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

...you wonder what life will be like when robotics ends...
...you attend the championships and you wonder how you got there...
...you just got off a plane from oahu after missing your flight to hilo because the plane from atlanta was delayed...
...in the whole experience you notice that you took a total of 8 planes, 2 for your regional, and 6 planes to atlanta and back to hawaii...
...you start to panick if you got more then 5 hours of sleep in one night...
...you realize that your friend has a hat full of buttons in his suitcase plus more...
...your group dosnt want to leave the airport because the bonding that went on was too much to just leave behind...
...you already plan for the next upcoming trip on oahu for another competition that you notice you only have a week to complete because you were working on first...
...you are still running off caffine from the coke you drand yesterday...

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

... Your still on competition reflexes
... When people start saying "Awwww" you look for the fallen robot
... Whenever you hear music you want to start dancing
... your constantly hearing music from competition
... you can't get the one two step out of your head

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

When you're getting withdrawal, and you didn't even *go* to Championship this year!

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

When even though the season is over, you still spend your mornings going on CD. A team member comes in, shakes his head at you, and then goes on CD himself.

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

....when you absolutely FREAK OUT after meeting Woodie Flowers, Dave Lavery, and Dean Kamen....even though you've meet them all before.... but you got to see them al again on the same day!!!!.... and 2 of them signed the same shirt!!!!....and you try telling your non-robotics friends about these awesome guys but they jsut stare at you like your retarded.
....the only way you got away with going to championships was because your spring break was between your second regional and then.
:D

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

...when all you ask for for your birthday is FIRST Robots: Behind the Design...and you get it

...When you take it to school and show all your non-robot friends, despite much eye-rolling

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

You have your own personal Lego Talbe in the basement. Yes, I really do.

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

... When you're at the Atlanta airport waiting in the line to go through security. You see Woody and a woman (who you assume is his wife) talking, standing in the opposite line (the ATL airport has two lines, they snake around each other, etc...). You watch Woody as he goes through the security lines, seeing how close he'll get to you so that you can get his autograph (on a printed-out sheet of HW no less). Finally, right at the end, he's as close to you as he's been, and you reach across another line to hand him the paper and a pen. He signs it, and goes into security. You gloat to your team that you got Woody's autograph. Then, after the team has gone through, you see Woody standing there. The team goes over and mobs him. ~5 people pull out their boarding pass envelopes and have him sign those. Someone on the team finds a button in their bag, and someone else pulls an unworn shirt out of their carryon. You give them to him, and let him go (this is after like 10 mins). After he leaves, your coach comments that everyone else in security probably went through scratching their heads in confusion because they couldn't figure out who he was but we were treating like a rockstar/celebrity/______.

^^- so much fun...

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

....when you put on a pair of safety glasses and they make feel at home.

(as well as extremely miss the pits.)

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

... When you spend all of one class period looking through the text book to see what specifically numbered pages have on them. Aka, what your favorite team numbers have on their page.

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

Now I'm going to have to do that next time I get bored in class (which shouldn't take too long)

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

...you can do a head count and tell exactly who is missing from the team at the school assemby...
...when the Lt. Gov. of your state knows your name because he flew to GA to support your team...
...when you have successfully memorized all the songs that were played at nationals and regionals...
...when you speak fluent robotics language to others and wonder why they're looking at you funny...
...when you finally realize that you missed a week of school for the atlanta trip, that you have a weeks worth of quizzes and hw to do, and that your team is flying out tomorrow night for another robotics competition...
...when you and your boyfriend (who was on the robotics team, but graded last year) compete to see who is better at robotics...

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

(I just had to share this because it's really funny to me)


You know you're addicted to FIRST when during your free time at the Las Vegas Regional, you have the reflex to put on your safety glasses without realizing youre entering a casino and not the event...


...resulting in you looking like an idiot with your safety glasses on in New York New York for over 30 minutes :rolleyes:

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

You get staight C's second semester because of robotics

You sneek into the bot shop some nights to work on the robot because it could be "better"

You are always thinking about ways to improve the robot when you arn't actually improving it

All you think about is robotics

Robotics come above a g/f

You are always eating pizza or fast food

Ductape is your best friend

You would rather stay and work through dinner than drive to subway and eat

You think FIRST should be a year round thing with a competition in the winter and then one in the summer.

You love the segway

Dean Kamen is you idle

You have tried to skip school to go to the shop and work on the robot

You have spent some school nights at the bot shop at 3 AM and completely forgot you had homework, went home, said "screw it" and fell asleep

You have sat in class without taking note or paying attention daydreaming about FIRST

You have made inventor sketches of the robot in CAD class instead of the project you are supposed to be doing

You have used metal shop to make robot parts instead of the projects the teacher assigns you

I might have more but its to late to think





MUST EAT MORE FOOD

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

...you have graduated from high school after attending 8 robotics competitions, 2 mini robotics competition, taught at 2 summer camps, designed a robotics challenge, and are currently planning to attend ANOTHER robotics competition (botball nationals) just becasue!

...on the day after graduation you wonder what the robotics team is doing tomorrow in school...

...you miss having daily robotics meetings...

...you can tell exactly what lego peice you have as soon as you touch it, without looking...

...your team wonders what they will do with out you, and you wonder what you will do without them in college... then realize your robotics friends who have already graduated within the last 4 years have been waiting for you at college...

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

[quote=ambie_o7;632839...you can tell exactly what lego peice you have as soon as you touch it, without looking...[/QUOTE]

I could do that before I joined robotics.

...when the first thing you do in the morning is getting on CD.

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

- Five months later, you resurrect this thread after reading every single post over the course of a three-day weekend, occasionally bursting into maniacal laughter and alarming your mom working on the other computer, then wait wistfully for someone to post...

- You've read all the "You Know You've Overdosed on FIRST When..." posts, too, and posted there...

- You're playing Ultimate Frisbee, one of the guys who was welding two years ago runs across the field and you lose track of the person you're guarding because your mind is on bright light, hot aluminum and flying sparks...

- One day your team's driver is juggling a soccer ball and your mind suddenly darts to an OI design for this year... Then said driver bounces the ball in your direction, but you don't notice and almost kick the ball right in his face

- You are helping your younger brother with a school project that involves traditional Chinese pastries, discover you have extra dough and promptly make cookies in the form of the FIRST Logo

- You look up into the sky and realize that the clouds are making a collective triangle, circle and square in the sky...

- You are building a catapult for the Latin Convention, which is the weekend after Davis 2008, and you've had everything planned since September 2007 so that you didn't have to build during the Build Season

- Two thirds of the people on your catapult team are in Robotics and one is in Robotics, but doesn't actually take Latin

- A teacher mentions to a freshman that they should join the Robotics Club, and you jump for joy because they already have... the earlier you ensnare them the better...

- Most that I want to say has already been said, like sleep deprivation, seeing team numbers everywhere and writing papers about Robotics. In California, high schoolers take the Exit Exam to graduate and my English essay was about our build shop. Apparently, another teammate had done the same thing :D. The prompt was to write about a room that had character.

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

i have actually noticed my teams number in random strings of integers...

anyway.

-when you reflash your roomba's firmware so you can add a home made bluetooth adapter and drive it with your phone or with a ps3 sixaxis controller.

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

....When you finally convice your school to veiw it as a sport.


(which is completely awesome by the way)

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

-When you remember IP addresses by team number.
-When you are watching Phelps at the Olympics, and think about how to build a robot to beat him.
-When you think that FIRST would do okay as an Olympic event.
-When you are doing summer work for your first physics class, and keep on having thoughts like "so thats why using all four wheels at angles on a holonomic drive is more efficient than using two at full power."
-When for your birthday, you only wand a few miscellaneous tools and parts for robots.
-When you don't know what you did on the computer before you got Inventor.
-When your avatar everywhere else is some miscellaneous robot part or tool, such as a chop saw blade (Its only one of my rockets here because here I don't get PM'd "Why is xxx your avatar" -- "Tells person about FIRST" here)
-When you recognize something, like Igus energy chain, from shows like How Its Made.
-When you already have a rough idea of what you will put in dave's "Okay, YOU design the 2010 game" thread next year.
-When you have ideas for robots for games that occurred several years before you joined FIRST.
-When you have convinced most of my younger brothers' friends to join FIRST next year.

EDIT: Sorry I accidentally revived this one, rather than posting the more active General Forum one. Could they be merged? Or would the sheer volume of posts occupy the moderators for weeks on end?

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

when you read science fiction and think about how it would work then go and try making it

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

when u watch eagle eye and start thinking about making a computer like that.

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

When you tell your girlfriend that you want it to be kick off again so you can have your life back

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

...When you start redesigning last years robot so that it's a von neuman machine whenever your bored...

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

You know we're all addicted to FIRST when we can crash whole sites by clicking links in a Game Hint thread.

You know we're all addicted to FIRST when we cause Chief Delphi to become slow-as-a-snail....

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

When you run around the house shouting joyfully about the game hint.

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

When you are going to miss the SEC Championship Game to help with FLL.

ROLL TIDE :yikes:

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

you realize that your becoming more and more like a robot

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

...you constantly "hint" to your mom that you'd rather get a gift card to The Home Depot over anything else, including that computer or guitar you've always wanted.

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

...you look up "FIRST" in the pieces of flair facebook application and giggle when one of the first results is an opah

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

when you get rick rolled and think of a way you could make a program to do it for you

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

When you feel like taking a shopping cart and adding the new system to it and submitting it as your robot for the year. :yikes:
(Not that I've done that... yet)

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

I think you have it backwards. My wife thinks that FIRST is my first wife and for six plus weeks of the year, she's right. :o

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

you get depressed at the beginning of winter break because the school is locked until the fifth of January

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

When you ask your mentor's if you can take home the new control system home over the break to work on it.

And they let you.

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

That's pretty freakin' awesome!!! Fortunately, our mentor convinced the school to give us two meetings during the break.

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

. . .When the robot attacks you in your nightmares

. . .Whenever you try to make a decision, Dean Kamen and Woody Flowers pop up on either shoulder

. . .When you start to talk in C++

. . .When you ask for "the strippers" you mean THE TOOL.

. . .You stay up till 3 in the morning working on the bot... WHEN IT'S ALREADY DONE- Random Thoughts from Joe

. . .You spend more time working on the robot than wth your own girlfriend or boyfriend

. . .When the show "Robot Wars" isn't as cool as it used to be

. . .When you smack someone because they called your bot "it"

. . .When the Robotics Competition is more important to you than the Super Bowl

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

-you stay home sick from school but manage to push yourself out of bed and go back at the end of the day to build the robot
-when you had a day where you didn't do any work and still called it productive
-when you could less about your grades and worry about getting the bot shipped in time for the deadline
-what other people would call "social issues" become obsolette

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

...your local hungry howie's knows your saturday order....and your sunday order..before you call them

...you talk about Woodie Flowers and Dean kamen constantly and get frustrated when you realize people actually DON'T know who they are

...your best friend stops asking you to hang out during build season because she know there is no chance of you saying yes

...when you can say what FIRST stands for in less than four seconds

...all you dream about is robotics practice (and they arent good dreams..its the dreams that you cant figure out the problem is and its competition day!)

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

~ you've always got band-aids on your hands
~ you've got bruises from dropping metal on your foot, or being hit with something
~ you've broken a nail from accidentally sanding your fingernail, or trying to rip out stubborn staples
~ you've got sawdust all over your clothes and shoes
~ you think little wrenches and lockwashers are adorable :D
~ you must think before you speak or else someone will respond with "that's what she said!" :ahh:
~ there are so many "dirty" words that make you laugh: balls, nut, lubricant, rod, noodle, etc... :P

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

...You have nightmares about metal shavings in the victors.

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

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

One of your text templates on your phone is "Are you coming in to Robotics today?"

Your top friends on myspace are all people from robotics.... and your school friends are complaining.

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

You go home and think about how to make your robot better.

You go to work and think about how to make you robot better.

You write really long E-mail's to you mentor outlining a modification because you won't see them that day.

You come up with names like "The Shumper"

You refuse to stop practicing until the robot doesn't move.

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

when you think your safety glasses look good on you (mine actually do)
when you could go home but decide to wait for something to do.
when you know the answer before you finish hearing the question
when you think girls holding screwdrivers are sexy

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

When Thursday means the first day of your first regional, not the 19th.
When you have mastered the art of pretending to work on the robot and show it proudly when the TV camera is rolling

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

actually, when grades become more important because if your grades dip too far, you dont get to travel... then go insane from trying to get the robot done while maintaining good grades in mostly AP or advanced classes (voice of personal experience there)

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

-When your only motivation for getting good grades is Robotics. (it's not, but still)

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

When you choose where you will live later in life based off of what teams are in that area.

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

-your friends tell you to shut up about the new sims motor
-you beg your teachers to let you leave class to work on the robot
-you routinely stay at school until 8 or 10 at night
-your team argues over which name is better, "Vince" or "Dr. Sheila"
-you nearly cry when Vince (the robot) is shipped
-you get up early during a weekend/vacation to work on the robot
-you are suddenly trying to fix or re-engineer everything in your house
-you dont want your life back at the end of the build season
-you spend history, english, and spanish class dreaming about robots
-robotics=life
:cool: :D :]

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

When you've been at robotics more than any of your mentors.

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

-When you lose count of how many robotic competitions you've been to.
-When you put student on the consent form and have to reprint it to put mentor(mentoring FLL team)...its called filling it out without thinking about it.

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

when you look at chief delphi 3-4 times a day totaling about 6-8 hours a day you look at it

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

...wearing safety glasses becomes a part of you, and you bring a pair of them home by accident.

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

you stay in the botcave till 4:23am the morning of ship day to put the finishing touches together

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

When your 2 mentors have 3 leathermans (2 big 1 small) and your team as named all of them, and given them an entire life's story. (David, Fredrick, and Steve)

When you ask for a leatherman by name and your mentor hands him to you.
(i.e. "Hey ____, I need David!")

When you accidently cut your finger with a leatherman and blame it on him.
(i.e. "____, your leatherman just cut me.")

When the leaherman in question cuts you, you say, "____, your leatherman just cut me." and ten minutes later you say "____, may I see David please?"

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

When you read all the "witholding allowance" and "battery connection" threads in their entirety :eek:

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

When you debate whether or not to read the condensed Q&A--and then save it for later because a) you already read all the threads and b) you really don't want to read several pages of bumper rulings AGAIN.

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

When you leave the FLL meeting on a Thursday at 4 to be at the workshop working on the big robot at 4:30....And still making it there before the majority of the team...BEFORE 4:30 (it takes like, 25 min. at least to get from where the FLL team meets to where the workshop is haha)

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

...when you know everyone who works at Home Depot, can rank them on a scale of 1 to 10 and you rank 11.5 where as the employees range from -1 to 4, lol
...when you break up with your girlfriend because neither of you have enough time for the other(this really sucks!)
...when blood has been shed over the robot, lol:D

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

-You laugh at a teeshirt that says "There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who get this sentence, and those who don't"

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.

!

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

haha that reminds me, today in algebra 2 we were dividing polynomials (uber easy but soo boring) and one of the numbers was 343 and i yelled out "OMG METAL IN MOTION!" everyone looked at me with confused expresions except for three of my robo friends :D

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

-When you refuse to return a part of your team's robot that fell off at a demo that at the time no one could find where on the robot it came from.
(Every day since a demo last august a bolt fell off my teams robot and i picked it up. Ever since that day, every day i wear that bolt around my neck)

-When you collect odd souvenirs from demos and events your team does.
(^ regalith from team 1502, ypsi fest '09 :rolleyes: )

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

When you see a hired man up in a pine tree cutting it down, and your first thought is, "Oh, wow. That's a cool pulley system they have going on, I wonder how it works..." instead of, "I wonder why they're cutting down that tree."

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

When driving around town, you see house numbers and then search your memory to know what team that was. Ive found 1102, 281, 2751, 1771, etc lol

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

When driving by your local offseason (I couldn't make it, I was too wiped out), you can spot, from a distance, members of several teams, and just from their t-shirts, name and number each team.

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

...you spend more time at school then your teachers.

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

When buying airplane tickets you pick the row that corresponds with your team number....I'll be sitting in seats 33A and 33F on my way to California. hehe

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

...When while playing whirlyball with your team, and your alliance is up 22-6, your alliance decide it's best to score for the other alliance to get a higher coopertition bonus.

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

When you buy a 24 pack of Mt. Dew on sale at Walmart...so that you can save money at your next competition..in over 1 month.

Seriously though, 24 pack of Dew is $5!!!......so I bought two

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

------ You spend 24/7 on chiefdelphi.com
------ The only thing that runs though your mind on a test is robotics

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

... your valintine is your robot
... you spend 3 hrs building a duck tape tie
... all numbers you see add up to a first team you know

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

A classmate in AP Physics has a folder with various cartoon robots on it, and the first time you see it you immediatly start comparing the varois propulsion mechanisms and start writing psuedo-code in your head for how the various appendages would operate.

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

...when ALL grades except ENGLISH R A's

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

- When you start using Solidworks for fun
- When singing out loud doesn't bother you any more
- When you realise you haven't spoke to your family since last sunday

- When your best gossip is " Did you see how &#$%& uses the driller? "
- When you start counting your wounds on your hands and just give up
- When you find home boring

-When you realize you haven't been to your ^$@#% class since the start of this seson


Love you guys !

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

Happened to me in my class as well only it was 346 and i was like "OMG ROBOHAWKS!" My teacher just nodded in understanding...it was like 2 days after DC

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

When you spend all of your lunch in the robot room fixing the drive train

When you cry at the end of competition season

When you call the robot your baby and get to help put it in the truck. (Laura and I <3)

When you sing ultimate showdown and your team instantlyjoins in =)

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

... you start skipping sports practice to go to your "real" sport (FIRST)
... your team of 14 can seriously vouch that they can drink 56 cans of soda on a Saturday work day
... your boyfriend has to not only come to robotics, but help work on the robot if he wants to hang out
... when national "That's What She Said" day is your favorite holiday ever

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

...you bring a robot to your prom (true story, he stayed in my car the whole time though)

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

-- When leaving the machine shop before 1 am is an unknown experience for you.

-- You've had dangerous romantic encounters with a large dangerous machine 3 feet away.

-- Sleeping at the robotics building is not a foreign concept.

-- You get lost on the way home.

-- The only time you're not doing something robotics related is during your robotics class period. It becomes your sleep catch up time.

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

when you type ... into your internet browser and you get ...

"c"...chiefdelphi.com

"f"...frcdirector.blogspot.com *not facebook

"u"...usfirst.org

"a"...andymark.com

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

... The robot gets a hug and kiss good night, along with half your team.

... You watch an old Doctor Who episode and find yourself designing the Daleks a new body that can climb steps.

... Your tools have names, ALL OF THEM.

... Battle Bots makes you cry a little.

... You really want to ride on BigDogs back.

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

...you propose that your family's Easter dinner be scheduled for Beach Bot time (3:30).

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

..when you start taking part household items to build a robot
..when all you talk about is robotics
..when you get addicted to CD
..when you regularly browse DIY sites
..when you have a table in your room only for electronics
..when you have a cork board on the wall only for buttons, and it's nearly full
..when you get your whole team to skip everywhere during competition
..when all you do is think about how to improve next year
..when you type up a long post in CD instead of doing homework that's going to take 3 hours to do (ap world .-.)

I LOVE Robotics <3

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

when you order a new hat customised with your team's colors and number
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...x/100_5796.jpg
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Re: You know you're addicted to FIRST when...
 

When you learn how to drive a robot before you learn how to drive a car.

...Yeah, I don't even have my permit yet.