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

Bored, tired, and waiting for food, so I thought I'd start up this list.

...you skip school to spend eight hours working on your bot.
...you have dreams about robotics.
...you talk about FIRST all day in an attempt to recruit people.
...you no longer have friends outside of your FIRST team.

I Agree
 

I have to agree with you there. I too have been talking alot of robotics hoping to recruite freinds to join and i think it's working.

















Fix it before it breaks, so you don't have to fix it when it breaks

....your robot is your valentine.

....your coach/teacher has to get you an extension on a class project so you can work on the robot.

Your wife refers to FIRST as your "Second wife" :rolleyes:

When your b/f looks at your hands and nails and says "Been at the shop again?"

. . . Your study hall teacher says every day, "Why don't you just transfer over there?"

. . . A discussion with a team engineer involves you saying, "Look, I built the $@#$@#$@#$@# thing, and I know it does this . . "

...every sentance ends with "your mother", "in bed", or "and then you die twice"
...you find the word toaster funnier than usual
...Will cries for the robot
...run out of freshman to file things
...wheels aren't round anymore
...when you order 4 big mothers a day (pizza)
...when subway hates you
...it works


yeah, fun stuff :)

-You talk in criptic language to people.
-If they say BattleBots after Robotics Competition, they arn't your friend anymore.
-You dream of Segway
-Food becomes day old pizza left in the work area (no, I DON'T do that, that's just, not right....)
-You start to become insane by jumping into walls... durring school.... infront of girls.... Senior girls....
-You must check the storage lane in Target every day.
-You start to not shave and obsess over The Simpsons episodes and how they arn't how they used to be.
-Murder is the treatment for being a Mole to another team
-Brandon Martus becomes your arch nemissis
-You wonder if something can be completed quicker using a robot
-You have two friends: Robotics and Normal
-You start to come up with sayings such as "DON'T LICK THE BATTERY!!!"
-You'll kill for a Segway
-You see red, white, and blue shapes in your dreams
-You wake up to Smooth Criminal
-You know what Pubarso stands for
-Sleep is what you get durring English class
-You can't wait till the TNT James Bond marathon.
-Feb 18th is Armadgedon

....You spend at least 4 hours a day on Chief Delphi's forums


....You fail countless test because you were too busy building a robot to study


.....When given the name of a team or a team's number, you can tell them the name or number of that team ( ex. "247" would warrant "'da bears" as an answer and "da bears" would warrant "247" as an answer.

...when you go from junior member to custom title in a 6 week period
...when your main requirment for getting an iPod from school is so you can transfer a gig of targas back and forth
...when you have a Delphi group on your buddy list
...When half of your daily classes (2 of the 4) are "Do your FIRST work..when your animation's submitted with that, we'll get to doing regular class work"


More to come!

When you seriously consider taking the robot to Prom

When you begin to wonder if you are a robot

When you form mental algorithms to do stuff while you think about robots

When life becomes First with irrelevant stuff in between.

When you convince your mother to feed the pit crew and programmers

When you drive 45 miles away to work on the robot.

When you place willingness to participate in FIRST as one of your top criteria for a g/f

When you can reason out why the robot does what it does.

My wife has a team shirt with "FIRST Widow" where here name should be.

Ken Loyd
Team 64 :cool:

LOL!!!

-When you leave knowing you made a difference in a child's life.
-When you can't wait for march to roll around
-When you change a life of a child
-When you yell at people that say battle bots are cool
-when your girl/boy friend says you wanna marry FIRST
-when you want to do nothing but long trigonometry to find out the exact angle for a drive train part
-when you wanna see Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers at your pit!!!!

Seriously.. they do.

good reasons...good reasons. but what about these:

- when matt drives, and they know to move out of the way (just playin)
- people yell your names from the stands (actually, it's kinda...wait, really scary then)
- you treat people like robots by putting an ateanna on their head, and try to move them with a joystick

- when a librarian comes to you with tech questions

- when one of your sponsors buys a seguaway and brings it to your school (that was MAD fun, i mean, $@#$@#$@#$@#!)

- when the school forbids you from skipping classes because teachers start to complain

- when your parents begin to understand what your talking about

Now that's just plain krazy, but sweet when it happens.

- when you know what to expect at every comp.

...when FIRST is the major reason why you want to become an engineer

...When you've had strep throat for a week and a half, but haven't had time to go to the doctors to get some medicine, because you've been to busy with robotics.

Point a.) Our SCHOOL is attempting to buy two segways!
Point b.) Yeah... I've had teachers ban me from gettting pulled out..and others that just said before I asked that I could go.
Point c.) Parents understanding...yeah...that means that you've been working at home too much..like me..


- also, you know you've been in FIRST too long when your main focus on building a new computer is to cut down render time for teh animation comepetition.

optimization is to hard in animation really.

- when they all know the songs from the pits, when the songs aren't played anywhere else

...your hands perpetually smell like metal.
...you can tell the size of a bit/nut/bolt/screw (and the threading on metric nuts/bolts/screws) just from glancing at it.
...you consider how awesome it would be for your team to do something out of Monster Garage.
...you're seen carrying power tools around school.

gotta love knowledge.

- the fact that you can tell anyone what first is really about

ok. i'm really scared because i can relate to about 90% of those.
- parents understanding <-- never gonna happen
- 45 miles to go work on the bot <-- i would but the shops alot closer than that


- Miss 3 days of school with 103+ fever, yet only half of one robotics meeting.

- Have holes and saw marks in your furniture for lack of a better workplace.

- give yourself a nosebleed due to programming for to long at one time (yes i did this my rookie year)

- Write the majority of your college/scholarship essays about your experience in FIRST (i did this... and it worked. :))

-First thing you do when waking up is to check for any new information on chiefdelphi or FIRST's websight

When you hit refresh every two seconds to read a new quote at the top of CD

When you consider implementing a mood matrix into the robot just because it would be cool

When you realize how absolutely cool it is for a girl to be in FIRST

When you tell FIRSTers thousands of miles away about your troubles

When you develop an intensive craving for caffeine at anytime while programming

When you gain a level of experience similar to your mentors

When you plot to implement a lego first team with a grant from your team (which does not exist yet-see sig)

What's really great is when your bot works and you have that crazy feeling like your heart is in a bubble-bath of child-hood wonder, like you looked up at the sky and reached up and grabbed a falling star.
Wow. I'm not an expert writer but I think I got the point across there.

- When you make a stupid health project out of twenty of last year's CD's

(Anyone else have this problem? You go to a competition, come home, and your pockets are overflowing with CD's you never passed out)

-When you haven't said Hi to your little brother for a month because you're in the shop until after his bedtime

So I am not the only one!! they should make a list of them, make it easier

They DO have one...

and that would be where?

-when u plan to spend ur entire 4 day weekend(9am-11pm) building ur robot

-when u spend 30 minutes on the phone with McMaster only to find out they dont accept Discover, and then accidently hanging up

-when u know scoring and rules for the past 3 robotics competitions but cant remember what u learned last week in any of ur classes

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/spotlightlist.php?s=

under extras in the top right corner.

...when you get log more build hours than sleep hours on some (all?) nights.

-When you make a trip a day to the electronics store

-Your conversation with your parents for the day is:
Mom: "Where are you going?"
Sean: "Robotics"
Mom: "See you tomorrow"

-When you get home at 1 in the morning... only to say "I dont have time for homework now"

-Havnt talked to your sister in 3 days

-Invent seanny dont :p

-Your conversations are filled with "I'll [insert verb] you!"

...you know the correct size tap and clearance hole drill bits for any size screw.
...you no longer need Band-Aids because the machine oil permanantly embedded in your hand clots cuts for you.
...you can recite the densities of every material used on your robot.
...you don't need a manual to know what wire gauges are required for the various motors.
...you can accurately guess the size of something down to 1/16".
...your hand feels akward without a drill in it.
...your computer's desktop is filled with all the drawings for your robot.
...you always carry a pad of graph paper with you in case you get an idea for the robot.
...your average response time to an email about programming is less than 30 minutes.
...you spend 200+ hours writing software tools for robotics in the off-season.
...you have an RC, an OI, and a box of old motors in your room for testing stuff.

When you are named after a tool.

When people outside of FIRST address you by said tool-name.

When said tool name goes into senior quote/sig.

When you make a quiz to pick the field coach and human player without looking once at the manual.

When you are disappointed at said quiz because the quiz taker got less than 95% right.

When people claim that FIRST is your passion.

When you force your closest friends to join the team.

When you doodle design sketches in class.

When you the manual becomes your bible.

When you get nervous and figity because you are away from the robot.

When you get excited whenever your english teacher (or some other teacher) even remotely mentions something about robotics.

When you force every conversation you have with other people outside of FIRST towards robotics.

When all you have to talk about with your dad anymore is the robot.

When you have an urge to bring the robot home because you haven't yet finished a certain component but it's time to call it a night.

...machining oil and aluminum chips become pizza toppings.

when the people at the local hardware store know you by name and welcome you back everday.

When you don't care that, "hey my hands are covered in oil and aluminum, maybe I shouldn't eat that slice of pizza."

When you realize that the First updates will never e n d and your response to one is yelling and moaning. (13 updates! come on give us a break!!!! Please!):ahh:

You can get cut by cardboard but not extremely hot, and sharp, flying aluminum shards.

When you get tired of the 200 track mp3 cd.

You no longer have a full name, just a NEW, one sylable, type name.

-when you are seen mumbling incoherently about the robot while you draw a design on an etch-a-shetch

-when you become a member of RA (Robotics anonymous)

. . . you consistently find aluminum shavings in your shower drain

. . . you compare drilling scars with your friends

- When you can relate ANYTHING back to robotics
ex. Our technology program just moved into a new building at our school. The floor was supposed to be all tile, but our robotics room has a special 8 foot by 8 foot (I think 8 foot..) square carpeted area for the robot. While sitting in english you suddenly have the urge to design a tether arm to extend out from the wall to come out over the robot, allowing for tethered robot control and power from an AC transformer so you don't have to change batteries while testing, and dropping down a flashlight to look inside the crevices of the bot, all without tangling up the robot by using a tension holding reel mechanism desgined by you and the lead programmer for the team...

- When your current choice of music was inspired from robotics 4 years ago (In 7th grade, I was introduced to techno through robotics competitions and animations...now techno makes up most of my playlists :D )

...when you tape a whiteboard w/ marker above your bed so you can write down your idea when you get one in the middle of the night

...when your teachers start asking you why you're not skipping class to work on the robot..

...when you spend time thinking up reasons you're addicted to FIRST...

...when you build the bot AND animate(i did that last year and the year before).. get home at 10 after building, and stay up until the next day animating... repeat daily.

Eddie's top 10 ways to tell if you are addicted to FIRST.
 

You know your addicted to FIRST when:

10) You still participate in the FLL.
9) The workshop is your "home away from home".
8) Chief Delphi is your "home away from the workshop".
7) Tigerbolt is your "home away from Chief Delphi".
6) You despise Battlebots/Robot Wars, etc, and Viacom for featuring a Battlebot-like event in one of it's Nickelodeon cartoons.
5) You always use the phrase "inhales audibly".
4) You realize that set-screws really do suck (yes, I mean suck)
3) "Gracious Professionalism" is your motto.
2) You belong to the Holy Order of FIRSTism.
1) You grow your hair long and wear a pin vest to every FIRST event you attend (uh, not that I know anyone like that).

This has been an official "Eddie's Top 10 List". The top 10 list is an official property of and sponsered by The Holy order of FIRSTism, and my not be copied, reproduced, or retransmitted in way without the expressed written consent of The Holy Order of FIRSTism.

Re: Eddie's top 10 ways to tell if you are addicted to FIRST.
 

HAHAH! LOL! :D Or you can dress in all denim and talk with a slow New England accent about helping the world too.

When you girlfriend complains about you spending more time on the robot.

When you daydream about how to make the animation perfect

When you'd walk in a blizzard up to the local electronics store for parts.

When that calc midterm takes a backseat to testing autonomous mode.

When you teacher pushes back all the tests, quizzes, and assignments for the robot.

When the teacher stops teaching so the class can work on the robot.

When you actually get over 10 girls involved in the project

When you dream of it.

When school security no longer finds it odd that teenagers are lugging in a large objects in the rain with a coat on top and many many wire protruding from it.

When you can tell where a pneumatics leak is occuring from across the room just by hearing it.

When you spend 6+hours desiging logos for the team.

When you start making physics puns outside of physics class.

When people get tired of calling you a nerd because of robotics.

When you close that crate and a piece of your soul goes with it.

Good luck to all teams. It's really been a pleasure.

When its all over, and you can't wait for it to START again!

GOOD LUCK TO ALL!!

Geo.

when you can maneuver Delphi fourms with out looking at the screen until you are where you want to be

When 30-year engineers come to you asking for help

... The night janitors at your school know you by name.

... You're dating a guy that you met at a FIRST competition.

... The only friends you have are on your team.

... You have a special FIRST account at all the local hardware stores.

.... You can explain to your classmates what the difference between Lexan and Plexiglas is.

... Your parents don't question where you've been, when you leave at 7:00 am and come home at 1:00 am.

- Katie

They know my name (grin)

... You wake up every morning to find in your inbox that you have 200 "[thread name here] has had a reply"

... You check your mail every second so that you won't miss your next chance to get a post in.

I did shed at least 1 tear when our part went bad... stupid mill... never build mounts for the window motors and have a big mill mess them up! gahhhhhh at least there done now... thankfully.... hopefully nothing happens to them now. *knocks on wood*

another thing is when you take a day off robotics because youve gone to every single meeting since jan. and your dead... you spend your day looking at robotics websites and posting on yours... and e-mailing your mentor with ideas on things. *sigh* I'm a FIRST addict. after the competitions when we have some time off I think us FIRST addicts should get FA chips... FIRST-Anon
=)
:yikes:

-You listen to Classical music to calm you down, even though you hate it
-You substatute neutral for 127 on your written essays
-You kill your sister because she didn't tell you that the neightbours borought their work Segway home to ride.
-You want to put fiberoptics on your bot.
-You loose all grip on reality and your world becomes Cell shaded.

what's a Segway?

... when you know what Segway is
... when you know how "schwing" got started (not even Matt knows, that's bad, since he's the creator of the word)

When you walk into your dorm room and see 2 batteries, a charger, and a whole set of Pneumatics

When half your FIRST team has Mono, but you see them just as much as the people who don't

When in the last week you have slept more in the machine shop then in your bed

When your sparkies get angry at you for not waking them up to finish programming

When you get yelled at by the dean of engineering because you were testing on the new carpet

When exit numbers and mile markers on the thruway bring team names to mind

You spend your classes seeing who can name the most teams.............and between 2 people you can get over 150

When you make a list of reasons why you are addicated to FIRST on a 6 hour car ride home

You know you have been in robotics for too long..
When you start thinking there are 564 days in year....(My friend asked that in physics class)
When you know what your adviser thinks about in the shower(robotics)....
When your adviser asks if the gearboxes that came in the kit come apart 100 times...
When you drop the gearbox and it comes apart 100 times....
When you forget which way to turn a bolt and two other people are helping you.....
When you did not realize that C shaped aluminum and U shaped aluminum are the same thing......
When you have spent at least 200 dollars on books on robotics....
When you get catalogs bigger than any textbook in existence....
When you bring home the catalogs....
When your one friend that is not in robotics picks up your says,"Remind me to never pick up anything off your desk again."
When your grandma starts reading your brand new robotics book and says,"achooo achoo achoo."
When it is easier to take attendance by counting the days you missed....
When you dream about robotics...
when you pretend you are a robot...
When an engineer tells you never to hit the robot with a hammer unless you ask him first....
Hear is some funny ones:
When you start pointing out sterlite containers to your friends....
When the person that owns the sterlite container gives out the make and model number and then proceeds to ask,"Are you in robotics".....
When the principal knows you by your first name.....
When you realize that there are some things best unanswered like ^....
When your adviser has a tendancy to make sound effects when he starts describing what the robot will do.....
When you just realized that your post is not even related to the topic akkk......

When the only times you communicate with your husband are:
a) during dinner in the shop before you start work on the robot each night,
and
b) through notes left by the coffepot in the morning.

Mostly related to animation people....


- When you can run through your entire animation conceptual idea using soley your arm and making whooshing noises

- You're state of mind is "there has to be a harder way to do this"
- You earn the nickname "Scooter" because you love Segways so much
- You stay up at night just to write P-Basic code
- You pray to the robot gods "just to make that !@#$%^&*() [insert troublesome part/code here] work

Bill B.

I've done both. It was fun!

-.- You have nothing else better to do, so you do the 2 above, and plus scream at your bot for being a bot

Well forget about the code just pray to the robot gods that the whole robot works.:D

lol, true.

-.- You do robotics instead of a history project.

When a group discussion turns into robot trivia.....
And you realize you know most of the answers!

I'm Joseph, wanna be my friend. :) (BTW www.segwaychat.com)

-You wonder how specificly a Segway works.
-You wonder why they act up on moving things
-Your teacher head has 5 names you can call him (and one he dosn't like....)
-You'd rather play with the bot's programing than play Metroid Prime
-When asked how to reduce the weight of the robot, you respond "Anti-matter".
-Gerbal's CAN'T run your robot
-Gerbal's CAN run your car
-You want a Segway more than a car
-Car rimes with smar
-You listen to Blue Man Group just to stay awake doing homework (specificly, Opening Mandelbrot)

-.- When you sit at the dinner table, having a conversation about your day, then you say "So how was your FIRST day at school?"

- when you have 3 FIRST binders: the rule book/ manual, one for all the innovation first stuff you can get your hands on, and another with all the team stuff in it

- when you find that you spend most of your free time and class time drawing and designing robots

- when you are desperate to get your own Isaac 32 system

- you are willing to/ considering spending money most people would use to buy a car, to buy parts for your own robot

- when people ask you if you are going to the semi/ prom with the team robot

- when you talk to your mentors/ advisors more thn some of your friends

(edit, 2-15-03, 10:35PM)

-when you hear a number, you immediately attempt to recall the correspondin FIRST team name, school, and curent robot design

- you are the captain, only programmer, and the person who knows the electronics/ control system better than the rest of the tea (including the mentors/ advisors)

-checking mail becomes checking mail AND checking chief delphi

#1 reason for me:
- when your team is inactive for 2 years and you STILL spend most of your freetime doing stuff for the team, or FIRST related

Done both (acutally, 2 of our engineers recieve more mail from me, than I get from all the spam I recieve [which is bad]).

- when you figure out how to program the perfect bot.

--you make up pickup lines that only work with a robot. (e.g.: "Would you like to connect serial cables?" "I can program your drivetrain and pump your pistons.")

--you change movie quotes to incorporate electronics parts.

Those are pretty funny really.

-.- Your pickup lines mainly deal with wires, metal/steel, and ramps

-- You made it this far in to the list

-- You can recite the whole thing without thining about it

...When You Come home on Valentines day and your candy heart has been eaten.

..."checking your mail real quick" has turned into countless hours of sitting on CD


...you begin to think in |IF| |THEN| format

You know you're addicted to FIRST when
 

..... you KNOW it's Valentine's Day, but you just can't leave to get something for your husband, because the robot is not done yet.

You know you are addicted to FIRST when you honestly think that telling your girlfriend you were late to dinner because you had to test out the drive system is a good excuse :D

I think the beauty of these is we've experienced them all...

Here's a few I left out while we were building (someone needed the computer to go through the shipping/drayage rules...):

--teenage females become dubbed 'the distraction' and are asked to leave the build area.

--zip ties are to FIRST as duct tape is to the universe.

--the soldering iron becomes known as the 'cauterizing iron.'

--you don't have time for food.

--the first thing that pops into your head when you hear 'build' is 'robotics.'

--you can't help but make a joke every time someone talks about 'nuts.'

--half the time your commands incorporate pauses in the wrong place so that what you're saying can be interpreted as something rather sexual.

...when your shopping list is: mountain dew, steel cable, pizza, bolts, mountain dew, pizza, #6 ring terminals, pizza, bolts

...when you coordinate distractions for school security so you can go to the hardware store while skipping class

...when you figure out how to bypass the school security system so you can continue working beyond closing time

...when you figure out how to hotwire the machine shop master power because the mentor forgot the key

...when discussing with your mentor about how to obtain a part, you say "give me an hour - no questions asked"

...when you are lost and confused when the build period is over

...when you figure out how to gain control of every computer at school so you can render animations faster

...when people ask you about what the robot does, you just hand them a video and continue working

...when you figure out that the robot could wrap the entire school in toilet paper in less than 8 minutes

...when you and your teammates start placing bets before the robot is weighed

...when you realize that you used over 500 zip ties this season

...when you answer every question with: "DUCT TAPE!"

...when you have to play music while sleeping so you dont dream about robotics

...when you figure out how to access the PA system from any school telephone: "Teachers please release the following students to the machine shop...."

..when you planned out this season on the drive home from nats last year

When you begin loathing anyone who so much as mentions battlebots

-You can EASILY identify the type of a material, its size, quality, and the process by which it was formed, simply by looking at the shavings near a drill press, on your work table, the smell near a grinder/sander, etc.
-You've stopped complaining about the lack of tools/parts, and the selection of tools/parts in your school's shop, because you are contributing to the problem by breaking them.
-You find herding your FIRST Lego League team balanced by the fun and rewarding aspects of playing with Legos and getting recognized for it.
-You're no longer embarrased by your FLL teams
-You've even considered applying to an engineering school.
-You analyze, criticize, and discuss Dean Kamen's "inspirational" speeches.
-You realize how stupid you sound while discussing the combinations of stackings of rubber storage tubs with "other" people.
-You don't mind the quotes at the top of the forum, but hate the mindless gushy ones by your teammate, and are embarrassed to know him.
-Even though you yell at others for being so ignorant as to think that "next year's game" (insert any year) might be in water, you secrectly pray for FIRST submarine warfare.

Why would anyone be embarrassed by FLL in the first place? :]

Joseph, drop me a line on AIM....BBBix. Here are a couple more:

- You wake up sewaty because you had a nightmare of your robot not being shipped on time
- Your parents are so fed up with you spending all of your time on this BBS that when questioned, you seriously consider telling them that it was porn

Bill B.

More....
 

-When you lose part of your thumb on the robot, laugh, and then take a nick out of the robot because it's fair
-When you leave school early, speed to GM, and get there 4 hours too early, just to see what needs to be done
-When your varsity jacket has ROBOTICS embroidered on it!
-When homework becomes more and more of an annoiance
-When you wake up at 4:30 excited to go work on the robot, leave at lunch time for school, and leave after school, and leave robotics at 10:30, on a half day of school
-When your had problems because your last girlfriend was on a rival team.
-When you wake up excited about a new idea for another autonomous program
-When your wiling to kill someone for your sponsor

...when you stay at the work site all night despite a blizzard dumping 12-20 inches (not sure yet) of snow.

OR, if you're like me,

...when, despite your parents requiring you to stay at home because of the snow, you work hard at programming the robot by connecting to the computers using MS NetMeeting, use remote program sharing to actually use the PBASIC editor, and have them send you MPEGs of the results.

*sigh* you wake up in the morning and find bits of aluminum shavings and scrapings of steel blue layout fluid in your bed... actually this morning i woke up to discover a 5m nut stuck to my arm...

and you feel like crying when everything [expletive censored] up!

...when you start making bracelets and rings out of colorful zipties, while adding in the pnuemonics tubing and knuts and washers to make it prettier :)
Hermione

... you've actually taken the time to read all the posts up to this point.

... you've taken a nap on the floor in the work area.

... you've made a desktop background for your computer out of pics of your bot.

i made bracelets out of ziff ties and the tread from the skyway wheels

when you have started a first team

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

- instead of dieting you drill lightening holes

- the word "Woody" makes you smile but for other reasons

- a keyway means more than 2 ounces

The bags under your eyes are packed for Houston!

(I took that from a team member)

When you know the history of every robot your team has made but not what you learned in history class 5 minutes ago

.......When you take a girl on a date only to wind up browsing the isles with her in PEP-BOYS!!!:rolleyes:

*cough*instead of coming to a meeting*cough*

When the best quote you could think of was the most common phrase at your meetings.. *looks down*

Yep....

I think at least me (and maybe Matt) fits in this one.

-.- When the only people you know are your robot and your busted wall.

......When your at robotics so much that when you actually take a day off, Everybody Knows!!! :(

-.- when you can make a song about first, and remember it by heart.

............When you reach the maximum amount of characters when writing a post for this thread:D

When you can carry on an entire conversation in the chit chat forum for a page about getting lei'd....


lol...go look for youself, do a search.


Also, you know your addicted to FIRST when...

-10 people from Chiefdelphi are now in your buddy list for aim
-You've posted over 200 times on Chiefdelphi
-your parents call you, figuring your out somewhere, only to have you inform them "nope, I'm still at motorola"
-You are kicked out of motorola for being there too late (this is a 24-hour facility might I add....)

-.- When you get dreams of cheif delphi people and FIRST people haunting you.

Here's a couple for ya.


...When you end up sleeping at the school cuz you want to get up early and work on it.

...When you put a car alarm on it so no one can steal it.

...When you tuck the robot into bed and read it a story at night.

- when you have so many ways to know your addicted you make multiple posts
-when you get excited about school being cancelled because it means you can work on the robot all day
- when you wake up at noon and are at the meeting within 20 minutes, in spite of a blizzard
- when your entire day consists of wake up, go to robotics, go home, sleep

You know you are adicted for FIRST when.

1. You hear techno and the first thing that comes to mind is the team social.

2. You are working as an EMT student and you identify call locations on the log to be turned in to your teacher by writing the closest team's number. (I ran calls in the cities teams 207, 259, 410, 606, 687, and 1135 are located in and confused the heck out of my teacher by my ID system)

3. You dont think duct tape fixes everything. You KNOW it does.

4. You pass up an oppertinuty to see your favorite band in concert to drive 350 miles and referee an unofficial comp in the off season, then decide you had WAY more fun at the scrimmage than you could have ever had at a dumb concert.