of a ringer and have it hanging up in your room
..you have another ringer in your room that you are using as a pillow/coach =p
... when you look at a stack of ringers and you KNOW how many points it is worth.
sorry... my bad.
when you look at a stack of ringers and KNOW how many poitns it is worth
when you look at a stack of ringers and know in what orientation on a rack would they be worth most.
whytheheckme
22-10-2007, 22:17
When you write your CD handle where it says Name:____________ on the front of the blue book for your physics exam.
sorry... my bad.
when you look at a stack of ringers and KNOW how many poitns it is worth
when you look at a stack of ringers and know in what orientation on a rack would they be worth most.
That would be zero--the ringers only count on the rack.
When you see a stack of ringers and start designing a device to put them on the rack.
When you can manage to relate robotics concepts to your current project. (Aero Design for SDSM&T)
basicxman
23-10-2007, 08:27
when you discover patterns in the game pieces each year
Jablonski@1250
23-10-2007, 09:08
Just a quick one-when you empty any jean pockets, you stillfind tools and small bits off robots.
You also know its bad when you know whose robot they came off of.-I know from personal experience.
Your friends tell you to STOP WEARING DENIM and start dressing like a girl.
Your friends tell you to STOP WEARING DENIM and start dressing like a girl.
And your friends tell you to stop wearing robotics t-shirts...
Dan Petrovic
23-10-2007, 21:40
...your study hall is consumed by scribbling possible chassis designs on a sheet of paper with a fellow FIRST member for the upcoming game.
That's happened both today and yesterday....
basicxman
23-10-2007, 23:09
...your study hall is consumed by scribbling possible chassis designs on a sheet of paper with a fellow FIRST member for the upcoming game.
That's happened both today and yesterday....
yah study hall:yikes: i prefer doing this in math or english class (they get a little boring reviewing integers for the 100th time)
danshaffer
23-10-2007, 23:50
when you're in the machine shop and then the programming captain comes in and starts yelling at you to finish the website and takes over the lathe because the programming isn't going well either... and it's still october.
when you know how many days until kickoff (73)
when you stay late after calgames to disassemble the rack to grab your team number in spiderlegs
when you spend 12 hours at calgames, even though your robot isn't there...
when you're in the shop until 5 or 6 every day after school, starting in august
wendymom
24-10-2007, 10:37
When your children accuse you of being worse than the military when it comes to recruiting.
When your children swear you can turn any conversation into a robotics discussion
When your children start apologizing to people the minute they walk in the door because they know you will start bombarding them with robot talk
JaneYoung
24-10-2007, 10:57
When your children accuse you of being worse than the military when it comes to recruiting.
When your children swear you can turn any conversation into a robotics discussion
When your children start apologizing to people the minute they walk in the door because they know you will start bombarding them with robot talk
Rock on Wendy. :)
..
when you have to clean out your car before the upcoming competition this weekend -
you car has:
- a crate of window motors in the way back
- flags, signs, cases of water in the back seat
- a tool box containing the jack for the trailer and the rough drafts/outlines for a new handbook in the middle seat
- brochures, maps, newspaper articles, and material for an upcoming competition in the front passenger seat
Nothing that has to be cleaned out of the car belongs to me.
Heh. I've got two milkcrates full of programming notebooks in my car, plus (occasionally) a storage box filled with my vex robot. While I justify buying this mini-SUV so the whole family can fit in the car for vacations, I did check to see if it would fit a robot. Never did test that. Yet. (In the old days it was to make sure I could get sheets of plywood in the back. At least I've upgraded, but not as classy as my father, who kept his Chevette for the longest time just to transport his harpsichord around.)
I fear the day when my daughter reallizes shes in robotics only because her parents are both involved. She hasn't got to wendymom's level yet, but I've got two more years.
....you purchase an SUV instead of a sedan for your family vehicle because FRC robots don't normally fit in the trunk of a car
MishraArtificer
25-10-2007, 18:27
While I justify buying this mini-SUV so the whole family can fit in the car for vacations, I did check to see if it would fit a robot. Never did test that. Yet. (In the old days it was to make sure I could get sheets of plywood in the back. At least I've upgraded, but not as classy as my father, who kept his Chevette for the longest time just to transport his harpsichord around.)
Hm. I can fit our '07 bot in my sister's trunk. On its side. With the seats folded down. When she's not hauling 4 euphonium cases in it. (Ford Escort WAGON, YO!).
And-wait. You can FIT a harpsichord in a CHEVETTE?!! How much hacking was involved?
when you believe that the best smells are freshly cut metal, and fresh sawdust
Hm. I can fit our '07 bot in my sister's trunk. On its side. With the seats folded down. When she's not hauling 4 euphonium cases in it. (Ford Escort WAGON, YO!).
Hey, that was my old car. Yeah, probably could get a robot in there, but it was getting old and I didn't trust it for long trips. Had to buy a new car before going up to BAE.
And-wait. You can FIT a harpsichord in a CHEVETTE?!! How much hacking was involved?
Remove the legs and slide it right in, back seat down. I never did it, but my father claimed that was the only reason he kept the Chevette. It wasn't a monster, just a single manual Zuckerman harpsichord kit my father put together. (I think it's this (http://www.zhi.net/instr/GS56ZHI-K.shtml) one.)
Nin_estarSaerah
26-10-2007, 12:37
when you have saftey goggles and a screwdriver in your purse, which is covered in robotics buttons, and wonder why everyone thinks you are weird?
MishraArtificer
26-10-2007, 22:01
when you have saftey goggles and a screwdriver in your purse, which is covered in robotics buttons, and wonder why everyone thinks you are weird?
...when you show up to school wearing button-mail armor, AND NO ONE CARES.
Sadly, I actually did that.
synth3tk
26-10-2007, 22:09
...when you start every IM session with "I Can't Wait For Kick-Off!"
...when your email signature contains your team name/number
This isn't exactly overdosed, but sorta
...you go to visit a college and manage to find another FIRST student there and go on to talk about robots until leaving
waiakea11
27-10-2007, 13:40
...you find yourself talking about how great FIRST is to your new group of freshmen..I think they are getting tired of that.
...you already know who's car your going to be riding in when you get there.
...
Tottanka
28-10-2007, 08:48
When you take with you to dorms in Uni the following stuff:
1 CMUCAM2
1 Green Light
1 2006 RC
1 2006 OI
3 7.2v battarie and 1 charger for them
1 12 v batary and 1 charger for it
PWMS, program cable etc...
:D:D
when thinking of a last min halloween costume, the first thing that pops up into your mind is to just wear a ringer...
when doing history prjts, robotics team numbers pop up at least 3 times and only other robotics members get it and laugh...
Tetraman
31-10-2007, 11:39
...You and three friends dress as the four Segway riders of the Apocolapse for Halloween.
K.Porter
02-11-2007, 18:14
...Your desktop background consists of interlocked pieces of 8020.
...English class? Who needs english class? To the shop instead!
...You've decided that a physics demonstration involving a cannon just isn't good enough. The cannon must be attached to a robot.
...You've actually attached the cannon to the robot, and driven the "tank" around school.
...You've made a bracelet/necklace/jewelry out of 8020, and given it to your girlfriend/significant other.
...You haven't seen your study hall teacher since the first day of school. He knows you'll be in the shop.
...The Aim High competition ended more than a year ago, but the Aim High robot isn't quite finished yet.
...You carry a complete toolkit of everything you'd need to wire a robot, should the need suddenly arise somewhere between calculus and physics class.
when youve used needle nose pliers to smooth down your fingernails after roughing them up while working on the robot (no joke, they actually work really well.)
Romeo1351
06-11-2007, 09:22
You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you convince your English teacher to give you extra credit for going to robotics competitions. She gives extra credit for "supporting your fellow students" by going to stuff like football games, school musicals, etc, so I told her about FIRST and got it counted. So I got extra credit for Cal Games a few weeks back. :D
You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you convince your girlfriend to look for a prom dress in your team color so you can wear your team color to prom.
Blue_Mist
07-11-2007, 00:08
-when you've been lurking on this website since April and this is your first post!
-when the first big AP Biology report is due tomorrow, it's 2am, and you're on this forum reading the posts (I turned the lab report in, luckily, but stayed up until 4am to finish it)
-when part of the RNA transcription video in AP Bio looks like the FIRST logo!
Probably more to come!
when your only electives are in the tech department and you spent an entire day on a block schedule in it
when you freak out when you see something and want to draw it on inventor really bad
I did check to see if it would fit a robot. Never did test that.
Well, we did the test today. Obviously Kia never referred to FRC rules before building their hatch. Next year's robot needs to be 1/8" shorter. Yes, that much. :( :( :( We had to use someone else's car to transport the robot.
You've made a bracelet/necklace/jewelry out of 8020, and given it to your girlfriend/significant other.
And if she accepts it with glee, you know it was a match made in heaven! :)
___________________________
I used to be clueless, but I turned that around 360 degrees. -Ratbert
BlondeNerd
21-11-2007, 11:17
when you write all of your college application essays about FIRST
when you start two of them, "I keep a screwdriver in my purse," and it's true
lol, that would be considered a weapon at our school. sigh... i cant carry tools around :( it hurts.
danshaffer
21-11-2007, 13:59
when you can't find the robot cad, so you decide to redo it. when you could just call the guy who has it.
btw KISS people... i managed to redo our entire drivetrain in twenty minutes.
Tottanka
23-11-2007, 12:08
when hearing of Manchester you first think of the one in NH, and not the one in Northern England
when you're told a day before hand you are giving a big presentation about FIRST
Start freaking out because you have no time to prepare, and then realize FIRST is what you live and breathe so it's not a very big deal
and when you are giving the presentation to your team (made up of a lot of new members) along with a few other non FIRST people (school board president, superintendent of the district, asst. superintendent of the district, principal, parents of new members, a congressman, etc.) and when answering a question you throw out other teams names (thunder chickens and killer bees) without even thinking about it as an example of an alliance and five seconds later realize it was a bad idea because now half of the people are staring at you like you must be crazy, and a distinguished guest raises his hand and asks if he heard right when I said thunder chickens and asks for an explaination of what a thunder chicken is.
basicxman
23-11-2007, 21:40
when you are 13-years old and you get a sponsor, start and organize and FTC team and spend hours researching vex and going on the vex forum and looking at previous robots (i did this for about 4 months before registration!)
when you are 13-years old and you get a sponsor, start and organize and FTC team and spend hours researching vex and going on the vex forum and looking at previous robots (i did this for about 4 months before registration!)
I was going to say you're too young to be overdosed--then I realized I'd overdosed before I hit eleven AND the FLL students (and coaches) I mentored are getting dangerously close to an OD...
I was going to say you're too young to be overdosed--then I realized I'd overdosed before I hit eleven AND the FLL students (and coaches) I mentored are getting dangerously close to an OD...
Ahh Lego League overdoses. Wouldn't be here without them. :D
basicxman
24-11-2007, 09:04
i had my own RIS 2.0 but i never did the FLL
LeelandS
25-11-2007, 16:56
1)You wake up and say "Competitin in (Insert time here)"
2)Any program you make has 100000000 characters or more
3)Your hands can't stop moving in a control stick movement
4)You try to build robots to do everythig for you
5)You burn when away from a computer for longer than .75356598 seconds
6)You carry a stop watch to measure .75356598 seconds
7)When you attend a team meeting, you carry with you any three of the following:
A)A foam finger with your team number on it
B)You carry a neon sign with your team number on it
C)A laptop with pictures of the real world because you forgot what it looks like
D)I list of every movement and program involved with your robot
E)A list of possible names for the robot
F)20 pounds in maintenance equiptment
G)A bed for overnighters
8)You're reported missing because you haven't been home for months
1) You start doing math equations with FIRST team names instead of actual numbers
2) You start seeing images of the FIRST Logo in your sleep (and yes I have had this happen multiple times)
Nin_estarSaerah
25-11-2007, 21:52
you know the web address of your team forum by heart (and its long) but you have to think a minute about your phone numer.
you remember three or four digit numbers by teams, and while watching irobot, you think, wow, that is one heck of an autonomous program.
Brian J. R.
26-11-2007, 00:09
You know you and your family has overdosed on FISRT when you keep getting early birthday presents that all revolve around your team....A quite nice set of multi tools, for build season (says father) a metal case for parts and other misc stuff (father again). A Wacom tablet, for graphics (mostly robotics here too...)
Some that I forgot
You look at the overdosed on FIRST thread and laugh at what people have done, then realize that you have done almost everything that has been posted so far and then feel like an idiot
The majority of your conversations with your father, brother, and certain friends are purely about FIRST and nothing else
If you think something is wrong with you when you don't think Dean Kamen, Woodie Flowers, or Dave Lavery is my hero at least ten times a day
GaryVoshol
26-11-2007, 11:48
You're marking off team numbers to make sure everyone is there for alliance selections, and you realize that you recognize more than half the teams at Kettering Kickoff and ARC by just seeing their uniforms.
basicxman
26-11-2007, 12:32
You know you and your family has overdosed on FISRT when you keep getting early birthday presents that all revolve around your team....A quite nice set of multi tools, for build season (says father) a metal case for parts and other misc stuff (father again). A Wacom tablet, for graphics (mostly robotics here too...)
lol the laptop im using right now was my early christmas AND birthday present, i needed it for my FTC competition, which is very soon (im still not done tweaking):eek: :eek: :eek:
uh-oh better go work on the 'bot right now
Mitch1525
27-11-2007, 17:34
You cry when you look back at Championships realizing that it was the best weekend of your life
You try to explain the competition at summer camp and get help from a random kid you've never seen before but you become inseperable due to FIRST
You say the first 3 words of an inside joke about Championships to your robotics partner in crime and dont have to finish cuz you're both LAUGHING like CRAZY!!!!
You think in robotics pick up line..... **wanna screw??**
you know u've overdosed when u forget to take ur safety glasses off (cuz u forget u have them on!)
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