Math has become a lot more fun.. I'll see a number that correlates to a team number that I know, and I'll stop and stare at it for 5 min ;)

... When you're obbsessed with another team's robot. (SPARKY- love ya sparks!! :p ) and you plot out different ways of kidnapping it and eloping to it.... when you take pictures of it every time that you walk past it at a regional, and some of your teammates have to contrain you from taking any more... when you wear the wristband that they handed out for 3 weeks after the competition, and cutting it off was a very hard decision to make ;) (tons of people commented on it.. one person asked me if sparky was my name!)

when you come back from a day of working at the BAE regional and you thought it was the best day ever because you managed to get ean Kamen's and Woodie Flowers's autographs

almost all of your friends never heard of the above mentioned people, but you dont care


when one of the most important things you look for in a college is if they have a FIRST team


when 6 out of the 8 colleges you want to apply to have a robotics team

when you start thinking only about all the girls on the other teams and you could go on dates with them all :rolleyes:

-You get really mad and offended whenever someone asks if this robot was in any way like a battlebot :mad:

when any number less than 1300 or so (how many teams are there? i'm not exactly sure) makes u remember of falling boxes

So you were the one we got the restraining order for? ;) :p j/k

You know your addicted to FIRST when you would rather go to Deans house than the Playboy Mansion.

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...When ur parents forget wut u look like
...when its 2 a.m. and a senior is doing a solo rendition of the ymca
...when ur excuse 4 every mistake out side of botics is "give me a break im having a brain fart"
...When ur parents goto u 4 technical advice
...When sleep is a foriegn concept
... when this is a direct from 1 of ur freshman "FRESHMAN MAY NOT BE ELECTROCUTED, DUCT TAPED OR STUFFED IN THE BINS (REFERENCE: NO MIDGET STICKER)"
...when u need to listen to music so u develop the dj in a bag (a set of batt powered compy speakers and a cd player in a back pack) to bring to ur compitions
...when ur idea of sleep is the nap u got in 8th period
...when ur up from 6 a.m. jan. 4 till 3p.m. jan.6 plotting ideas u have 4 the design of the bot
...when terms like "argh,yep,yesum,and okies " become common language
...when all ur teachers know ur in botics and give u a break on ur work load
...when the mention of battle bots makes u want to throw something

You are, however, allowed to release updates to the truth, right? ;)

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6th and 7th period 4 me.

When you decide that you would rather attend the nats over ISEF (Intel International Science and Engineering Fair) if you had to chose between them

OK, after today's practice rounds on Rutgers, I left with my brother who goes to there, and I went with him to his orgo class (organic chem.)
and they had a few notes and then a quiz....
I took the notes...
and then during the quiz, i drew pictures of our robot
from different angles... And different poses...
I almost drew a heart around it...

man, I'm pathetic

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*falls asleep in school library at the computer... <-- my nap :D

--You've spent more than 3 nights in a row at your school
--You keep a weeks worth of clothes in your van for the above mentioned reason
--You have a key to the showers in the gym
--you know that washing your hands wont help, so you eat the pizza anyway
--The table serves as a perfectly good plate
--You actually drive a BOXTRUCK to school so you can move your robot and tools to the shipping place
--You continue to drive the boxtruck "just because its fun!"
--You're sponsor pulls you out of government every day to discuss a new robot design idea
--You instinctivly show up to the workshop even after ship date
--You run after the FedEx truck to get your crate back when you hear about the ship date delay
--You notice there is too much blood in your caffeine stream
--You have seriously considered a caffeine IV drip
--You drew blueprints for a pnuematic can crusher
--After ship date, you think of things you can do to your cart to waste time
--You actually spend time putting LEDs on your cart (strobes are next)

when you find yourself an "honorary member" of quite a few teams... and that's only after one regional! :D

when you use remark that an action someone took in laserquest wasn't gracious professionalism

when you get all excited when that little title under your CD username goes from "junior member" to"frequent contributor"

when the phrase "check mail" includes checkingout every thread on the CD portal

when your team is inactive you come up with a challenge that the team has to build a robot for (they have to build a bot that opens a door) because you absolutely have to build some sort of robot