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

... people stop bother asking where they can find you, because the answer is always "the robotics room"

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

You know that you're Passionate about FIRST when:
(All of which I've seen from one or more of the college advisors on Team 461)

1. You come back from Winter vacation early to prepare for the kickoff.
2. You make a choice after your sophomore year that you'd be best off spending at extra year at college (and paying the out of state tuition) so that you can lighten your load and be more accessible FIRST mentor.
3. You spend time in professors office hours getting ahead on material so that you can apply it to a design.
4. You realize that your 21st birthday will occur during the last week of the build season this year, and it doesn't annoy or bother you.
5. When you put into your weekly schedule two all-nighters per week.
6. You take as a loss some future job opportunities by taking a .4 or .5 lower GPA than you're capable of in hopes that you're practical design and leadership experience will shimmer in your resume brighter than the magic number.

Matt

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

hehe...

...when you get yelled at school for stealing bandwidth while trying to load some who-am-i pics...

...when you check cd.pubarso.com every 20 mins to see if Brandon had updated it, even though its like 4am...

...When the school board is confused at where all the reams of paper went, cause you had to print up some rule books...

...when your english teacher yells at you cause you capitalize the word FIRST everytime you write it, even when its not robotics related...

...when you talk to sarah about how CD doesnt feel the same with out the colors being orange and black, and listen to each other for an hour on why we want our who-am-i pics back...

Thats all for now
~Mike

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

......when you read through all fifty pages of these (in one sitting, mind) and STILL have something to write....

......when you note a lack of teachers to continue the team, go to a local college and become a mentor for the team, schedule your classes so that you can be available seven days a week for robotics......and spend the first day of your winter break at said school planning robotics........

......when you design your team's shirt with 15000 digits of pi on it, because your team number appears three times in those digits......

......when you realize that you've been staring at CD for hours and haven't gotten up - or eaten - or anything else - and it isn't even the build season yet.....

......when you make up an AIM screen name with both your robot name AND number in it.....and use it.......

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

-When you pass up a chance to go to Italy with your school because you wouldn't be able to go to Nationals.

-When you get in trouble in class for turning around every 5 minutes to the fellow team member behind you when you see a 3/4 digit number to ask...wait what team is that??

-When you completley ignore a review for finals to read this entire list.

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

... when you are on chiefdelphi... trying to find out stuff about the 2004 game... when you suppose to be doing german worksheets.....

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

.. when you come up with an extremely awesome response to this thread that no one has said before and then when you come home to post it you cant remember and you are disappointed with yourself

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

...when you schedule all your classes so you have Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons off and can do FIRST stuff.

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

... when you come back home after all day and start working on the bot that you are making...

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

when you daily ask your boyfriend, sprocketman, to check his palm pilot to check the days left until kickoff (31 days) :ahh:

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

...when you're not surprised to read Jeff Waegelin's response to this thread, and then realize that wait, you've done similar as well

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

Everytime someone comes out with a 'What's Next Year's Game' topic, I can create an equallly odd, interesting, and totally different game for each thread.

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

There's a possibility it's been said and I've missed it (this thread is huge), but...

-When you actually understand this thread and laugh at it. :D

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

Worse yet, when you schedule your classes so you have Tuesday and Thursday off COMPLETELY! :ahh:

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

... when you are very happy about just coming to the class that you will be able to play with the transmission....