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

...When you're walking around, see a random number, and can determine which FIRST team has that number.

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

You have the Kickoff, Game animation, and the Transmission/Chassis videos on your iPod.

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

When your friends all leave you because you are so exhausted after building.

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

When you are ALREADY breaking down the teams registered for the championship into divisions.... :o

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

...you can find a way to twist anything robotics related and make it sexual :P

:]

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

you stay up late to browse the McMaster-Carr catalog.

(That company is so cool, they have almost EVERY PART IMAGINABLE)

-Dylan 1722

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

- if you go crazy when you leave your thumb drive at home.
- if you more of your team than your family in the past four weeks.
- if you can remember every detail of your robot, but have no clue where your mom is
when you get home.
- if you decide it is just easier to stay at school for the night than go home.

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

If you have the choice between closing a mid-term essay that hasn't been saved or a Max presentation that was saved 5 minutes ago... and you close the essay :)

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

If it's 3am, you really should be sleeping or doing homework, yet you check on ChiefDelphi for the latest news first.

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

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

When you have read all 1300 posts above you in a Chit-Chat thread.

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

Just finished :P

-- When your teachers wonder why you are in class
-- When physics homework suddenly seems a fun distraction

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

- when your mentors say "hey, no meeting Tuesday and Thursday, you kids need a break" you beg them for just one more meeting this week. :ahh:

- when one of the mentors is your 1st period teacher, and every day that week before even saying hi to them, you ask them "Can we please have a meeting today"

- when you finally (almost) accept the fact that there is no meeting that night, you sign on and the only people on line are those from your team

- when your room actually gets cleaned because of the lack of meetings

- when you've posted on this thread several times and are still able to come up with unique things

- when you have this thread subscribed so you can read the new additions :D

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

-You remember posting in this thread 2 years ago..

-Your team's head mentor say the following about you: "Joe knows everything about the team, He knows more about the team than the team does."

-You work on your teams robot during 1st and 2nd hour in school.

-You have a "Big Black Binder of Everything Robotics"

-You have a personal team "Archive" going back 4 years

-You carry a full copy of the Game Manual around school from Kickoff till you team's last competition

-you have 3 of the top 5 highest annual Build Season Hours

-the ammount of hours you worked on the robot is HIGHER the the total number of hours the team met for.

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

- your grades drop a full letter grade during the season
- your teachers wonder why you are sleeping in their class with your head in a binder full of CAD drawings
- you beleive a sawsall and a roll of duct tape can fix anything
- you wonder if the sqeaking the car is making is beacause of a loose set screw
- you cant look at an allen screw without trying to decide to use if it is a 5/32 or 3/16 so that you can tighten it
- you have consumed at least a pound of sawdust while building the field




-a group of people that were once strangers became some of your best friends in 6 weeks