Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When you dance around for hours after receiving the championship invite email :D

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

...when you spend all day at a mentor's house making orbit balls to hand out at the next regional
...when you have a playlist on your iTunes/iPod just for songs for robotics to teach the other students (primarily the guys) how to dance for the upcoming regional
...when you cut yourself on a zip tie on the robot, on a tub that you're taking out of the trunk of a car, get tendinitis while untwisting the PVC pipes for the pit design, and you don't care that your accident prone (sorry, that one makes no sense at all lol)

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

when your friends accuse you of being a stalker because you know the pink team's second regional.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

-- when you walk into your shop and ask if the coffee is ready to drink( i have done)
-- when you sit in class drawing new ways to increase the way the robot moves
-- when everything you write is in alphanumeric code (i don't do thi5 th4t much or do i)

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

You develop a severe dislike of Thursdays.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

you glue your face to a monitor to watch a postage stamp sized webcast

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

So I'm definitely am addicted to FIRST after just one event. I have been up late the last two nights, and probably will be tonight, thinking and/or dreaming about some combination of the Colorado Regional and Atlanta. Plus I spend all my time on here...

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

when you spend any time you have on the computer on chiefdelphi like at school home work everything

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

when you realize robots slipping around isn't as fun to watch as trackballs crashing into your opponents alliance station, or balls being shot into a hole above your opponents alliance station, or robots haning on a bar

but you still spend EVERY single minute of your free time obsessed to the game.... even if it is boring

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

-the building of your robot ceases for one single day, because the whole team is out sick with the flu from working so closely together for five weeks... but everybody is back the next day.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

This happens to me. For reals. It's incredibly annoying. Anyway....

-When pineapple and jalapeno pizza is a addiction, too.

Don't believe me? try it.


Thaine

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When you have a countdown to kickoff on your cell phone, room calendar, and in in your head.

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

Only 261 days!

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

...in math you start writing down the corresponding team names to the numbers in the algebra problems
...you proudly wear your button suit-of-armor
...you download all the songs you heard at competition just so you can robo rave to them at home
...you find yourself writing your favourite team names, numbers, etc on your hand in class
...you are depressed at the end of competition; not because you did not win, but because it means the season is over
:D

Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

Yes! So true... and...

... when you start writing code in your calculus class on notebook paper because you can't take out your laptop but just had to write it down.

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