-when you con the guy in radio shack to sell you a TI-89 for $5 :D

But dont realize till later

When you figure out the factorials of you and your alliance partners at the last regional.

294!= 441,493,343,801,840,397,553,320,608,083,648,101,04 8,992,282,701,131,630,108,201,418,124,844,366,982, 039,501,253,529,236,685,046,359,765,063,766,360,57 0,256,802,662,195,726,065,605,767,917,400,139,944, 281,333,714,651,208,850,625,514,041,997,
320,661,442,269,105,487,703,509,869,279,815,882,21 1,623,379,153,463,877,703,513,438,335,657,024,889, 647,022,219,073,438,364,862,455,013,047,288,694,20 8,443,355,677,454,770,632,983,639,860,331,885,114, 631,816,879,893,215,611,974,836,968,880,
662,246,506,881,085,720,413,142,741,574,885,782,41 7,807,943,553,804,471,999,371,690,150,830,807,771, 623,371,250,563,274,152,117,483,852,853,123,809,79 5,703,858,987,156,664,712,691,544,065,148,877,328, 689,079,597,788,456,550,400,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000

696!=10,174,613,414,092,246,586,090,739,139,771,52 4,508,760,152,012,260,440,036,517,635,493,940,963, 749,981,443,486,385,554,130,569,598,631,775,108,77 1,942,233,401,507,606,579,621,908,275,305,405,155, 000,158,204,755,428,271,962,028,289,890,760,734,03 8,096,000,626,038,533,615,033,210,469,509,053,265, 482,661,885,685,221,364,599,336,802,536,639,825,90 6,074,969,872,257,888,938,493,249,607,801,457,399, 969,869,258,001,892,733,333,348,049,639,071,565,96 9,056,652,866,201,946,001,580,129,979,610,929,581, 804,732,902,824,267,062,535,804,116,286,837,627,58 2,441,323,326,639,262,638,402,964,051,114,121,884, 353,271,736,271,156,418,897,450,154,462,943,919,49 4,842,468,215,295,307,705,874,520,838,846,003,678, 524,181,492,854,996,212,909,227,838,056,646,005,43 7,256,889,881,094,173,433,973,820,963,843,670,995, 230,757,658,435,632,482,500,419,894,897,475,280,75 3,423,490,503,903,121,511,436,363,585,920,618,258, 745,796,017,648,126,375,418,273,976,496,646,985,88 6,204,229,571,951,254,429,801,627,557,396,115,215, 346,611,005,182,941,896,824,578,426,484,816,344,80 9,256,485,076,461,454,269,102,921,804,976,365,768, 326,980,216,957,285,515,904,500,246,372,846,695,88 1,305,046,240,344,746,517,452,866,958,976,603,815, 822,312,833,137,591,350,119,513,113,888,159,617,99 2,174,370,150,513,254,456,467,878,372,617,023,538, 317,587,008,480,725,951,825,752,499,150,540,739,14 3,087,154,830,706,677,072,531,147,861,070,486,422, 426,299,256,694,515,362,519,232,871,561,814,285,41 3,314,152,191,437,023,368,141,354,652,513,385,157, 324,239,454,687,251,335,949,767,673,233,367,866,98 8,474,275,505,900,799,925,049,781,932,060,520,895, 148,293,441,735,587,918,283,422,505,903,709,479,24 5,027,910,295,208,463,311,102,668,955,069,498,514, 179,745,651,975,245,802,949,110,092,706,416,259,64 7,347,362,828,207,672,331,832,538,001,812,837,548, 238,395,853,518,251,991,323,852,541,502,007,682,77 1,194,325,234,778,181,114,324,907,985,221,783,508, 920,135,955,001,534,555,563,137,264,084,438,070,34 2,862,873,595,854,429,627,246,436,384,777,019,242, 901,384,724,480,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

968!=664,281,859,377,706,235,192,276,234,565,735,2 50,298,568,313,080,526,163,562,226,238,075,190,230 ,264,260,968,184,891,752,376,551,055,458,858,868,8 45,802,771,628,998,265,183,359,657,872,849,110,022 ,955,882,655,189,833,013,229,049,439,318,347,811,6 80,355,299,701,904,679,694,647,881,149,111,960,747 ,002,616,558,499,159,930,034,562,656,909,570,044,3 23,303,107,667,613,126,850,702,236,175,933,392,658 ,287,984,267,795,168,869,866,655,546,086,373,961,1 26,640,643,493,002,192,149,149,589,430,599,885,850 ,470,638,761,667,252,980,522,443,755,822,245,696,2 63,607,872,205,631,669,346,321,628,886,572,549,328 ,231,847,211,559,951,826,546,237,412,596,594,227,3 74,267,165,676,091,028,080,773,281,367,997,049,855 ,638,888,289,693,960,776,920,898,443,319,590,886,5 22,505,141,920,372,578,800,743,515,002,232,457,035 ,837,540,322,152,095,005,614,039,813,604,940,244,7 40,322,154,291,989,440,470,969,758,700,664,661,206 ,389,740,639,685,720,542,157,509,260,553,812,351,7 96,372,638,856,443,137,152,445,775,461,105,022,165 ,213,448,780,995,031,143,624,923,972,342,176,598,0 57,489,490,032,310,361,156,551,978,888,682,608,614 ,105,985,955,471,234,328,654,986,436,508,921,031,9 47,491,856,978,125,270,693,505,979,483,833,975,868 ,938,803,000,183,499,601,990,951,768,261,614,953,9 69,456,203,601,790,994,331,224,932,421,694,290,073 ,628,552,184,232,742,758,034,388,762,816,373,139,4 91,535,489,873,471,003,958,890,525,853,918,831,534 ,178,546,689,330,491,330,536,547,725,283,747,803,4 39,836,444,446,686,636,364,959,567,448,398,503,288 ,367,883,690,540,658,265,662,821,767,308,792,812,0 82,252,570,803,466,521,792,843,597,654,003,420,008 ,122,537,336,884,893,013,129,091,158,834,382,300,6 06,656,480,872,235,523,350,294,508,829,733,670,488 ,820,174,822,559,406,868,193,015,100,879,062,889,6 28,448,581,229,840,345,645,893,314,304,232,228,206 ,458,630,258,163,150,562,583,853,136,112,224,332,4 90,697,072,456,997,229,389,058,751,315,238,439,641 ,541,541,620,827,302,400,266,663,488,380,417,676,3 91,944,451,359,847,595,528,565,068,633,223,383,159 ,791,538,709,891,415,420,262,977,834,308,648,078,4 93,095,741,788,601,534,309,143,636,175,862,955,283 ,418,424,715,831,760,243,609,217,052,270,707,883,5 80,084,081,809,212,733,334,375,045,732,533,594,318 ,319,088,178,984,355,011,010,043,779,685,654,814,6 94,511,560,095,464,396,131,045,602,018,897,308,591 ,795,762,650,046,234,954,923,255,043,382,175,979,1 67,812,948,383,373,984,946,306,663,853,569,834,366 ,905,802,758,443,498,159,140,215,108,265,020,134,3 92,390,695,222,990,876,084,873,772,394,232,715,419 ,443,503,472,974,237,462,776,879,829,648,140,005,8 03,152,750,153,482,561,231,977,493,094,790,737,598 ,781,535,881,102,558,770,598,040,372,737,018,562,1 85,088,875,063,368,629,875,191,668,273,801,474,753 ,544,765,169,528,968,047,055,394,726,165,070,658,2 02,074,377,925,031,548,589,573,668,994,437,364,746 ,283,719,197,598,621,980,176,359,865,919,509,098,1 33,211,316,156,147,859,804,034,333,315,519,977,260 ,946,172,624,443,111,086,625,505,843,823,618,065,1 33,882,891,620,807,626,824,089,600,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

I win

When you look at the above post and begin calculating 159! by hand. And get past a big number (50!) before you realize a nice thing called Mathcad. And you kick yourself.

I also keep on seeing red sweatshirts and thinking they're our rbotics team sweatshirts....

...when your shopping with a team mate for something completly unrelated to robotics and you see an article of clothing and immediatly say.."Wouldnt that be a cool robotics uniform for next year?"

Especially when that article of clothing is an outrageous denim jump suit. BTW, has anyone noticed how sunglasses are becoming increasingly more like safety glasses? It was uncanny how similar the two look. I'm thinking, be a trend setter and just wear my safety glasses all the time!;)

...when you rush to go buy Newsweek because a fellow FIRST team is featured. :)

Heh, our Teacher actually did this all throughout chicago. Even while he was driving...we're like "Why...?"

NOTE: Our saftey glasses were the cool tinted ones. When you first see them you're like "Okay...this is cool...sorta". Then you realize how bad they are when you're trying to see that spot on the robot in the dark UCF pits and can't quite see it, and begin ripping the safety glasses off of your head :p

...when you realize that the approximate atomic mass of Sulfer Tetrafloride is your team number ;)

...when your mad because SPAM got a better compound (Glucose!)

-You think you’ve failed in life because one of the freshmen on the team thought of compact disc when you said CD
-You wake up earlier/later than you need to just so it aligns with one of your favorite FIRST teams(I’m currently waking up 3 minutes earlier than usual in honor of 527, who picked us at SBPLI even though we didn’t work most of Thursday and Friday :D)
-You’re making a fake driver’s license for your MOEstix
-You plan to use it for FIRST related purposes(take that NJ driving laws!)
-You refer to your teams supply of Sterilite containers as your babies
-You cry when you see stupid non-FIRST Frosh using them (they still haven’t returned the bottom of one of them :yikes:!)
-You made up your own results for nationals even though you weren’t there
-You’re still convinced they really happened
-You almost have a heart attack when you see someone wearing a FIRST shirt, or carrying a FURY bag(even though everyone in the school has gotten at least two)

this is true
 

... when all the sr. girls in robotix each take guys from other robotics teams each from different states ;)

...and when the guys get 2gather, they forget about the dates, and start talking about their robots :p

im surprised no one has said this yet, because i know some people are doing it, but

...when you have already started counting down to next years kickoff

Re: this is true
 

The girls joined in on the conversation to, I think...;)

wow
 

-When people dont know who Woodie Flower and//or Dean Kamen is you start freaking out
-When you having a 10 min on FIRST and your team
-Guys: thinking of witty and nerdy pick up lines
-Girls: forget the prince on a white horse, fantasize abotu the nerd in front of his computer
-robotics is anonymously superior

When your with another firstee and when you realize that you just connected something completely random to First and say. "You know your addicted to FIRST when.... " :P

When your social schedule for the week consists of this:

Monday: Have party with 3 friends from your team, and go watch a movie.
Wednesday: Have party with other 2 Rochester teams, followed by a movie with a teammate.
Thursday: Go see a movie with a friend from another team.
All Week: Check CD hourly, Tigerbolt occasionally, and AIM with robotics people all day

when u miss ur last chance to take a pic w/ Dean Kamen, so you take his name tag after he has left, smuggle it under ur shirt out of LSC, and wear it at home for a day pretending ur on a segway... um, ok, i didn't do the last part - :: clear throat::
if i had a way to put it up here I'd show you, but i really got his name tag!
its w/ all my first medels and such
<3
but i really am upset i missed my so close chance to take a picture w/ him

Dean sees you and mutters "Dang it, not this kid again"

When, on your first day back to work at the state attorney's office, you start talking to one of your co-workers who attends the University of Florida. Your other co-workers ask ya how robotic's has been, and he says something about the robotics at UF. Needless to say, no work gets done for another 20-30 minutes and a convo on robotics proceeds, lol. (It's good to be in I.T. ;) )

...when 60 Minutes II shows coverage of you walking across stage last year at Championships, and they focus in when you go to hug Dean and he yells, "You're too hot and SWEATY!"

(For those of you who are going to review the tapes after this, my best friend Shane - 71, 1020 - is the guy that Dean is revolted by. How's that for a FIRST reputation? :) )

when your sister starts calling you and your friends robots.


it's kind of funny

For those of you confused, she's currently in a study abroad program over in Germany for 7 weeks, where they allow her internet one to two times a week.

...and yeah, all I'm saying is I talked to a UF guy, didnt say where I was going ;)

... you find out your new roommates for college, and notice ur box# is the same as ur current team (25!!)... and you know that it's an omen ... even though you have no clue what the heck a box # is for

... when you exclaim while watching The Matrix for the nth time that the room neo walks into in the end is 303 - and you scream out 'PANTHER ROBOTIC' making everyone around you jump w/o a clue of what's going on

when you pass someone in school and they shout "ROBOTS" at you trying to make you cry, instead you think.... "I CAN'T WAIT TILL THE ROBOTICS MEETING TODAY!"

not that that happened to me or anything...:rolleyes:

maybe mentioned before
 

after yrou euthusiasm about robotics you dread the question:

"what do you do in robtoics"

you have two possible answers:

1)"we build robots"
2) 3 horus speech on gracious professionalism

...when you look for a linux kernel revision to compile that contains your team number, e.g. 2.5.38, despite the bugs associated with such early versions.

... when you are at the mall and you see a shirt that says "get lei'd island style" and you automatically think of all the teams at nats asking you if you wanted to be leid be them

...When you've tried to read every one of the responses to this thread. ;)

when you start traveling *without* your team :P

.... when you fall into a state of depression, because the only robotics or FIRST you have is talking to CD friends and reading CD all day long! :(

yes
 

makes me deeply wish that there are more first-ers~!

when you HAVE read all of the responses in this thread

It's Friday night.. you are 18.. and you have your first weekend night off since the Championship.... but beause your life used to evolve around Robotics... now that you have graduated.... there is nothing to do!!!! :(

...when you skip classes that are important for you to pass your exam so you can watch IRI on the web

When you've done that and realize there's nobody left in the original group :-D

....when you have to create a 2nd screenname beacuse the 200 buddy limit has you stuck..

when you don't use AIM but some better client which allows you to store buddies on your computer so you have as many as you want :)

When you try to get this topic back on track before it derails

and when you find yourself dreaming about meeting Dean Kamen and borrowing his Segway

What? it could happen....

I know I already posted this in chit chat, but I can't resist...


....when talking about FIRST gets you 3 free months of AOL.

...when you feel that something has been missing from your life but once again start posting on chiefdelphi after a month of being away and WABAAM your happy again

...you make plans to drive 1000 miles for something robotics related

When you sit on a bus for over 24 hours to go to an Off-Season FIRST competion

When at the competition you can remember everybodys CD pic that they had up last year and what was in the Discription

when, at 02:54, you IM the only FIRST person on your buddy list and say how the time is BCP's team number :D

unfortunately, it never gets to 10:72

cause... well... yeah. =(

...when you have more people on your buddy list involved in FIRST than in any other category
...when you drive 13 hours to go to an off-season competition just to go
...when you own 10 different FIRST related shirts
...when you wear 10 different FIRST related shirts
...when you talk about FIRST wherever you go
...when you spend all your time planning for your next build season
...when you can make a purple monkey relate to a robot and building one.
...when you want to do everything FIRST all the time.

[edit]

...when while driving you notice mile markers and road signs and recognize the team with the same number

("Big Mike": I saw county road 25 and I was happy)
(Me: (passing mile marker 180.9) well. that's dyslexic 1089)

[/edit]

...when you see Tom Green on a segway and wonder if that's puts technology back a notch...

forgive the tangent, but

TOM GREEN RODE A SEGWAY!? AND STAYED ON!? AND BUSH COULDN'T?? LOOK AT THE MAN RUNNING OUR COUNTRY LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!

*steps off soap box*

forgiven.

you're addicted to FIRST when you see this dredged up from the depths of Delphi and you feel the need to reply to it one more time...

...When you've tolerated the MTV music awards or whatever they were and exposed yourself to "the real world" as your non FIRST friends refer to it just because you heard there were Segways at the end.

The worst part is that I actually did that the other day on CNN or something with the I-Bot.

You know you're addicted to FIRST when you spend part of your summer vacation designing the new team website.
You know you're addicted to FIRST when the background of your computer has a robot on it.
You know you're addicted to FIRST when you write your MEAP essay on Dean Kamen. (and yes, I really did)

Yep, Im working on ours too... so far coming along horribly. Im much worse at design than I thought I was, lol

When you even incorporate dates with FIRST team numbers...

Last Thursday was 8/14/03 ...

When the first thought to come across your head on Mission:Space is "I LOVE THIS RIDE. Oh, wait, what's going on on CD... never mind... I LOVE THIS RIDE!"

My devotion is endless.

When your brother's dorm room number is the same as your team number and your first thought is the robotics connection.

..when you become disgruntled, because there are two complexes on campus one is 48 Nittany.. and the other is "42" Nittany.... and you receive notice that you were put in 48 ....
:( would of been a perfect address!

When you watch "A Word Association Here" for 4 days, just so you can snag the 5000th post...

...you have an e-mail folder dedicated to Robotics...


...and another for CD!:ahh:

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:

----------------------------
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
----------------------------


Yikes! :yikes:

- Katie

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

...
 

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 ;)

You know your school is warming to FIRST when they set their fundraiser on the job to raise money for the robotics team.


Backstory: I go to SLUH, a Jesuit institution, and much of the schools cash flow comes from alumni and local business. Last year wasn't an issue because we got the NASA grant, but to get the NASA grant again this year, we need to show 6K of our own funding. When the administration got word of this, the told us not to try to do it ourselves. There reasoning is this: Say we (the robotics team) manages to procure a few thousand dollers from a local business. When the school's guy calls that same business to push for, say, 20K in donations, the business can say "we already donated to your team etc." and the school has lost that valualble source of $$. On the other hand, if the school's guy calls the same business without our having called them, he can say: I need a whole lotta money and lots will goto our robotics team. then the business will say: We will sell our company to our competitors and give you all the proceeds. And everyone is happy.

So we have professionals doing our fundraising. How awesome.

When you know your principal doesn't want to deal with the team anymore, and you know that no teacher wants to mentor the team either, yet you still get a mentor from elesewhere and get[/i] a workspace and are still the most spirited, craziest team at competitions.

With a slogan like "Feel the burn of the spicey mustard" and with a robot that, if I do recall correctly, was made of couch material, how could you NOT be the craziest team at competitions?

...Well...Combbat does get a bit pysched about competition too, but its definetly a close call between the two.

when you are in the process of convincing your parents to let you go to the nationals if your team doesnt qualify... and in return you are giving up a two week trip to india where you have only been once will see people you havent in five years as well as a sweet sixteen birthday party

Yes, Spicy is wooden (stained wood, of course...to be pretty) and has upholstered bumpers. :]

News of a new controller comes out and you get so excited that you can't do anything for the afternoon.

...when you realize this is post 682, and you haven't skipped one reply.

...when thinking 682, you grab your FIRST booklet to look up what team that is.

when your parents are coming up to visit you for the weekend and you're going to try and convince them to take you to the robot rodeo in Orlando... they have a car, i need a ride... ultimately i'll be spending time with them while doing something i want to do...

::crosses fingers and hopes her parents are in a good mood::

...when u move out of ur house and and ur dad takes ur old nonfunctional computer and starts fiddling w/ it (replacing drives... chips ... boards) b/c there is no one else in the house is being so mechanical

... when u move out away from ur beloved team and ur mother still wants to sell the bright Hawaiian shirts for your team; becuase the people she works with are so addicted to them (?!)

ok, so that 'splains y my parents are addicted...

When to help keep the team going (due to lack of teacher involvement) you volunteer to be one of the adults in charge of the room and have to go through a security check which involves a TB test (needles, yuck!) and fingerprinting (and getting lost trying to find the fingerprinting place, sigh) and then, after you watch the room as the only adult (well there was one engineer there who shall remain nameless who is absolutely horrible at keeping order) in the room and you find out just how bratty the kids can be when they write rude and obscene things on the dry erase board, swing chairs at each other, and you catch one of the new kids getting ready to shove a paper clip into a wall socket while two of the returning members look on laughing... all this, and yet it's still not enough to make you run screaming in the opposite direction...

Heidi

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addiction or stupidity?

when your big dilemma in life is related to FIRST

... when ur talking to this guy who's trying to mak it w/ u w/ all the perfect lines and u start talking about robotix, and he says that he can build robots and ur reply is 'o can u? well, now u've got me aroused'

:p ;) :yikes:

haha... gotta remember that for future use! :p

... when you are so desperate to get to a Regional in 2004.... instead of going to one about an hour and a half from school, I'm gonna travel 8 hours to one.. so I can stay overnight, and go more than one day!!!

When you use a quote from the top of the CD page in class in a discussion of Plato's republic. (Thanks Andy Baker!):)

when you bring in an entire page of chief delphi replys to your science teacher, and are able to explain them all!

...when you walk into a restaurant and say "ooh, i want one of THOSE shirts"

...and then ask for one

...when you realize you should post about your addiction while sitting at the dinner table in said restaurant.

When someone awesome sends you a U.S. FIRST shirt from 1995, and you are jumping up and down your dorm hallway with excitement. :)

...when every other team is asking if you have extras of your own team t-shirts.

you no ur addicted to first when
 

you call your boyfriend sprocket man:D :D ~luv yas~

the local pizza shop has premade pizzas for your nightly mtgs

you find yourself in the middle of a biolgoy midterm, arguing with yourself wether about a new chassis and drive train deisn is worth while

you scream in your sleep some incohent cry about the robot losing

When you skip a mandatory college choir rehearsal (which is doubly bad 'cuz 1 - you could get kicked out of choir and 2- you're the section leader and it sets a really bad example) to help set up for Final Bin Bash the next day...and you're doing this all while dressed in drag because right after you have to run to a costume contest and you have no time to change in between.

Yeah...I got some strange looks from students for that one.

when you beg the above poster for a ride to Final Bin Bash because you don't want to walk the 5 miles to the competition and she has to be there anyway.

When u ask ur firends dad to pull over his new Audi so u can get a picture of the mileage being ur team number.

...When you wake up at 3am to get to the robot rodeo

...When you already know who your alliance partner will be if you get to choose in the first round of seeding at robot rodeo (108 and 180 just seem to work well together ;) ) before you even leave that morning

...When you're running a local competition remotley by phone because your at robot rodeo.

when when someone asks you what you would do with a million dollars, you automatically reply without even thinking : use it for FIRST somehow

Whatsup Matt?
Long time no see
Why dont you tell them what your old team is