That would be so cool!

-.- When you say the above 10x really fast, and people still know what you're saying

-You have dreams about finishing parts, and then get mad when you wake up and they aren't done
-you and your friend spend your class talking about first stuff (redesignign, strategy, management) during a lecture
-your history notes are full of robot designs

--even after your bot is finished, you still look for things you could put on the robot during the 12-hour pre-competition build.

--you proudly proclaim to your friends "robotics=life."

--your dad tries to get you look at the drivetrain on a battlebot and you refuse to watch.

--you don't want to miss school because it's important for you to be at every build session.

oh yeah....uh, wait, yeah, we never did this :rolleyes: :D


...you've heard bill beatty sing!

you know you're addicted to FIRST when..
 

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

I can attest to both of these. Monday, 9am I was out in Ypsi because they had the day off for presidents day. My school didn't though :ahh:
Well, we had a nice blizzard that night so I stayed at a teamates house. (I have a 45 min drive home when the weather is good). So I wasn't at school tuesday either.

Monday & Tuesday
School: 0 Hours
Robotics: 23 Hours

when both of your computers at home break and you cant get online from school but you still find a way to post on delphi

-When your studying for a test and suddenly 'team building' exercises pop into your head
-Your entire life is a recruitment effort
-When you spend the two days off from school because of the huge blizzard working on the robot instead of playing in the snow (actually I played in the snow from 10pm to 3am so I wouldn't miss anything... college students took over the streets of Boston!)

when you watch a movie in physics and say
'that is the COOLEST thing EVER' and mean it
b/c it reminds you of one of the games

*when your engineers give you the access code to the building-wide PA system and you start singing and giggling on it...because it's late enough that only robotics people will hear

*when you start comparing scratches

*when you get unreasonably ecstatic because the kids you mentor are happy because they just got dean to sign their shirts

*when you haven't spoken to your roommate in days because you haven't both been conscious and in the room at the same time

*when you have a category of mp3s called "robotics music"

*when you assign much added significance to programming terms

My teacher doesnt let me miss class!!!!!
What can i do to break him in?

FIRST Widows
 

When I found out my brother accepted my challenge and started helping team 1164 in New Mexico, my first words to my wife were:

"Should we get a sympathy card for Pam? She's now a FIRST widow."

I really appreciate all of the sacrifices our families make to allow us to pursue this passion. It does get out of hand sometimes but I think FIRST is much more productive than so many other addictive passions.

Hahaha, we've done that before!

Student A: "Aww, look at this scratch!"

Student B: "Man, this one is bigger. I got this one from the gearbox last year. You know, before we filed the edges down?"

Student C: "You think that's bad? Here's my scar from when I put a screwdriver through my hand right before one of our matches - and I drove in that match too!"

Student D: "Ok, well here's where I almost cut my thumb off on the lathe."

Student A: "Oh, I remember that - was that the time you put electrical tape and paper towels around the cut and kept working?"

Student D: "One of the times, yeah."

All true stories!! :yikes:

- Katie

when u learned that some computers dont show team updates all the time...

when u drive to school for 45mins each way to go to that school because u moved to a new school district that didnt have FIRST.

when its the end of feb and ur still tired

when ur falling 1/2 of ur class's because u quit doing hw beacuse of lack of sleep.

when u can tell someone that on valentines day u worked on a robot until 4am.

when u volunteer at a lego league event and they tell u to dress in character, u dress in all denim

when u take ur robot to a middle school and break a shelf but are more worried about the robot

when u take the robot to a convention and talk about it as almost human.

:ahh:

For teams using aluminum extrusions, such as 80/20:

* When you find drop-in T-Nuts at the bottom of your washing machine...

* ... and you know exactly where off the robot those drop in T-nuts came from...

-=- Terence