When you say that your going home and you head to FIRST

Class
 

After an allnighter, you still manage to drag yourself to your "intro to engineering design" class, but find yourself reading chief delphi...

Bagh... who needs IED anyway... I have FIRST! :rolleyes:

When you have a class with nothing to do and you say you will do your homework but go to ChiefDelphi instead.

when you read all of this, and can still think of more

when the majority of your college essays and scholarship applications are all about FIRST

not to mention your laws of life essay written in entirety on robotics.... and your last line reading "FIRST: not just robotics, but a way of life. And I have chosen it as MY way of life"

When you see 191st street and remember 5 seconds in delta_t:ahh:

When your 1st question on 2-21 is
"I wonderer what next years game is??"

-You work 9 hours on your robot on valentines day.
-You have to check the delphi forums every day otherwise you go crazy.
-You work 32 hours on your robot in 4 days.
-You realize that you don't know what your going to do until April.
-You dream about robots.
-You've explained the FIRST competition so many times to your friends that your tempted to just make a pamphlet to give them.
-You see any kind of "battle bot competition on tv", and you cringe when the robot gets dropped in a pit or otherwise destroyed
-You been asked it FIRST is like battlebots so many times that you've lost count
-You begin to think about next years FIRST competition before this year's is even over

I beat you! 42 hours in 4 days! (Friday through Monday)

~ When you sit and read 8 pages of you know you're addicted to first when....
~ When you can relate to 90% of the aforementioned thread
~ When you purposely break thing just so you have something to machine.
~ when you respond to you know you're addicted to first when.

- when the robot goes crazy in autonomous mode, runs over a freshman (anybody less than a senior), and you yell at them for almost hurting the bot as they scramble to get out from underneath.

- When you use old robots as weapons

- If you find the words "charfe", "toonces", or "workish" funny

- ^ If you think other people understand your inside jokes

---When you wonder what it would be like to have a van door motor attached to your ears so you could finally wiggle the little suckers...
---When you can't wait to go to Texas (:-P)
---When you actually get offended that other people have seen your team's animation before you (and they're not even on the team!!!!)

you know you're addicted to FIRST when..
 

- When you fall asleep programming, and when you wake up you find the robot running in circles in auton_mode dragging the laptop by the serial cable (this Saturday night).

- When you yell at a Victor 884 that won't recalibrate.

- When your VP yells at you every day for skipping classes, and you still do it every day.

- When you begin to walk around the classroom in "auton_mode".

- When the only websites in IE History are usfirst, CD, firstcanadianredional.org, and sinclairsprockets.com

- When you havent played Counter-Strike for 2 months