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When you are watching the Indiana Primary results, and when it came down to Hammond's votes, your first thought is "OMG 71 is going to make the differance"
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...when you like to keep the temperature in your house the same number of degrees as your team number. |
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... when it feels like years until the next meeting.
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When you where a thunderchickens shirt to a funeral.
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i cooked dinner at 230 degrees if that counts:)
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When it's Pentecost and they want you to wear red at church, and the only thing you have that is red is the shirt you got for reffing FLL World Festival.
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When thinking of Sadie Hawkins themes you think of Sadie goes to a FIRST event. And you are totally serious about it.
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when in math class you get excited when the math problem equals your team number
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When you get a new screen name : RoboChick528
sadly it isn't my team number, I figured my non-FIRST friends would get too angry When you carry hot pink duct tape, multicolored zip ties and saftey glasses and everyone thinks it's normal When part of the 1/8 in square tubing used on the 2007 robot is on a necklace that you never take off When you are invited to Prom by someone on WildStang in Atlanta and you wouldn't have met the guy unless you had done robotics When you try to get a Prom dress that would match the previously stated necklace When you no longer say "Awkward Turtle" you say "2108" **everyday occurance** When your iPod has more music from competitions than anything else and you don't find it unsual to start the Cotton Eye Joe or the Macarena in the hallways with your friends When all your graphic design projects relate to robots or FIRST or team numbers and whatnot When taking a roadtrip, you take pictures of mile markes and then post them on Facebook under team names receiving many comments from people very confused who don't do FIRST and a lot of celebratory comments from fellow FIRSTers |
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When you see Covington Drive or Dillard Lane...and you immediately think of the appropriate FIRST mentors and teams.
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when you spend a day in six flags comparing piston strokes on rides, taking bets on pneumatic or hydrolics, checking out sprockets, and planning a project on amusement park rides for class next year.
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When you get tendonitis in Atlanta in your ankle and have to wear a hot pink cast for 3 weeks and use crutches.:o ...but then you have your teammates and other FIRST friends sign it :)
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When you are at the Florida regional, and it is 2 am and you get picture messages from your friend that is running around the hotel taking pictures of room numbers that relate to first. (0103-our team, 1403-my friends team, 8020-what we build our robot out of, and so on. lol)
When you break a nail in the pit and instead of trying to find a nail file, you just resort to using the file that was just used on the robot. lol :) Cass |
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When you are driving a car and you think that you are on Ernestine driving your robot around the track.
Matthew Simpson Team 75 Driver |
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..When you refer to your robot as "him" instead of "it".
...When you cutting paper with a paper cutter, and you're thinking about making a robot similar to it, and you start designing a whole game around the paper cutter and paper cutter robot in your head. |
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...when you see a license plate that starts with the letters "CMU" and you immediately think of the CMUcam. (This happened to me today.) |
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When you walk around school looking for locker numbers of famous teams.
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[quote=lingomaniac88;747932]Room 8020? I can't imagine a hotel with 80 floors... :eek:
The hotel in Florida had multiple buildings, and in building 8 there was a room 8020. lol It's true. |
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When you are writing an english paper about society, and then all of a sudden you find your self writing about gracious professionalism and you even quoted Woodie. lol :)
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When watching Seinfeld, you get excited when Jerry states that the first three letters of his license plate are "JVN"
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When you have your first kiss with a FIRST guy at a FIRST competition... The only thing that would have made it better would have been it it was my first FIRST event. Thankfully I'm too in love with FIRST to have this year be my first competition :D
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When you go to prom and go out of your way to dance to all the songs they played at competition...
unfortunately they forgot the chicken dance :( |
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You are waitressing and the total for their meal is $5.55 and rather that saying "five dollars and fifty five cents" you say "5-5-5".... Then they look at you in total confusion as you realize what you just did.
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When you do the same sort of thing, only through facebook... When you have already gone through your academic calendar for your freshman year of college next year to figure out where you'll be for kickoff! (I'll be home in Seattle with good old 1983, before heading back to WPI and 190 after the first full week of build season (from my estimations...)) |
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Awww mitch thats cute, I have to say it. Well anyway You know you are in FIRST when Raul Olivera is you hero, yet you fear him.
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When after reading the 5-5-5 post
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...when you think The Greatest American Hero is a documentary about Dean Kamen.
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When you are taking your road test and stop partway across the stop line, but argue that you are in the clear because you did not COMPLETELY cross the line...
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-when in physics u start to see electricity and magnetism,and you think that the rest are noobs cuz u already know how to set up a circuit board. :D
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-when one of your teammates ticks you off, and so you go write a C program to diss him.
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-Even though the full-blown robotics season is over, you still spazz out when you see something imagery compliant or something that reminds you of your robot
-You sign your teammate's yearbook by drawing your team's logo, then writing about all of the good jokes you had during the competition season. -You're nailed in the shoulder while playing dodgeball in gym, and it reminds you of all of the things that fell on/hurt that shoulder during robotics (a drill bit, half of a manipulator...) -You wish that most of your team didn't go to the other school in your district, because you wanted to see what they'd write in your yearbook -You're wearing your team shirt in a commercial that you helped your 11 year old brother make for a class, and you hope that it spurs more interest in your team. |
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When you go to your friend/Captains graduation party and your first question is weather or not he will Mentor next year and late during the party you talk to another teammate about what the team plans are for the summer.
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When you go to a fellow members graduation party and when you arrive there are robotics members already there and you talk with them and you don't leave cause more robotics members come and arrive and you are talking about plans for next year.
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-You go shopping with your friend and you constantly make robotics references.
-You cry because your seniors are leaving the team, not because they are graduating. |
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- You realize that when you go to a team member's birthday party, nearly everyone there is from the team.
- When you first get onto firefox, the first website you check are Chief Delphi, Vex Forum, and/or FTC Lab. |
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You find your team number in the serial number of a dollar bill, and you no longer wish to spend it.
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When you read something like "chief diplomat" as "Chief Delphi."
This happened to me once... |
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You know you've overdosed on FIRST when:
Your'e a SOPHOMORE helping JUNIORS finish a project of ADVANCED EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!! and, you BEG the Adv.Exp.Sci. teacher to let you join the class, and he says he wisher you could, but since the principal cays no, can't let you (but still lets you skip other classes to work on AES projects!!!!! and, he guarantees that you'll get in to the class next year... YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!! (at which time you're planning to build either: a fully functional Tokamak fusion reactor, or, a high powered gaus or rail gun for protecting your future college dorm room... -Z |
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when you start looking for a compile button in microsoft word
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or when you try to compile HTML...:D
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When you leave a robotics meeting and are suprised its still light out.
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or when yo arive at the robotics meetind site (during the off-season) only to realise that you didn't really need to get up at 6 am saturday because there's no meeting today:(
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You find a pair of safety glasses in the garden!
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You see the Wall-E movie in your Tube Skirt..... and cry at the end of the movie
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when you cant stop thinking of IRI
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when you wonder if it would be possible to, using only first approved components, build a working version of wall-e...
that'd be fun... or when you try to build a hud display that works like ironman's visor... i think all you'd need is a couple of web cams, and a set of ipod video goggles, but i don't code, other than html, and i don't think i'd be able to write the software to control the goggles... and when you're surprised that the posing in this thread is slowing down after 1250 posts!!!!! come on, we have to hit 2000, at least -Z |
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When Wall-e comes out you call your whole robotics team and plan a date to go see the movie and afterward telk about how we totally could design a bot just like him :) 1251 down 749 to go
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When you not only can but do point out all of the flaws with the technology in Iron Man.
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Summer has started and you cant wait until it is over, because that means you are that much closer to Build Season. :) |
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When you count down the days until build season... already.
(Can't wait to recruit freshman) |
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you call all your friends who are hanging by the pool and drag them to your team's weekly summer meetings just to show them how cool robotics is.
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you lean over to get a drink from the water fountain at the mall and put your hand up to hold your safety glasses up
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...you start designing next years robot before the current season ends
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After a long day babysitting, you think your young charge just said "Let's Rack and Roll!"
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Watching Wall-E with the robotics team, you squeal with delight when everything follows the lines! LINE SENSORS! This makes all the small children in the theater look at you funny.
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When you realize that your mother sorted all of office supplies in your house using the yellow McMaster-Carr zip lock bags.
Ballpoint pens are in the "item 11 on the packing list" bag. |
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when watching Wall-E when he fixes himself and when Eve fixes him along with anything else you say "Thats what robotics for"
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When the fallowing thought go’s throw your mind "If I fall my senor year I could be a student again for the 2010 year then go to college" then you realize that your mentors will kill you for it.
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you want the car from "back to the future" just to go to the next build season
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4th of july, 3 day weekend, 85 degrees, you live on a lake, all of that and your'e working on the robot for IRI.
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When the first thing you think when you wake up is; How many days till IRI?
EDIT: Also, on the NEMO site, I found this somewhat fitting; http://www.firstnemo.org/PDF/first_competition_tips.pdf |
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You're watching "21" and you wonder if that's a CIM motor they're using to make the front half of their robot turn....
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~You knew what NEMO was before you opened the PDF, and you're not a mentor
~When you go through this and do the following: (quotes from http://www.firstnemo.org/PDF/first_competition_tips.pdf ....) "Color Coordinate your tools for easy access in the pits, say I need a 10/24 screw, where is it--oh, it's blue" ~Your team actually DOES do this (and oh my god, that makes things SO much easier) "Batteries don't help you if they're lying on the field" ~If I remember correctly, our backup battery fell off once during a match. That, and 3 of our 4 bumpers (though it's getting hard to remember what fell off when...those matches were PRETTY intense :D ) "Never forget your safety glasses" ~Yes, that's why I always have them in my purse, robotics season or not-robotics season (is there such a thing!? :ahh: ) "Always keep track of your stuff" ~Mr. Leslie needs to read this (he lost his car keys in Pittsburgh, so he left his car there, carpooled with someone during the 6 hour drive back home, slept, grabbed another set of keys and another person to drive him back out there, retrieved his car, and drove back home. We have students keeping track of his keys for him now.) "Designate a few team members to be 'team spokespeople' in the pit, and make sure they are always there to be spoken to" ~This is a team joke... "There is no cure or treatment for addiction to FIRST" ~Oh dear... |
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When you see the thread titled "team 228 can and bottle drive" and think "what kind of crazy drivetrain is that?"
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--When you're at Pep Boys for something unrelated to robotics and are sure you see a CIM motor, large size, in its original state.
--When you get a job at a go kart track and start trying to figure out:
--At said go kart track, there is no bumping on most of the tracks...so you think of it as "hurdler interference" instead of "bump to pass". |
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When you do a google search for "aluminum stick weld" and this CD thread comes up, and you think its cool. When you buy another pair of safety glasses even though you already own 3. |
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When you start making your own WALL-E cuz you know it can be done
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The altitude of your plane reaches higher than any FIRST teams you know, and you can't wait 'til next year. When it's 67 degrees outside and you say "geez it's HOT out" |
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-you ask your mentor if your team can build one and -when Eve fixes Wall-E you say that you want her on your team next year |
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boo hoo... -Z |
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on my adv. Geo-Trig final i used a few senarios from robotics to show i knew how to solve some problems, even though i was at a total loss without my calculator... evil teacher banned calculators on a geo-trig final... but i still aced the test, after supplementing about 20 of the problems with robotics problems... (trackball trajectory using sine waves for a coupple of them) -Z |
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...when you spend 6 hours at a bake sale on the fourth of july so your team can spend $100 on donuts during the build season... :p
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...When you have already sketched out, CADed, and priced next year's drive system and chassis, without knowing what the game will be
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You've been so busy with other robot stuff that it didn't actually click that you were going to IRI until you saw a post saying, teams are leaving FOR IRI.
You've managed to make the past 3 weeks a never ending robotics meeting at your house. (ok we got maybe 5 scattered days off) You have loads of things to do before you leave for IRI and you're sitting here writing about how you're overdosed on FIRST. Renee |
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When you recognize shopping cart wheels as Colsons
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When you count down the days till the CalGames (81 days!!!!).
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You post on the 86th page in a "You know you've overdosed on FIRST" thread.
You spend the summer making a Motorized Driver's Seat (aka GoBot) out of the robot from two years ago. And it actually works. And you drive it around the school during Gear-Up for the incoming freshmen. |
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When you go to your high school during the summer to tell your teacher that there is gonna be a new speed controller, after you stopped by her house and she wasn't there.
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when pizza doesnt look good because you had it all build season:rolleyes:
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when right after Championships end you start guessing what the game will be next year.
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No, no, NO. After the kickoff ends for the year you start guessing what the game will be the next year, while reading this years game!! |
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When you accidentally type "We would graciously accept" instead of "We would greatly appreciate" in a paper...
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wen u realize u judge whether u can date a guy by how much he likes the robotics meeting u bring him 2.
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when someone says "Which color do you like better? Red or blue?" and your response is "It depends on which teams are on the alliances."
This happened to me last night and it took me several moments of confused looks to realize that they weren't talking about alliances but about the actual colors and the person who asked me wanted nothing to do with robotics. (The blasphemy!) |
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You eagarly await the release of the competition dates so you can use it to determine your vacation schedule for next year.
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Or when you post in class....
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