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

When you use madewithcode.com to make yourself a 3d printed bracelet with your team name and number on it.

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

You see a family buying pool noodles, and you think, "Naah, they're not building a robot."

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

This year, more applicable than ever!

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

When everytime you see the number 107 you freak out and yell your team's once-in-a-day chant, "What time is it?! one-oh-seven!"

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

... you start looking at colleges based on robotics clubs.
... you know you're gonna miss the competitions and building.
... after working on your robot, you go home and think about working on your robot.
... you suddenly have 500 extra points on your Subway rewards card.
... Subway freezes your rewards card after a "mysterious string of 8 purchases" (even though each purchase only added points...)
... you envy the sleeping.
... after a 43-hour day filled with 480+ miles (10+ hours) of driving solo, 4 hours of programming, all-night laser tag, and then 11 hours of driving a bot, you'd still rather be competing than sleeping.
... you register on a forum just to post what you love about FIRST :D

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

When you see numbers and immediately know the team name and founding year.

When your entire family realizes that you are all in it for life.

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

When every one of those links in the New Tab Page of Chrome that are based on what pages you visit the most takes you to a different thread on Chief Delphi.

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

when even your dank memes are robotics related



happy 420 btw

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

You know you're addicted to FIRST when instead of doing work in class you're working on your logic for that nights programming.

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

When there's absolutely no way you're sleeping tonight because you're leaving for St. Louis tomorrow morning.

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

... when your passcode to your phone is your team number

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

You buy gamepiece totes from AndyMark to take stuff to college... And gamepiece noodles just because.

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

It's July, and in your SUV, you have ten pool noodles, half a dozen new AM wheels, a brand new cRIO, PDP, VRM and talon breakouts. There's also blue and red burlap, a riveter, four boxes of rivets, a velcro strip that's going to be used as a tennis ball conveyor belt, two 8' lengths of one-by ripped to five inches wide, and a few other robotic odds and ends. You may also have about two cubic feet of pecan and 20' length of open cell foam, but those are separate stories.

Oh, yeah - and a long-sleeve denim shirt and two pairs of safety glasses.

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

You might be addicted to FIRST when Google keeps suggesting you to set your work location to where you have team meetings.

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

You're more concerned about getting blood on the robot than the fact that you just got hurt.

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

You see the sunset and the sunrise in the same build session

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

I go right to the shop from work on build nights, and a few days ago my phone (Droid Turbo), which automatically gives ETAs to/from home/work at the beginning and end of the day, gave me the ETA to "Home"...except it was routing me to the shop.

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

... you pull out the new radio and fangirl over the small size
... you spend more time with your team than your friends
... you start coming up with ideas of what to say for this thread

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

I knew I couldn't be the only one!

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

you spam refresh here in hope to see 118's robot reveal come up

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

When You join Chief Delphi and you try to read every post.:eek:

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

. . . when you have nightmares of your division leader yelling that you forgot to save the banner design in Photoshop.

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

When someone says "Allen" and you think of the wrench set.

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

You walk into a hardware store and reflex attempt to put on safety glasses...

... or Sam's Club ... or Kroger ... or any building, really.

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

When you're still hanging around when Rotolo calls you old: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...5&postcount=37

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

When you yell "6 points!" when you put a pool noodle in a cardboard box.

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

You look at you GPS and try to guess the team name from your altitude reading :)

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

You accidentally go to church with your safety glasses on your head and don't even realize it.

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

When you read through every page of this thread and laugh with every single post.

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

When your old coach tells you not to come to the team's next competition because you don't have money for a hotel room and you promise that you'll sleep in your car if you have to

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

When you finally take your safety glasses off your head and it takes until the next day to stop feeling like you have safety glasses on your head.

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

When instead of doing work in class, you're watching regional competition live streams.

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

When you stay up all night the night before the competition in a hotel bathroom working on autonomous programming, and, lacking pen and paper and not wanting to disturb the sleeping team members outside the bathroom, use a bar of soap and the bathroom mirror to write out equations and graphs to help with specs. Then you leave it there.

Our programmer did this.

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

When instead of doing work in class you are using Chief Delphi.

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

... your parents have a budget just for regionals.
... you're at robotics more than home
... when you are home, you're working on safety
... you only have friends on the team
... you come up with safety ideas in your dreams
... you eat mostly pizza and drink pop
... you actually convince to all of the teachers about putting posters up in their rooms
... robotics is all you can talk about
... you give all the members on the team animals that match their personalities
... you have good friends on 3+ other teams
... you recruit all of your friends

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

You graduated three years ago, and you're still the most active member on here from your team. :rolleyes:

Corollary:
Your team refers to you as "The CalTran, from Chief Delphi." followed by unnecessary fawning.

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

The first time, I thought it was a fluke. The second time, I realized it had to go on here:

...every time you come home from a competition, going over the railroad tracks in your car is what you imagine it's like for a robot to go over the moat.

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

I do this too. (*cough* doing it now)

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

Totally a victim of both of these.

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

Yep,
Although there is the one random taco on my team:)

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

... you start blogging FRC memes
... you feel like you should yell at a team member who was gone from practice in the halls
... You get uber sensitive about a mistake in the coding
... you actually are helping with load in

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

When you notice that the current post number is your team number....

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

You say the following: "From Thursday to Saturday, I will live in the Stronghold. Do not disturb me." (week 6 regional)
When you think about placing FRC announcements into the school announcements, such as "Driver's meeting on the field in five minutes" and "Opening ceremonies start in 5 minutes. Match no. 1 starts right afterwards. If you are in match no. 1, you are needed at queuing NOW."

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

You're doing a research paper on Dean Kamen, and you start it on his birthday!

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

Lucky. What class is that for?

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

Your home router dies, taking you offline for 24 hours. When you return, there is a CD thread created in response to your post with over 90 responses.

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

You write a literal book on 101 ways to improve your team... the day after you fail to qualify for worlds.

You get visibly angry at the mention of "Battle Bots"

You spend an entire weekend CADDing an outreach robot. During the off season.

You bring up FIRST in every single conversation you have.

Chief Delphi is your homepage.

You seriously consider never getting a job and living in the machine shop to mentor the team forever.

Food becomes synonymous with Pizza, Mountain Dew, and gearbox grease.

You brag to non robotics friends about the speed with which you can rebuild a gearbox.

Most of your vocabulary is incomprehensible mechanic and FIRST jargon.

You buy a Lego Mindstorms set just to design ideas for drivtrains.

When asked to do something at home, you design a robot to do it for you rather than actually doing it.

You feel happier under build season stress than any other time.

You haven't slept since January 8th, and won't until May.

When someone says "cheesecake" you look for a climber mechanism, not a delicious treat.

You wear your team shirt more than any other article of clothing.

You consider quitting your job to spend more time with the team.

You have no friends outside of FIRST.

You know how to assemble a drive train in under 2 hours, but not how to talk to your fellow humans.

You are more used to the sound of power tools than silence.

If someone says the name Dean you seek them out with the unshakable resolve of an assassin to hear what they said about Dean.

you lack a knowledge of major news stories from during build season.

you wish you never had to leave the shop.

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

When you wished so badly that FIRSTwiki still existed that you spent two weekends putting some of its pieces back together.

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

..When you have too many buttons to keep in a large container
.. When you start making the button making process an assembly line
.. When The Blue Alliance takes up 1/2 of your data on your phone

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

.... When reciting numbers aloud, you automatically pair digits up. Two thousand eight hundred eighty-three becomes twenty-eight-eighty-three, and must be delivered in a hoarse shout of support.

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

...When walking around you notice numbers like 254, 118, 1114, 71, 47, etc. and care way more than you should

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

...When you're just as excited for the new year as everyone else, but for a different reason. Kickoff!

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

#thenumberoftimespeopleactuallysay"Oh? You mean like Battle Bots?"

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

When you find you're in section 111 of the stands and jump with glee.
When you can't stop doing the Macarena.
When there is a literal war between glitter or no glitter on your team.
When you actually somewhat know what the robot is doing.
When you've read through the admin and game manual fifty times.
When you're too lazy to read other posts to determine whether or not what you're saying has already been said.

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

... you realize the frc spyder app on your phone is no longer useful but you still don't have the willpower to delete it.

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

This is me right now. I still have the FIRST Championship app on my phone from this year and don't feel like deleting it. I catch myself sometimes opening it up to see if anything has changed or to see when the next conference is even though the season is now over.

... your friends ask you how worlds went but they don't really care about the response you give them... (This has happened to me all week long so far..)

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

When you see a teammate also browsing chief delphi when they should be paying attention in class.

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

when your teammate replies to your post nagging you to pay attention in class when they too are browsing chief delphi.

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

...When Darude Sandstorm is the song your teammates want you to add to the playlist a million times. :rolleyes:

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

...your wardrobe solely consists of team shirts and you don't know what to wear during off season.

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

When Slack replaces all former methods of communication you have ever used solely because your team has awesome custom emoji.

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

Same here.

"So how was worlds? Do the robots fight like Battlebots?"

Then you futilely try to explain Stronghold to them as they exponentially lose interest. I'm just glad they're asking though.

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

They're great for traveling. My eventual goal is to have a tshirt from each general "region" so that I can fully embrace "When in Rome..."

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

...the driver of your team waits over 16 hours to upload an 8k robopromposal video for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk-bh16Jut8

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

You know youre addicted when you create an 8k video asking someone to roboprom instead of studying for AP tests.

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

Aww only 6 minutes apart.

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

When you see its 12:54 and The Chez Cakes comes to mind

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

You know you're addicted to FIRST when you come up with clever scouting comments...

http://i.imgur.com/HCApBAS.jpg?1

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

... you continue to make robotics related videos after the season is over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axyO...ature=youtu.be

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

When you see any clock and the team that's number matches the time comes to mind.

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

when you post on this thread and see that you're page 118 and no one has mention robonauts

edit: and you realize after posting that you are now on page 119

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

When people post on this thread at 2 am.

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

When you finish the sneezon but keep improving the robot anyways.

When you screw up a concert band performance because you see a green light of a camera go off and think it's a vision tracker

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

I can make 3:50. So Hardcore:P spent the last hour re-watching matches from worlds on TBA

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

When you count in team names.

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

--when you forget your safety glasses on your head.
--All 3 and 4 digit numbers are team numbers.
--all of your social media recommendations are for FRC teams.
--you expect to hear the FMS sounds when people announce "30 seconds!" (even during exams)

--"first" autocorrects to "FIRST" on your phone.

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

When you walk into a crowded room and become momentarily worried because you can't find your safety glasses.

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

When you keep wearing side shields even when not at meetings.

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

... When you are in Honduras on a mission trip, and freak out (sort of to yourself, sort of out loud) about seeing a cab... numbered 1114!

Your Pokemon Go username is your CD username and all of your Pokemon are named the team corresponding to their CP.

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

When you put the same amount of effort into trying to figure out your class schedule two weeks early as you did attempting to decode "9328490238209"

You spend a day of your weekend discussing the attributes of pockets in women's clothing on the Internet...

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

You see an xkcd comic that refers to mecanum wheels as omni wheels and it hurts.

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

You then proceed to read all of the comics with numbers corresponding to your friend's teams.

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

You're bored so you add 25 photos to The Blue Alliance.

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

You procrastinate on your homework by researching things for your team, and eventually go down a rabbit hole of "oh what can this thing (which isn't related to what you are originally searching) do" for hours.

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

Second to last one is amazing:) :)

You drive almost 200 miles to volunteer at an offseason event your team isn't at.

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

You read FTC as FIRST Tech Challenge AND the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, before you even think about the Federal Trade Commission.

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

When you had a full day, then an all night laser tag party, then an academic decathlon competition and still go to robotics (basically no sleep for 48 hours)

...when this thread is the only way you stay awake in class


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

...you're seriously considering buying an Xbox just to play a 4 year old FRC simulation game.