Re: You know you've been in FIRST too long...
 

When you are afraid of eating your pizza's crust because all the metal shavings are stuck on your hand. (You don't want it on your pizza... bad experience)

Re: You know you've been in FIRST too long...
 

...when you receive an award from WUSC-FM for "Best 3D Robot"

Or, when your screen saver is made entirely of robots in various locations.

Re: You know you've been in FIRST too long...
 

Its really funny that almost of all these apply to me :D

Re: You know you've been in FIRST too long...
 

Courtesy of Team 1275, Havergal Robotics:

- You don't understand why your English course code starts with 'ENG'. Doesn't that mean 'Engineering?'

Re: You know you've been in FIRST too long...
 

You make reference to students and mentors your students are too young to have known and wonder why they have no idea who you're talking about.

I Did it yesterday. :( :o

Re: You know you've been in FIRST too long...
 

- when your diet consists of metal shavings, copper lube, and microwave tacos

- when you get strangely exctited when 3doors down "Cryptonite" comes on
- when you no longer remember that cryptonite is spelled "Kryptonite"

- when you get extremely excited when you see your team number in a math problem and develop a sudden urge to make 100% sure you get it right
- when you similarly allready know every way to multiply, divide, and square root your team number

-when you get angry at anyone who mentions hydraulics and have the sudden urge to convert them to pnuematics immediately

- when the sight of the FedEx man or the words "ship date" bring a sudden panic attack

Re: You know you've been in FIRST too long...
 

-When all of your Livejournal/Xanga/Blurty/ect. posts consist of either FIRST related stuff or quizzes and the like.

-When you count down the days until Kickoff.... 30 days...

Re: You know you've been in FIRST too long...
 

...when half the people posting in the "you know you've been in FIRST too long" thread have been in FIRST half as long as you :p

Re: You know you've been in FIRST too long...
 

When a person posts: and you have been in FIRST twice as long as him.

Re: You know you've been in FIRST too long...
 

It great because 90% of these apply to me, and I have known FIRST existed for no more than a year and a half.

Re: You know you've been in FIRST too long...
 

When its 8 pm on a Friday, you're single, and on a FIRST robotics site instead of being out!

Re: You know you've been in FIRST too long...
 

Or have information/video proof that you likely have been in FIRST too long.

Re: You know you've been in FIRST too long...
 

When you see the lead singer of a band with your team number on his shirt...and freak out so much your boyfriend (also a FIRSTer) has to try to calm you down in 10 minutes...to not much avail.

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Re: You know you've been in FIRST too long...
 

Or the students ask the teacher...don't you work anymore? :confused: (Complaints from students when I attend regionals and world competition). :D

Re: You know you've been in FIRST too long...
 

You have accumulated so many tools over the years that you have an almost complete set.....

You hear numbers and associate those numbers with teams, then you immediately think of facts for that team number from over the years.....

You look at every day objects and think to yourself.. pshh if they used team 111's 2002 design...... or pshhh my team could redesign that to be so much better...... ;)

GO 1403!!!