Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

I don't know if this was mentioned but...

...you're upset that you can't arrange your college schedule to volunteer all three days at a FIRST Regional competition.

This was me this semester. :(

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you use your spring break to volunteer or mentor all FOUR days (Wed. setup, Thurs.-Sat. mentor, Sat. takedown). (I can't make it to either of the closest regionals to college--but L.A. was during spring break.)

--When you're on a school trip and you're doing FF scoring every spare minute you have battery power on your laptop.

--When you think you've identified all the FIRSTers and former/would-be FIRSTers on campus.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

-WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND BECOME TERRIFIED BECAUSE YOUR HAIR IS NOT THE COLOR OF THE DIE YOU PUT IN IT AT THE COMPOTITION

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you are sitting here on cheifdelphi instead of using the school computer for "work-related" use

When you are up till 4 in the morning making team badges to give out to other teams

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you lie to your track coach about why you're not coming to practice tomorrow because you want to go to ONE robotics meeting in four weeks, and whenever you tell him the truth he lays a guilt trip on you, making you feel guilty for going to robotics (which I shouldn't cause I'm not needed at track as much as Robotics).

When you spend twice as much time on Robotics and getting ideas for next year written and typed to show tomorrow to the team than your homework.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you have a university exam tommorow worth 40%, which you haven't been to a single lecture, and haven't started studying... but your still on chiefdelphi =S

You take a nap and dream about the results of the FTC world competition (just happened)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

...When you know that you're going to spend every minute off of (and even possibly during) school watching Atlanta

...When you have dreams about your robot breaking down.

...When you go to other sporting events and start critizsizing how lame it is compared to a regional.

...When your security blanket is your safety glasses.

...When You start looking for welds in everyday places. (but that might just be a welder thing...)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

First thing you do in the morning is check for new post on CD and no matter how late at night or how tired you are you just have to recheck CD before going to bed.

You wake up at night and just have to check for new post! :p

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Robotics is WAY more important and/or fun than Track (and I'm team captain of my school's track team...:P)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you say about 4 sentences at a college open house and become known as "the robotics girl" :D

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you nearly cheer at a college open house because the first item on the list of things your entering class has done is "FIRST Robotics."

When you come home from school and get on CD, then realize (two hours later) that you're still on CD...and you're leaving for Atlanta tomorrow and need to do homework...

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

you don't study for a huge exam until 3:00 AM becuase you are on CD.
you order an Asus EEE pc just for scouting and as an excuse to buy one :D

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you would wait have post number 1114 but are too impatient to wait because you want to read all the other threads :(

-vivek

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When u get post 1114 XD

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you see 1113 replies and think "Hey, that'll be the 1114th post in that thread!"

P.S. Man, are we ever geeks sometimes.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When bored:

-With a computer: you dream up projects for your programming team to work on during the summer (maybe just a programming team captain thing)

-With a cellphone: you go to YouTube (love sprint) and search for the newest videos tagged with 'robot' (latest finds: one (toyota sometimes scarily amazes me), two (yes, it's a pneumatically actuated rubik's cube solver), three (self repairing chair))

-With yourself: you play around with physics and calculus to see what interesting relationships you can stumble accross.

-q :]

-q

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When ever you automatically capitalize FIRST when doing essays when you are not talking about FIRST

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when you realize you missed post 1114

when you tell a member of their team, to post on their number

When you're desperate for text messages from teams in Atlanta, because you want to know what's going on and your parents won't let you skip school.

You plan a robotics demo the Friday of Atlanta just so you can stay in your teachers room for an extra hour after watching matches.

You start planning how to make a robo prom dress for next year

You "ban" your self from CD until Atlanta is over, only to find your self posting on this thread....

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when you chant green alliance when eating dinner in medieval times.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when you were looking through college info online and found yourself on cd:confused:

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When someone asks you the time, you say 1:23 and someone else yells out 456. Greatest chant ever

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

You have a accident on your way to Atlanta... when you wake up in the hospital your first words are... WHO WON? :eek:

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

I know, but its so much fun.

I wish my team number were lower.
ACK.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Hey, come back in a year... I have to wait like, two years! :(

-Vivek

p.s. Is there a way to get a pm when this thread reaches a certain post number? :P

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

.... when you see the post number and wonder why theres no name next to the number

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

... when you cry your self to sleep because your not in Atlanta

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

...you desperately want to get your hands on a cRIO.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

--When you have two rows of tabs in Firefox, and all of them either begin with a "47" icon or a triangle, circle, and square.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when you start thinking what you're doing with robotics instead of what you should be doing, and you wonder how you're gunna quote it for this thread.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you have to wake up at 3 am for your flight to atlanta and you don't sleep because you're SO EXCITED....and also working on sponsorship information for next year.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

...when you see 1114 posts and you think Simbotics is taking over chief delphi as well:ahh: :D :cool:

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when you know by heart how many posts belong to each and every ChiefDelpher!

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when you collect the Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers trading cards 399 is handing out

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

....When every class you went to today, you were late, and it was all robotics related.

(sorry I've been posting on this one alot. Its one of my favorite threads.)
=]
(and I'm simbotics fan. I haven't been able to see ONE of their matched today, because everytime, it came on a minute or two after I had to be somewhere; i.e. they come on right after I have to catch my bus... )

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

I'm not overdosed, I'm not even addicted. I just choose to never, ever, ever leave FIRST.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Agreed. It will be a sad day if (not when) I ever run out of time for FIRST.

Is there such a thing as not having time for FIRST? :yikes:

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

I don't have a FIRST problem, I can quit anytime I want! :D

Just cause I've stayed glued to my lappy all day...
And just cause I threw a fit when the wifi went down...
And just cause I've spent over an hour reading every new post here don't mean a thing.

I can quit anytime I want! :p

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Okay so I'm back but that don't mean I'm a FIRST junkie or overdosed
on it, or can't quit...
Just that I choose not to. ;)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you quote yourself in a post about yourself in a post directly after the post you just made about not being addicted to FIRST(sorry Protronie, but that's addiction. they also have 12 step programs for that. cold turkey works too.)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

--four members of your team can stay up till 4 a.m. reading cd

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when people ask you what you want for your birthday, all you say is "For my team to be in Atlanta on that day!"

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

You don't reckon I'm overdosing do you?
Is there a cure for FIRST? :]

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

More FIRST. You'll never get over it, it's what they call a "vicious cycle." A really fun, really awesome, life-changing kind of vicious cycle.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Why would we even create a 12 step cycle??

You miss 3 of your classes to watch the Championship.

You stay late after school just to watch your favorite team play. (Katie!! I would have given you a ride home! :P)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

we're all overdosed on FIRST. call the Inspiration control center.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

I'm not suffering from my FIRST "addiction". I enjoy every minute of it.

and;
...When you spend 6+ hours in a dark basement watching nationals.


(thanks Renee)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

....you don't lose your voice during regionals in March, but you lose it cheering in a basement at the video stream of Atlanta.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

I totally know what you mean! That happened to me every time we had to play a "getting to know eachother" icebreaker game! =]



...when--during the Championships--you are watching the webcast, talking on the phone with a former member of your former team, getting match results via text message from TBA while at the same time getting texts and phone calls from your old team about two-three times an hour.

...when every paper or presentation you do in high school/college somehow incorporates robotics in it.

...when your wardrobe consists of mainly robotics-themed clothes.

...when you've seriously considered getting a tattoo because that's how much you love FIRST/your robotics team. (Sidenote: I don't do well with pain, so I won't get one, but I think it'd be kinda cool!)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

...you see one of the transport carts in the airport heading toward a crowd and you have to fight back the urge to yell "ROBOT COMING THROUGH"

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

...when you walk through the wrap party after championships with second team member chair-carrying a third team member, and having a fourth team member out in front yelling "ROBOT COMING THROUGH!!!"

...when you're walking through the airport and joking around by breaking rules with you as the robot, i.e. crossing back over a line- G22, stopping in front of someone-impeding, lightly shoving someone's shoulder- contact outside the bumper zone. The only thing we couldn't do was interfere with a hurdler...

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Interestingly, I saw someone at an airport a few days ago trying to toss a ball high up into the air. :P

No, I wasn't catching a plane to Atlanta. :(

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you get so depressed because all of your senior friends are leaving including the person that started this thread. =..(

:( :( :(

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

.... you are at the airport waiting to go home, and you think the flight attendant said "division 3 robots please load". (but she was really calling for zone 3 rows to load [the plane]) LOL
.... you see a guys at the airport with a lot of luggage on a cart and you immediately call out "robot coming through!" in a VERY load voice
.... you blame the freshmen for impeding you from your luggage
.... you call a penalty on some random person for not moving their car when your dad is trying to pick you up from the airport.... and then you tell him "red alliance has won the match on a account of a penalty by the blue alliance" once you get in the car
.... he actually knows what you meant by that
.... at the social you called 4 penalties on other people at the food tables ( I only did it once)
.... you miss the feeling of your safety goggles
.... you have over 30 FIRST shirts .... and could go an entire month without having to wash shirts.... and still have some left over
.... you suitcase was overweight because of all the other shirts you got there
.... you are surprised that the freshmen didnt set off the metal detector from all the pins on his bag
.... you were up at 11 at night at the hotel, on chief delphi
.... you are at school now, on chief delphi, when you could be very well sleeping.:D

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

--You don't know what to do now that the championship event is over

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you skip study hall to go to the computer lab and browse CD just so that you can try and avoid the inevitable depression of the knowladge that season is over.
When your bag is delayed coming back from champs because you packed your button cloak
When random numbers and phrases cause your mind to spit out data and names of teams.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

That closet on the floors of the Marriot Marquis labeled with "FDC" in red letters continues to stop me each year. This year, I got to thinking whether the "intermediate" program had changed it's initials again.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Yes, definitly overdosing, but in a good way. There is no cure from FIRST, its a lifelong addiction. I was just letting you know in case you had missed that glaring and quite obvious fact.


You know you've overdosed on First when you recive informatioin about an advaned junior/senior high school and the only thing that makes you read the information is the fact that it has a "robotics club"
...when your friends tell you to shut up about the robotics fundraisers you're setting up.
....when your favorite teacher agrees to be taped to the wall for you, because she knows how much you love robotics.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

-When you spend more time on CD in one year than you did on homework for all 4 years in high school.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

- You laugh whenever you see the WWF on TV because of what President Bush Sr. Said.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

-When you dream about walking through the pit during Nationals on the night before you leave Atlanta. And the only reason you wake up is cuz your roommate sticks your vibrating phone on your leg. {Happened to me on Sunday. I thought the phone was something else vibrating in my dream. Ha :] }
-When you spend all your free time on CD when you never have before just trying to find this one guy who you met at Nationals and all you know is his team and his first name
-When everyone in your family and even beyond family knew that you were excited for RoboProm this year just cuz it's your rookie year and you want to take a million pictures to show your nonrobotics friends
-When you put your hair in pigtails, put pipe cleaners in the pony tail ring, and braid the pipe cleaners in your hair to create funky hair and spray your hair blue cuz your team is the LuNaTeCs :]

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

...you finally actually create a CD account
...you read all of the rules and threads that you can instead of studying for APs
...you start planning for next year, worrying because you can't go to nationals as a rookie team
...you feel completely lost because not only is the season over, but you have a week off from school for spring break
...you see today's XKCD (http://xkcd.com/) and your first thought is "hey! Those aren't omniwheels..." then "I wanna build one!"

EDIT: ...you tell all your friends about the Championships and how the game works and email them links to YouTube videos and try to get your friends from other schools to make teams...

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

...When you realize the everyone around you knows how to play euchre and what it is, and you can't yell BOOM really loudly in 4th hour, like you did in your hotel lobby, because you threw down the right bower to take the trick and win the game

...When you a simple slip of the toungue suddenly becomes an inside joke and you try to come back to school and spread it so that all of your friends use the word

...When you realize that your house doesn't have 47 floors so you go on your roof throw something down and try to race it down (that was fun 1025)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

...when you dream about the game and wake up wondering why you didn't think of that sooner (even if it is six months after the Championship).

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

...when you take the bumpers off your car and replace them with pool noodles.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

...when your on Chief Delphi 24/7
...when you cant stop thinking about next years competison
...when you are reading and thinking if your hook on first

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

... you see a random guy with a mohawk and wonder what award his team got. (It is a 1388 tradition to shave our hair into mohawks if we get to the Championships)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Even girls????

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

No, sorry. this year we only got our head mentor to shave his head. No one else wanted to get rid of their hair, but one kid said he would if we did really well at championships. Apparently we didn't do quite good enough:( such spirit.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

You know you've overdosed on FIRST (or rocketry) when you own the same shirt as Dave.

When you watch 6 fields of atlanta at once

When you need to buy a new remote, because you left yours in Hartford.

When you have a pile of random zipties in the middle of your bedroom floor, which no one in your house sees as unusual.

When your family purchases a basketball hoop, and you want to replace the acryllic backboard with Lexan.

When you try to convince them that it would be easier to just CAD and build our own hoop.

When assembling said hoop, you encounter difficulties, because most of your tools are in your school's shop from late nights, when the team needed an extra socket wrench.

When you still have, fully assembled, all 6 FLL robots you helped build in your house.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Your building a segway out of IFI parts during build season

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

-When it's friday night, you have no homework and time to go out to a movie, but are sad because the only reason you have time is because champs is over:(

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When everytime you see a person wearing a zebra striped shirt, you feel he is important, and are bit afraid to go backwards or touch anybody out of the shoe-zone.

When you see a black-white squares flag you don't thing about NasCar/Formula 1, but about OverDrive, even if it is a commercial on a national newspaper.

You are upset and even angry at anyone who doesn't dig FIRST .


Your girlfriend is a FIRSTer, your 2 best friends are FIRSTers, you realize most of your friends on facebook are FIRSTers, and the biggest group on your MSN contact list is named "Co-workers (FIRST)", and it is by far the biggest one.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you turn on your mobile phone and the welcome message that appears on the screen says "another 11 months until 2009 regional".

When you follow your teammates posts on CD.

When you ask yourself how come there is no such equivalent to "CLASSMATES.COM" as "FIRSTers.COM".

And finally when on all the computers in your school,the screen savers are texts like "No Atlanta !" or "At least there is Bombamela"...

:)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Bombamela = the Israeli burning man :P

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you are on your band trip watching a 3D movie for the first time ever called DeepSea 3D and your only thought is, "when are we going to have a water game".

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

...when the background on your phone and computer are of last season's robot.
...when your non-robotics friend steals said phone and tells you robotics is "gay" and that you have no life.
...When you agree with that friend.
...When your friend asks you if you can make him a robot to pick up his room, and you say yes and start explaining what you could do for him.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you are watching a hockey game, and a player gets checked into the glass, and you say to yourself, "wait he can't do that, it's impeeding...oh wait never mind it's not robotics." - and yes this really happend. lol It was funny.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

your already prepping for the 2009 kickoff, working on the 2009 CA presentation, and ready to sign up for 3 regionals and CMP.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

...Even after full year after no tubes... when ever someone says "spoiler" the only thing that comes to mind is black tube skirts...

...you've already planned a whole day robotics meeting for the last day of school, robots roaming the halls and all...

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

... You hear someone say thunderchickens and spaz because you think they're talking about the team (they were making fun of a high school)
... You see a basketball warm-up shirt that says "I'm a keeper" and the number is 07 and you freak out and run across the street to see if they have any relations to robotics (no they didn't)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

...you see your team number in random places (say, a receipt, a sign, or a license plate) and you notice it. Better yet, you actively look for your team number in these places.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

I still can't believe I check CD over 20 times a day. I'm going to count the number of times I check in the next next week (next wk = APs)! GOOD LUCK TO ALL THOSE TAKING APs!!!

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you pull into school and the spot number is 47, and the first thing you do is chant "fourty-seven...chief delphi" out loud in your car. lol

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When before the meeting you and a friend had gone to Starbucks and on the way back you (or me the driver) looks over at an address and sees 198 and thinks..."if there was a three after that..." When you see there is a three you let out a shriek of joy, immediately turn the car around and get your friend to bolt out, take a picture, and still show up in time for the meeting.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when you are sitting in math class and instead of remembering the formulas, all you notice are the numbers on your paper. 111, 397, 47, 141. instead of saying the answer, you say wildstang, knightriders, chief delphi and wobot (actually did this in class yesterday)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you're playing Super Smash Brothers and the damage counters remind you of first teams.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Posting on this thread is almost useless because of all of the replies...but I have to...Because I have overdosed on FIRST. (actually I wouldn't call it overdosing because there is no such thing as too much FIRST)

I cannot see a number without thinking of a FIRST team. I have even started to refer to numbers as the FIRST team name and not the number itself.

Aside from all this: You know you have overdosed on FIRST when you are staring at the clock when it is 11:14 and 2:17, when you get 111 as an answer on math homework and you write Wildstang, When gas prices are around MOE and Robotic Plague and you remember the days when they were Robonaut and Gaelforce, You watch the count down to the Hammond spaghetti dinner(even when you're T-Hawks miles away and have nothing to do with it).

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When your whole team has papers printed off by one of our team-mates that has countdown numbers till next year's kick-off in your locker/room. :D :D

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

It's easier when your team number is relatively low. I don't think it's even possible to have more than 999% damage.

If you watch the Powerthirst video and think of the cRIO video shown at the Championship.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

... when you're reffing a soccer game, and the team name is Killer Bees. And you remark to the other AR, who is also in FRC, "They don't look like 33. No antennae, and they're not in bright yellow."

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When any number you see reminds you of something from FIRST, whether it's the price of gas, the time, the amount of time you have been on the phone, or even answer on a test. Like right now, gas is $3.65 (MOE), an answer to a physics problem was 330 (the Beach Bots), and I looked at the clock today and it was exactly 1:03. :)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

I know what you mean, I sat in the auditorium in the chair #118. :yikes:

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

I got the answer 1501 on a math problem today, and wrote team THRUST next to it. I'm waiting to see what my math teacher says.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Haha...yeah I was very tempted to write Beach Bots next to my answer, but I didn't, I really should have though... :)

Cass

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

...you can look at the game piece and think of it as material for your prom dress...
Look at my dress it is really made from a trackball and real dots!!
...you really what Dean and Woodie to see your prom dress^:D enough to wear it in the pits until you get them to sign it;)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

I got Beach Bots today in class, I ended up writing at the bottom of my page 330 = Beach Bots!!!!! There was one other person from my team in math class as well, and when we got out we looked at each other and yelled "Beach bots!"

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when you very nearly squeal when your team number is incorporated in an AP test question...and you proceed to circle, underline, etc. it

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

...when you fall asleep while you're "working" in the lab.
...when you start looking for team numbers in everyday life.
...when you have two old team shirts at home, a new one at home, and another in your locker just in case.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when someone says "we're got a match in 2 minutes" and you're ready to run

even though you're standing in your schools auditorium...

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

You think while doing chores after Nationals... 'I wonder if my lawn mower uses the acronym principal like the WOBOT.'
You constantly dream on the bus to school about next year's game.
While you are driving and a slow car is in front of you, you actually think about gently bumping them so you can Hurdle.
You think of speed as feet per second instead of miles per hour.