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Don't worry, I don't have a license either...and I was driving robots before cars...and I'm a better car driver than robot driver D:
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When you know that Chief Delphi goes down for a nightly back up at 5:02 am
When you get a hair cut from your teammate in the hallway outside of the shop because you don't have time to do it anywhere else. |
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When reading the speeches by Dean in The New Cool you hear them in his voice in your head.
When talking to a mentor from another team you notice that the last 4 digits are an anagram for his team number. Also, when pointing it out to him, he had never noticed, and his team just finished their 4th year. (Also, number is older than the team.) |
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When you go to put a period at the end of a sentence and you put a semi-colon instead;
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...You spend hours making plush robots.
...You are saving up money to start a team of your own. ...Your choosing your collage depending on the FRC teams in the aria. ...You call your bot pet names like 'baby' and 'sweety' and don't care who thinks your weird. ...You think every robot is cute. ...Your off season hobby is pacing around your house and waiting for build season to start. ...You will buy anything robot oriented. |
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... When your Principle of Engineering teacher has to ban Chief Delphi and other FIRST web sites in class.
... When your Driving a vehicle in Halo and you start doing the controls of your robot ( our team uses a 360 controller) ... When you skip out on a family outing to go to a robotic demo for your team I love robotics =] |
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. . . When you see a large engine being transported by hand rather than fork truck, and when the safety crew walking in front crosses the threshold from one building to the next you yell, “ROBOT!” only to find everyone staring at you. (I had to explain that one.)::safety::
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when you're supposed to be doing research for the robot, but you end up lost in a Delphi thread like this >.< haha
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...you see a bunch of the field crew spending several minutes picking up "robot droppings" from one spot on the field...and you realize that you know just what kind of parts they are picking up, because a robot's turret broke.
In case you can't figure this one out: ball bearings. |
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.... when your pushing shopping carts for work and when people are in your way you yell "Robot".
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After a regional, you spam all the social networks you belong to and try to generate people's interest in FIRST.
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When you spend extended amounts of time (3/4 days) deciding on the fastest way to solve various issues, all robot related.
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...when you walk into a non-robotics event and have this strange feeling there is something just wrong with the crowd, only to figure out a few minutes later that you thought there was something wrong because they aren't wearing bright, matching t-shirts.
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When working for your appliance repair company, you walk into customer's home & in conversation ask if they have teenagers in FIRST. And if they don't, how you can convince them that they can get better scholarships this way.
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You absolutely despise the word "Treads"...
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...when on of you FIRST friends makes a joke about the regional you just went to and no on but you and him laughs in class!!
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When you spend more time thinking about robotics then about the 10 page English paper due tomorrow that you haven't started.
When you then go on to write said paper on robotics even though it is supposed to be on literary techniques and you still get a passing grade because the teacher doesn't want to have to deal with you next year. Edit: or with the teams programmers hacking their computer again like the last time she failed a robotics student. (programmers + boredom+ way to entertain selves=done). PS: this wasn't my team! |
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every time you see a 4-digit number on an article, you think of the scouting statistics of that team.
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...you have a FIRST "clique" at school and all you do is talk about robotics during lunch
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When you got a perfect score on the writing portion of the SATs because you wrote about making Anderson connectors.
Not that that was a personal experience. It happened to an alumni of our though. :) |
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When a tour is going around your school and you *cough* happen *cough* to be right next to where your team works/stores the robot and when the tour gets there, the teacher leading the tour has you talk about it and they have to tell you to stop because you were only supposed to only speak for a few minites (not half an hour :) )
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...your friends say night at the exact moment you normally leave for team meetings, even when you told them in advance that there is no meetings for that entire week. |
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--when you are late for a date, and your girlfriend simply asks "robot?" and doesn't need an answer |
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...when youn plan on spending the day on a research paper, and end up watching old match videos instead.
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...when you spend most of your introduction to engineering college classes browsing CD.
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...you've downloaded every single piece of Autodesk software offered for free.
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You see a 3DS friend code and think it's an alliance.
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...when "don't ask" is your catch phrase.
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When you read an entire thread about how teams say their team number...
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When you look at your car's trip odometer and try to think what team matches the number you see.
This morning it was 101.8...Robo Devils |
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When you complain about spam.
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You're asking for more RAM for Christmas so that you can program and run the robot from your computer without the BSOD.
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Your signature is so true...when you miss your FIRST team more than your friends :'(
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When you just realized you spent your entire accounting class reading and replying to this thread, have replied to waaaaay too many things, and the stuff in this thread is so familiar and makes you miss your old team so much that your crying in class. :(
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When you have already graduated college, but STILL line dance with the students during competitions :D
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When your morning shower consists of you thinking of hypothetical FRC games for the upcoming year.
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... When it's 11:30 at night, you need to be awake in five hours to make it to the non-local kickoff, and you're still here, browsing Chief Delphi, with no sleep in sight for at least three more hours.
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...You're marrying a guy you met from another FIRST team during high school and spending your honeymoon at an FRC regional with the team you mentor.
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When you see pool noodles as impact dampeners, not flotation devices.
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... you select locker numbers at your gym based upon FRC team numbers you know so that you can remember which locker is yours.
Last night was the Truck Town, 68. Several times were Hammand 71, Poofs 254, or PINK 233. Epsilon Delta 116 always seems to be taken, for whatever reason. |
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When your favorite time of the day is when the clock reads your team number.
Great! it's 7:01 Too bad for the teams past 1259 unless you roll with the 24 hour clock, then it's 2359 |
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you wish they didn't cancel school for the weather because you can't meet when school is cancelled.
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You haven't seen your team in a couple of weeks due to being in college, and you have nightmares about them building a robot that can't consistently score in the high goal, yet tries anyway.
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You can look at a robot and write down every single part used to build it within 5 minutes.
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You don't buy lunch for a week so you can save the money for a non-broken jaguar.
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-When you haven't bathed for 12 days.
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When your always on Chief Delphi!
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When you ask your mom for a left handed crescent wrench for your birthday.
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when you know all the teams going to your regional, when you can't sleep because all you do is think about your robot and designs and competition, when all you think about is strategy for the game and talk to a random stranger about it and go on for 30 minutes talking about FIRST.
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when you find aluminum shavings in your iPhone case
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...when you start asking yourself "What do normal people do on Saturday?":D
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You no longer have pupils.
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Your wife asks you what you want to do for your birthday, and you say, "Let's get dinner and see a movie."
But, what you're really thinking is, "I want to work on the robot with the team." |
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After build season you have this dream. (Yes I actually had this dream this morning.)
Queue up Twilight Zone music: You just have regained consciousness; it's Thursday morning in the pits. You can't find your pit, when you finally find the pit the robot is still in the bag and nobody from your team can be found. When you get the robot un-bagged. It appears to be almost completely un-assembled. As you frantically try to put it all together it appears to exceed the frame perimeter by at least 400% and weight by 100lbs. With a sinking feeling you realize you will never, ever pass inspection this season. I am hoping this nightmare isn't someone else's real past life experience I am channeling. I think I have a new psychological disorder. I am calling it "FPRBTSD(FIRST Post Robotic Build Traumatic Stress Disorder)" The only cure is a big dose of FIRST. .... and after Robert Palmer, if your dreams are like this .... You better well face it, you're addicted to FIRST. |
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When you seriously don't know what normal people do in their free time, and so you spend hours after school making to do lists for competition and posting on Chief Delphi.
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In my English class, when I have to write about an certain experience you had in your life, I write about how our team won Chairman's!
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When your friends question if you have a life outside of robotics
When you start dreaming on how to better the robot in both programming and the 45 lb allotment. When you start predicting what the next game is going to be. When you start designing a robot for that game. |
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With already signed up & verified for 3 district events, you look for more to attend/volunteer on your Sundays, even though you are working your normal job on Saturdays.
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When you relate everything to build season, or FIRST and your friends get annoyed with your references they don't understand.
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you're willing to risk your life to go to a competition.
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When you go on vacation and find out that there is a robotics competition there and beg your mom to go. (If anyone in Utah is going to the competition on Thursday, message me!! :D)
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When these are a few of your "favorite things:"
1. The smell of ozone and thread tapping oil in the morning. 2. This hiss and crackle of a TIG welder as it lays down a perfect line of buttons. 3. The beautiful long aluminum ribbon coming off the lathe. 4. Pristine lines of code, code that can do anything from launch a mission to Mars or diagnose a fetal heartbeat. 5. The crunch of the crimper or the snap of the POP riveter. 6. The feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when the MC says - "Teams stand behind the line, ready, set.........." |
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...you realize you've been around FIRST longer than you haven't.
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...volunteers at competition look familiar... from seeing them on Chief Delphi.
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You just spent 4 hours on CD, then realize your dad (coach) is in the garage building your crate for St. Louis.
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You see a cool project, and your first though is robot voice control (as in Real Steel).
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When you have the urge to yell robot in the middle of a crowded hallway::safety::
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You're more excited about seeing your button haul from Worlds than you are about seeing your Halloween candy.
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... you waste $60 on FIRST merch at championships
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You are at the clothing store wondering where all the long sleeve denim shirts are.
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When ever you see your team number somewhere you have the urge to yell it out.
examples include the time, in movies, and readings for home work |
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You keep repeatedly rifling the refresh button on the team list to your off season so you can truly confirm that 1114 really signed up for your event.
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When your team has become one of the cults of the school
When during those precious days after build season ends we have to ourselves, we meet up outside of the workshop because what else are we going to do with ourselves? No matter where we go, there's at least two of us together at any given time |
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When this is your 5000th post.
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When your official position in the team that's recognized by everyone in the team is Chief Delphi Browser.
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Your math answer comes out to be a team number. You laugh, but none of your teammates are around and no one else understands your reference and instead everyone just thinks you're insane for getting really excited about 1,124.
Essentially your entire team is going to prom together. You cry when your mother doesn't want you to stay for the entire Midnight Madness meeting. You live for competitions. You spend upwards of eighteen hours in the shop over the weekend and don't mind one bit. Your best friends are all team members and you could never live without any of them because robotics people are the best people. |
When your browser auto fills "th" into thebluealliance.com
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When you class people in two catergories: robo-nerds and losers.
When you leave your advisory hour every day to do robotics stuff. When you consider Dean Kamen, Wood Flowers, and Frank to be the Holy Trinity of robotics. |
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When you start marking years by competitions.
Normal people: oh yeah, 2012, freshman year... you: oh yeah, 2012, rebound rumble... |
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