When your at an off roading compitition, and say "my robot can do that" and all the people in theyre cars looks mad at the thought of a little robot being able to traverse a steeper hill then theyre car.

When the breakdown of your computer folders is as such:

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FIRST

FIRST Magazine
...........Meeting Logs

FLL
........... 2001
........... 2002
........... 2003
........... 2004

Projects

Kaukauna FIRST
........... Sponsorship Letters
........... How to start a team info

Letters
........... 2001
................ To mentors
........... 2002
................ To mentors
........... 2003
................ To mentors
................ To students

NEW Apple Corps
........... Apparel
........... Banquet
................ Certificates
........... Carwash
........... Logo
........... Newsletter
................ 2002
................ 2003
........... Plaques
........... Programming
................ Programs
........... Other
................ Phone lists
........... BOM
................ 2001
................ 2002
................ 2003

Pictures
........... DJ
........... IRI
................ 2002
................ 2003
........... MMR
................ 2001
................ 2002
................ 2003
........... NAC
................ 2001
................ 2002
................ 2003
........... New Year's
........... Other
........... Ricky
........... Team Logo

State Fair

Transmission

WI FIRST teams
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Yikes! :yikes:

- Katie

....when you ask your dad for a hydraulic press for christmas and you're not joking.

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When you keep wondering about why your car has a steering wheel intead of joysticks.....

When the sport totaly consumes your life to the point where you sell your soul to the elder gods to learn next years game

when all your notes from classes are written in programming language

When you go to campus, find out class is canceled... grab your driving partner, and go back to your apartment to watch your old matches together.

When you are willing to be at school at 5:30AM on a Saturday to go to a competition.

when you offer to chaperone a FIRST Lego League team just for a ride to an off-season competition

You go through 45 pages of replies to this question....

You spend a whole week working on designing buttons for your team instead of writing a very important paper due in your English class...that you end up working on for only a halfhour the night before it's due because you spent so much time working on buttons for which you needed two computers to completely get done.

when your binders are covered in pictures that have all have some relation to FIRST (ie. FIRST logo..robots...team logos..people from FIRST)

.When you beg a friend, a graduate of a FIRST team to take you to her meeting, even though you were never on her team.

.When you spend all Wednesday night updating the website to prepare for the 2003-2004 season and miss your grad fellow meeting.

.When you spend more time on chiefdelphi than you do doing your homework.

when 99% of the time, you're talking online to people from FIRST (on or off your buddylist) and hardly ever (sometimes never) talk to the other 103 people on your buddy list.

...When you along with two other submanagers of your team go "hop-ing" (Skipping quickly while giving small leaps and bounds throughout) through the multimedia lab to get to the robotics lab, and the multimedia teacher says to you on the way though "Oh, the C&C machines are here?"

...When you've now got three of the school's teachers coming to the meetings (Robotics teacher, Programming Teacher, and Physics Teacher)

...When you keep asking your magnet coordinator* for things and increasing in the amount of money you spend with it.
"Can we have 500 dollars at Home Depot to spend on parts?...We can?...Can I get a drill press?....I can?...Can we buy a lathe?....but Ely got one!....YAY....Can we get it with a C&C attachement?"


You know you your SCHOOL's addicted to FIRST when...
...It agrees to buy whatever you ask for if it relates to robotics
...It's currently in the process of buying a segway
...It kicks the yearbook class/committee out of their room because that room is more suitable for a machine shop.



*Magnet Coordinator: Broward County schools created a magnet program system, in which certain schools are deemed to have specialties. Dillard High School has both the Performing arts magnet and the Emerging Computer Technology Magnet. So, our school, in theory, gets all of the high technology students from around the third largest school district in the country. Each magnet program has a coordinator, in charge of running that program from all ends. Ours is amazing, and great at her job. Thus, we get everything that we're allowed to, and some things we're not ;)