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

[Psychoflood]

So since the FRC championship competition in Atlanta this past weekend, i've been insanely tired/hooked on FIRST. The product of both of those, combined with a really boring spanish class, have produced a list of things that prove how much of our mind FIRST really occupies.. and yes i have done about half the things on the list. Haha, i hope you enjoy:

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

-Cheers from the competition accidentally slip into normal conversation
-Every time you see a helicopter you think "Dean Kamen is my hero"
-You swear you hear people cheering "Blue Alliance" in the middle of lunch
-You come home with a suit of armor made out of buttons from random teams.
-Every time you hear a whistle you think about switching to offense
-Every time you hear "FIRST" you proudly show off the finale party wristband... which you still have on your wrist.
-When you watch basketball on T.V. you could swear you saw a green light on the backboard
-When your parents call you up for dinner, you whip out your phone to text your friends to ask when they want to meet at the CNN tower.
-When you see people in a group wearing shirts of a similar color, you wonder what team they are.
-When you hear people go "Awwwwwwwwwww" you look for the toppled robot.
-You type "FIRST" into google just to see it appear on the top of the list.
-Upon your return home you try and convince your entire group of friends to join FIRST
-90% of the words out of your mouth are inside jokes from the trip to Atlanta
-You wait on the bottom step on a flight of stairs wondering why the escalator isn't working.
-You carry a pair of safety glasses on you at all times... in everyday life.
-You come home and write a thread on Chief Delphi about knowing when you've overdoesed on FIRST robotics.

If anyone has any of their own they want to add, post them here so we can all get a good laugh. FIRST robotics FTW!

[ahirsch2589]

you try to make a shopping cart that will automatically go up stairs?

[Psychoflood]

hahahaha hmmm that could be done >.>

[Zyik]

-When you cry, not that you didn't get to Quarter Finals, but that the Season's over.
-When brought three pairs of safty glasses, and lost two.
-When you see a wheel chair you think of Dean.
-When you plan on NEVER taking that wristband off till it falls off.

[Spiffizzle]

How about one I personally experienced:

- When you didn't go to Atlanta, but think that getting sick all three days was a sign you were supposed to watch attentively at all times. :p

[KRoth]

You know you're overdosed with FIRST when...

... You leave the wrap party early to go to your hotel and hypothesize about multi-color cathodes.
... You don't make it to school on Monday after the championship because you're too busy catching up on four days worth of missed sleep
... You know everyone should wear safety goggles at all times and refrain from open toed shoes. The big green Safety Captain button on your shirt you still wear constantly reminds you.
... Your suitcase weighs at least 5 pounds heavier on the way home from all those t-shirts you bought and got for free
... You want to complete a Hooters shirt line up for each robotics season: one bought at every hooters at each the competitions you've been to.
... If you're pit crew: You hate anyone who has the nerve to say "My butt hurts, I've been sitting in the stands all day"
... If you're in the stands: You hate anyone who has the nerve to say "My Legs hurt, I haven't sat down all day"

[SarahBecker]

[QUOTE=KRoth] Your suitcase weighs at least 5 pounds heavier on the way home from all those t-shirts you bought and got for free[QUOTE]

More like your suitcase weighs at least 5 pounds heavier from all those BUTTONS you acquired! :ahh:

[prettycolors91]

...When you can't shup up about robotics...
...You're already planning stuff for next year...
...you didn't cry because you didn't win, you cried for the team that DID win...
...you lost your voice screaming for the other teams...
...you were jumping up and down because you got to talk to woodie flowers...
...you painted half your head your team color and the other half your favorite teams color (yay 503 frog force the hot team luvs you!!!)...
...your starting to get used to sleeping in the aisle ways of buses...
...you are going thru elevator withdrawrel...
...you decorated your lamp with buttons...
...your team is going to have at least 20 noobs that you recruited...
...you start refering to people from team numbers "that kid from 33" and your friends look confused. then you say "that kid from the killer bees" and they still look confused. then you say "hes a guy from robotics" and a look of dawning recognition comes over their faces and you walk away shaking your head....

:ahh:

[edboy]

-You type "FIRST" into google just to see it appear on the top of the list.


the first thing i did when i got home was to type in FIRST into google, to see if they were really serious
i also did it in yahoo and was very disappointed that FIRST was SECOND

[StephLee]

...When you're still wearing the awesome tie dyed sweatband you got from 88 that you haven't taken off except to shower.
...When your wrap party wrist band was lovingly cut off so it wouldn't get damaged and you could save it.
...When you spent today sleeping in more than one class.
...When you told every single person you talked to a story from Atlanta.
...When you have a countdown on your myspace (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=67821267) already until next year's kick-off.
...When you spent 2 1/2 hours on the ride home making plans for the off-season and for next year.
...When you're posting on this thread regardless of the fact that you have a 10 page paper due tomorrow that you haven't finished, plus make-up work.
...When you get to school and immediately, from a teammate, hear how long it is until kick-off...to the second.
...When several teammates post this information on your team website during school.
...When you realize you have four internet windows up right now: the FIRST website, ChiefDelphi, and two e-mail windows...and both e-mails are to people on FIRST teams you met at competitions.
...When you see three championship sweatshirts and one t-shirt at school, and another team member says hers was dirty or she'd have worn it...and you only have 7 people from your school on the team.

[Fuzzy]

...When you set your alarm early on the Monday after Championship, just so you can beat the other teams to Dunkin Donuts.

[coastertux]

...when you think you can never overdose on FIRST!

[KTorak]

-when you get back to school and realize you have hours of homework to make up, however, you would never trade the championship experience for anything else.

[aallen88]

--When you walk back into school on Monday and realize how dull and quiet everything is...and how no one at school will ever REALLY understand where you've been for the past few days.

that and...

--When you are constantly crying or tearing up (and believe me this is not an exaggeration) because you realize the best thing that ever happened to you in HS is coming to a close and just a wave of depression hits you.

I <3 MORT and robotics for LIFE.

[irishninja]

YTou know you are overdose to first when you start threads that have been in the chit chat section for a while now.

[Cuog]

-You swear you hear people cheering "Blue Alliance" in the middle of lunch


You actually do hear people cheering blue alliance(they are watching a tape from nats)

[ahirsch2589]

you run up to random people standing in front of them, then you bump into them knocking them over, and run up a a flight of stairs until you hear a buzzer

[Jessica!]

--You are more excited about upcoming off season events than you are about the fact that you won the championship

--You are sad because you're not sure what you're going to do with all your spare time now that you can't go to robotics everyday...

[HyPhire111]

. . You can't help it if you go into radioshack and see a box of vex part and feel the need to construct a robot

[KelliV]

... You have spent the last 18 hours editing the Championship footage
... You refer to everything by numbers
... You chant Oink Oink BOOM as you watch the bacon in your microwave
... Your friends offer to buy you lunch if you don't say WildStang for 30 minutes, and you end you not eating becuase you left your lunch money at home.
... You order Thunder Chicken Nuggets at the school lunch line

[Lea103]

--on a day off from school, you wake up at 8 so you can watch the opening ceremony for friday.
--you have an ap test in four days and are on delphi or watching the final matches

[SarahBecker]

When you skip school the week before exams just so you can go to Nats with your team.

[anna~marie]

you don't know how to spend your day... so you just veg out on CD
you check your email and all the messages are from CD

[Qbranch]

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

-Cheers from the competition accidentally slip into normal conversation
-Every time you see a helicopter you think "Dean Kamen is my hero"
-You swear you hear people cheering "Blue Alliance" in the middle of lunch
-You come home with a suit of armor made out of buttons from random teams.
-Every time you hear a whistle you think about switching to offense
-Every time you hear "FIRST" you proudly show off the finale party wristband... which you still have on your wrist.
-When you watch basketball on T.V. you could swear you saw a green light on the backboard
-When your parents call you up for dinner, you whip out your phone to text your friends to ask when they want to meet at the CNN tower.
-When you see people in a group wearing shirts of a similar color, you wonder what team they are.
-When you hear people go "Awwwwwwwwwww" you look for the toppled robot.
-You type "FIRST" into google just to see it appear on the top of the list.
-Upon your return home you try and convince your entire group of friends to join FIRST
-90% of the words out of your mouth are inside jokes from the trip to Atlanta
-You wait on the bottom step on a flight of stairs wondering why the escalator isn't working.
-You carry a pair of safety glasses on you at all times... in everyday life.
-You come home and write a thread on Chief Delphi about knowing when you've overdoesed on FIRST robotics.


This is kind of scary.... I do most these things all the time...

I've tried to get all my friends to join FIRST, I always include "Lets all go nuts, ROBOTS, ROBOTS!" when talking with my programming teacher.

Oh yeah and I really really miss the escalators... don't need them here in good ol' flat Indiana.

I still have my side shields in my wallet (just in case there is a Safety Captain around :cool: )

So here's what I have to add:

- Your team cheers for the robot's autonomous programming (they named it RALFF :ahh: )

- You often think that people are calling you by your FIRST name (mine's "Q")

- You have nightmares about the target light changing from green, to red, to blue.

- You look online to see when the date for the 2007 kickoff is. (already have it in my phone countdown :yikes: )

- You check Google Earth to see if they have the golden poof ball marked yet.

- You can't find MARTA anywhere, but still carry your "Breeze" pass around.

- You think you pretty much know what next year's game is going to be. (I know I do ;) )

- You type "sundial.first" into your address bar to see if it is counting down to next year's national competition.

- You just opened another tab to check the previous item. ;)

- Not seeing Segways on a regular basis seems odd.



Might have some more later...
-Q

[Master Dictator]

-Cheers from the competition accidentally slip into normal conversation
-You swear you hear people cheering "Blue Alliance" in the middle of lunch
-You come home with a suit of armor made out of buttons from random teams.
-Every time you hear a whistle you think about switching to offense
-When you watch basketball on T.V. you could swear you saw a green light on the backboard
-When your parents call you up for dinner, you whip out your phone to text your friends to ask when they want to meet at the CNN tower.
-When you see people in a group wearing shirts of a similar color, you wonder what team they are.
-When you hear people go "Awwwwwwwwwww" you look for the toppled robot.
-You type "FIRST" into google just to see it appear on the top of the list.
-Upon your return home you try and convince your entire group of friends to join FIRST
-90% of the words out of your mouth are inside jokes from the trip to Atlanta
-You wait on the bottom step on a flight of stairs wondering why the escalator isn't working.
-You carry a pair of safety glasses on you at all times... in everyday life.
-You come home and write a thread on Chief Delphi about knowing when you've overdoesed on FIRST robotics.


and
- You often think that people are calling you by your FIRST name


These apply to me and some are so true, which now I think about it is scary. Oh and my FIRST name is C Monster or CMOS

[StephLee]

I've done more since this afternoon...


...When you turn CNN on while you do your homework just because it reminds you of Atlanta.
...When you have your team coonskin hat "watching you type your paper" (it followed me home, I have to take it back to the team... :cool: )
...When you hear the word autonomous on CNN and freak out.
...When your non-FIRST friends seem surprised to see you.
...When your school bell makes you think "Are we backbot this match???"
...When you regret your decision not to buy three more championship t-shirts.
...When you take all the robotics related junk out of your purse...and it's got next to nothing in it.
...When your teachers say "So what city will you be in next weekend?"
...When your parents announce a family weekend trip and you wonder if there are any FIRST teams in the area that you could visit.

[amanda547]

you know you have overdosed to first when while you are reading all of these things, you can smile and say "oh yeah, i miss doing that" and then, you start to tear up and scream "I MISS FIRST!!!"

-But out of all honesty, I have just experienced my first free monday in what seems like forever. I dont know what to do with myself. I feel like Im failing at life or something. "I MISS FIRST!!!!!!!"

[irishninja]

No yeah I'm serious. Check the chit chat section. There are multiple threads like this.

[ScoutingNerd175]

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
-You come home with a suit of armor made out of buttons from random teams.
-Every time you hear "FIRST" you proudly show off the finale party wristband... which you still have on your wrist.
-You type "FIRST" into google just to see it appear on the top of the list.
-Upon your return home you try and convince your entire group of friends to join FIRST
-90% of the words out of your mouth are inside jokes from the trip to Atlanta
-You carry a pair of safety glasses on you at all times... in everyday life.

I have all the buttons on BAE bandannas from last year and they are hanging on my wall. Yes, I still have the wrist band, it is plastic, so it will last. FIRST really does come up first! My best friend says she will not join robotics at my school, she is too busy with earth club. My mom can't wait for me to go to college so that she won't have to hear about first any more. My safety glasses have been in my purse since... build season.

-Your Latin class is numbered 103, you looked at the clock and it said 2:36, you looked up again and it said 2:52... so you waited until it said 2:54, You saw a road sign that said 451, and you notice your team number everywhere.

-You had to stay home sick because you caught something awful (viva la Championships petri dish)

- You didn't finish any home work because you have been online ever since you got home, even though you had a day more off to do your work.

[Tetraman]

...You know at least 50 team names and their numbers by heart.
...You believe 71 is possibly the greatest number of all time.
...You know who's hot.
...You watch scary swamp movies and swear 179 leaped out of the bog!
...You see '33' enscribed on most bumble bees.
...You believe cheering for your high school's basketball team will give you the Team Spirit award.
...You've got designs, plans, names, and ideas all ready to begin your own FIRST team.
...To you, the name Technobots is like the last name Smith.
...You don't make Canada jokes anymore. It's not very Gratious and Professional.
...Your best English essay included FIRST
...You only listen to songs on the DJ list.
...You can't wait for Winter. (build season)
...Your Myspace has at least one Atlanta/Regional Picture.
...You don't feel akward when Dave, Woodie and Dean partisipate in the "You-ought-to-know" Gameshow during kickoff
...You want to play a FIRST video game SOOOOOOOO badly
...You want a water game challenge for one year no matter how hard it would be.
...Friends hear you talk about FIRST and they think you got draged into a cult.
...Mountain Dew is the beverage of builders.
...You have a medal from a year you mentored.
...You school grades drop a letter in Janurary than go up two after April.
...You have a FIRST keychain on your keychain. (I got ours and 71's)
...You accidently called a Triangle a Tetra in Math class
...Your photo project for Photography includes a Robotics picture
...Regionals pwn that Kindergarten Field Trip to the zoo you had.
...You cheer everytime your team number appears anywhere
...You use your Nickname you got from your team members in fourms other than FIRST fourms.
...People think you are nuts when you start talking about Thunder Chickens, Explodeing Bacon, and Mad Cows.
...You call any intervention a Bovine Intervention.
...You swear Tricorner hats with long cyan feathers were stolen from Tech Fusion
...The weather forcast predicts wind and rain, you say 1511 is coming.
...You all Go Nuts (robots, robots!)
...You never have trouble finding Waldo.
...On your last test, when asked what was Newton's greatest accomplishment, you answered "He got my team to visit Einstien"
...You can prove to your friends Martians exist! And this time they broguth more!
...You tell your gym coach you want 10 seconds automous mode before the start of the dodgeball game.
...At the end of the dodgeball game to run to the end of your side of the field for 5 bonus points.
...to you: 4's company, 5's a crowd, and 6 is someone off-sides.
...You actually dream to be an MC
...Flowers is an awsome last name.
...Legos are a serious business
...Atlanta is your Mecca.

[CmptrGk]

-when you are so exhausted that you need to sleep, but cant fall asleep. due to the fact that you were up untill midnight or later all last week.

[ahirsch2589]

omfg i seriously miss wasting my days on FIRST, i cant wait until kickoff. in the meantime i will begin the construction of a car made entirely out of first buttons, anyone have donations lolz jk :P

[Veryser127]

How do i know robots are going to take over the world, they have already taken over my life!

[HyPhire111]

yes!! ...to you: 4's company, 5's a crowd, and 6 is someone off-sides.
that 1 genious

[Tetraman]

yes!! ...to you: 4's company, 5's a crowd, and 6 is someone off-sides.
that 1 genious

Yea, I love it too. :D

[Cynette]

you look at the clock and it says 2:29 and you think what a great team. Then you wait for 2:30 and think what a great team, then you wait for 2:31 and you think, what a great team...then you wait for 2:32 and you think hey what ever happened to them?

By then it is 2:33 and you think what a great team...

and now it's 2:37 and you realize you've just lost 9 minutes of productive time...

[ahirsch2589]

you look at the clock and it says 2:29 and you think what a great team. Then you wait for 2:30 and think what a great team, then you wait for 2:31 and you think, what a great team...then you wait for 2:32 and you think hey what ever happened to them?

By then it is 2:33 and you think what a great team...

and now it's 2:37 and you realize you've just lost 9 minutes of productive time...
lol i love it!

[Sila741]

When your bag is held up for a day in the airport due to the amount of buttons(114),robot parts,and random metal objects in it.

[Tetraman]

you look at the clock and it says 2:29 and you think what a great team. Then you wait for 2:30 and think what a great team, then you wait for 2:31 and you think, what a great team...then you wait for 2:32 and you think hey what ever happened to them?

By then it is 2:33 and you think what a great team...

and now it's 2:37 and you realize you've just lost 9 minutes of productive time...

you look at the clock and it says 1:74 and you think what a great team and what a bad clock, I need a new one.

[Zoheb N]

when u find out u have a robotics shirt for everyday of the week

when u argue with your physics teacher and start off with well this past weekend at the FIRST Championships...

[Shayna]

...when you've been living at robotics since January
...when you see your mentors more than your parents
...when you don't know what to do with your life now that nationals is over... can't wait for off-season events
...when you CANNOT IMAGINE life without robotics

[Tetraman]

...when, for your Digital Animation Final Project, you design a FRC game field with a animation of how the game works. I'll post it up in a week when it's done.

[Robocat1]

A team member pointed this out to me:

When you buy a new vehicle based mainly on whether or not its cargo area is big enough to transport a robot and/or display/fundraising items (its a Jeep Grand Cherokee and it works!). My prior Jeep Wrangler just didn't work out!

[JaneYoung]

A team member pointed this out to me:

When you buy a new vehicle based mainly on whether or not its cargo area is big enough to transport a robot and/or display/fundraising items (its a Jeep Grand Cherokee and it works!). My prior Jeep Wrangler just didn't work out!

This is sadly not funny
and I don't want to talk about it
or the ability to haul a trailer with said robot and/or display/fundraising items and don't forget the tools.
Nope, not talking about it.

[hoorayforpink]

-when u cant talk for hours after nationals because of all the cheering you did..................while watching the webcast :cool:

- when people ask u wat time it is you scream 2:33!
:D

[Tetraman]

...You discover FIRST is the only place where Robo Dawgs don't chase X-Cats and X-Cats don't chase Rat Packs.
...Your digital camera happens to target MOE rather than the other green object you want.
...You actually understand the words coming out of an engineer's mouth.
...you swear basketball refs should throw flags instead of blowing wistles.
...You remember the days when a final score of 50-40 was 90 big ones.
...Grasshoppers are harder to squish.
...you have once seen a gila monster in the Flordia everglades.
...You tell your friends Aladdin was Scrabian.
...You constantly sing, "Wild Stang" no matter what your friends say it's supost to be.
...You have never, ever, ever forgotten what the Wo-Bot looks like.
...You get the Smile of team 1 and the Smile of team 175 mixed up all the time.
...Elite is spelt E.L.I.T.E.
...Newbies are cool.
...The best way to lose weight is to drill holes.
...You have a n.e.r.d number
...Tripplets is another word for colaboration.
...When you still live with your team after you've graduated.
...The Pits are the best place to find friends.
...Pink is an acceptable color for guys.
...you think and/or know Nerds are sexy.
...You've GOT to have a picture taken with Dean, Woodie or Dave.
...You want your school to provide less money so your team can play in the Vex tournament rather than FRC.
...You wish you were 10 years old again so you could play in the Lego Leauge.
...You act different.

[i like dirt]

- When you are, what you build

[Loco4Robots]

...when you begin to plan what your button should look like next year
...your upset on the plane flight home because you know that the season is over
...you bet to see who collected more buttons
...you see if you can wear robotic shirts for the rest of the week
...you plan on what teams you are going to be on next year (lego, vex, FRC)
...almost every conversation with ANYONE ends up being about robotics
...the evil rubber ducky you adopted travels with you everywhere :p

more to come....

~Sammy~

[anna~marie]

when you go to do some paper for a class instead of writing first you write "F.I.R.S.T." and get done with the sentence before you realize it!

[laurenlacy]

when asking someone if they have a spare dongle you can use isnt considered dirty

[EricH]

...You want your school to provide less money so your team can play in the Vex tournament rather than FRC.Don't you mean more money so you can do both? And/or FLL into the bargain?:p

[amanda547]

:ahh: :ahh: I dont even know what to do now!! :ahh: :ahh:
Who wants robotics to start back like... right now??? i know I do!!

[Tetraman]

Don't you mean more money so you can do both? And/or FLL into the bargain?:p

Well...when it comes to my school...they'd be glad to give us less money. :o

Plus would you have resonded to it if I had said more rather than less? :confused:

[Daisy]

when you accidently forget how many bites are in a kilobyte, you think of the Kil-A-Bytes, and hence 1024 (thank you for the help on my computer science exam!)

[James1902]

-When halls cough drops become a hot commodity because all of your team has lost there voice...and it's been three days since you got back! :D

[Qbranch]

when you accidently forget how many bites are in a kilobyte, you think of the Kil-A-Bytes, and hence 1024 (thank you for the help on my computer science exam!)

Glad to help! :D :D :D

-Q

[JaneYoung]

I believe this is a 1902 understatement - not sure - but possibly.

-When halls cough drops become a hot commodity because all of your team has lost there voice...and it's been three days since you got back! :D

[Nica F.]

.. when you break your luggage wheels because youre continuosly checking if your luggage has the best "center of gravity"

[vadyr]

-You type "FIRST" into google just to see it appear on the top of the list.


when we got back to the hotel i ordered a whole 24 hours of internet just to test this out!

[Daisy]

when you still read the manual, even though the season's over
when you beg your english teacher to let you watch webcasts (side comment: he wasn't the one to refuse, it was the rest of the class)
when you were your team's shirt to school, and not just for days of competition
when your friends know more about the robotics, then they do about your life from January to April.

[ahirsch2589]

when you think of soccer or quiddich, you think of aim high

[anna~marie]

when you were your team's shirt to school, and not just for days of competition

why just limit your wardrobe to your own team?? :)

[joshsmithers]

when your parents no longer ground you from playstation or 'hanging out', but from vex, team meetings, Chief Delphi, and any calculator that is programmable/ programming software.

[Daisy]

why just limit your wardrobe to your own team?? :)

because I don't have any other ones. I know major shame.

when your parents ...ground you ... team meetings, Chief Delphi, and any calculator that is programmable/ programming software.

been there, done that.

EDIT: when you start learning all the lyrics to the cha cha song, or you do it in your seat at competitions (with a mentor).
when you call after every match at competition to let your driver/coach know that that was awesome

[artdutra04]

... when ever you type the five letters f-i-r-s-t into a keyboard you automatically type them in all caps, regardless of whether you are referring to FIRST or not.
... when you read the above line and then go back and italicize FIRST to be correct.
... when go to Google and type in a team number to see if a team's website will show up in the first page of results. It works for 228 (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=228&btnG=Search) and 1511 (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=1511&btnG=Search). :D
... when you notice that you've only been on Chief Delphi for a year, despite the fact that it seems so much longer

you look at the clock and it says 2:29 and you think what a great team. Then you wait for 2:30 and think what a great team, then you wait for 2:31 and you think, what a great team...then you wait for 2:32 and you think hey what ever happened to them?

By then it is 2:33 and you think what a great team...

and now it's 2:37 and you realize you've just lost 9 minutes of productive time...I do the same thing, but I'll start at 2:28. :p

[thatphotochick]

when you start off a sentence with "so this one time, at a FIRST competition", or "so this one time during the robotics build season"

when you hear "we like to party" and start doing the dance...or you hear it in your head from the million times it was played and you start doing the dance...or when you hear or see MOE or 365 you do the dance

when you hear people yell "CHARGE" and you get confused and lost when you look and see baseball and not robots

when people ask you if you got your beads from new orleans..you proud say Purple Haze

when you realize you sneak in the library to get on CD, when most people sneak on the computers to get on myspace

when you contemplate using your team's website for your project in web page design

You constantly sing, "Wild Stang" no matter what your friends say it's supost to be.

i did that today..kept singing "wild stang..you make my heart sing"

[ScoutingNerd175]

.. when you break your luggage wheels because youre continuosly checking if your luggage has the best "center of gravity"

My suitcase has a terrible center of gravity. It always fall over. No matter how I repack it.

When that's how you explain the problem to your mother who doesn't know that "gravity has a center".

[FIRST Rocks]

-Upon finding this thread, you copy & paste everyone's responses into Word and make a complete "You Know You've Overdosed on FIRST When..." joke list.
-You try to do the above at 10:30pm so you can show it to your teammates at school tomorrow, but your mom kicks you off the computer.
-Your teacher asks you to name the greatest inventor in history and you say "Dean Kamen".

The list is quite long! Including the 3 I just added, there 209 different jokes! :yikes: I'll post the list here when I complete it, so you can download it. :cool:

[Tetraman]

Oh I got more! I'll just keep craking them out!

...buttons are a fashion statement
...Pink is the new black
...You've mastered both the Cha-cha slide and the dance to Cotton Eye Joe.
...You look at the team list and can tell how hard the regional will be depending on the teams present.
...Bins haunt your dreams.
...You'd pick both the red and blue pill.
...you conplain Battle Bots give FIRST a bad name
...The first fifteen seconds after you wake up in the morning are Automous.
...to you, there are MOE days in a year
...Your Sex education includes connecting wires
...The only time where nerds wear their pants lower than the waist line is when they are weighed down from all the team buttons and chains.
...what happens in Atlanta, is webcasted.
...You ask Warhammer to make a FIRST edition.
...When your willing to miss your Senior ball to go to nationals
...your goals have changed from Hollywood to NASA
...When your friends ask you to stop talking about it!!

[Michelle Celio]

The list is quite long! Including the 3 I just added, there 209 different jokes! :yikes: I'll post the list here when I complete it, so you can download it. :cool:


And to think..there's two other threads like this one!!

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17937

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40267

[anna~marie]

haha I'm expecting a list about 30 pages long...
that'd be great to give to newbies and let them know that they soon will relate :cool:

[laurenlacy]

when you start learning all the lyrics to the cha cha song, or you do it in your seat at competitions (with a mentor).



when your mom knows the cha cha slide by heart because after going to one of your competitions she downloaded it...

[Tetraman]

I got another!

...When the majority of your reputation comes from those who enjoyed what you have written for "You know you've overdosed on FIRST when..."

[Loco4Robots]

...when you have a whole line of team apparel
...you wear only the shoes that are in your team colors
...you did the homework given to you by Dean rather than actual school work

[thatphotochick]

When your willing to miss your Senior ball to go to nationals

Our driver and his friend last year missed prom to go to nationals...i'm sure it was a better choice.

[Psychoflood]

who needs prom, just get 11, 247 and 1251 to start a cart party and dance with all of your FIRST friends. that owns the prom.

[thatphotochick]

who can forget MOE?

btw..that cart party was hilarious! i was gonna join in but we had to leave...i mean i love doing the macarena

[FIRST Rocks]

Up to 230 now! I'm never going to have this list finished!

[Tetraman]

I'm never going to have this list finished!

You never will as long as I can still think!

...Cats are bread differently. There are your X-Cats, Robocats...
...Same with dogs.
...You never see the same BEAST, but the same beatty engeneered and student tweaked machine.
...you couldn't help laughing when the announcer calls three robots on the platform a 'Tripple Play'
...You started talking about the flashing Red, Blue, and Green lights on the ride back home.
...You scream when the webcast goes black.
...your girlfriend or boyfriend is on a better Robotics team than yours.
...You know who the real Ed is cause you studied his pictures.

[Jaysun42]

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

-You save every scrap of Scouting paper so you can ceremoniously burn them in a post-season bonfire (Friday night by the way :D ).
-Your suitcase is 3.5 lbs overweight because of your wet clothes you wore in the Olympic Fountain the night before.
-You bring a pedometer with you so you can measure the distance you travel betweent the field and pits.
-You're so absorbed in the comptetion you realize the last day you go a mile out of your way to get food when there are restaurants near the pits (I had no idea Foodworld in GWCC existed until Friday afternoon and I've been to Atl. twice already!).
-Three days after the competition, your bag is still lit up from all the glowsticks you snagged from Team So and So.
-You have to double check and make sure you don't have any pins in your carry on bag so that you don't get forcefully ejected from the airport.
-You have battle scars on your fingers from ringing cowbells for each and every one of your team's matches.
-You go insane trying to catch the ripped Poof balls the refs are throwing into the stands.
-You come to the realization that FIRST has been the best thing in your life for the past four years and you have no idea what your going to do without it.

11 MORT FOR LIFE 11

[Pavan Dave]

When you reply 3 thou in front of the class when the teacher asks you a math problem..
WHen you constantly look for Multimeter's whenever you hear the words "Low Battery"
When you go to school with electrical tape and when people ask why you say, "Because I'm Prepared"..
When you see somethingthing flashing green blue and red your attention is diverted..
When you stop when you se a locker numbered 118 you gaze at those beatiful numbers..
When the teacher asks you to get prepared for class, you pull out notebook paper and take a visual inventory of items you need next year for FIRST. (almost 2 D-Halls lol. But my teachers love me)


Just some I came up with..

[hallk]

-you were actually hoping (and believed) they would change the game to the flashing colored lights
-when the game didn't really change you didn't stop thinking about how the robot would work
-when the announcer was introducing teams with his feet while doing a head stand you couldn't stop thinking when the real Dave was going to show up

[RoboMadi]

when you eventually start talking in C language, even during your AP Exam week.
when your social life is nothing but hanging aruond with your robot and team members in empty school hallways
when you think your robot comes before your prom date.

[JaneYoung]

a lot of these would make great:
- buttons
- posters for the shop or garage or closet wall
and tee shirts
- humorous letterhead for thank yous
- great give-aways with your information on the back and your button attached

[SarahBecker]

....you wear only the shoes that are in your team colors

My shoes last year had my team number imprinted on them... (and that's why i bought them! hehe) :o

[Tetraman]

-when the announcer was introducing teams with his feet while doing a head stand you couldn't stop thinking when the real Dave was going to show up

That is the real Dave. He is, by far, my favorite MC, and will be, my insperation to be an MC one day.

[prettycolors91]

Dave is amazing. I'm lucky to have him as a mentor :D :D :D :D

[Barry Bonzack]

1 When you find yourself watching a hockey game with a group of friends

2 You know you're addicted when while you are watching the hockey game you think for a split second that the big number on their jersey is their team number.

[RoboMom]

When you finally realize that "Cold Pizza" is actually a tv show on a channel you've never watched (ESPN2) and you spend 15 minutes trying to figure out which of the 4 remotes will get me there :confused: (including the one given to me by my brother-in-law that consolidates all the remotes) but none of them work, before giving up and am surprised at how disappointed I am. :mad:

[pyroslev]

When you fall asleep trying to get the camera ready for next year and those freaky light changes... (Not there yet but we'll see after finals...)

[amos229]

when you spend tons of money to go play with balls...

[Fuzzy]

-You save every scrap of Scouting paper so you can ceremoniously burn them in a post-season bonfire (Friday night by the way :D ).


where are we burning them? :P

[thatphotochick]

when you hear "thunderstruck" and you start cheering on your team, and get confused when you don't see your team (thunderhawks), or the thunder chickens or ANYTHING dealing with thunder

when you hear the macarena and you start yelling at people to show their spirit and dance..and you realize that you're not around people anymore

when you tell all your non robotics friends robotics inside jokes (SAMURAI! [btw, thanx to the crazy monkeys at BMR to use my samurai suggestion and for interviewing my pal, will...and explaining his life completely]) and then you realize they have no idea what you're talking about so you have to explain EVERYTHING

when you have your mentor call you by your CD name or team website name and you completely go unphased and act like he called you by your real name

[RoboMom]

when your family gives you a birthday present of new car tags with your CD name. :)

[Tetraman]

when you have your mentor call you by your CD name or team website name and you completely go unphased and act like he called you by your real name

Or otherway around.

...as long as the losers of the Superbowl had a good time they are still FIRST. (pun)
...either A) you and your robotics friends are the only members of the school that know the school has a robotics team or B) your whole school knows you have a robotics team.
...Geological location is determined by regionals attended.
...You call "a good year" recieveing at least two team-given awards and can care less about everything else.
...There is only a next year if you arn't in 12th grade or your college is close enough.
...You asked if your robot from this year could join the basketball team.
...You ask yourself, "What if team X joined team Y?"

Hm...my lists are getting shorter and longer to form...I'm running out of fuel.

[ScoutingNerd175]

-When discussing your friends, you have to refer to them by their CD names because, even though you talk to them more than your normal friends, you don't know their real names.
-You won the regional but your team was really excited by the team spirit award you got from another team. (thanks 399)
-You spend most of your time trying to get people in the world to understand why you won the regional with people.
-You also explain this to your local news who believes that you came in second because you were the second team on the alliance.
-You and the band count yourselves as sports teams because the sports teams in your school don't count.
-You spend lots of time trying to figure out what to do with FIRST when you get to college.
-You don't understand why FIRST isn't aired on TV.
-When vampire movies in your friends room with 5 other people is a social life.

-When you can't burn your scouting papers because you might need them some day. You don't know for what, but you have them from 2001.
-Senioritis + Chief Delphi = No one but you can ever get on the computer.

[StephLee]

When you look down at your outfit before school and realize you are wearing: 4 buttons (3 from your team and a coach button), 2 necklaces from teams in Atlanta, your Tab shirt from the Coca Cola factory, the jeans that have been to every competition you've ever been to (and consequently have robot stains on them) and the shoes you wore when last year's robot nearly crushed your foot, plus your hotel key from Atlanta (which "followed you home") is in your pocket and 5 more buttons, 3 wristbands, 4 keychains, a map of Atlanta, and a list of autonomous modes are in your purse.

I miss Atlanta...badly... :(

[Loco4Robots]

...when your friend tells you that the shirt that says I <3 FIRST on it (thanks 1251 <3 ) is the shirt that you should be wearing everyday because that is all you ever talk about ;)

[Marcel]

...when your still wearing the FIRST wristband from the team social.
...when you get excited every time you see a basketball.
...when you ask your friends if they found any more pins/buttons.

[RoboMadi]

-when you randomly found nuts, bolts and washers in your pockets

[Daisy]

ohhh...I've got one

...when you have a dream involving CD (with the format, a thread, and everything)

[IA-Howitzer]

Yes, they will never end...

-Returning and IM-ing all the people you know to help you design and machine next years drive
-When someone asks "Where were you the past week?" They end up telling you to stop because you can't stop talking about everything that happened
-As soon as your crate gets back you immediatly open it and get your robot out
-As soon as the robot is out, start driving it around and push things with it
-When you hurry so fast to get to the pits you remember you left the operator badge back in your hotel on the 19th floor... (<---Ya, that was pretty stupid of me)
-You feel like your wearing safety goggles
-You start telling everyone about FIRST, and everyone thinks you are such a nerd (and you feel sorry cause they have no clue what they are missing)...
-You've been to a thread like this at least 5 times..
-When you wish you were an incomming freshman so you could spend 4 more years in FIRST
-You do your laudry and your closet is ORANGE

[Loco4Robots]

....you have counted your buttons about 5 times to see if stray buttons might have made their way into your collection
....you are constantly playing with the beachball that 1414 gave you even though you have no one to do it with u
....when your robot gets back from Atlanta you go MY BABY IS HOME

[geeknerd99]

When you realize that you've worn a team button and a VCU button to your AP Euro exam.

And when you manage to get a rust stain from a t-slot nut on your team t-shirt.

And do it again for your other one.

And it was the same T-slot nut in two different loads a week apart.

And when in the heat of build season, the T-slot nut is pulled out of your pocket and is installed on the robot (while wearing the stained shirt!)

In terms of true overdose, perhaps my toomuchFIRSTtoolittlesleep-induced nap on Thursday during Championships behind the Archimedes field? Apparently I was out cold for 10 minutes or so, before 1610 woke me up. Thanks for that.

[prettycolors91]

...you plan on wearing the team party wristband until kickoff, where it will be ceremoniously cut off ( :D )...
...your team will have a million noobs next year because they all wanted to see what you cant shut up about...
...you go on CD everyday at lunch...
...Your parents go to CD to see what you cant shut up about...
...you had a nightmare that your team didnt exist....
...you immediately got up in the middle of the night after the nightmare and called your team mate who proceeded to scream quite loudly that that would be terrible!!!...
...you had a nightmare that FIRST didnt exist and did the same thing, and your team mate proceeded to scream even louder...
(^^That did actually happen the other day^^)
...you REALLY can't wait for the river cleanup even though you know you will get terribly sunburned and probably tip your canoe numerous times, but you don't care because you'd do anything for your team...

[Morgan Gillespie]

-Ever accidentally asked the wrong person, “How well can you skin models?”
-CD is on your toolbar
-USFIRST.org is as well
-Changed your windows XP start up screen to the FIRST Logo
-Spent an hour to try and make you Halo 2 profile logo look like the FIRST Logo
-Built a miniature of your robot in Lego Digital Designer

[Joohoo]

--You are sad because you're not sure what you're going to do with all your spare time now that you can't go to robotics everyday...

~When you still stay after almost everyday for robotics!!!

[Freddy Schurr]

1. You are on CD 4-5 daily, one to hours MAX.
2. Look up matches from this year and look at photos also.

[anna~marie]

the majority of the people who come to see your choir concert are robotics people....

[Joohoo]

When you spend the first day back from ATL looking for and subsequently buying blue and red cold cathode light tubes :rolleyes:

[Steve S.]

...when you have a whole room dedicated to first items (buttons, program books, medals, t-shirts)

...when you are counting down the days to your first 2007 regional

[Morgan Gillespie]

When you look at the person above you in hopes they will soon take that question mark after BE off and make it official

[IA-Howitzer]

....when your robot gets back from Atlanta you go MY BABY IS HOME
Wow... thats exactly what happened to us when ours came back, and the second it did everyone rushed to the robot room and unpacked it. My french teacher was called in the middle of class and said "Andrew, I'm supposed to tell you that your baby is home"

[Nica F.]

i just lectured my little cousin for at least an hour on why robotics is more than just the robot. :D

[Robyn Needel]

you try to make a shopping cart that will automatically go up stairs?


We have seen these, particularly in European "superstores" - there is an escalator for the shopping carts (does not create "steps" though, is just a moving belt) - the carts have powerful magnets on the wheels which engage when you move the cart to the belt. People take the regular escalators and meet their carts on the next floor to continue shopping :-)

[ScoutingNerd175]

You graduate on a Thursday and you tell your mom that you can't have a family party until three days later because BattleCry WPI is on Friday and Saturday.

Beantown Blitz is the day after your senior prom, but if your team goes, you will go.

[Robyn Needel]

This is sadly not funny
and I don't want to talk about it
or the ability to haul a trailer with said robot and/or display/fundraising items and don't forget the tools.
Nope, not talking about it.


This IS truly not funny - we are in the market for an enclosed trailer that we can use to haul our robot and maybe additional ones to off-season events, fundraisers, etc....the tools and all will fit inside our van, at least for now :)

[Robyn Needel]

you have the FIRST logo on your cell phone screen

you bought a tee shirt from Logo Loc with a rhinestone FIRST logo on it, for dressier occasions (after admiring one that a "minder" was wearing in Atlanta)

you can't stop talking about all the fun you had in Atlanta, even after you notice that your listeners' eyes are glazing over

[StephLee]

When your fellow team member says something particularly dumb, and you say "If you had said that anywhere near the robot, it would go on ChiefDelphi..."

[Pat Chen]

..............

you can't stop talking about all the fun you had in Atlanta, even after you notice that your listeners' eyes are glazing over

when your students complained about you going to competition.....and upon return ...... the first question they asked .....so how did your team do in Atlanta....and the entire class period is spent talking about ............(and you know it was intentional so they will not get homework that night). :]

Pat Chen
Team 180

[amos229]

when u see order 229 come up on the screen at mcd's and shout woohoo.

when you buy something you dont want on a robotics trip just so you can have a reciept from the trip that said 229 on it.

you read a story on a double level pit and go to a chinese buffet and design it out of eggrolls and such.

when theres 121 posts on why u r addicted to first

[Cuog]

...you wire both cameras to the eduRC and try to get both of them to follow you
...you discover that you actually own a TV and that thing isnt just a fancy light box
...you spend the day in physics thinking about designs for your new mecanum wheels when you should be learning about light which then gets you thinking about the camera

[dubious elise]

I don't know if I missed this one or not, but...

When you have dreams either about robotics competitions or involving people from FIRST :yikes:

[Nerds are hott.]

-you risk loss of credit in all your classes due to absence in order to attend the championship event in atlanta

-the weekend after the event, you find yourself glued to the soft glow of your computer due to cheif delphi and a long list of excess make-up homework you've neglected to actually make up all week (and being a nerd, it is imparitive that it gets done)

-you were too busy to do hw all week and constantly found yourself talking to anyone and everyone across the country who is involved with robotics, and exclusively them (seeing as robotics is the only thing on your mind)

-you post robotics pics and icons on your myspace (<--it's true...)

-you dream about robots (<--it's true, i've done that too)

-you have a collection of team, safety captian, and driver buttons (in that case that your a driver)

-you have CAD and a C compiler on your home computer or lap top

-you re-arrange your room not to focus on your sweet new guitar and amp (or a multitude of PC's, motherboards, monitors, the works, in a true nerd's case), but rather a collection of robotics parts/buttons

[Pavan Dave]

When you awnser your Math teacher's questions about how you will use math in the real world when one of your class mates asks.

Wen you hear the words paint, photoshop, or controls, you run and grab some paper or oepn up GRAHPIX Prog. and start working on OI's that you can possibly make in the future.

[colin340]

When you spend the first day back from ATL looking for and subsequently buying blue and red cold cathode light tubes :rolleyes:

I'm still nerding out about that
-you have use the phase "nerding out"
-you know some who's taking a robot to the prom
John loves Roxanne
haha

[RoboMadi]

When you awnser your Math teacher's questions about how you will use math in the real world when one of your class mates asks.


Soooo True.......... my Calc BC teacher loves me because of that

[Joohoo]

-you know some who's taking a robot to the prom
John loves Roxanne
haha

For those of you who aren't on team 340, Roxanne is our robot from 2004,
And yes i was thinking about it, but i don't own a truck. //shucks!

[thatphotochick]

when you notice you're friend's locker number..229..and you're like "you're so lucky"

[Luckyfish05]

You've got a couple teamates, who after nationals, have decided that they've had enough not having the camera working on the robot for two years, and have decided that it will be working by the time the summer is over.

You're headed to Japan tomorrow for a month and are trying to figure out how to make some time to go talk with some high schools about starting a FIRST team! :rolleyes:

[IA-Howitzer]

I'm still nerding out about that
-you have use the phase "nerding out"
haha

-Ya, I use this phrase a lot!

[anna~marie]

When you send a link to a friend and that link goes to a CD thread and he replies...:
you and that forum

[BreRaw]

haha I'm expecting a list about 30 pages long...
that'd be great to give to newbies and let them know that they soon will relate :cool:


Well I just finished my rookie year and I pretty much am a newbie...I must say that I completely agree with this thread...and I am tearing up from just reading it! I miss FIRST!

And I would just like to add:
It seems that the only thing you and your soon-to-be college roommate have in common is the fact that you're both on FIRST teams....and that's enough.

When you go to your college website and see a person's profile you ask "Hey, weren't you at nationals?" They reply with their team number, which field they played on and their record.

[Sam Lipscomb]

...you get invited to multiple proms because you know so many people on teams in neighboring towns.
...you flipped out about the changing lights during finals in Atlanta.
...you flipped out again when you realized they were only kidding.
...you buy the same thing to eat on break at work every day, and it always costs $2.36, and you always say, "Wow, Techno Ticks!"
...over half of the people in your phone book are labelled Name ### because they're on a FIRST team.
...over half of the 200 contacts on your buddy list are in the FIRST group, which is labelled ^o#.
...you plan on going to the only college in Boston that is not yet involved in FIRST, and you know in a year that will not be true.
...you are asked daily what the blue wristband on your wrist is for, and when you are done talking to them they are excited about robots!
...there is nowhere else to put all of the fun things you have picked up from competitions.
...everytime someone mentions graduation, you want to cry because you will no longer be a part of your team.

:D

[prettycolors91]

Your friends are going thru your purse and find your 3 pairs of painted safety glasses (in my team colors of course) and say to me "Megan, only you could pull off carrying safety glasses around in your purse. You are amazing" and then she stole them and won't give them back.

[Michelle Celio]

...When you start cdxc (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=47201)
...When your team mates you use as the all around FIRST calendar

[prettycolors91]

You had a nightmare last night FIRST didn't exist

you walk up to the person who has locker number 67 who you don't know and say "you are so lucky. I am in love with your locker. can i take a picture of it?"...and then actually take a picture of it.

[colin340]

you dreamed you build your owe Segway with just the things in you hotel room

[i_am_Doug]

When you look around towns in cali looking for people in teams-just so you can meet them.
When Chief delphi is your homepage.
When you wake up to the CD page and start posting.

[thatphotochick]

when you add cotton eye joe, the cha cha cha slide, tnt, and we like to party on your cd to exercise on cause you figure you lost weight dancing all day to those songs at regionals and championship

[anna~marie]

when every one of your purses is graced with one or more of the following items:
team button(s)
drivers button from ATL
safety goggle(s)
broken electrical part(s)

(its pretty great when non FIRST friends go into your purse for chapstick or something and find a spike... and just give you a look and know better than asking)

[jacob07]

...when you've been living at robotics since January
...when you see your mentors more than your parents
...when you don't know what to do with your life now that nationals is over... can't wait for off-season events
...when you CANNOT IMAGINE life without robotics

Amen to that

[StephLee]

...When your team mates you use as the all around FIRST calendar

...When your teammates hardly bother reading the rulebook because you're at every meeting and know the rules by heart by the end of week one, if not sooner.
...When the mentors and students alike begin calling you rule girl and call you over to settle every petty squabble over a rule.
...When you nearly miss your bus because you just had to run back to your house because you forgot your operator button.

[Cuog]

...When you flip thro your physics book for a random page to read when you are board
...You own multiple Physics books not required for school

[prettycolors91]

When you were depressed because robotics is over...and then you realize a moment later that it is NEVER over when your mentor calls an *emergancy* meeting to plan for the banquet and "upcoming activities"...and your happy :D

[anna~marie]

when you're the only one in your physics class who understands the unit on electricity

[Morgan Gillespie]

When life ceases to revolve around the yearly calender or the school calender,
When the new year begins at kick off
When you look at how sweet BE will be, acting like it is coming very soon completely ignoring the fact it is next school year
You have ever wore your team uniform to school because it was the thing you feel most comfortable in
You happen to wear your uniform on the same day as another person on the team

[prettycolors91]

you are counting down the days until your team banquet because you get your varsity letter from the team! :D

[StephLee]

You happen to wear your uniform on the same day as another person on the team

You and 3 other teammates all randomly wear your Championship sweatshirts on the same day.

[aallen88]

You're sitting with a bunch of kids from robotics at a Renaissance Honors Banquet and can't help driving everyone else at the table crazy with FIRST stories (including my best friend who absolutely HATES robotics because I talk about it wayyy tooo muchhh)...

...Not to mention the table napkins look just like your team bandanas and one of the members ties it to his head as if it was...

(if you don't believe me...I have pictures...)

[prettycolors91]

There are about ten people standing around one locker. You realize they are ALL robotics people you met this year...you point this out and you all start laughing a little too hard

[aaronm_k]

--When you are constantly crying or tearing up (and believe me this is not an exaggeration) because you realize the best thing that ever happened to you in HS is coming to a close and just a wave of depression hits you.
Hey, I know a solution to that problem: come back next year and be a mentor on your team! (Provided you can get away from college on weekends and/or winter break.)

[anna~marie]

... when you dream not only of FIRST but CD ...:o

[JaneYoung]

when you try to teach your dog to bark:
OINK OINK BOOOOM!

It comes out arf arf arrrrff

[hallk]

when you fiqured out it would take less time to make parts in your hotel room.. then actually do work on robot parts in the hotel room

[Zoheb N]

when ur downloadin FIRST vidoes at 1 in the morning while recruting people for your team

[ahecht]

-When, after looking at your resume, an interviewer says "Have you met Dean Kamen? I hear he's pretty rich"

[StephLee]

When you wake up exhausted, get on CD for a few minutes, and are more awake than coffee ever makes you.

[Danielle H]

You know you're overdosed with FIRST when...

... You don't make it to school on Monday after the championship because you're too busy catching up on four days worth of missed sleep

In our school, we won't be able to take trips like that again if we miss the day afterwards.

[KelliV]

...I'm still waiting for a Cheifdelph-aholics group to form at the local YMCA.

[anna~marie]

when you have a choir promotion day and instead of promoting your choir you get a 7th grader and some 8th graders to want to join the team

[prettycolors91]

when you have a choir promotion day and instead of promoting your choir you get a 7th grader and some 8th graders to want to join the team


ooooo more hot noobs!!

[RbtGal1351]

...and a list of autonomous modes are in your purse.
definately
and when you go into your purse at Davis to write the list down, you find the password to open the encrypted manual PDFs that you wrote down at kickoff...

[Jay TenBrink]

This is a true story. The other night I had a dream that I was at the 2006 IRI. The robot competition did not take place but instead there was an eating contest set up in the gym. I had to eat a whole table full of bacon. I was miffed because I had to compete by myself against other teams with a dozen members. I was looking for Andy Bacon, I mean Baker to complain.

[Simon Strauss]

...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.

[anna~marie]

you burn your lunch because you are too busy watching the Monty Madness webcast :(

[StephLee]

You stay up late plaing the Aim High online game. (422, you guys are my heros for that!!!)

[Graham Donaldson]

...when you are working on the robot in the offseason and one of your teammates randomly breaks out into a FIRST version of "A Partridge in a Pear Tree." (true story).

[Cynette]

Originally Posted by robotcanuck1676
and one of your teammates randomly breaks out into a FIRST version of "A Partridge in a Pear Tree." (true story).

Don't leave us hanging! What are the words?

You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you actually want to know the words to a FIRST version of "A Partridge in a Pear Tree." :D

Cynette

[Graham Donaldson]

Don't leave us hanging! What are the words?

You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you actually want to know the words to a FIRST version of "A Partridge in a Pear Tree." :D

Cynette

That you most definitely are. I'll PM my friend who did it and get her to send me the words (we never wrote them down and it was a good while ago.) I'll get them on here as soon as I can.

And here's another one:

...you're sitting in your W.H. class and when everyone else is playing games on their laptops you're on CD browsing the forums.

[FF_1610_EMT]

when your so bored with scoring in the center goal, you start chasing teachers and other students down the halls while launching poof balls at them. :D
when you join the F.I.R.S.T. group on MySpace just so you can keep in touch with people from other teams after you get out of high school.

[i_am_Doug]

When, you can drink 5 MDX'es and a Rockstar and not be hyper.
As a matter of fact, when you need 5 MDX'es and a rockstar just to get you moveing!

[wendymom]

When your Redbook subscription has been replaced by Robot magazine. Yes Jane ...its true

[anna~marie]

you go to check your email and the only new ones are from CD
you post in this thread more than is healthy (I should stop now)

[JaneYoung]

When your Redbook subscription has been replaced by Robot magazine. Yes Jane ...its true
Yes, well, it gets worse.

You give in to going to the mall to shop for clothes for yourself but only if you can stop at Home Depot and look at the chop saws on sale. However, before you get to the chop saws you notice all the really cool drills. You never get to the mall.

[Julia Magoolia]

The first thing you notice about your friends' driveway is the FIRST logo they started in chalk.

You have friends who spend most of their time writing the FIRST logo on their driveway.

Opening up any school notebook, you find at least a dozen sketches of the FIRST logo you drew when the teacher was going off topic and you didn't need to take notes.

You start having withdrawal symptoms when you don't see your FIRST friends (151, it's been AGES!!!)

You plan your social life around FIRST offseasons (Can't have my birthday party the same weekend as IRI in case by some miracle I can make it down there!)

[StephLee]

When you look at this thread and genuinely think "Wow, it has Buzz replies!!" (Team numbers and names get confused in my head...I've said there are MOE days in a year before...)

When you drive your mother nuts talking non-stop about a new drive train idea.

When you randomly have to go through your AIM buddylist and figure out which people belong to which team (and anyone not on a FIRST team who you haven't talked to in a long while gets deleted, but all FIRSTies stay on).

When you burn a CD for someone and resist putting the FIRST anthems on it, just as a joke.

When your English HSA test book is dotted with who-knows-how-many FIRST symbols.

[JVGazeley]

(burn a Chief Delphi?)

...when you seriously considering wearing your team shirt and medal to your brothers school assembly as his school hasn't committed itself to the Lego League yet...

[StephLee]

(I thought of that, but I actually wanted to see if anyone else thought the same thing...guess I wasn't alone, huh? :cool: )

When you're shirking a History assignment to goof off on ChiefDelphi.

When your teacher knows you aren't doing your work and doesn't say anything.

When you start to write down a list of how to know you've overdosed on FIRST when you actually try to do your assignment.

[Rohith Surampudi]

when you spend your birthday giving demoes at a high school thats not yours and setting up for Monty Madness

You miss homecoming for DOTD

[Sam Lipscomb]

when you spend your birthday...

volunteering at the Boston Regional, turning your volunteer shirt into a giant birthday card and having the entire arena sing to you.

[anna~marie]

when you spend your birthday
riding a bus home from ATL

[prettycolors91]

riding a bus home from ATL


hahah that was an awesome bus ride. good times good times

when you are depressed because your going to be gone for the 4th of july parade that your team is marching in :(

[Storcky]

...at school, you look down and you are wearing your team polo shirt, 6 buttons(2 your teams, 2 safety captain button, and 2 from other teams), your 1507 necklace, pants that you bought specifically for FIRST, shoes that have been to every FIRST competition that you have, Poof ball earrings, you are carrying your official FIRST sweatshirt, and your backpack has a Buzz button.
...you have pants that you bought specifically for FIRST competitions.
...your 8th grade BROTHER points out the "property buzz" commercial has Buzz in it.
...you steal your friends Hawaii FLL necklace because you didn't get one and REFUSE to give it back.

[prettycolors91]

you have not taken off a bracelet from CD, my team's wristband, the team party wrist thingy, and an FLL world festival wristband. they have not been taken off yet...lets see if they can make it to kickoff w/o falling off :ahh:

[StephLee]

...you steal your friends Hawaii FLL necklace because you didn't get one and REFUSE to give it back.

I'm guessing that was Devynn's because I still have mine...

...When your five-year-old brother begins associating team numbers with names.
...When your parents are looking at flights to Atlanta for a business conference, and you assume they're getting a headstart for next April.
...When you constantly complain about missing competition season and wear something every day that reminds you of FIRST.

[JaneYoung]

I know this has never happened to anyone ;)

- when a thread discussion (or two) keeps you awake at night -

[Sam Lipscomb]

...you just realized that you haven't updated your bulletin board since December 2005, because you were way too busy once January rolled around.

I don't even have a 2006 calendar!

[anna~marie]

when you write about FIRST for your essay on a standardized test

[StephLee]

when you write about FIRST for your essay on a standardized test

When you actively resist writing about FIRST in an essay because you know you won't have enough time to finish if you start. Stinking timed tests...

When you glare at a team member who got the good luck of a technology-related essay question on a standardized test.

When your mother wears her team shirt for casual day at her office.

When your younger siblings whine because they didn't get team shirts.

[katiyeh07]

When you actively resist writing about FIRST in an essay because you know you won't have enough time to finish if you start. Stinking timed tests... <--amen sister :)

When you glare at a team member who got the good luck of a technology-related essay question on a standardized test.

When your mother wears her team shirt for casual day at her office.

When your younger siblings whine because they didn't get team shirts.

When your response to the SAT essay question is a long write up about FIRST and Dean Kamen's inventions.

And when you want to annoy a team member...you start singing the FIRST song because you know it will drive them insane.

[StephLee]

...When you and a teammate are studying for a world history final and cannot concentrate for more than 10 seconds before FIRST butts in.
...When you're studying the chapter on the scientific revolution and you say Archi- and your friend, in reflex, says -medes.
...When the above occured and your team was not even in Archimedes.
...When you remember who Francis Bacon was because of a weird connection you made up to the team Exploding Bacon. (Bacon said ideas that are based on tradition alone should be discarded. Oink Oink Boom = 2 Oinks then Boom. Ideas that have been around for 2 long go boom!)
...When you're listening to a playlist of songs that remind you of FIRST while trying to study.
...When you start trying to make up words to random FIRST-related songs that will help you remember the material you're studying.
...When you start doing the Cha Cha Slide and Cotton Eye Joe in the middle of your living room.

...When this is your fifteenth post in this thread.

[Bethany Mc.]

you know you have overdosed on FIRST

- when u look at a bus and see FIRST STUDENTS on the side you wonder if there are any robtics teams around...

[ScoutingNerd175]

-When the word "first" has ceased to mean anything numerical. Any time you see it you think someone must be talking about robotics.
-When you have a major paper/project due the next day but you get into a conversation with a member of another team and get distracted anyway.
-When you manage to convince your mother, father, step-father, grandfather, and grandmother to come to WPI because it's right after graduation.
-When aforementioned grandfather decides that you are his only grandchild because you are on robotics, are planning on being an electrical engineer, and are going to Syracuse University (Grandfather is an electrical engineer and SU football fan)
-When songs you have heard once at a robotics competition (that your team wasn't even playing at) still remind you of robotics even though you have heard the song a million times in other places.
-You went to four regionals this year. Two your team played in (BAE, Chesapeake) and two that they didn't (UTC, Boston)
-You had a countdown to kickoff for months... including spending Christmas wishing January would hurry up and get here.
-Your room is decorated in Leis from Bash, Medals, and stuff with smiles on it.
-A member of your team found the smiley store online and got your team a gift-certificate because the site made your BAE team pic the smiley picture of the week.
-When the aforementioned team member also found out that Walmart is trying to Trademark the smile and you sent her a long email about the evils of corporate America (except for companies that sponsor teams) and about how you use the smile more than Walmart anyways.
-When you become naturally attracted to items of clothing, decorations, etc. in your team color when you never owned anything in that color before.

I've just discovered that the spell check doesn't recognize Walmart as a word... that's okay, they are evil anyways.

[Daisy]

-
-You went to four regionals this year. Two your team played in (BAE, Chesapeake) and two that they didn't (UTC, Boston)


wow...I remember seeing you, I think. I believe I was sitting next to you....

small world

[ratchetqueen07]

...When you get extremely irritated when people ask you if your wearing a Bomb Squad shirt because you make bombs.
...When instead of Chuck Norris jokes you have jokes about your main engineer.
...When you customized your phone cover with your team #. (I did this and sadly people asked me if I did it because that's how old I was.)

[CityRiot228]

This is me :D :

-When you research to find out what robotics team you could join when you move out to college.
-When you line your walls, ceiling, and doors (not just in your room) with all the stuff you have collected throughout your years in FIRST. :p

[anna~marie]

When you find yourself in this situation:
New team member (a friend of yours that was finally convinced to join) is trying to convince two other friends to join next year and another friend, a nonFIRSTer, complains that she isn't going to have any friends left who aren't in robotics (which is quite literally the truth)

[StephLee]

When you sleep with a POOF ball and a team hat because you miss the season so much.
When you plan your summer around LEGO camps.

[CmptrGk]

when sombody in the back of the bio lab says "rage" and you immediatly think of 173.

[prettycolors91]

You try to convince your band friends to join FIRST by telling them that build season really is better than band camp. :eek:

[Cuog]

That reminds me of one: When your band drags you out of robotics because you have a concert in a few hours:)

[Tetraman]

I haven't put some up in a while...I'll begin again...

...You have designed, tested, and modled a Lego robot you build in your spare time.
...Your brain has a sticker that says Innovation FIRST on it.
...Dean and Woodie do look good on Mount Rushmore...hmm....
...You wonder why Dave didn't get on Mount Rushmore.
...You found the right Ed at a regional.
...You think 233 would make a good Pepto Bismol commercial.
...You think rookie teams are better than your team.
...You do anything during regionals cause you think no one will remember you (untill next year)
..."Getting your beads" has a whole different meaning.
...Green is a holy light.
...You have battle scars.
...You love to tell the story of your battle scars.
...Seeing a team number somethere odd never gets old no matter how many times you hear it.

[ScoutingNerd175]

wow...I remember seeing you, I think. I believe I was sitting next to you....

small world

:D Well, I was sitting with rage during the finals (I couldn't find a seat during the end of qualifications, and i was sitting with 20 on Friday) so that could definitely be true. I was sitting near the top of the Rage section I think because one of the 181 drivers ended up next to me during the awards ceremony.

Small world indeed.

[Nuttyman54]

when sombody in the back of the bio lab says "rage" and you immediatly think of 173.

When you see 173 and immediate wonder if they're connected with RAGE

[ratchetqueen07]

...When you smile every you go down FIRST street :D

[amos229]

when u compile a list of possible colleges based on whether or not there is a first team,

[DevilChild]

Okay, starting off by saying I love this thread...

When you have over 200 inside jokes with a single person/group that involve tools.
Everything reminds you of FIRST.
You can't help but dance MOE style when the Six Flags commercial comes on.
You don't mind that everyone is staring at you when you do so.
You're terrified that high school is going by too fast, because you'll miss FRC so much.
You've ever called your mentors "Mom" or "Dad" and honestly thought they were your parents.
You find yourself worshipping a technohippie in a tux and Converse.
You knew exactly who I'm talking about immediately.
You tell everyone about FIRST, whether they're interested or not.

[Nuttyman54]

You can't help but dance MOE style when the Six Flags commercial comes on.


When you can't help but dancing MOE style in the middle of math class because the song popped into your head...

[amos229]

IN physics you are working with coefficients of friction and the #1511 comes up. It was simply unbelievable how that robot pushed. sigh. lol

You go through your closet and ealize that you dont have any shirts that dont say FIRST or have a team #

[Daisy]

the one thing that ALWAYS makes you feel better is a FIRST shirt.

you're trying to change the world by finding ways to add FIRST EVERYWHERE (and not for Chairman's)

[amos229]

when you write your SAT essay about FIRST

[DevilChild]

when you write your SAT essay about FIRST
Oh thank goodness, that wasn't just me! But FIRST was just so fitting with the essay topic!

[StephLee]

When you really feel like going and watching tapes from competitions, because you miss them so much.

[amos229]

Oh thank goodness, that wasn't just me! But FIRST was just so fitting with the essay topic!

yeah because technology takes away from education. as was evident i didnt agree with the quote

[ScoutingNerd175]

When you really feel like going and watching tapes from competitions, because you miss them so much.

When you don't have tape from one of your competitions and it bothers you all the time (Anyone tape Chesapeake Bay regional?)

When your entire interview for your first choice college (to which you are eventually accepted and offered piles of money) turns into you explaining FIRST to the interviewer who is really interested in it.

[Dancin103]

ok so... mine is my friends and I were playing cards in the lobby of our hotel and we were playing uno, and I got out first, and the others were taking forEVER to finish, so I accidentally fell asleep. And my cousin told me that in my sleep I was saying team 47's cheer...and I NEVER talk in my sleep!!! lol I thought that was hysterical!lol

[Billfred]

...when you order your pizza with exploding bacon.

[Storcky]

When you glare at a team member who got the good luck of a technology-related essay question on a standardized test.


Ha ha.

...when you have posted on 2 threads like this one.
...when you spend 45 out of the 60 minutes allowed writing about FIRST in the question mentioned above.
...when your PSAT scores have been on your fridge for months and you still look at it and say "BUZZ!" (I got 175)

[JaneYoung]

when at the end of a long day
you have a package from Joe Matt with your FIRSTcast button in it because you couldn't connect up in Atlanta
a-n-d
KathieK tells a joke - and you are glad the day ends so nicely. :)

[Libby K]

-When, after looking at your resume, an interviewer says "Have you met Dean Kamen? I hear he's pretty rich"


if someone asks this to you, you start talking about how his inventions are more important than money, which leads you to talking about FIRST, which then gets them excited.

this is especially true for me, or when people say "oh. the segway guy." i FLIP OUT. ...."it's not the only thing he's done! look how he's helped people! look at this high school program!" and you don't shut up about it until they agree.


....oops.


AND SOME MORE...

When you're shirking a History assignment to goof off on ChiefDelphi.

when you're shirking your history final exam review to goof off on CD.
[don't worry, i'm working too, i'm just taking a break lol]

[anna~marie]

sorry Rohith... can't pass this one up...

when you, out of the blue, exclaim:
ANDY BAKER JUST GAVE ME REP!!!!

[Rohith Surampudi]

sorry Rohith... can't pass this one up...

when you, out of the blue, exclaim:
ANDY BAKER JUST GAVE ME REP!!!!


o hush
you just did the same

"ahhhh somehow andy baker gave me rep too?!?!"

[DevilChild]

When the mere sight of a Peachtree roadsign on a video in class can make you happier all day.

[Hiteak]

When you laugh at the room you take one of your regents is because you know the number is one of the teams you really enjoyed to watch (room 217 was the room I was in today).

[Julia Magoolia]

When you plan who you'll drive down to Battlecry with based on who would be willing to play the FIRST Team license plate game.

You also know you're overdosed when you play the FIRST Team license plate game in the first place.

[Joe J.]

When someone paints your car like this...
http://lightningrobotics.com/site/e107_plugins/coppermine_menu/albums/userpics/normal_20062078.JPG

[Rohith Surampudi]

when you look in your closet, and somehow every tshirt you own is some how related to robotics

[Storcky]

...When you smile every you go down FIRST street :D

...when you try to relate every house number that you pass to FIRST then, when you notice a whole lot at once, you realize that you're driving by FIRST street

[anna~marie]

...when you're at a government program called Girls State and choose to do an interest group (lobby) for increased FIRST funding

speaking of which....

[Kim Masi]

when you quote dean kamen in your SAT essay on science and technology... :rolleyes:

[anna~marie]

when you quote dean kamen in your SAT essay on science and technology... :rolleyes:
heh another person

when you convince people at Girls State to go home and get on their team at their school (heck yes!!!)

*edit*
oh yes, when your nickname becomes robotics
and also when you have people waking you up to fix their fan :rolleyes: :o

[Rohith Surampudi]

You make your halo 2 Xbox Live gamertag "Chief Delphi"


if any of you gamers are reading this feel free to add me to your friends list

[Morgan Gillespie]

When you are studying for your social studies final and you see a question on your study sheet that asks "What was the A-Bomb and what was it used for?" and you answer is, "The A-Bomb was a maneuver used at Nationals when 195 transfered their balls to 968, by 195 unloading as 968 picked up expelled balls, it was used to.... oh wait"

[Alexa Stott]

When you are studying for your social studies final and you see a question on your study sheet that asks "What was the A-Bomb and what was it used for?" and you answer is, "The A-Bomb was a maneuver used at Nationals when 195 transfered their balls to 968, by 195 unloading as 968 picked up expelled balls, it was used to.... oh wait"

Haha! I actually thought the exact same thing! :p

[ScoutingNerd175]

When you have a smile balloon in every balloon bundle at your graduation party. (Including the one on your mail box, that's how people know it's your house.)

[Dan Petrovic]

...when you completely dominate your FIRST Team Licence Plate Game opponent 410 to 137.

Me > Julia Magoolia

[RbtGal1351]

When you go to a theme park with 2 other FIRSTers ( ;) ) and choose bumper cars based on the number on the side of the car being a FIRST team number. We got 22, 16 and 25! :D

When you rent a locker there and are disappointed it's not a recognizable team number. Then you go and find locker 1351 and wish you brought the camera just for that. And are disappointed when realizing the lockers start at #1000, cuz you can't find locker 971.

When you are dying to find out what locker you get in school next year b/c you found out last year that locker 1351 is in the senior locker section.

When your nonFIRST friend found the above locker and felt obligated to show you...

[CityRiot228]

Today (6/25/06) @ Friend from the team's grad party....


...You start to chant other teams cheers like 181's (I said a 1.8.1.!) and 571's (G. G-O, G-O-F-I-R-S-T, Go FIRST !) during an intense Badminton game!
Continued,

... And then start to make your own up, for your team, for the next compitition/event!

An awesome day! :cool:

[Kristian Calhoun]

...when your at some kid's graduation party (who you don't even know), and see their uncle wearing a Bristol-Meyers Squibb polo. You then proceed to run up to him and tell him about how the company he works for sponsors your school's robotics team and then start to ramble on about FIRST.

True story. :)

[Nuttyman54]

When you go to a theme park with 2 other FIRSTers ( ;) ) and choose bumper cars based on the number on the side of the car being a FIRST team number. We got 22, 16 and 25! :D

And when the guy operating the Centrifuge ride is on a local team and recognizes you by your team shirt.

[Julia Magoolia]

...when you completely dominate your FIRST Team Licence Plate Game opponent 410 to 137.

Me > Julia Magoolia

When the SECOND after you get home from said game, you immediately start studying up on teams so that you can demand a rematch.

When you get your entire family to stop what they're doing (For example, working) and call you when they see something FIRST-related

When the second you hear the words "first" or "robot", no matter where you are, you look around to see if anyone's talking about FRC... Before realizing that "first" is a common word meaning "before second"

[Dan Petrovic]

When the SECOND after you get home from said game, you immediately start studying up on teams so that you can demand a rematch.


...when you give up after hearing the official score.

[Morgan Gillespie]

When taking your Spanish final for questions you had no idea what the answer would be and you couldn't even eliminate any of the answers you based the answer on the first A B C D or E in the corresponding team name to that question number.
Worked for most things minus question number 11... XD

[anna~marie]

when you start keeping telling time and dates by relating them to robotics events (*cough cough (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=510715&postcount=18)*)

[ScoutingNerd175]

When, while at the summer theatre camp that you work at, you spot a girl wearing a BattleCry 4 tee-shirt and proceed to grill her about where she got it. (Turns out, from her friend's sister)

And on that day you were wearing your Championship tee-shirt.

[Alexa Stott]

You quit marching band because you don't want to miss robotics....offseasons. :rolleyes:

[Katie Hans]

~ You plan on wearing your team shirt on vacation to Maine just in case someone recognizes the number.
~ You've managed to convince half the people at your lunch table to join robotics.
~You've downloaded your team song and listen to it on a regular basis.
~Your little sister downloaded your team song and listens to it on a regular basis.
~When your parents tell you to talk about something other than robotics, you fall silent.

That's all I can think of right now...

[coreyk]

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

Every number you see automatically corresponds with a team name.

You have the urge to request money from anyone in a suit.

You find yourself watching re-runs of competitions that you TIVOed.

You carry around contribution flyers in your pocket.

You look at a keyboard and immediately notice the letters "F, I, R, S,T"

You go on ChiefDelphi during your lunch break to read new posts.

[StephLee]

You find yourself watching re-runs of competitions that you TIVOed.


When you read that and sheepishly grin because you just did that this morning.

When said competition was TIVOed by your grandmother, and she refuses to delete it because you watch it so often.

When the same grandmother has a team button (or three) on top of her television, a DVD of your team's final matches from this year on her bookshelf (that has been watched many, many times), had every single newspaper clipping from your area even mentioning the team displayed proudly at her 50th Anniversary party, and organized it so that your team could be the "entertainment" at her old company's reunion picnic (very good demonstration since many of the retirees are engineers).

When you take a mini POOF ball to church camp, along with your team hat and TAB shirt.

When CD becomes your antidepressant as well as your antidote to boredom.