was their life before FIRST?

probably

but it was full of very deprived people ...

Lets put FIRST obsession this way...

At least 3 times a week I get caught in class by a teacher drawing robots on isometric graph paper to scale, comparing the charts of different motors, reading C programming books, looking a pin layouts for one port or another, analyzing stratagy (before and after competition), reading printout of CD and IndianaFIRST.

Year To Date:
About 30 Detentions, A couple of calls home, Sent to the pricipal once, A million "bring that up to the front of the class", and a thousand, "do you want to marry a robot?"

-Greg The Great