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When you make the andymark logo on notepad...
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when you have enough team t-shirts to last you a week (at least) and only one is actually from your team
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You know when it is just a week before school, you have already had a dozen team meetings since school let out and you are trying to figure out how to add a few more meeting days.
You also know you have a problem when the team is growing to almost 50 students and its just that one lone teacher, you, wondering how to get them all to drink the cool aide.... |
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when you STILL have you sumbmission for rookie all-star on your desktop because you don't want to lose it
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when u call a teammate about what time practice is and end up talking over an hour about the team and robotics in general.
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You start swim practice and count by robot numbers... example-
1 2 3...14 15 Bomb Squad 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 (rest of the team stops) (Robot people keep going) 26 Rush 28 29 30 31 32 Killer Bees! (yes we are planning to learn more below 25!) |
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4 is Element and 7 is Team 007. 11 is MORT.
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when your math teacher is demonstrating a math problem in class and as you notice the fact that the answer is your team number (68:yikes: ) and you have to stifle the urge to start cheering as loud as you can when you notice that people might think you are crazy
(as opposed to showing up to class with orange hair (as opposed to your normal brown hair) and constantly wearing your team paraphernalia.):cool: |
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Team 8-vikings Team 5-Robocards Team 31-Prime Movers Team 28-Mission Impossible Team 9-Roboriders Team 21-Combbat Team 20-Rocketeers (I didn't want anyone left out) |
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You go shopping for a homecoming dress, and try a yellow one on--just for kicks. You end up buying it--not because it's yellow/image compliant, but because it actually DOES look good.
See, I WAS going to get black shoes to go with it, but my friend wouldn't let me :rolleyes: |
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Juggernauts, 2, 3, Element, Robocards , CogSquad (now 2239), 007, Paly Robotics, RoboRiders, 10, MORT, 12, 13, 14, 15, Bomb Squad, 17, 18, 19, Rocketeers, ComBBAT, Chatsworth HS, 23, 24, Raider Robotix, 26, Rush, Mission Impossible, 29, Fury, Prime Movers, 32, Killer Bees! Some of these have folded, but I'm going on memory here. I apologize for any incorrect entries. |
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When you make robotics jokes at Cross Country practice.
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You are watching an NBC news story about the flooding in Florida from Fay and you start screaming.......theres a Horsepower 801 shirt. Poor man is removing his belongings from his home and boat and I can only stare at his shirt and wonder if I've seen him at a competition.
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I have a robo-friend with me at swim (cough cough renee).
We crack robotics jokes and no one gets it. Now they just let us slide at the "robotics kids" |
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When your really sick and you sit outside in the heat for 5 hours to sell stuff for robotics....and you still say that you had some fun.
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You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
...You set aside a shoe box on your first year of robotics, filled with team memorabelia - and to start your 9th year in FIRST, you've got twelve shoe boxes. ...To start the new robotics year, you bought three goldfish and named them Woodie, Dean and Dave. ...You read over the entire FTC rulebook, even though you don't partisipate in FTC. ...You visit CD during the summer. ...The freshman to the team get lessons on power tools, teamwork, the build process, and The Cha Cha Slide. ...Numbers represent memories rather than the teams. ...You think Woodie, Dean and Dave should form their own three-man FRC team for a year. ...You include "Wrap the freshman in tin foil" as an idea for the robot. ...You design a team logo, and than design that one team's logo, and than that other team's logo - all because its fun. ...In each and every Internship interview you have, it somehow turns to FIRST and all you want to talk about for the rest of the interview is FIRST. ...It's a sport. No, I don't care what you think. It's a sport. |
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your chem. teacher mentions 12 doughnuts and all you think about for 10 minutes is Dave and a box of Krsipy Kreams |
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...when you could have sworn you heard Barack Obama say, "I graciously accept your nomination..." during his speech at Denver.
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...when you download and convert the match start horn into a ringer for your cell phone
(For when FIRST calls, at that... :) |
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Here are the ones that I have...now keep in mind these are the old school FIRST timer sounds...interesting stories behind these:
CHARGE.WAV - Startup sound from some version of OS/2 FOGHORN.WAV - Some generic sound found onlnie BUZZER.WAV - A recording of a space heater's "I'm tipped over!" buzzer (Stories from a reliable source...FIRST staff member) FYI - Sounds are in WAV format, convert as needed to suit your phone. |
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When you see TBA (To Be Announced) in a concert program and you wonder why it would mention The Blue Alliance.
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when you are posting on You know You've overdosed on FIRST when... instead of reading the book that is due the next day...
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or instead of that chem project...
and when you are trying to predict the date when this thread will reach 2000 posts... (i know it'll be before kickoff, possibly even some time in the next coupple months??? |
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when you see the new security fences at school and think "Great, now we have to go another way to get the robots from the engineering room to the gym"
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or you think about building a bot to move your bot over the fence...
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when you contribute a LOT to your college engineering class discussion on Dean Kamen.
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When you are jealous that you ^ had the opportunity to HAVE a class discussion about Dean Kamen in your engineering class...
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When you see the countdown to kick-off (111 days!), get really excited and say, "Wildstang to kick-off!!" without even realizing it until your sister asks you what you are talking about. :D
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amen to that... (so im not the only one who does that)
also, ... when you are trying to think of ideas for your football flinging OCCRA Robot and one of the sites you come across while Googleing football launcher is a FIRST team's and their kickoff countdown (kudos to team 230) makes your day while simultaneously depressing you because kickoff is still over 100 days away... |
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...you're doing research for a college term paper (about 'No Child Left Behind') and you come across an article which talks about a school where students build these battlebots** and go to a national competition. Curious, you google the school in question and find out that they do indeed have a FIRST Robotics team! And then you sit there and chuckle for the rest of the class period because every where you turn, FIRST is in the air!
(The article then states how this hands-on experience is what is needed with 'No Child Left Behind'. ) **This was a direct statement in the article, not my own word choice. |
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AND you e-mail them saying that battle bots is a degrading name for what they do.
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You know you're overdosed on FIRST when....
-You personally build useful inventions for your team during the off season that you really don't need, would probably be better off without, but just look cool to have. -You find yourself checking Chief Delphi at least once every class period, knowing you have other more important things to do. |
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You know your overdosed on F.I.R.S.T. when........
-You have the next season's game already figured out and have already gotten the robot designed and ready to build after the kick off. :] :cool: :D |
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From a NEMO perspective.
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you go to make a dinner reservation and you've request a reservation for 50! |
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When listening to the weather channel you notice that the background music is the same music used in the first 15-ish seconds of the "Get ready for FIRST" vidio.
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...when your car looks like this:
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When you involuntarily twitch upon hearing the "charge" noise.
When more of your music than not you first heard at a FIRST event. When there is a power drill on your coffee table. When you buy a laptop rather than a desktop entirely so you can take it to FIRST events. When you hate Mondays, not because of the normal reasons to hate Mondays, but because those are the only days we don't have robotics of any sort. |
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Or.....when are still playing the previous season's game on your practice field at the school or where ever you built it at.
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well, it's an A for effort anyway.:D
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When you spend more time in CD reading these posts than you have doing class work all year.
When you purposely try to create logical problems on your Calculus tests that equal to your team's number. When your friends think that carrying a wrench, screwdriver, and calculator in your pocket is a normal, everyday occurance. When your classmates tune out your conversations when you start talking in "robotics words", or words your team has made up and created a dictionary for. |
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-when you consider your robot as one of your own.
-when you are on chief delphi posting threads 24/7. |
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-You STILL!! can't have a conversation with any of your friends with out using a robotics inside joke every other sentence...
-You get werid looks from new members when a inside joke is said in normal conversation(design, programming, machining, logicistics, ect.), and everyone including the mentors laughts. |
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-When you have been sick now for over a week and still stay up till 1 or 2 in the morning reading all the posts on this thread.(i am almost completley better though)
- Even though you are sick and have been for over a week and you go to school so you can attend your teams meetings because you know if you stay home your parents won't let you go and you refuse to miss any meetings. |
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-if you are willing to the WORST THING YOU CAN THINK OF that is still just legal to raise money while trying to get sponsors so you can actually keep your team running.:yikes: :o
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-when you get excited when you see the word robotics in your economics book.
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I am still doing both of them.
- And because you were up so late and are sick you fall asleep in English class and the teacher is so busy reading that she doesn't even wake you up. -Even though you know you should try and get more sleep then 2 or 3 hours of sleep since you are sick but you are so used to getting only 2 or 3 hours of sleep and can't get any more sleep. -When you nearly miss your bus 2 times in a row because you were up til the time mentioned above -When because you were up til the time mentioned above your mom is taking your laptop and phone at 9:30 from now til the end of the school year on weekdays. Probably more to come. |
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-When you were up ti 2am or 3am and just realized instead of doing your math homework which is due in about 15 or 20 minutes you are on CD.
-When you hate that you have to leave for about 15 to 30 minutes to take a test and don't want to.(teacher has to go get my student id so not yet but soon.) But I will be back after til 11am. Then again maybe around 11:35 til 2:20. |
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- When someone behind you says a question talks about wire and you can't help to wonder what kind of wire and if its the same type of wire that you use for electronics
-When you are in class talking on AIM to someone from robotics when you shouldn't be. Thats all til after lunch. But more to come probably. |
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You know you're NOT overdosed on FIRST when...
You hear "comparing notes" and imagine two flutests debating B flat. Sorry. Couldn't resist being completely off topic.... |
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you sit in geometry class and make the FIRST logo with the shapes given to do your work by the teacher. |
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...When you're purchasing $4 Saitek controllers off a wootoff because you want to find out if they work with the new control system. (not me, unfortunatly, i dont have $4).
...When you recognize FIRST's calendar of important dates as a list of what-should-be National Holidays. |
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-When all you can think of his how much you will miss building and competing in FIRST competitions after this year because its your senior year in high school.
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When you wear a T-shirt saying,
"MY OTHER KID IS A ROBOT" (Seen yesterday at the Fall Classic) |
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- When you could be doing your math homework(due at (9:30am) since you didn't do it last night and instead you are on CD posting.
-When you told the teacher you had something you could do since you couldn't get on to the Foresight testing site in English class and even though you know she didn't mean this type of something you go on anyway. |
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...When someone on the team mentions that we should buy a team video camera and your dumbstruck why nobody has thought of that before, It makes so much sense.
...When you come up with an idea about a pop club so that you can save money from not spending it on schools machines that now have nonreal pop(diet and zero :( ). Plus it makes money for the team. |
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-Your homework problems fall on pages 108-111. Instead of writing those numbers on your paper, you write "108-Wildstang," and wonder if your teacher will notice.
-Also, today's homework problems are #1-33. "Juggernauts-Killer Bees", anyone? -When doing an ABCs activity on a forum that you're a part of...this is what happens: A is for Atlas, ASNI, Andy Baker B is for bumper, Balzac, Billfred C is for Charlotte, Chief Delphi, CAD D is for Delphi E.L.I.T.E., Dipswitch, DeWalt E is for Einstein, Exploding Bacon, engineer F is for FIRST, FRC, FLL G is for Gearheads, GAME, GHX H is for heart, "How the **** did you do that?", H.O.T I is for IRI, IFI, "I DIDN'T DO IT!" J is for JVN, Juggernauts, JaneYoung K is for Kamen, Koko Ed, Kramarczyk L is for love, lathe, Lavery M is for Mallory, Mill, MORT N is for nuts, newbies, NEMO O is for Overdrive, open-hole, overweight (robot) P is for PWM, Programming, Paul Copioli Q is for question, quality, quantity R is for ROBOT, RC, RUSH S is for Safety (Glasses), Susie Q, SegWay T is for TechnoCats, Thunderchickens, TTT U is for underweight robot, uh-oh, UPS V is for vise-grip, Viking Robotics, valuable W is for website, Woodie Flowers, William Leverette X is for x-acto knife, xanthrochroid, X-Cats Y is for yellow, Yin-Yang, Ypsilanti Z is for zucchero, zipties, Zondag (Charlotte, Atlas, and Balzac are all 1189 robots. Mallory is our Build group leader. Zucchero is Italian for 'sugar,' which we survive on during build season) -Mark Kramarczyk links that post as his favorite when the list is posted on the team forums -While doing chemistry homework, you remember that Cd is the symbol for Cadmium because Cd=Chief Delphi and CD=Robotics=CAD(mium) |
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when you are in advisory and your teacher partners you up with a freshmen and then makes you play a game where you have to draw a number of shapes, and then your partner has to draw a shape, and then you have to dictate what you have drawn to your partner, and then you start explaining how to draw the first logo. (lol for some reason my freshmen drew the logo going in like a diagonal direction.)
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-When you have 2 homework assaigments due at 9:30 this morning for one class(teacher already mad) and are still posting on this thread cause you are trying to avoid doing the homework as you don't really understand it that well. :(
(Still don't get it!PROBLEM!)(Anyone good at math?If so please email me at kthimm1@gmail.com)(teacher definitely mad, need to get it done somehow) |
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...when you find yourself accidentally ending your sentences with ";" 's;
...when your favorite excuse for not doing something is "i gotta go work on the robot" |
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...when someone on your team knits you a winter hat that has the FIRST logo on it with your name and team number on the back. It's awesome, (i'll upload pictures). THANKS MEGAN
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When your science class has to do a project concerning racing (sown) moles, you try to think of ways to disguise your robot. Then came the vex kit...
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You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you go to cut your nails but you can't find your nail clippers, but yet you look over at your toolbox sitting in your room and think, ah snips that will work! |
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...Google puts up the archives from 2001 and your first thought is to go and look up FIRST and your team's old website. (It's actually pretty cool.)
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You've posted in this thread at least 3 times.
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When you are at a math meet in the middle of a round and suddenly you have a very strong urge to start screaming some robotics chant, but you have to suppress it!
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...When you get people looking at you and you hear people wispering "Look at his hat" to one another. Because you are wearing your new(3rd) FIRST Hat that has fiberoptics in the logo that flash while you are walking around stores and parking lots.
...When you tell Radio Shack that they don't have the right type of resistor for your hat that has LEDs in it, and of course it is a robotics hat. ...When you are programming a Fantasy Robotics League Website during the entire Physics class in the classroom instead of working on your Forces packets that there will be a test on the next day on that stuff. |
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...When you know that the CD version exists. ...When you are that into Fantasy FIRST... |
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...when you look at a trackball enough times and think...i want to make my prom dress out of a trackball and dont care about the tread marks on it, because it gives it more "love":D
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... you add metal supermarkets to your cell phone contacts.
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...every other word out of your mouth has something to do with FIRST...no matter what the conversation was about :D
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When in your CIS History class your teacher says the year '1816' dealing with what he is teaching and you got so excited that you bursted out "The Green Machine". The teacher paused for a second but continued on and some of the kids just shake their heads at me(them not being in robotics but knows me and robotics and knew what I meant).
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... you car a team uniform in your car just incase you need to give a presentation to a company to get another sponsor for you team.
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This one is more for the adults,
You plan your wedding for the holiday season because you know not as many team activities will be going on and then plan your honeymoon so you can be back in time for kick-off. Who knew FIRST was such a good matchmaking organization :) |
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