I know last year, at Nationals, 422 handed out bumper stickers that said, "I drive my other car with joysticks." Mine's hanging on my corkboard at home! :)

- Katie

Dude wait, to you see my safety glasses! They look exactly like sunglasses witha flair of nerd!!!! I still got my photo from Bash@the Beach in them with my baggy pants and backwards hat (VT BABY!!!) thugging it as HP ( I had been the back up backup previously but the normal HP and backup were in Florida!)

heck yeah I did! if I had to hear that moe jingle one more time.... (no offense to moe, but after too long outside of competition.... i get angry :D)

yes. elyse, jr. will love FIRST. :) hehe

also..

..when you go to menards in search of nice safety glasses that will look good with all of you fave team shirts. (luckily, my team and wo-bots are primarily red and white)
..after a competition, you have about all of the other teams buttons or other giveaways from that competition

The sad thing... it's so true...
The sadder thing is... I said "my backpack is too heavy" and a friend and i both thought of that, and then of coruse i had to say it.

- when your history teacher comes over 30 minutes into class and says "it's okay, go to sleep" and you sleep for the next hour of class. And you're not in trouble.
- when you ask your teacher for an extension, but the teacher beats you to the reason (obviously, robotics).
- when you know that you can go in the LSC, up the stairs, across the skyway, down teh stairs, across a hall, down stairs and down another hall just to get back in the room cuz you got locked out of the building without a cell phone
- when you can talk in if, then statements.
- you do homework in if, then statements
- you try to rewrite a scene from othello using programming language, but your teacher won't let you (it was a "creative assignemtn, i see nothing wrong with it")
- when you begin saying "whoa, your shirts are the same color of color!" and it's what you meant to say. and then you realize that you're stupid...
- when you are officially not allowed to touch layout dye, because you made 10 of the 12 plates on teh drive gearboxes red. and not for layouting. all red.
- when you've gotten so used to going to bed at 2:30 or later that even after 2 weeks of normality, you still cant' go to bed before 1. (which is why i'm still up).
- youve gotten used to going without breakfast, without lunch (fell asleep during "lunch"), without very much dinner ("what? you ate the pizza and you didnt' tell the machinists?" -- luckily didnt' happen that often). and 2 weeks later, you still don't eat. which is really bad for me, combined with lack of sleep... w00t!

i gotta get back to my essay, *grin*

lol, our team's engineers got our safety glasses on their own without us. Just like true dillard style (our school) our glasses are tinted. They're great for outdoors...but..not so great for the machine shop.. :p

-When you look at what number you winamp play list is on and know the team number off the top of you head, and then you start to associate that song with the team.

...when you spend at least 3 hours a day on something related to FIRST.

when you are tempted to cry cause you can't watch the webcasts (our LAN is GRRRRR!) and your friend (who is not in robotics) says "uhm.. you're not missing anything":(

when, while writing your physics term paper, you send an email every few minutes asking "please tell me what's going on!"

when you're writing your term paper you find the CD board irresistable because you know it will have smth exciting about the regionals

you stay up til 1 am scouting and typing the robot inventory when you should be working on your term paper

...heh, maybe i should go write that term paper, eh? ;)

During fundraising and organization time, I spend twice that each day. During build season, ditto, before the regionals, ditto, after the competition, ditto... I guess I am a little addicted :D

When you boarded a bus with your teammates this morning at 7:15 am and got home at 6 pm

(Our team went and volunteered at Habitat for Humanity, went back to motorola, had lunch, and (some of us) stayed to watch the cleveland regional via NASA satalite video feed.

- All of your nightmares involve transmission problems
- You wonder how they built the pyramids without 80/20, zip ties and duct tape
- All of your clothes are in your team colors
- You can't see your walls because they're covered in team buttons.
- You won't buy furniture that isn't "some assembly required"
- You've taken apart everything in your room at least once.
- You tried to build a flux capacitor
- You wonder if NASA has dilithium yet.
- You think your home should have a machine shop.
- If Mountain Dew has made your blood green.
- The only number a woman has given you was a team number
- You think the inventor of duct tape should be a saint.

A wise man once said to me: Do you know why everyone wants to give you their two cents? Because noone likes carrying around a lot of pennies.

...when you needed a project since the robot is gone so you dragged all your furniture out of your room and spent all night repainting.
...when you needed another project now that your room is repainted so you offered to repaint a 900 sq ft room just for kicks.

....You're SURE everything done on battlebots could have been done by your team ten times better

....A Honda Civic is nothing compared to your souped up Segway

....There are no room numbers in your school, you call them by their FIRST name

....You try to get as many exhibition as possible so you can go to less school

....You don't answer the phone because you might lose the train of thought on your CD post

....When you say "Do you want to the movies" and your friend responds accordingly, and then you both start screaming at eachother.

good question.....

when you're bored and you want to go to school just to see your team mates and build a robot.....:D