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... you're sitting at a laptop plugged into a hotel "Business Center" (direct quote) making flyers to hand out to other team's as a selling thingie. Actually, the flyers are beging printed out now on the hotel's printer (meaning free ink and paper) :). So, because I'm bored, i decided to steel the internet connection that went to the destop here and am on cd half asleap dictating evenything i'm saying to another team member who's making spelling corrections with whiteout on some of the version 1 flyers.
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...your up at 2:00am in the morning working on a autonomous program the day before your first Regional competition, with a total of 4 hours of sleep from the night before.
...you dream about driving your teams robot through a field of stacked boxes! |
You know you're addicted to FIRST when it's 2AM week and a half from Nats, and you're profiling bots!
Yeah! Caffeine Rocks! WOO HOO! (fallsoff chair spasming) Dah, been profiling and watching silicon valley live webcast for past 10 hours.... |
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When you take a year off between high school and college so you can still work with the team (also so you can go to Olin)
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When you spend hours upon hours looking to hitch a ride to Nats because your team can't afford to go. (Still haven't found one)
When you spend 5 hours of the night perfecting the newest logo for your team because last years was so terrible ("RoboDawgs - 845 'We Byte'" We Byte? What's wrong witht his picture?). And Then when they don't use the revised logo on the web page you get mad and find the time to slip it in with out anyone noticing. <_< >_> When you almost burst into tears because you finish the animation right after its due date. When you realize that you would rather be at a FIRST competition then at your own home with your family. When you have watched every single webcast that has been shown- for your own gratification. When you can't stand the fact that you have to wait an entire year to start building again. |
For the only ones that can truely say they are addicts, because they keep doing it after HS...
You have an AIM away message specifically saved for each phase of the 6 week deadline. You are on a first name basis with one of your professors because she is also the advisor for the college students on the robotics team. You go to spring break, and go to a robotics competition with your old team You plan to fly back to your college early during winter break so you can help out in the strategy phase of the competition. |
Even though your future college fights to remain the only #1 seed in the NCAA men's bracket you refresh the CD site as you watch looking for news about nationals.
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When you're in a hotel room the night before the Saturday competition day with a group of eight talking about robotics for 5 hours straight until 3 in the morning. We were seriously having a "girl talk" about robotics... lol.
When frustration kicks in due to the robot, you chew on a zip tie. When other teams come by the pit to ask about the robot, you don't notice that you have said zip tie in your mouth. When members of your team pester the DJ into playing the Chicken Dance at competition. When you hear the chicken dance, you automatically know your team is out there on the field and run off to join them. When you say that you're going to sleep in the car on the way home from a competition because you're tired and yet you stay awake talking about robotics with the other people in your car. When your choice of college all depends on whether or not your receive one of the scholarships offered through FIRST. When graduating becomes really hard because you might be going out of state and will be away from your team. When you say "Oh well, I'll be joining another team though." and yet think that it's not going to be the same on another team. |
Strange ... about the same time (2/14) we started coming up with our own list entitled "You know you're a FIRST student when:"
I don't recall all of them, most of which involved sleep (or lack thereof), but some of the more memorable ones were: - The bags under your eyes are packed for Houston - You got three hours of sleep ... this week - You ask for a stripper and no one thinks twice - "Male" and "Female" refer to electrical connections - You come home early and your wife calls the cops - You've broken lexan - You would have nightmares about competition, ... if you ever slept! - You cut EVERYthing (paper, sandwiches, etc.) with a bandsaw HEY 811 -- WHAT ELSE AM I MISSING? |
... When, on the way home from a competition, you hear four boys yelling, "No, I want to program!!!! It's my turn!" while fighting over a laptop. (I'm not joking!)
... When you tell your parents, "I was talking to ____ from _____ online today -" and they cut you off by saying, "What team are they on?" ... When you plan your family's summer vacations around which FIRSTer from different states you are going to get to see! :) - Katie |
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When you try and get the pit announcer to ask the pit area if anyone has a spare flux capacitor you could borrow....
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been there done that. ...when either you or someone you know has ghetto-rigged 4 hotel-room tvs to accommodate all of your movie, computer, and gaming paraphanalia all in the space of about a half hour. ...when you laugh to think how stupid the hotel people are, because they actually believe that their little "security devices" are going to keep people from hooking stuff up to the tv. ...when the Home Interiors displayer doing a sale at your fundraiser is upset that she forgot her zip ties, and you ask her what size and color she would like. ...when wire cutters keep mysteriously appearing in your back pocket, and you're not at all surprised. ...when the only thing more important to you than reading and posting on CD is actually going to a robotics meeting or competition. which is where I am going now. to a meeting. more later. |
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'how do you know all this boys online?! are you going in those chat rooms again, you know what horrible stuff happens...."lecture lecture, then i have to interject and say 'they're FIRST boys' and then they just pause and walk away :yikes: |
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Cokeley doubles up the chaperones this season...... |
...when you are subscribed to every thread you post in and every day when you check your mail, there is about 20 e-mails from CD alone. Then, you go back to those threads and post in them once again and so on and so on and so on.
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When you're kneeling on the ground rummaging through the most random box in the world looking for some certain screws, and you hear someone say your name. And you look up and the person says "Hey, it's Erica, we talked online." And you're so excited to meet someone from CD you feel like you've met someone famous, yet you talk with her as if you've known her forever. And better yet, she's from one of the teams you're good friends with. :D
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...when you hear "You've Got Mail" every second with friends, robotics memebers, etc coming in and out of aol all while you're trying to post something on CD.
...when you do all of your tests and quizzes before Nationals to ensure you will get a good grade so you don't have to worry about it later. ...when you gather all of your homework to bring with you to Nationals. |
It's like 2 in the morning and you can't sleep...and the only thing you can think of is..."I know I put that roll of duct tape somewhere...where is it? I'm sure the bot is going to break at some time and no tape, electrical or scotch...is going to save it...":p
NEW: Drawing blue, red, and white shapes is the only thing you can think of when 5th hour gets boring... |
When you refer to important dates dealing w/ school (yes, i would be referring to spring break/ any other holiday) in terms of FIRST competitions/deadlines, yes yes, this was already said, i just felt like repeating it b/c it is o so a good way to tell.
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when you wear your safety goggles while baking, but the thought of oven mitts doesn't even cross your mind
~when you go tell college kids who don't even know you to come to the competition because it's on their campus (and they come) ~when you are willing to cook for your team mates simply because they ask ... which reminds me, chocolate chocolate chip brownies at RU or cake?? haha ~when you can threaten your advisers with stories you know about them....... :p |
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When while walking to 30th street station in Philadelphia, you hand out half the team's buttons to random people, inviting them all to come see the team's robot compete, and they actually show up on Saturday...
When driving through Center City Philadelphia you accidentally beep your horn to the tune of your team's cheer... When going to Pat's Steaks, no not Geno's, you hand the lady buttons to hand out to the next three shifts, and she does it, asking for more so that they can wear them the entire next day... Did anyone from other teams see this?? |
when you confuse the robot for your girlfriend
when you drive a car and you find that there aren't any joysticks when you send your team photographer to take pictures of girls on other teams :D when hallucinations of robots start to appear everywhere |
when you miss robotics for robotics
Yep, i was volenteering in Silicon Valley instead of going to the team meeting! Kevin Antaki Team 481 IM Me: xpalendocious |
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Missing robotics for robotics? wow...never thought that could happen...I guess I was wrong...:p |
when you spend 2 weeks learning how to swing dance so you can show up your mentors at a robotics competition ;)
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addicted to FIRST when...
-you talk about robotics online until the wee hours of the morning -your safety glasses have become permanently attached to your head -you dream of falling boxes -you yell out LIL MOJO whenever you see a snowblower Yeah im sure i repeated some but oh well...... |
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-you see your team number everywhere -you cnat go any where with out thinking of robots -when you meet a girl she is probably on anothr robotics team |
The worst nightmare you've ever had was the one about missing the bus to a Competition.
When you talk to other team members, and that's the worst nightmare THEY'VE had as well.... |
- when your bf says he loves you almost as much as he loves the robot
- when you consider it a compliment - when you're going to prom with a FIRSTer - when you decide to talk of Chief Delphi instead of shopping for a prom dress - when your idea of a perfect date involves working in the shop on the robot...with or without your bf - when you're convinced someone on your team is involved in a serious relationship with the bot - when you're jealous of that person - when you have a notebook filled with animation ideas...2 days after you started brainstorming them - when the animation team thinks its perfectly natural to be woken up at 2 in the morning by a phone call from you about a new idea - when the animation team doesn't need to be woken up at 2 in the morning by a phone call from you about a new idea because they're all awake and temporarily living at your house - when a coke and a snickers or a mountain dew and a bag of skittles is a perfectly acceptable meal - when people start to talk to you in PBasic because you always respond in it - when, on one of the few days you're actually in science, your teacher puts on an educational video with Woody in it - when you start hyperventilating when you see his bowtie - when the rest of the class (mostly non-FIRSTers) knows why you're hyperventilating |
...when you find out that 2 people from your own school are on Truck Town Thunder's Team.
...when you have a team party before every regional and national competition. ...when you're in your least favorite class and wish that you were doing something robotics related. ...when you do your math problems you see your team number as the answer. |
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May it never happen in real life. ...When you're taking your high school's Exit Exam and all you can think about is Robotics and the Girl from that other team. ...When you're at a build meating, and you go take a walk around your school to clear your head, but you really take a few steps and turn around to get back to work. ...When you truly believe you'll get picked for the finals, don't, forget about it, and start thinking about next year. ...When some one asks you what sport you play you answer 'I build Robots.' ...When some one tells you robotics isn't a sport and you spend 2 hours explaining how it is very much a sport. ...When you give in and say 'And you call Golf a sport?!' or 'Well Chess is a sort of the mind right? So is Robotics- but with much more application and other skills are needed.' ...When you post on Chief Delphi at least once a day every day since you've signed up. (I average quite a bit more then one a day. :) ) ...When the first thing you do when you get home from school is connect to the internet to check Chief Delphi's Forums. -'w00t!' |
-When you sit for 10 minutes thinking of a way to know when you're addicted to FIRST...and can't think of any...but you post anyway.
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- when you can't deal with work and robotics at the same time, so you take a two and a half month extended leave of absence from work so you can continue working with the robot. - when everyone in your family, including your eight year old brother, knows what FIRST is and can explain the competition from this year. - when you have given up washing your hands before you eat, because you realize that grease, dirt, and Al chips only add flavor. |
When you manage to convince several girls (not being one myself) that machine oil and aluminum shavings make a much nicer hand lotion than any of the sparkly stuff they buy.
When you see an add for an autonomous vacum cleaner, and tell your mom you could build it. You sit and think for 30 min, and have the whole thing planned in your head, including the cat scaring device. -S cubed |
- when your primary language is PBASIC.
- when your AIM signname involves the words 'Dean Kamen is God'. - when you have a sign in your frontyard that reads, "Vote Dean Kamen for President!" - when you actually do write in Dean Kamen when voting for President. - when you swear upon the FIRST manual to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth... and suddenly nobody doubts what you are saying. |
When you're driving down the highway and the mile marker you pass brings to mind your favorite bot from the last competition...
"Ooh... 343. Now there was a good design." this actually happened on the way home from Peachtree =-] |
When you see Bus Route 201 in Evanston, IL and get a sudden urge to hop out of the car and take a picture (it was raining, though... :mad: )
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~When the hotel you are staying at is 5201 and, along with the bus route 201, you think it is a good omen
~When you are staring at a math test and running out of time to do it, and the only thing you can think of when the angle is 111 degrees is "Wildstang has a good robot" |
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:
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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 |
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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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--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 |
...when you're anxious to get home to use either 3dsmax, C++, or play games.
...when right away when you get home you get online to talk to friends, and post messages on CD. |
when you insist on reading all new posts to your subscribed threads (every thread you've posted on) no matter how badly you have to go to the bathroom.... and now that im done with that....
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you start to think that wearing pink buttons is the ultimate fashion accessory
when you meet a new person at school, you almost immediately give him a button for being a rookie you wonder if your new gameboy can charge faster with the FIRST battery charger seeing any motorized two wheel device makes you want to lean back and forth |
- when you randomly shout out "Let's all go nuts! " in the middle of class, and at least four other people have heard it enough times to respond by shouting, "Robots! Robots! "
- when you just don't feel that sense of being alive unless you are doing something FIRST related. - when your idea of a good time involves: a) sitting in front of a computer for hours on end typing in an obscure language; b) getting permanent grease stains and a slight silver tinge to your skin after spending days at a time in a machine shop building something that may not even function; c) taking apart and reassembling a transmition that took forever to build the first time around. |
when you are the ONLY person left on CD.... much like i am at this very moment...:(
i have nothing else to do... so i'll think i'll just sit here and twiddle my thumbs and hum dum de dum de dum |
when the "Robotics" section on your buddy list is slowly growing larger than the "School Friends" section. :D
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When you don't know whether to put your boyfriend in the "friends" or "1201307 PPLZ!!1" category. lol.
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... When you spend more time in front of your computer hitting F5 on the Match Results page than you do getting ready for prom.
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When you're suprised you've only posted 7 times in this thread...
Oh! Oh! Now it's 8!! :rolleyes: :p |
I've begun too see everyone in our bright orange print hawiian shirts everytime i close my eyes
went to a show, closed my eyes for a moment, saw everyone on stage w/ the orange garb on went to IHOP , closed my eyes for a moment, saw the waiters with the orange garb on.... is this a bad thing? |
...after you've already lost your voice more than 3 times, and can only talk in an extremely scratchy and coarse voice, you refuse to stop screaming cheers for your team or talking about your robot.
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...when you meet the coolest girl in the world at a FIRST competition and dont mind the fact that she lives a couple of states away.
...when you realize that you wont be going to Nationals and might have to wait a year before seeing that girl again. ...when it's ok because you care about her so much. Hmm. ;) |
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...you cheer because your robot busted some Tupperware. :D
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.. .you set this site as your home page.
Or was that already posted? I kinda lost track of my time and just realized I used to go here OOPS!!!! :D Great to be back :) |
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When you spend your entire weekends fo rthe past 3 weeks trying to find a teacher to watch the Team during Nats so you can go
When you convince the entire team to wear their team jerseys to school everyday during Nationals in memory of what could have been (when everyone says NO). When on you aol autoresponse you mention "To Archimdes for what could have been" and " Team 521 MIA, you will not be forgotten" When you go around school mumbling something about "You may go to NATS but I go to youth conference" |
- when the highlight of your day is getting home after school, not because school is finally over, but because you have more time to spend on DC replying to your favorite threads.
- when you look forward to the four minute break between fourth and fifth hours only slightly less, because you know you will walk past a girl that reminds you of that super hot chick you saw at Regionals |
...when CD doesn't mean compact disc...
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... when you stop refering to team numbers and instead know sponsors, schools, etc.
See how many of these you can name: Baxter Chief Delphi (no peeking - haha! ;) ) Beatty Kingman Wildstang TechnoKats Westside Boiler Invasion Las Guerillas Cheesy Poofs TRW RoboDawgs Juggernauts ComBBAT Killer Bees HotBot Truck Town Thunder Holland Christian NEW Apple Corps Full Metal Jackets The Feds RAGE Thunder Chickens CyberBlue ...just to name a few from the top of my head. If you can get every one of those without looking them up - consider yourself addicted! |
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...when it's the two days before her team leaves, and you smile wish her luck and act happy when you can't stand that you can't go with her. ...when you try try try and try to make plans for a road trip this summer to her state. And the odds start to look better for you! |
When your away message reads "I'M GONNA MEET (insert person from CD here)!!!!!!!!!"
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--you finally make it to page 27
--you fear nationals only because you know its your senior year and you will be leaving your team --you then remember "ITS NATIONALS" and decide to make it the best ever --you still have the old pink sticker Operator Badge from your freshman year stuck to your wall --when you're making CAT-5E patch cables and you have flashbacks to wiring the robot --you know what CAT-5E patch cables are (and how to properly use them in the lab) --when you decide to make a rotating trophy case from lexan, 80/20, and a chipewa/fisherprice piggy back --you had serious thoughts about building a small tank with a 6 chipewa drive system --you spend time to figure out the torque of 6 chipewa motors |
you start asking people for the stickers that they put on the side of the bins so you can have your own authentic FIRST bin :D
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When you sign up for your cell phone you request that it has your team number or somethign close to it. 2418
When you notice your team number or other team numbers in everyday things like license plates and addressss going thourout your day. When you notice that an important date in your life has your team number in it. 10/18/02 |
...when it's 5:00 in the morning and you leave your house at 6:45 or so to get to the airport.
...when you're going to miss your computer because you have no labtop to bring with you to Houston. ...when you're going to be stuck doing your math homework in Houston. |
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-you're stuck in college, haven't been on the team in 3 years...watch your team at the lonestar regional on webcast...when they get picked for alliance...you run and scream around you room...while your roommates sit there, and are like, "What the hell are you doing?"
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