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

[Chris is me]

You see two of the larger teams at a regional calling out each others team #'s. (1714 + 2826)

"What's better than a shark?

A LANDSHARK!"

[delsaner]

"What's better than a shark?

A LANDSHARK!"

LOL, our Overdrive robots name was landshark... ^_^


I have been thinking of team names containing science and/or math puns (sorry if these are actual team names in FIRST). I feel that this is a result of me being overdosed with FIRST.

1. Torrmentors (tormentors)
2. Pirotechnics (pyrotechnics)
3. Ionic (Iconic)
4. sinatory (signatory)

[J93Wagner]

delsaner . . . Team 2826's 'bot was named the Landshark and 1714 and team won the 10K Lakes Regional :)

You know you have overdosed on FIRST when you desperately wish you could go to IRI.

P.S. Nice team fake team names

[Chris is me]

You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you desperately want your team to go to a second offseason just to repeat Minnesota 10,000 Lakes :)

...when you check the IRI thread daily just to see if 2826 is going.

[J93Wagner]

You see the word "more" and immediately think of Team 1714

[devaki115]

haha.. i have my Finals coming up tmrw, and i have borderline grades in every single one of my subjects ( school and gpa is extremely important here in my town )

but whats funny is that i've been on chief delphi forever reading this thread.. :)
i miss FIRST so badly.. can't wait for it all to start again!

oh and

You know you overdose on FIRST when you start writing ur lit essays about gracious professionalism and coopertition.

[Katie_UPS]

When you go to CD to find public opinion on what makes a good game.

[ExarKun666]

When you consider reading up on Chief Delphi to be studying for your math and physics finals.

[~Mike()]

When you fall asleep and all you hear is 'just dance' by Lady GaGa in your dreams.
When before you go to bed each night, you think of next year's challenge.

When you can identify Mecanum wheels in the newest Star Trek Movie.

Yeah I did too...

[Chris is me]

When you refuse to let this thread fall by the wayside due to inactivity!

[NorviewsVeteran]

in your architecture class, you make sure to include a garage large enough to house an FRC field.

[demosthenes2k8]

Only one FRC field?

...when you check CD every chance you get. And are sad there aren't many updates in the sections you usually check.

[NorviewsVeteran]

Only one FRC field?
Well I have to leave some room for the pits, don't I?:)

[Chris is me]

When you start designing Vex robots for games you are not even able to play :/

[XXShadowXX]

- When digging for your pokemon silver version you find a Aim High game manual, but your first year was overdrive...

[UberChar]

when you feel lucky having your exam in room 217

[pastorellipedro]

when, while playing "bloons tower defense 3" in journalism class, you happen to notice every time your money quantity goes through the numbers 67, 68, 217, 111, 503, 1114, 2056, 280, 1250, 85, 910, etc.

[wendells]

You know that FIRST keeps you from getting old

[demosthenes2k8]

Pits? That's what the OTHER garage is for!

When you see ANYONE with a blue shirt in school and get excited-funnier when it isn't a teammate.

[Katie_UPS]

When upon roaming facebook, you recognize people from other teams and contemplate adding them.

[Chris is me]

When you spend a good 10 minutes trying to figure out who someone who added you on Facebook is, then figuring it out when you run into their all team picture from Atlanta.

When you post on Chief Delphi while at a demo.

[Andrew Schreiber]

When you get an IM from a buddy who was in FIRST with you who was interviewing a guy who said he was on a FIRST team asking for you to confirm that fact and you can.

When asking you about FIRST is a banned topic at work because the last time it happened involved an orbit ball being tossed at people.

Oh and to you people who are not studying for finals and are on here instead, SHAME ON YOU!

[ttldomination]

When you log into chief delphi and realize the post count on this thread is 1771, for North Gwinnett, and then rush to post number 1772, which would be a team from Brazil!!!

[demosthenes2k8]

...when you go on CD to forget a terrible final. QED.

When you think about how much fun it'll be having minions next year...

[EricH]

Oh and to you people who are not studying for finals and are on here instead, SHAME ON YOU!
I had mine over a month ago...

How about when you go on spring break and have a college competition the first weekend, and then an FRC regional the second weekend where you're volunteering? Does that count as overdosed?

[demosthenes2k8]

No, that makes you normal

[NorviewsVeteran]

Above average, but normal. You're almost there, keep it up!

[Katie_UPS]

When you have stronger feelings for your team than your boyfriend.

[BrendanB]

When someone says that I am over obsessed with my job and I reply that I'm overdosed on FIRST.

[StevnIndustries]

1. You pass your team members in the hallway and say "What time is it?" and their immediate response is "12:61". Yes, that is an official team cheer. :D

2. You sneak into your sponsor's classroom, one person distracts the teacher, and another gets an expo marker, takes the clock down, and puts a 6 between the 12 and 1. All of this for the purpose of it actually being 12:61.
...and then the teacher leaves it there for all to see!

[youngWilliam14]

-When you're offered an internship the summer after graduating from high school based on your commitment to FIRST

-When you do your work for the internship fast enough that you have time to get on Chief at work :cool:

[SushaK]

when you go to the taste (a festival) to hang out with your friends and your boyfriend but end up ditching them to help work at a booth your team set up and show off your robot to little kids all the while laughing with your advisors... yup i overdosed on FIRST and love it!

and what will said right above :yikes:

[J93Wagner]

When you desperately wish your team would get back on your team forum to talk about next year.

Also, you see the word Oshkosh, and immediately think "Wave Robotics" and "2826".

[NorviewsVeteran]

When your senior pictures include you wearing your team shirt, operator badge, and posing with your team's FRC and FTC bots.

When applying for the Governor's School for Math, Science, and Technology, you have to expand the three slots they give you for extra-curricular activities to 7. BTW I got in! Leaving July 4th weekend.

[ZInventor]

when you realize that you need to re-write your college app essays since they didn't convey a well rounded person, they conveyed a crazy FIRST addict (not that that's a bad thing, it's just that colleges like variety)

When you get a varsity letter in Robotics

-Z

[Chris is me]

If you're serious, don't rewrite your college essay. You do need a well rounded application, but your essay should be focused on one thing. Robotics is a great thing to write about for college, especially if you have an inspirational story to tell :)

When you're up in the wee hours of the morning trying to get streaming video recorded so that Minnesota teams have another regional to watch on TBA.

[jmanela]

when you keep logging in different sites using your chief delphi username and password.

[SushaK]

when you keep going to different wal marts in your area hoping that maybe one of them will still have the moonrock game piece from the past season's game and finally when you dont find any you contemplate buying it online

when the award made and given to you by your advisors is on a pedestal in the middle of your room and is made out of pieces from your practice robot and is barely held together with zip ties... that the advisors forgot to cut

i miss FIRST =(

[youngWilliam14]

when your mom wants to use the award made out of all your C.N.C. scrap as garden decor :D

[SushaK]

when the whole entire time you are supposed to be at a paid internship working on a project you spend browsing CD and coming up with "when you are overdosed on FIRST..."

[afowl]

- When you manage to write more than a page about FIRST in an essay question on a test.

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when after a picture prompt of an alarm clock on a standardized test, you go to lunch and 8 other people at your table also wrote about robotics.

[demosthenes2k8]

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you realize that you've just set Google Chrome to turn "tba <teamnumber>" into a search on TBA for that team...

You know it's even worse when you tell a friend and she knows that it's just the usual...

[acidrain2012]

When you spend your first competition in 150 lbs of chain mail, working 8 hours a day in the pits, all for the sake of just getting to be there.

[Katie_UPS]

-When the only reason you want a job is so you can pay for parts to prototype drive chains.

-When you think you didn't get a job because you mentioned robotics too many times in the interveiw.

"Name a time when you didn't work well in a team."
"Well, I'm this robotics team, and one time, they wanted this deisgn, and it would'nt've worked, and I had the hardest time convincing them why it wouldn't work."

[NorviewsVeteran]

When you get into the governor's school and still check Chief delphi.

[JamJam]

When you're sitting in a college "intro to programming" class and go to Chief Delphi because the professor asked how you troubleshoot or debug a program.

[Zipding]

When your on Chiefdelphi at summer school

[Mr. Pockets]

When you and your brother write a robotics parody off of the song "Still Alive" from portal:

That was a triumph
We’re making a note here, huge success
It’s hard to overstate their satisfaction

Gearhead Robotics
We do what we must because we can
For the good of everyone, except the teams that are done
And while we may not always end up in first place
We’ll still do our best to show professional grace
And the scouting will get done
And we’ll have some great fun
At this FRC Competition

We’ll keep right at it
We’re being so sincere right now
Even though you broke our hearts and beat us
And tore us to pieces
And smashed every piece into the wall
As we groaned it hurt because we were so happy for you
And now our points of data make a beautiful list
Plus we’re out of paper
It’s event fifty-six
And we’re glad we got burned
Think of all the things we learned
At this FRC competition

So come take a look
We think you might learn a bit from us
Maybe we might make good future partners
We’re in last place
That was a joke
Ha ha
Fat chance
Anyway this match is great, it’s so exciting and close

But look at us still talking when there’s scouting to do
When we look down there it makes us glad we’re with you
We’ve got planning to get done
Plus repairs, oh what fun
At this FRC Competition

[EricH]

I hear Dean Simmons and the Kamen Brothers is looking for new song lyrics... this could be right up their alley.

[Karibou]

I hear Dean Simmons and the Kamen Brothers is looking for new song lyrics... this could be right up their alley.
That would make my day. Shame I can't go down to IRI this year.

Oh, and umm...I don't exactly think that men can reach any of those notes o.O They certainly sounded...interesting when some of our members sang along with it earlier today.

Very awesome, Nathan. I think that that is going to be our new team song :D Or maybe a secondary team song.

-When you go to engineering camp
-When you get super excited because you meet other robotics girls at said engineering camp

[Aureanicole]

when you made arrangements with all of your teachers to take your midterms before or after the Michigan State Championships so you could attend practice day. And be one of the 4 students who were there

[kgzak]

When you make it to every single meeting and are very very sick with an undiagnosed condition that has lasted 5-6 months now. Then you bring home the control system to finish programing.

[shagun.g]

When you are bored at a summer internship ..and come on CD for a laugh.

[Stormnnormn]

...When you refer to a girl by number and they are not offended.

[Dragon Princess]

When you spend your entire summer on doing robotics things so that the build season will have more time on building and less on your ever wondrous spirit.

Or when at a sleep over you come up with robotics cheers and uniform designs instead of what normal people do at sleepovers.:p

[Rebecca Ly]

When you start drawing the FIRST logo in everyone's yearbook.

[afowl]

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you only have 12+ scheduled robotics meetings in July... not counting the dozen or so "Get over here now!" meetings.

[aznkazoon]

-you suddenly get excited over meeting someone else participating in first robotics
-technology breaks and you think hey lets get one of those robotics people that build robots to fix it, and remember that you yourself are part of FIRST

[JesseK]

You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you've waited 3 years for the reply count of this thread to get even remotely close to your team #.

[bmarick]

When you start rebuilding your robot with crap at home.

[EricH]

You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you've waited 3 years for the reply count of this thread to get even remotely close to your team #.
You know everyone else isn't nearly as overdosed as you are when it takes that long! (high team number not withstanding)

[Katie_UPS]

When someone assumes you drive a car and asks what you drive, you're tempted to make up a "make" of your robot, and say an "09 UPS Nom-V"

[demosthenes2k8]

umm...Nom-V?

When you meet with FIRST friends, talk about other stuff, and always end up back at FIRST.

[Katie_UPS]

umm...Nom-V?


Nom-V is what we named our robot this year. The same way its a 09 ford focus.

[demosthenes2k8]

In that case, my team's is lame. " '09 Chopshop Recyclable" doesn't sound anywhere NEAR as cool...I knew we should have named it "Weighed companion Cube"

[Robert Cawthon]

In that case, my team's is lame. " '09 Chopshop Recyclable" doesn't sound anywhere NEAR as cool..."

How about CSR-09?

[demosthenes2k8]

0.o THAT does.

[Chris is me]

I guess it's better than the 09 Philbert 2. A name really makes a robot personal, but I've never thought of a good one for any bot I've built.

[Karibou]

Hmm.... 2009 GH-Sparky?

-You're making a poster for synchronized swimming, and you use paint pens in your team's colors...without realizing what you were doing
-You own paint pens in your team's colors. You got them as a gift.

[J93Wagner]

You know you overdosed on FIRST when you find out that someone in your Lifesaving MB is active in FIRST at a BSA Summer Camp (specifically, Gardner Dam Camp) and you end up talking for thirty minutes just about FIRST.

[Akash Rastogi]

..When your college's proximity to IRI is a deciding factor in where to apply.

Woot U Illinois Urbana Champaign! :p

[KarenH]

...after seeing firsthand the exciting finish of Zac Sunderland's solo circumnavigation of the world, you start thinking about all the fancy equipment (http://www.sailzac.com/faqs.html)* on his boat that helped it to sail while he slept. Then you start wondering:

"What would it take to rig a sailboat with robotic controls so it could sail around the world, autonomously, WITHOUT ANYONE on board??!!"

*You may have to click on the "Navigation" link to view information about the instrumentation.

[youngWilliam14]

..When your college's proximity to IRI is a deciding factor in where to apply.

Woot U Illinois Urbana Champaign! :p



when your stuck in west lafayette... because you're going to purdue... because of FIRST XD

[EricH]

...after seeing firsthand the exciting finish of Zac Sunderland's solo circumnavigation of the world, you start thinking about all the fancy equipment (http://www.sailzac.com/faqs.html)* on his boat that helped it to sail while he slept. Then you start wondering:

"What would it take to rig a sailboat with robotic controls so it could sail around the world, autonomously, WITHOUT ANYONE on board??!!"
*You may have to click on the "Navigation" link to view information about the instrumentation.When, on this subject being broached over lunch, you proceed to try to answer the question, then try to figure out how to keep pirates off the boat while it's sailing solo.

I think we came up with sinking the boat temporarily while it calls the nearest coast guard/navy ship.

[Katie_UPS]

when you go do somethin non-robotics, softball, but you still say you're going to robots because its with your team. :D

[Cow Bell Solo]

when during the summer you have a...
...robotics bonfire
...robotics grillout
...robotics movie night
and more for team bonding events

[Katie_UPS]

when during the summer you have a...
...robotics bonfire
...robotics grillout
...robotics movie night
and more for team bonding events

*loves team bonding*

[Zipding]

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you create a forum about how you've overdosed on FIRST

[delsaner]

...when you are on FML, you see a post that reads "my FIRST job", and you think that he was applying for a job within FIRST, when he was really emphasizing "first".

Sorry if that doesnt make any sense... >_>

[BrendanB]

While watching Star Wars many robots or droids moving around everywhere resemble FRC robots.

[lingomaniac88]

...when you spend at least half the day trying to think of ideas for this thread.

[Stephen of REX]

When its summer, and you are depressed because the off season events are still a month away, and build season is still many months away :(
Also, it is sad when your team director/teacher is away, and you have no meetings all summer...

[Dragon Princess]

When your on a group retreat :p with some other non-robotics friends, where you have to wear colored t-shirts to signify your group, and you assume that you're at robotics and ask people about their teams.

That actually happened to me, :ahh: i walked up to a girl in yellow and literally screamed "Hi nice to meet you I'm from the Dragons team 1991".
Needless to say she looked at me weirdly :confused: the ran away.

[Dragon Princess]

You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you've waited 3 years for the reply count of this thread to get even remotely close to your team #.

i know! i keep checking almost daily to see if its any where near 1991, if i miss it i will be really sad. lolz

[LadyinthePit]

...when you get to college and ask every single engineering major if they were in FIRST.

...when you're sitting in class and your professor mentions something that reminds you of robotics and you begin to theorize on how that thing can be added to your team to make it function better

...when the internet is out in your dorm so you spend 3 hours writing a business proposition to improve your team's outreach efforts.

....when the first thing you do in your new college town is find out if the local high school has a FIRST team.

...when you're in an ice breaking activity where the teams are divided up into red and blue and you instinctively start to cheer "red alliance!"

[Karibou]

-You're forced to hear the song "Hot Hot Hot" at least four times in one day (don't ask-synchronized swimming is weirdddd), and all you can think of is HOT 67

[Cow Bell Solo]

....when the first thing you do in your new college town is find out if the local high school has a FIRST team.


...When you knew where you were going to college more than a year before going and already looked to see if there are any nearby teams, find out there isn't, and start thinking about to get a team or two started at nearby schools.

...find out your college holds the state championship competition for the FLL and already are planning to volunteer.

[samir13k]

when every member on your team bought ice cream from the machine at IRI to see the mechanisms go to work! and as soon as someone makes a selection, everybody crowds around the machine to see it go!

[youngWilliam14]

when you graduate, then voulunteer for IRI field reset... and scoring the mentor matches

[Karibou]

when every member on your team bought ice cream from the machine at IRI to see the mechanisms go to work! and as soon as someone makes a selection, everybody crowds around the machine to see it go!
I've done that...it wasn't at a robotics function, but it was with robotics people :D And also at an engineering camp...there was a pretty neat drink machine that did that. IT EVEN LIT UP!! /geekiness

[delsaner]

I was helping my mother at her store. I was setting up fixtures. I starting drilling screws, and hammering nails, and I sighed because made me think of build season.

[Schnabel]

... you are excited because over 20% of the freshman class where actively involved in FIRST robotics. Way to go Kettering class of 2014!

[KarenH]

when every member on your team bought ice cream from the machine at IRI to see the mechanisms go to work! and as soon as someone makes a selection, everybody crowds around the machine to see it go!
... you want to see a video of this machine.

[youngWilliam14]

... you want to see a video of this machine.

you want to BUILD this machine :cool:

[demosthenes2k8]

When you find out the college you hope to attend has a FIRST team. And you run throughout the house yelling, "MIT HAS A FIRST TEAM!!!!!!!!!1!"

When nobody's surprised that you do things like that.

When you laugh at drama within other groups, because your team has a "Everyone is single while we attend competitions" rule.

[Karibou]

-You get a Thunderchickens shirt for your birthday (needless to say, I screamed and jumped and freaked out when I opened the box with it inside XD)
-The shoes that you get have blue and yellow accents on them, and you immediately begin to think of teams whose colors those are.

[youngWilliam14]

-The shoes that you get have blue and yellow accents on them, and you immediately begin to think of teams whose colors those are.

you buy a pair of gold and black shoes, as well as a pair of tye dye chucks

[GaryVoshol]

In the morning you and your wife both, without consulting each other, put on your purple ThunderQuest FLL shirts. (She changed, so we wouldn't look like we were trying to match.)

[Carlee10]

When you clean your room, and you find four pairs of safety glasses.

[Akash Rastogi]

You get a little sad when you go and find out your can of WD40 is empty. You had so many things to spray that day. :(

[Chris is me]

-You get a Thunderchickens shirt for your birthday (needless to say, I screamed and jumped and freaked out when I opened the box with it inside XD)

I envy you. I SO envy you.

When you have a text file of team t-shirts you NEED to get through T-shirt exchange... and realize you have to buy 8 or 9 team shirts in order to get it all done.

[youngWilliam14]

when you're reluctant to let your girlfriend steal your wildstang shirt

[Karibou]

when you're reluctant to let your girlfriend steal your wildstang shirt

Oh man, I would be reluctant to let anyone steal my (non-existent) Wildstang shirt o.O

-You spend 3 hours on AIM with someone from another team, and about 2 1/2 of those three hours are spent talking about robotics
-You proceed to wake up the next morning, and all that pops into your head is "Robotics...why am I not doing something robotics-related right now...oh. right." (I'm pretty much brain-dead in the mornings :/ )

[NorviewsVeteran]

You arrive at Lynchburg College for Governor's school and the staff shirts this year are tye-dye, you occasionally yell, "GO WILDSTANG!"

[Chris is me]

You arrive at Lynchburg College for Governor's school and the staff shirts this year are tye-dye, you occasionally yell, "GO WILDSTANG!"

Every time I see a tye dye shirt, I crank my neck and look to see if it's a Stang shirt. I think I even saw one in the hotel in Indiana that turned out not to be a Stang shirt. My count's at 15 non-Stang shirts.

[EricH]

...you are with your family and see a guy wearing an orange shirt and purple shorts, and one of you says "399", and the others chuckle.

...immediately afterwards, a reference is made to this thread...

...all three of you are thinking the same thing.

[Mr. Pockets]

-You reference enough everyday objects to a team's color scheme that you are ordered to get a life outside robotics.
-At least half of your attempted conversations at a family gathering have some relation to robotics in some manner or another.

[BrendanB]

When while wearing your MAYHEM shirt at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida two people ask you if you are involved with FIRST.

Karibou- I am sooooo jealous....that is like the ultimate b-day gift. Could you imagine a FIRST yankee gift swap at the championships with just t-shirts. Although, I would rig it so i was number 1.:D

[typharn91]

I envy you. I SO envy you.

When you have a text file of team t-shirts you NEED to get through T-shirt exchange... and realize you have to buy 8 or 9 team shirts in order to get it all done.

how bout when you actually buy about 20ish of your teams shirts...just for trading...thats just this year

[youngWilliam14]

when you start thinking about making your own quilt out of team shirts

[carolynn4848]

when you start thinking about making your own quilt out of team shirts

When you think that is an excellent idea, and start thinking of exactly how to do it. (what color thread, what fabric to use on the back, ect.)

[Chris is me]

When you think it is a terrible idea because then you can't wear all of the shirts you just collected :/

(seriously it sounds cool but I'd prefer to show my team love one day at a time)

[delsaner]

When you get 2 shirts from a certain team, so you can quilt one, and wear the other ^__^

[JaneYoung]

when you start thinking about making your own quilt out of team shirts

I made one recently out of the collection of tee shirts that our lead mentor, Mr. Bertucci, had. If you have any questions, feel free to pm me.

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
you are happy to see FIRSTers thinking about making quilts out of their tee shirt collections.

[Andrew Schreiber]

When you think it is a terrible idea because then you can't wear all of the shirts you just collected :/

(seriously it sounds cool but I'd prefer to show my team love one day at a time)

Don't joke, I have a friend who one year in Atlanta wore at one time 3 or more team shirts. She had on a 65 shirt, a 27 shirt and an 88 shirt. (that I know of)

[M.Wong]

...you bought the quilt at IRI :)

if you have the tshirts, go here http://www.campusquilt.com/.

[Katie_UPS]

when... okay, this'll be hard to "You know... when..." so I'm just going to tell a story.

So, I was having a bad week and my friends took me to a comedy-improv show to cheer me up. The comedy show does "shout outs" at the beginning on a large screen, with slides similar to "HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAYLA!" or "Erin is getting married tomarrow!".

Let me start out to say that all the friends there were from the [robotics] team and a mentor even came. Before the match, a guy working there was talking to us, and we somehow ended up teaching him the "OINK OINK-BOOM!" cheer. So when the show started, the last "shout out" was "And Katie is awesome!" (It was a bad week, like I said). After that slide, the next one was, "oink oink!" We all yelled "BOOM", and a few seconds later, the screen changed to "BOOM!".

So, You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you get a cheer on the screen before a comedy show.

[Karibou]

when... okay, this'll be hard to "You know... when..." so I'm just going to tell a story.

So, I was having a bad week and my friends took me to a comedy-improv show to cheer me up. The comedy show does "shout outs" at the beginning on a large screen, with slides similar to "HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAYLA!" or "Erin is getting married tomarrow!".

Let me start out to say that all the friends there were from the [robotics] team and a mentor even came. Before the match, a guy working there was talking to us, and we somehow ended up teaching him the "OINK OINK-BOOM!" cheer. So when the show started, the last "shout out" was "And Katie is awesome!" (It was a bad week, like I said). After that slide, the next one was, "oink oink!" We all yelled "BOOM", and a few seconds later, the screen changed to "BOOM!".

So, You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you get a cheer on the screen before a comedy show.

That's EPIC! Man, I wish my team knew what "Oink Oink Boom" was all about...let's just say they're not very CD educated ;)

-You spend the entire walk home from practice on your phone, working out robotics logistics

[typharn91]

When you plan on making a quilt or blanket out of all the first related shirts you have collected...off corse once they dont fit ypu anymore though ;)

[Stephen of REX]

For one of our REX members, it was his first year with the team even though he was a junior. So when we got our medals (only bronze this year), he wore his in school for a few days. But he was very tall and intimidating, so no one asked him why he was still wearing the medal:yikes:

[demosthenes2k8]

When you see a person wearing another team's shirt, and feel like a stalker afterward when you see them EVERYWHERE for the rest of the day.

(By the way, if you wore a 1519 shirt on August Second at MIT, taking the Artificial Intelligence class from 10-12, I'm not stalking you. Even though I was sitting in the back of the room, googling your team to see which events you went to.)(I had to revise that for maximum sketchiness...)


When your MOM gets annoyed at a person who was wearing a FIRST shirt. Not because the person doesn't do FIRST, because that person just got it at a yard sale and didn't know what FIRST was, and still wore the shirt.

[Katie_UPS]

When your MOM gets annoyed at a person who was wearing a FIRST shirt. Not because the person doesn't do FIRST, because that person just got it at a yard sale and didn't know what FIRST was, and still wore the shirt.

WHO WOULD SELL A FIRST SHIRT!?!?!

[Chris is me]

WHO WOULD SELL A FIRST SHIRT!?!?!

My. Thoughts. Exactly. My parents would probably punish me by doing this though. If I had FIRST shirts.

[Karibou]

WHO WOULD SELL A FIRST SHIRT!?!?!
Maybe it didn't fit any more? If it got wayyy too small, that could be an issue, but if the owner found the shirt too big, that's very easily remedied with a sewing machine.

I'm almost hoping that I can find someone selling a FIRST shirt. I kinda want one...

[IndySam]

You spend more time checking your FIRST shirt for spots then you do for the rest of your laundry combined.

[JaneYoung]

You plan little outfits for your JVN dolls kind of like the way Heidi photoshops photos of Dave. Only her outfits are evil.

[Katie_UPS]

You consider running across the street to ask a stranger if he's in FIRST (He was a wearing a sports-style jearsey-shirt, with the numbers 07, and where the last name would go, it said "keeper").

[Fe_Will]

...when you get a team shirt one size bigger than normal so you can slip it on over your SWAT/Volunteer shirt for team photos/receiving awards at competitions.

[Mr. Pockets]

...when you regret that there are no other FIRST folks at the pig roast you go to. That would have made for one killer oink-Oink-BOOM joke ^_^

[Karibou]

-Your nomal cross country uniform number (15) is taken by the time you get to the box, so you choose 33 instead, solely because of the team (Hey, it was that or 47. Tough choice)

[Chris is me]

When you've considered making a joint team T-shirt or button just for fun. (I -might- have a "16x5" button in my room. :D)

What's better than a wave???

[dragonrulr288]

You know you are overdosed on FIRST when... you are at a christian music camp and see a guy in a killer bee shirt. After the concert is done, you run up to him and excitedly ask if he is on the the team. He says no, hes on Wildstang, and you just about flip. you talk for robotics for a while, then go talk with another friend from camp. you talk about your conversation... ONLY TO LEARN HE COMES FROM WOBOT!!! then annother friend says he goes to the school the Thunder Chickens come from! I flipped out....... then confessed to bringing safety glasses and an allen [sp?] wrench set to camp............... teeheehee.......

[JesseK]

You know you're overdosed over FIRST when you're waiting for someone else to post so you can get the post # related to your team #.

[JesseK]

Or you risk it all in the hopes that no one posts in the next 47 seconds...

[JesseK]

Yea I'd say this is the most overdosed one can get on a lazy night...

[Katie_UPS]

when you envy the people meeting other FIRSTers at their camps.

[BrendanB]

You know you are overdosed on FIRST when... you are at a christian music camp and see a guy in a killer bee shirt. After the concert is done, you run up to him and excitedly ask if he is on the the team. He says no, hes on Wildstang, and you just about flip. you talk for robotics for a while, then go talk with another friend from camp. you talk about your conversation... ONLY TO LEARN HE COMES FROM WOBOT!!! then annother friend says he goes to the school the Thunder Chickens come from! I flipped out....... then confessed to bringing safety glasses and an allen [sp?] wrench set to camp............... teeheehee.......
I had a similar experience but not as awesome.:o I was at a christian leadership camp and as I was in our small group we were asked to say what our three most favorite things to do. My first one was robotics and one of the other kids asked if it was highs school robotics through first and i said yes and he replied with I'm on team 145 T'Rex. With that i told him that i was on team 1519 Mechanical MAYHEM and the kid next to me said that his older brother was on the same team as me. And whenever I wore a t-shirt from a competition, he asked me if it was good enough for his team to trek up north.

That was last year, and this year, i got T'Rex kid as a roommate and the MAYHEM sibling in my small group again.:]

[Rion Atkinson]

Hahaha! So I'm playing Guild Wars and i make a comment on how awesome FIRST is randomly and this kids send me a message saying hes on team 20 and asks what team I'm on! :D

[Katie_UPS]

When your friends randomly cheer "GALI-"

[Chris is me]

"-LEO!" to diffuse silence and awkward moments.

[NalaTI]

When your friends randomly cheer "GALI-"
"-LEO!" to diffuse silence and awkward moments.

when Katie can post the first part, and Chris can respond within the SAME MINUTE here on CD...

[MiniNerd24]

When you expect house addresses (with numbers the same as some teams) to be decorated like the team pit areas.

[demosthenes2k8]

When you allocate an hour a day toward finding music you remember from competitions...and afterwards it takes you a moment to remember what "Bohemian Rhapsody" is.

When you use the smae avatar for everything, but refer to it as "my CD avatar"

[Chris is me]

when Katie can post the first part, and Chris can respond within the SAME MINUTE here on CD...

When you planned this yesterday. :)

[jmanela]

when you sit here thinking hard about what to type, because when you know you are overdosed on FIRST, the only way to tell is to feel it.

(and post this at midnight)

[NorviewsVeteran]

...you go to wolframalpha.com, type in 11:00 am January 9, 2010, and keep hitting refresh.

[Mr. Pockets]

-You visit your uncle, whose house is under construction. Sanders are running the whole place smells like sawdust, and you're telling everyone who will listen that it reminds you of build season.
-You're watching a cartoon on youtube and you note that while the way the characters are using their power tools is a horrible safety hazard, they are at least wearing safety glasses.

[Rion Atkinson]

...you go to wolframalpha.com, type in 11:00 am January 9, 2010, and keep hitting refresh.

When this is one of the tabs that opens when you open Mozilla Firefox. :D

[demosthenes2k8]

When you make a countdown to use on your web site for that date/time

[Katie_UPS]

When you think too hard about team numbers.

Speaking of which, I had this idea and had nowhere to put it. Wouldn't it be fitting if 2359's theme song was "One Minute To Midnight"?

[Chris is me]

When you fully realize the team name of the post coming after this, and hopes someone from that team is hungry enough to post it.

[EricH]

When you fully realize the team name of the post coming after this, and hopes someone from that team is hungry enough to post it.
When you just can't resist the prompt...

Oink Oink BOOM!

And when you've come up with a way to use the above phrase in a Caption Contest involving a completely different team....

[Libby K]

....when your college has a floor for the FIRST mentors from your school.

Clarkson FIRST Living Learning Community ... best. thing. ever.

[BrendanB]

....when your college has a floor for the FIRST mentors from your school.

Clarkson FIRST Living Learning Community ... best. thing. ever.

Okay, that is just plain awesome.....:eek:

[Karibou]

This one needs a bit of explaining...it's a paraphrased version of a chat conversation between a certain Alex Dinsmoor and I while playing an online game. The current course was called "Robot vs. Bear"

Me: ROBOTTTTT!
Alex: The robot would win, of course
Me: But then there's Da Bears...
Other player (non-FIRST): Chicken?
Me: And then there's the SimChicken Wranglers...
Alex: That's EXACTLY what I was thinking!

So basically, when things like that happen :)

And Libby, I'm super jealous!

[ttldomination]

When you're watching Star Trek and you realize that the forklift in the background is utilizing a mecanum drive.

[thurston2619]

you know you are addicted to FIRST when...

-you read all 128 pages of this thread and realize that it is all so very true

-you take your senior pictures with your robot from your junior year

-you have last year's robot sitting in your garage because you have taken it to so many presentations and robotic summer camps

-your friends threaten to kidnap you from robotics on your birthday because it's the middle of build season and they know you want perfect attendance

-your friends refer to you as safety captain outside of robotics

-you have multiple pairs of safety glasses in your purse

-you have multiple non-team shirts that have your team name and number on them that you designed just for the fun of it

-your mentors text you at all hours of the day giving you updates on sponsor presentations

-you and your best friend become team leads and the only thing you talk about anymore is FIRST

-your family doesn't see you for 6+ weeks during build season because you go straight to the buildsite after school and dont come home until they are already asleep then you leave for school before they wake up the next morning

-you refuse to date anyone who isn't on a robotics team

-your family no longer knows anything about you, they just know everything about your team

-you spend all your time thinking of new things to build and new ways to try to recruit sponsors

-the FIRST thing you tell your boss when you get a new job is the days you need off for competitions

-everything in your room becomes related to FIRST in some way

-you convince your parents to become mentors so they will stop complaining about never getting to see you

-you choose where you want to apply for college based on the location of FIRST teams in the area

-you go on vacation to visit family and are disappointed that you can't find any FIRST teams in the area that you can visit

-you think about the major possibilities of starting a FIRST team on an Air Force base when you go to visit your brother who happens to be in the USAF

-while thinking about starting a team on your brother's base you ramble about FIRST to your brother until he gets up and leaves the room

-you spend the majority of your vacation time on CD

-your team wins a regional and you are more excited to be taking home the Gracious Proffessionalism award

-you combine pits with the rookie team next to you at competition so that you are better equipped to help them

-when the judges ask you as safety captain about the safety procedures of the rookie team you are helping because there are more members of your team in their pit than in yours

-when you spend your entire summer working on robotics

-when your team no longer knows which subteam you are on because you have worked with all of them

-when you beg your parents to let you stay home while they go on vacation so that you wont miss anything robotics related

-when your team calls you FIRST to get another team member/mentor/sponsor's number because they know you will have it programmed into your cell phone

-when you have a box in your room dedicated to other teams' buttons

-when you have a collection of stuffed animals from competitions that you have been to that was started by a friend on another FIRST team

-when you find out you are going to be an aunt and the FIRST thing you think about is what FIRST team your neice will be on when she is older

-when you check USFIRST, CD, and your team website as often as you do facebook and your personal email

-when your closet consists of mostly your team colors plus a shirt or two that you haven't had the heart to get rid of because they are from your well meaning relatives

-when you have a necklace with a limit switch on it

-when your school plays cotton eyed joe during every passing period for a week during a fund raiser and you as well as your teammates are dancing down the hall to class

-when you stay in a hotel as soon as you get to the lobby in the morning you automatically start singing "G-O-O-D-M-O-R-N-I-N-G, Good Morning, Hey, Hey, Good Morning" whether you are with your team or not

-you have more pictures from robotics than anything else on your computer

-you have all of the FIRST promo videos as well as all the videos of your team from competition on your computer

... i think i should stop for now. more later =)

[jmanela]

when you are speechless from reading that last post

when you realize that the only reason you know 5 different computer languages is because of FIRST

when you find out that you get at internship (at a biology lab) because you know LabView

when you get bored at that lab and (using labView) figure out how to take a picture of your brain with an ultrasound machine :)

when you fall asleep at night and dream once again you are at a competition

when you spend 4 weeks of your summer planning and running 3 different FLL robotics camps

when you keep the program from Atlanta in you backpack at all times

when you look around and realize that so many things around you deal with robotics

when you check CD every day during the build season

when you check CD every day when it's not the build season

when you start writing apps for the Palm that deal with FRC scouting

when you realize that you picked all your high school classes based on STEM

whenever you see and triangle, circle, and square together, you think of robotics

when there is so much to write, you cannot put it in words.

p.s. (when you realize this is a quick reply)

[Cow Bell Solo]

...when you clock out at your job and without trying the time lands on your team number(22:07) and then you start jumping and shouting with excitement scarying the other workers and then have to explain.
...when you are still helping with programming the website while at college
...while waiting in the forever ending line at target when all the college students got target to themselves and Cotten Eye Joe starts playing on the loudspeaker and you start dancing while in line.

[XXShadowXX]

When you're watching Star Trek and you realize that the forklift in the background is utilizing a mecanum drive.

- Your happy that your not the only other person who saw that!

- You relized that you could possibly miss kick-off and that sadden you

[delsaner]

I was playing a game of scattergories with my family, the letter was C, and a cattergory was awards/ceremonies, and chairmans award was the only thing that popped up in my head...
^_^

[KarenH]

You know your son is overdosed on FIRST when...

...he comes in the door and announces that his room number in his college dorm this year will be "ThunderChickens Special" (217).

Of course, we knew EricH was way overdosed already. There is no cure! :)

[EricH]

You know your son is overdosed on FIRST when...

...he comes in the door and announces that his room number in his college dorm this year will be "ThunderChickens Special" (217).

Of course, we knew EricH was way overdosed already. There is no cure! :)
Actually, it's "ThunderChickens Central" (room 217 in the central wing).

The really bad part? The street address is Rhode Warriors (121).

[jspatz1]

.... a post like this gets 145,000 views.

[thurston2619]

... all of your stories now start with "this one time at robotics..."
... all of the competitions your team will be attending as well as your friends' teams will be attending are on your calendar as soon as you sign up
... you have driven a half hour to get robot stickers from hobby lobby so you could finish your robotics scrapbook
... you actually have a scrapbook dedicated only to robotics
... the FIRST thing you tell the new girl in school when she asks about you is about your team
... you have different contact groups on your phone for your team: mechanical, electrical, business, mentors, parents, sponsors
... you have a contact group on your phone for other teams
... you plan your social life around robotics events
... you determine which classes to take which part of the year because you don't want your GPA to drop during build season

[Chris is me]

When you randomly ask people at freshman week if they're into robotics...

When you've found someone from 175 / 111 / 2753 so far...

[BrendanB]

When you randomly ask people at freshman week if they're into robotics...

When you've found someone from 175 / 111 / 2753 so far...

That looks like one scary alliance.

When you take off time from robotics and skip meeting just so you can spend time with your family so your mother won't take you off of the team.

[Rion Atkinson]

When on your keyring you keep a flash drive with all your CAD files. :D

(When typing files you accedently put first... :D )

[Sunbun]

... when you look at the last three digits of California* license plates and wonder if you know that team from somewhere.

... and you keep a tally of how many teams you know. I'm winning.

* - also works with any other state

[thurston2619]

... you and a friend fight and one of your mentors helps work it out because it's bad for the team

... you spend your free time during the summer planning the team open house

... you automatically invite your mentors to hang out with you and your friends when playing ultimate frisbee or sardines

... you can break down in front of team members but not in front of your family because your team has been more of a family to you the last couple years than your real family just because you haven't been home

... you haven't eaten dinner with your family in months, but have had "family dinners" every few weeks with your team

[dragonrulr288]

-When your friend tells you to stop talking about anything that has to do with robotics around her. You are scilent for almost 5 hours. what makes you talk? A house number of 216 [Robodawgs II]
-When you are at a football game where you dont think you know either team. Then you hear the school name and realize.. "Hey! They have a team!!!"

[Cow Bell Solo]

when you are checking out to see where people are from that are going to have their name go to mars, and you jump with joy when you see one of the states have 2207 residents have done it.

[Katie_UPS]

When most of your after-thoughts are "now where can I post this on delphi..."

[Phoenix Spud]

... when you move half way around the world (NH to Sydney Australia) and the FIRST thing you do is start the continent's first FRC team! (really, look at this thread (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=78246)!)

[Katie_UPS]

... when you move half way around the world (NH to Sydney Australia) and the FIRST thing you do is start the continent's first FRC team! (really, look at this thread (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=78246)!)

*is incredibly happy*

[Karibou]

-When your friend posts a facebook status about Haagen-Dazs cups, diet Coke, and Crackerjack, and you launch into a discussion regarding it.
-When you realize that you know more robotics people from other teams than you have team members
-When you have a three-way twitter conversation regarding robots, a FIRST team member exchange program, and not letting SoCal students drive in MI winters

[swarm420]

When you accidentally skp mealtimes 3 days in a row, fall down, and resort to eating that lost cheese curl from 2 weeks ago you found under the toolchest. :eek:

[Katie_UPS]

when you shamelessly push FIRST on strangers that you meet that are in any field of business related to FIRST.

[ZInventor]

when you shamelessly push FIRST on strangers that you meet that are in any field of business related to FIRST.

why do they have to be in a feild of buisness related to FIRST???

-Z

[KarenH]

...you see a tomato truck (http://daviswiki.org/Tomato_Trucks) driving down Interstate 5 that has the number 330 on the back of a bin, and point it out to your spouse.

[Katie_UPS]

...you see a tomato truck (http://daviswiki.org/Tomato_Trucks) driving down Interstate 5 that has the number 330 on the back of a bin, and point it out to your spouse.

Thats a lot of tomatoes.:ahh:

[sami9145]

When you are walking down the street to drop your brother at the babysitters before going to your bus stop and you realize the house across the street is your FRC team # (I havent looked for FTC yet lol)

when you are sad that youll never look at your phone and see your team # because either you are asleep by then (23:33) or the time just doesnt exist (36:79)

when you read this and all you can think is "i remember the time that happened to me..."

hahahahaha were all addicts!!! we need FIRST ADDICTS ANONAMOUS!!!!!! (sp?)

[demosthenes2k8]

When you're at an MIT admissions thing, and are upset that Woody Flowers was apparently there and you didn't see him...
*cries*

[NorviewsVeteran]

OOH I've got one of those on the 17th!

[Chris is me]

When you keep seeing all of your Wisconsin friends make mean-spirited comments about 'Da Bears on Facebook, think they're being rather rude to a great robotics team, then realize that they were referring to the football team.

[XXShadowXX]

you have fallen asleep, head in laptop. And when you wake up, you were running LabView, and firefox (chiefdelphi)

[BrendanB]

When while following your cousins soccer team in New Jersey, you go home and see if their high schools have FIRST teams.

[Robert Cawthon]

when you shamelessly push FIRST on strangers that you meet that are in any field of business related to FIRST.

They need to be in a field of business related to FIRST? I didn't know that. I push it on EVERYBODY! :eek:

[Trying to Help]

When you're at an event and looking at the year long schedule and thinking "those three dates will conflict with build season" and then you hear the folks behind you discussing the same issue!

OK, so it was an event about teaching students engineering but still! :)

Trying to Help

[Blue_Mist]

...you go to your BME professor for academic advising, she asks you why you went into engineering, and you promptly launch into an enthusiastic twenty-minute explanation of FIRST and robotics.

...you're at college, and when meeting new people, you ask if they were on a team in high school before you ask their names.

...your first paper at college deals with FIRST robotics in a completely serious and professional way.

...you haven't entirely figured out your weekly class schedule but already know the meeting times and places for the college robotics team (not quite FIRST related).

...everything reminds you of FIRST robotics in the college robotics team, of course...

[Zipding]

When you're playing an RPG and you're upset when your XP is just under or over your team number

[Vermeulen]

When you're playing an RPG and your damage always seems to be 1306 per hit
When you feel guilty for not wearing your safety glasses at all times
When you cringe whenever you hear the words "chains" or "dumper"

[mcb]

...your status is "My heart is about to burst," and someone thinks it's because you got asked to homecoming... but it's actually because you're going through pictures of your team that you make your heart swell up with pride.

[Stephen of REX]

...your status is "My heart is about to burst," and someone thinks it's because you got asked to homecoming... but it's actually because you're going through pictures of your team that you make your heart swell up with pride.
If that was my status, someone would promptly say "Then stop reheating pizza with the heat gun!"

[Mitch1525]

When the number 111 starts stalking you... Your lab drawer in Chemistry, the seat you have at the football game, the numbers of letters in a text to your FIRST friends....

When you go to your first engineering class in college and the first people you meet are FIRSTers : D

[M.Wong]

When you see a kid at lunch wearing a Thunderchicken's shirt and you freeze up trying to figure out what is going on.

P.S. im still in high school.

[Karibou]

When you see a kid at lunch wearing a Thunderchicken's shirt and you freeze up trying to figure out what is going on.

P.S. im still in high school.
Oh man, I would do the same thing if I wasn't the one at my school wearing the ThunderChickens shirt :P

[delsaner]

When you flip out because you found out that 33 squared is 1089. :o

[Chris is me]

If I saw someone at my school wearing a Thunderchickens shirt, I'd probably worship them. And if they're not a "real" Chicken, then I'd ask them how they got it :P

*worships Karibou from afar?*

[Karibou]

If I saw someone at my school wearing a Thunderchickens shirt, I'd probably worship them. And if they're not a "real" Chicken, then I'd ask them how they got it :P

*worships Karibou from afar?*
I'm not a real chicken :P (I wish I was! but I love my team <3) and I got it for my birthday; I think that the fact that I got it was a topic of discussion in this thread a few pages back.

Now, let's get back on topic....

[Chris is me]

I meant to add something about "still worshipping them" to the end of the line. :)

You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you've thought of this kind of thing before.

[Katie_UPS]

When a college comes to your school and asks you to fill out weird things, you stray off topic, tell them about FIRST, and tell them to contact you if they are interested in getting involved.

[Vermeulen]

When you make a keychain out of a peice of 80/20 (no joke).

I'm advocating 80/20 handouts next year.

When you spend your math class converting FIRST team numbers into binary (11000011010!)

When your non-FIRST friends get sick of hearing of your story of how Dean Kamen signed your shirt

When your FIRST friends get tired of hearing your story about how Dean Kamen signed your shirt

[IndySam]

When this is your Facebook FarmTown farm.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b109/scott4020/myfarm.jpg

[DezNacario]

(mostly for the folks who compete at GTR or Finger Lakes) You see the movie Surrogates and upon hearing that one of the shut down codes was "772" you immediately turn to your friends (fellow FIRSTers, of course) and you all say: "77 WHO?!"

[Mitch1525]

When meeting new people at college and getting their phone numbers, you can't help but scream when someone says "217.." or "330..."

When your Chem TA asks you about the aluminum square necklace you have and you debate if you should tell him or finish the lab.... Lab came first, then I talked his ear off!!! : D GO FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When you go to football games and get confused when people aren't cheering for alliances... Then realize you're a total nerd. : D

When you bring 8 rolls of colored duct tape, your tool box, and colored zip ties to college and are known as duct tape girl. SUCCESS!!!!!!!

[Katie_UPS]

When you bring 8 rolls of colored duct tape, your tool box, and colored zip ties to college and are known as duct tape girl. SUCCESS!!!!!!!

Mitch, you were duck-tape girl at IRI. :P


When you are really jealous of Sam's farm.

[The Megan 2207]

...you see a truck on the freeway with "FIRST" written in huge letters on the side. You slow down and take a closer look, only to realize that it also says "Freeway Incident Response Safety Team," and you are extremely disappointed. True story.

[Katie_UPS]

When your school projects are in team colors because its the most readily available color in your house.

[Katie_UPS]

and when this joke is funny;

Once Dean Kamen talked to Wave Robotics. He stretched their meeting on so long they missed IRI.
-Chris is me

[Phoenix Spud]

When you go to a summer camp (I live in the southern part of the world) and you realize half of your conversations end with "It's a robotics thing..."

[Katie_UPS]

When the nicest dress you own was gotten for robo-prom

[Phoenix Spud]

When you fall asleep think up posts for this thread!:rolleyes:

[sami9145]

When you move and you are dissapointed that the number is 5 away from your FRC team number but waaaaaay happy that house #2333 is right across the street ^-^

when you are walking home and you notice that one of the lightpoles is numbered 2333

when you are at work (I work fastfood at Taco Bueno) and you go to give the customer his total and you realize its $23.33 and you proceed to tell the customer and the people youre working with all about your robotics team

when right after you gush about your team to the customer you print out an extra copy of the receipt for yourself just because it has your team number on it

(hahaha the customer and fellow employees laughed at me... i think i might be addicted a little!!!!)

[typharn91]

when you have this many(look at my sig) frc shirts and find time to wear them all and thats not including sponsor shirts that are given away at champs:D

[thurston2619]

when your friends come to visit and the only thing you talk about the entire day is robotics fund raiser ideas your teams have.

when your email inbox only has emails from your robotics team

when you have more text messages in your inbox about robotics than any other topic

[Karibou]

-When your coat check number from homecoming is 48, and you spazz and start discussing with your friend how awesome it is

[Jmrandmax]

-when you stay awake at night because you can't stop thinking about how to make everything you own black and orange. GO TECHTIGERS! GO 1251!

[Jmrandmax]

OMG that's cool!

[nighterfighter]

when on the last day (night?) of build season, you get kicked out of the school...because they shut down the power.

[GaryVoshol]

When you remember your student number because it's 3 team numbers.

[EricH]

When you remember your student number because it's 3 team numbers.
When you use team numbers to remember the code to the main door at your residence hall. On multiple codes (they do change the codes from time to time).

[Chris is me]

When you use team numbers to remember the code to the main door at your residence hall. On multiple codes (they do change the codes from time to time).

When you wrote "THUNNNNNDERCHICKENS" o the dry erase board outside room 217.

[EricH]

When you wrote "THUNNNNNDERCHICKENS" o the dry erase board outside room 217.
No, you didn't. I happen to have that room, and the whiteboard doesn't have anything like that... (See earlier in this thread for comments on that.)

Oh, right, different school.:p

Now, it'll be funny if whoever is in 217 at your school was on a FIRST team, funnier if they were on 217.

[Alice]

when your team can win highest rookie seed two years in a row at CalGames :D

[kgzak]

... You freak out because Dean Kamen is in the latest Popular Mechanics Magazine

[BrendanB]

When you think to yourself, "HMMMM, is there more to life that FIRST?":rolleyes:






the answer is yes

[drumfreak]

When you take a trip to South Carolina and have a connection flight in Atlanta, Georgia and as you are landing, you start to point out things like the Georgia Dome and the mall that you ate dinner at before Robo prom. And then you feel extremely sad because you wish that you could take a picture, but they have already made you turn off all battery operated electronics.

[Phoenix Spud]

When you think to yourself, "HMMMM, is there more to life that FIRST?":rolleyes:






the answer is yes

When your whole family wonders this...





and comes up with the same answer!!!:]

[AMB2010]

when you sit in class every day and read this and think wow i love first !!!!
when i cry thinking about how this is my last year on the team... :(

[Andrew Schreiber]

When you try to use other forums and then can't because they are not CD.

When you see a bar across the screen on a forum and you think to yourself, "That should be CD Orange"

When CD Orange is an actual color in your mind. (As is 233 Pink and Moe/Chicken Green)

When you have to plan what events you are going to just so you won't go to too many and stand a chance of passing your Winter term classes.

[dragonrulr288]

..when.. "this one time at band camp" becomes "this one time.. at a robotics meeting..."

[Samheartsrobots]

When you are hoping your pancake breakfast fundraiser won't conflict with anything cause you're just so excited to participate...

[Alice]

when it takes YOU significantly less time than it took me to figure out that CD stands for "Chief Delphi" :o

[delsaner]

when it takes YOU significantly less time than it took me to figure out that CD stands for "Chief Delphi" :o

All in good time... ;)

[NorviewsVeteran]

All in good time... ;)

Good times indeed.

[J93Wagner]

You go an entire week without being on CD and then freak out...

[LilGrohnke2013]

..when.. "this one time at band camp" becomes "this one time.. at a robotics meeting..."

When "this one time at band camp" and "this one time at a robotics meeting" become interchangable, and come up so often you get ignorned by your friends. As well as approximately half the robotics team is in marching band.

[ehochstein]

When "this one time at band camp" and "this one time at a robotics meeting" become interchangable, and come up so often you get ignorned by your friends. As well as approximately half the robotics team is in marching band.


The same thing happened for my team last year >.< about 7/8 of my team was in the band! (so to be exact 3 members on my team were not in the band.)

[J93Wagner]

When you make everything clear (like 1714) to continue a pun from another thread.




(I left the enters to be more obvious)

[thurston2619]

- when you have a fever of 103 but you go to school so that your parents wont keep you from going to robotics that night

- when your robotics team tells you to go home and you refuse because you have too much to do before the next meeting

- when you finally are forced out of your build site only to go home and work on more robotics stuff

[BrendanB]

This is actually something that happened to my mom today:

There was an unknown laptop and bag in our van today after my brother was driving around some friends and she opened it up to find if any identification was in the bag and after opening the first pocket said, "Oh, it's someone from robotics!" and she pulled out some type of software CD from itellitek.

[delsaner]

When I am going to skip most of Halloween (personally one of my favorite holidays) to go a robotics competition. Brunswick Eruption ftw!

[demosthenes2k8]

Agreed. Can't wait for River Rage!

[aznkazoon]

-when you check the FRC blogs everyday
-when you planner has every day marked tell you how many more days until kick off
*In addition when you go up to your team mates and tell them how many more days there are unitl kick off eveyday*

[kevincrispie]

When you can't tell the difference between yourself and the robot

[Michelle692]

You are helping your friend create character sketches for her creative writing class, and you have the most fun plotting the characters' futures because all you do is find ways to get them involved in FIRST :)

[Mr.G]

when you go to toys r us to find new design ideas.

[freaky_dork88]

you insist that you take your senior pictures with the letterman that you got from being in robotics most specifically FIRST

[hipsterjr]

When you keep a tub of K'nex for "prototyping" design ideas and have won arguments with a k'nex model.


yea 2000th post:p