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

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

When do you know that you're addicted to FIRST?

-- When you feel nostalgic after not participating in one season of FIRST

-- When you sit down to your statics or dynamics or thermo or fluids homework realizing that the one and only reason you're sitting there for hours doing one problem instead of something easier and/or non-engineering related is FIRST. Thank you FIRST!

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

- When the janitors are your best friend and ask "did you hurt your self again already?" or call you "curls"

-when you show up to school so you can go to robotics after

-when you make it to page 80somthing on a chief delphi thread

-when you reach in your pocket for lunch money and find a 7/16 wrench instead

-when bob flips out cause he cant rind an extension cord

-when 3/1000off of an inch is a loose fit

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

-When you try to find ways to sneak INTO school on the weekends to work on the bot.

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

...when you find it miraculous that a post your friend created 2 years ago is now 81 pages long. I swear its angelic!

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

when that's not even surprising anymore, and when you mention your methods (when the gates are locked!!!) to freshman or rookies on your team, you don't realize why they're surprised at what you just said... ;)

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

. . . when you consider the snack machines outside the shop as a buffet.
. . . when you doodle pictures of your robot during class when you are supposed to take notes.

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

wow this thread has come along way since its inception.


....when the snack machines are always empty only because you refuse to leave the school during build season to get food.

....when the janitors ask hows the family since you see them all the time.

....when graduation is no longer a event to be waiting for and 6 weeks building is.

....when the janitors ask you to lock and set the alarm to school only because they're tired of waiting for you.

....you find yourself posting in this thread only b/c the others don't relate to you

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

*You spend a few hours on Chiefdelphi because your participating in a Fantasy FIRST draft and your hoping that no one will snatch up your third round steal...

* You actually scout robots for Fantasy FIRST

* You check the results to see how your fantasy FIRST team performed

* You actually take the time to compile stats to see who won (right Jess ? ;) )

*You participate in NUMEROUS Fantasy FIRST leagues

*You broker food, shirts and other real world possessions to have a stud robot for your Fantasy FIRST team

* You actually secretly root against your own robot because you have two of your Fantasy FIRST robots going against it and the guy in FIRST place has your robot. :ahh:

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

*you don't go to your frat party because you are waking up the next day to help out a new team because your college isn't in your home town

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

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

Come check out our full field inventor post and other essiential files at http://www.pennrobotics.org/files

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

When you can't stop thinking how are you gonna build the robot.

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

...when you chase your advisor, RIDING THE ROBOT, down the school halls.
...when you worry about the frame bending after he crashes it into a wall and not about your actual teacher.
...when your friends don't bother to call your cell between the hours of 2 and 8, they just call the school.

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

When you want engineers autographs.... :)

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

.....Your g/f (or wife) want to go out with you but need to make an appointment b/c your too busy doing first related work

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

you know your addicted to first when the janitor knows you on a first name basis and has to kick you out of the school because your not allowed to be there by yourself. :D

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

-when you ask the basketball coach to make the number on your jersey your team number
-your license plate says " CD 47" (my coach actually has that)
-you get happy whenever you see your team number
(these are all examples of my coach Mr.Martus! (except the FIRST one))

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

When someone drops a washer and you take it and cherish it forever, and sometimes use it as a monacle.
When all you and your friends seem to talk about is what you plan on doing at the day's meeting.
When all you think about till the meeting is robotics.
When, even though you should be doing homework or sleeping, you'd rather either think about robotics, chat about it, plan for it, or post on CD about it.
When you dream about the perfect t-shirt design.

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

...you spend over $100.00 to try and understand the coding
...you spend all your time posting on chief delphi(:P)
...you get along with people you'd normally hate just so that your team can win the chairman's award
...you don't miss a second of any minute of any hour of any robotics meeting(even if you're missing your school's science fair which happens to be on the same day)
...you ask the entire team for something to do

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

....you make a ring out of a Alum spacer, and put your team number on it, and wear it

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

instead of spendingn $250 on a grad ring, you wear either a spacer or a massive nut as one ...

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

...You make a ring out of a busted bearing. Truly believing you must treasure it and wear it forever.

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

When you start gauging your ears with random nails, etc. from headquarters because you're too poor/don't have time to go to the mall to get real gauges. :cool:

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

...when your parents ask you what you've been smoking when you come home at 3am and reek of flux
...when you hand in your term paper late because you wrote auto mode code on the back
...when you wonder why your C++ isn't working because you wrote it in C
...when you make the C work
...when you you have pneumatic flow charts written on your arm
...when you do geometry proofs and have an else statement
...when you get Yellow 5 cancer from all the Mt. Dew you drink
...when you get ip banned from your own MUD because of your FIRST rants
...when you can't play AD&D because your 4-sided dice are strategy tetras
...when your shoes are held together with old PWM wires
...when you have 8 strippers under your bed
...when your more awake between 11pm and 4am than any other time
...when the FIRST CD is the only CD you haven't pirated
...when you have 32 Chief Delphi windows open at any one time
...when you have to bypass your schools security network to download the newest team updates
...when you realize, it's not TV...it's HBO

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

You suddenly realize there is a new "Robots" movie out... and you scream ecstatically in the middle of the P&C (NEPA grocery store) at a high customer rate time (right after church lets out)...... as you spot a display of boxes with pictures of robots on not only Cereal and Pop Tarts, but also Gummies.... and must purchase one of each to have on display in your room! :eek:

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

...when you cant find anything in your room due to allthe KNEX robot prototypes.



Yeah i know i am sad :yikes:

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

you do your coursework early so you can do more building
(its in for ship date...)

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

When your Jazz Band shirt doesn't fit the day after ship date and you know you put on weight from the build season. :D

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

When your write int 7; for an answer on a math test.

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

or this:

if x < 0
y = 8;
else
y = -8;

// i know we're sad

~Stephanie :D

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

-smashing stuff
-bulding a aircannon(using first parts)
-shooting at monitor (and breaking it)
-building a robot
-breaking speakers
-soldering a mouse ball on top of a peice of almu
-creating a robot that does popwhelly
-taking A part of robot
-skiping classes
-Pooring water on top of a computer see how long it will last before teh blue screen of death.

-my favor one is bossing people around and zip tying people bags:D:D
it's so much fun though. oh, and numbering the niners..are favor ones would be numbered 1 and we call them slaves or some other nick name:D

have you guys ever considered bulding air cannon? and shooting at somthing?

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

-You tell your friends you can't go get food with them because you need to go to robotics... only to realize 5 minutes after they left that the season ended and there was no meeting.

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

... when you get the nickname "the usefull freshmen"
... when you have to cancle a date with a girl because you have to go into the shop on saterday to build
... when the team knows your mom only as "the dougnut lady"
... when you willingly gave up 3 chances to see the ska is dead tour because it was build week 5 and you needed to finish pnumatics
... when you have developed the rare disease known as aluminum lung
... when FIRST is in the intrests on your livejournal
... when your parents finaly realize that a tetra is not just a pyramid shaped thingy made out of PVC

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

-2 pts.
Shame on you. Wasting an extra byte when you could have used a char.

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

When your idea of a bad hair day consists of
a) Locktight
b) Gearbox greese
c) Industrial vacuums

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

.. when some one is talking about how your left hand is linked to the right side of the brain and your right hand is linked to the left side of the brain .. and all you can think about is "the wires on our motors are crossed"

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

When somebody says "2 plus 2 is 5 for large values of 2" and it takes you a moment.

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

When you gain 5 pounds over the 6 weeks of constantly eating DP Dough.

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

...when you stay up until 1am because you're spray painting your team number on the back of 25 shirts
...when you take the leftover spray paint and the stencil and start decorating other stuff in your room
...when you apologize for not being online and your friends know it was because you were doing 'robotics'
...when you get excited to hear teams talking about your robot on chiefdelphi

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

When you go to other messageboards and your avatar, signature and a good portion of your posts are all FIRST based. :D

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

- you don't have enough to do after build season, so you organize a scouting team that meets as much as the team did during the actual season.

We'll see how that turns out :)

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

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

When you don't go anyplace for spring break and live in Indiana so you make another robot in a week with lots of battery power. :D

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

• When you scour myspace all night looking for FIRST members / groups
• When you actually have a friend from another team who is called (your name) 2.0 (for example, my friend from 234 is called Jill 2.0)
• When you hear about a city you automatically think about what teams are from that area.
• You talk to your FIRST friends about what I'd be like to have a robotics wedding together complete with a flowergirl robot with a pneumatics to throw flower petals and a ring bearer with a fork lift design to carry the pillow
• You decide that when you and said FIRST friend have kids (after the robo wedding) you will name them after either parts of the robot/game or after the playing fields at Championship
• You get really bummed during the summer because you miss robotics
• Everytime you see something about a robot your heart skips a beat
• When you see someone not on a robotics team talking about robots like experts or just because they think robots are the new cool thing, you get angry
• You can bring robotics into ANY conversation.
• When your chemistry teacher tells you to make as many words from the word, "THERMOCHEMISTRY" you write "M.O.E."

Of course, all of these apply to me. Ha.

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

... Your standards for a boyfriend or girlfriend includes them being on a FIRST team.
... you turn down dates to build your robot.
... you correct the mentors
... the robot becomes part of the family. *sigh* it really does..
... you eat dinner in the plant for 6 weeks straight
... you know every word to every Green Day song there is
... you start speaking with odd words your team makes up
... you drop kick someone that says, "Sooo.. it's like BattleBots!?"
... you build a fuzzy launcher in class
... your room is covered in our teams Fuzzies
... when your room is painted your robotics spirit colors
... on spirit day for the high school you come in robotics colors instead.
... you come to competition covered in spirited colors

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

-when you've slept at school
-you're addicted to coffee
-you spend all night in the hotel at the end of the day at a competition playing Halo 2
-all you ever wear are your robotics logo clothes (your team uniform)
-when other kids are coming to school in the morning, and you haven't left school at all

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

When you get this notice while writing your IRI scholarship essay:



and get all too happy :rolleyes:

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

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

You know you're addicted to FIRST when you do something crazy like this for one of your games...

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

when you go through all 1,250 posts to this thread and still can think wait what about sleeping with the CNC machine. I don't think anyone mentioned that. :)

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

when you search the forums looking for this post that you started three years ago. Wow 1250 posts and still goin!

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

When you decide to have your robot in your senior pictures instead of your girlfriend or friends.

(he chose the robot over me..haha)

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

When you contemplate borrowing your team's robot to drive up and down the halls of your college residence hall to recruit some college student mentors.

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

...when your default homepage is your teams website
...when you start counting down the hours left of school before your kick off meeting for new members
...when you give your parents the shop phone number in order to get ahold of you for 6 weeks

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

lol...

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

...your biggest worry about your re-sits is that they fall during the build time...
...you actually try to turn up for the team meeting when the new Captain messes up and says it's at 2:55am on the otherside of the county...
...you get annoyed because you missed the receipt with your team number upon it by a few minutes in Argos...

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

when its september and you're not counting down to christmas, you're counting down to build season!

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

...when your shop number is the 1st speed dial on your cell phone

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

(i got bored in asian studies class an was thinking about FIRST)

...when you know that from today there are 106 days till kick-off :p

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

You know your addicted to FIRST when:
you know more about FIRST than anyone else on your team.
you have your senior pictures taken with your teams robot.
you have ridden an old robot around school hallways during lunch.

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

...when you'd rather spend your lunch and after school hrs with your team and robot rather than your friends

...when you stay up till morning hours working on robotics related things [haha...last week was suppose to be up working on a new layout for my website but ended up coding the entire layout for my robotics team website...]

...when all you'd rather do are FIRST competitions [lol, after the wonderland competition today a bunch of the team members went to BK to chill and one person was like how it'd be crazy wicked if all you did was like drive all over the country in a coach and participating in FIRST competitions/events...]

...when you're willing to miss your favourite [insert something here -- class, tv show -- etc...] just for robotics

...when all you do is talk about robotics no matter who you're with

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

-You are willing and wanting to spend ten hours a day, every day of the week, for at least three weeks, just to finish your robot (at the end (or in my case, the animation).

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

...when you can come up with 85 pages worth of stuff that shows you're addicted to FIRST.

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

When your desktop background is a FIRST field.

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

When the following apply to you team...

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

When all you have in life is posting on this site!

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

you dream about building robots in your sleep.

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

When you post on this site in the middle of school! :D

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

when ur at a restaurant an u have crayons an they table cloth is paper an u start doodling the FIRST logo! :D
(even after drag racing for a day)

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

...when you'd give up your mornings, evenings, nights, weekends AND holidays/breaks just for working on the robot

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

when you write papers about FIRST...and you're the only person in your class that understands it at all

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

When the basis of your SAT essay in on FIRST

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

When you cut back on the hours spent at a well paying job with few challenges, to take a job that gives a small honorarium, way too many hours and endless challenges, but gives you an excuse to talk about FIRST to anyone who will listen. :)

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

when you know the names of every robot made with your team and atleast a dozen other teams since you were in the fifth grade!

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

when you've been with the team longer than you've been in school, and longer than some of the mentors...and you've still got a year to go

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

When you decide that it would be fun to do Physics II problems at 11pm on a Saturday night, and you don't really have anything planned for Sunday... :rolleyes:

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

...when you visit chiefdelphi more than 3 times a day at school

...when your teachers accept the excuse "i was doin dean's hw"

...when you will spend all the light hours of the day at school

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

You're on a Carnival Cruise and you see the entertainment room and think "Hey this'd be a pretty cool place to hold an off season event!" :rolleyes:

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

...when you're up at 4am to beat John Boucher getting on Chief Delphi...
...when you're up at 4am downloading the FIRST logos from the website so that you can make a banner for a demo you're doing...on your vacation day!
...you're walking around the new convention center in Hartford where you're supposed to be doing the demonstration saying, wow, this is where the robots and toolboxes and crates will be coming into the pits in March when we're here - no more mud and snow to slush through!

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

When your friends come over and you make them watch your team's 'memory video'

When if you dont get on chief every morning it's a sad day where you always are wondering what is going on in the (FIRST) world

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

When you look forward to getting up at 7:30 to go to a robotics workshop, then actually do it! And then when you're sorry its over.

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

you miss major high school events like prom or homecoming to go to competitions. ( I already missed homecoming this year DUEL ON THE DELAWARE WINNER TOTALLY WORTH IT!)

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

you pass up a trip to Disney World and get out of a couple days of school because you would miss a robotics regional.

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

When you spend the weekends of your spring break going to robotics regionals.

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

...whenever you look at the time and its your team's number you tell all the people on your msn list what the time is...[like when time hits 12:19...i tell everyone on my msn list...haha...they've gotten use to it now]

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

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

- you spend more time at school building and driving than you do at home
- when you realize that your shop is your home for 40 days.
- school goes by and all you can do is think about robotics
- a teacher gives you time out of class to go to the shop to get your homework done.

Re: dreams
 

my mom told me that i slept walked and started trying to take apart things with imaninary tools .. when i woke up... i was frustrated because i never finished taking apart the object in my dream... :(

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

i liked that last one

- When your son's teacher asks about the measurement of the bumper from the floor and me being mom and yet not involved spew out the answer because i heard it to many times

- When I am mom wake up at 5:30 on a saturday before coffee to drive my son to robotics so he can be the first one there and get a jump on it. (still trying to understand what part he is "jumping" on)

- When you as a mom sign on to a forum that son uses to post about how i am becoming addicted and i have not even touched the thing yet.

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

you know your addicted to first when you spend your entire spring break going to regionals and helping teams you dont even recognize

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

You know you're addicted to FIRST when, deep down, you feel offended when you hear one of your teachers say "robots are tools"

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

...When you're walking around, see a random number, and can determine which FIRST team has that number.

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

You have the Kickoff, Game animation, and the Transmission/Chassis videos on your iPod.

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

When your friends all leave you because you are so exhausted after building.

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

When you are ALREADY breaking down the teams registered for the championship into divisions.... :o

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

...you can find a way to twist anything robotics related and make it sexual :P

:]

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

you stay up late to browse the McMaster-Carr catalog.

(That company is so cool, they have almost EVERY PART IMAGINABLE)

-Dylan 1722

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

- if you go crazy when you leave your thumb drive at home.
- if you more of your team than your family in the past four weeks.
- if you can remember every detail of your robot, but have no clue where your mom is
when you get home.
- if you decide it is just easier to stay at school for the night than go home.

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

If you have the choice between closing a mid-term essay that hasn't been saved or a Max presentation that was saved 5 minutes ago... and you close the essay :)

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

If it's 3am, you really should be sleeping or doing homework, yet you check on ChiefDelphi for the latest news first.

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