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

when you work on creating your pumkin design for halloween, and that design happens to be the FIRST Logo.

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

.... when you have graduated 6 months ago, but you still go to your team meetings every week.

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

When you are trying to convince your doctor that if he is going to do surgery then he needs to do it NOW......you need to be fully recovered by Jan 3rd!!!

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

...When you have an entire section of your team's robotics manual devoted to learning the appropriate way to dance to the music played at the regionals, specifically Cotton Eye Joe. We don't have this in ours....yet!

[EDIT]: Wow, I've succeeded in killing it for a few hours. Woohoo!

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

haha that is hilarious :D i can see myself doing something like that :D

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

...My entire team lives off of dibs during build season.
and I just realized that DIBS doesn't seem very Gracious or Professional

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

When you have a letterman jacket that says West Babylon Robotics
and
you have a countdown timer until the kickoff on your desktop

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

When you have a count down to kick-off on a teachers white board who isn't on the FIRST team:D

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

When I do that, the post above, wrote in my planner a countdown to kickoff, remind everyone whether on the team or not how many days to kickoff, have a program in your calculator that always counts down until kickoff when you turn it on. And I could keep going, I've been waiting for kickoff since we got last years game, I'm already counting down to next years kickoff: 52 days 17 hours 0 minutes 55 seconds to kickoff111 :eek:

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

When you are dreaming about next years water-game, and you sketch drawings of the "Perfect Robot" for that game.

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

...you have tried multiple times to convence your fiancie to let a past robot be the ring barer, or in the wedding period.

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

When on twitter the people you follow consist primarily of people from FRC teams across the nation. (http://twitter.com/aschreiber)

When a date with your gf consists of building a vex robot and discussing another vex robot with her father. Or for that matter, going to said gf's house and spending 2 hrs helping her dad debug code for his vex robot.

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

when you start making a vacume cleaner out of random shop pieces

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

When you go shopping at Wet Seal and buy a robot shirt, wear it to a robotics meeting, and can't wait to show it to all your FIRST friends across the country : D

When you dress as a FIRSTer for Halloween and use colored Zip Ties to hold back your hair. **No one understodd what I was. I was sad.**

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

When you have an AP US history test tomorrow, and, although you know you ought to be studying, you can't seem to tear yourself away from your PowerPoint presentation for potential sponsors. (The war of 1812 is irrelevant anyway, right?) :D

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

... when you are depressed that Facebook dosn't have an app that has the countdown to kickoff... (will someone make one of these?)

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

I noticed this, but I did add a countdown application and set it for Kickoff, but it still isn't quite the same.

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

when you reach over the pick up an allen wrench, and you can tell whether or not the allen wrench is the correct size by simply touching it...

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

The plot-line of the movie Stealth reminds you of when you programmed autonomous.

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

Oh my god! I just noticed that, and it's SO true! :ahh:

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

wow. so true. i've been hurt so many times by our robots running wild in auto mode.

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

When you're hearing all this talk about weddings, and you make sure to tell all your robotics friends that if anyone ever plans on proposing to you that it better be at the national competition.

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

Trying to one-up someone, huh?:p

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

Nah, any robotics field is fine, as long as i can say, "I graciously accept" :p :yikes: But I have to say, that picture is adorable.

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

Man, whoever thought that up is my hero...

... when you are pumped up for atlanta... and it is still a month away from kickoff...

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

When your non-FIRST friends know what 39 days, 12 hours, 19 minutes and 52 seconds means.
:D

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

When you are on CD and posting on CD at your cousins house on Thanksgiving. And when you tell your family about some stuff like Deans inventions and other stuff when you talk about things at the table. And many more things but then I would be on here for hours posting.

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

You get into a huge fight with your parents because you think that "being to sick to go to school" is different from, "being to sick to go to robotics"....ggrrr

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

I actually got away with this once...had the day off school because I was getting all of my wisdom teeth taken out, but despite the painkillers, i still drove to the meeting at our sponsor that night...

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

I was given an ultimatum, if I go, my dad wouldn't go.. and he was the mentor in charge of the preseason workshop today...

Thus the next best thing: surfing CD :D

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

When you start speculating on a game hint that hasn't even been released yet.

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

VEX related technically but still...

when your parents think you're dating every guy in the robotics team
when you have to explain to all your non-robotics friends as to why you have a roll of duct-tape and zipties in your handbag
when it takes you five minutes to actually think of any non-robotics friends to justify the above
when your grandparents come to your house to visit and ask why you're at home
when your teachers have stopped asking why you werent in class
when you walk around the school quietly in a sleep-deprived state waiting for a class you can get away with skipping
when you sprint from one end of the school to the other (while recieving weird looks from everyone you pass) just to get that precious extra 2 minutes on the robot
when you and your team spend every lunchtime in the robotics room even when you have no robots to build
when your robotics mate's older sister (who happens to be your hero [other than Dean Kamen :L]) is standing right behind you and you dont even notice because of the heated discussion you're having with the mate on who's robot will be finished first
when you can write all this stuff even though you havent had your rookie FIRST competition yet
when you have heated debates over whether cardboard team signs in the VEX competitions have to be made of 'vex cardboard'
when you program your calculator so that you can make notes about robotics during math class (then i had to clear the memory for an exam and cant remember how i did it :()
when you complain that your internet cord doesnt stay in and all your friends immediately yell 'DUCT TAPE!'
when the one person who doesnt suggest duct tape starts explaining in great detail how you can fix it 'properly' and everyone stares at him like he's mad
when someone at an event hears you talking about Delphi and asks if you know who <insert screen name here> is.
when your immediate response to the above is 'well she IS my teammate. if you like i could recite you her weekly schedule'
when you've rebuilt your VEX robot so many times that you start informing everyone that when you finally get a FIRST number, your rebuild-count will be higher
when you walk into your class after lunch - late - wearing your safety glasses, because you forgot to trade them for your normal glasses, and have to run back to get them
when you dont care when everyone laughs at you for the above
when you log onto Chief Delphi in in the middle on the night and are disappointed to see the 'Nightly Backup' notice
when the seniors at your school go on study leave and you suddenly find yourself a loner because all your junior friends are non-robotics friends and refuse to hang out with you within a month of a VEX competition
when you dont care about the above and spend all lunch in the room anyway, fiddling with gear and tank-tracks
when you no longer laugh at the word 'joystick'
when doing a project on cults in english class, you seriously start to wonder if FIRST is a cult - then decide you wouldnt care even if it was
when you cant wait to get your team number so you can do the things that people posting here do
when the worst threat you can possibly make to someone is 'I wont give you the small allen key!!'
when you come up with detailed plan of how to survive six weeks at school so that you dont have to go home

[The great thing about liking someone in your robotics team is that they've already seen you at your worst, and you cant shock them with ANYTHING anymore :D]

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

Your computer has a countdown program telling you how many days, hours, minutes, and seconds until kick off and ship.

Your robotics friends constantly remind each other in the halls guess what XX days XX hours till ship!

You still arn't completely sure how many button you have becuase everytime you count them you find somemore

You sit in class reading wiring diagrams, and blueprints for silent reading. And your teachers don't ask anymore.

When you are called out of class the teachers just say, "Robotics?" And you nod.

You forgot about christmas and is more concerned about kickoff.

You have Chiefdelphi as your homepage.

Your calc. teacher directs question to you.

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

You make an enormous FIRST logo cookie for a Christmas gift.

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

... when you get depressed still thinking, darn, it's still 12 days, 23 hours, 59 minuets until kickoff starts

... when you have a ton of posters in your room and most of them are robotics related

... when just watching old 2006 videos get you so pumped for competition that you stay up until 2 in the morning just rocking back and forth trying to think of new ways to get the team out there and how to get more sponsors...

... when your robotics friends complement you on your newly dyed orange hair while your non robotics friends laugh at you, and you honestly don't care

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

That cookie is epic!

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

....when your a rookie at FIRST and your attempting to get all Six weeks of homework done over winter break

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

...you hit the refresh button constantly within the first week just to see how much the page number increases per minute.

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

-when your more excited about kickoff than christmas and new years

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

... you know Gracious Professionalism isn't just a buzz word, its a way of life

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

I plead guilty

-When you start sketching ideas for the robot in geometry so the teacher thinks you're doing the work

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

You make sure you have a zip tie on your christmas tree.

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

I totally agree, and the cookie tasted awesome!! (I wish I didn't have to eat it, I wish I could of kept it :( , but oh well)

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

When talking to your friend, who is the former captain of your team, and you think about having a FIRST Robotics themed role playing game. And even go as far as creating the name Dungeons & Dean.

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

... when you start poling the War Craft 3 community if they know about FIRST then get excited when one of them has heard about it.

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

...you know youve overdosed on FIRST when it:

1. FIRST comes up in normal conversation

1. CD is the top bookmark because you use it so much

1. You spend all your free time in the robotics room trying to fix last years robot, getting the camera to work, figuring out what the clues mean, and reading CD posts.

=] ~~this is all me~~ =]

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

When, for you, Kickoff is New Year's Day.

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

...when you take this idea to the Diablo II community after reading about it here! (I don't suppose you play DII also?)

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

Holy Crap, Christmas:eek: , I totally forgot! I still haven't gotten any presents!

Oh well, at least the robot's prepped.:)

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

^
|
To true, I do that a lot. You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you invent a game of your own, and actually start programming for it, and pretend that you only have six weeks to finish it, just to pass the time (six weeks to be exact)

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

1. Chief Delphi is your homepage
2. You have more visits per day to CD than to either Myspace or I Can Has Cheezburger.
3. You get the music from the 'Life is full of firsts' video stuck in your head.
4. You open 3DS Max more times in one week than any computer/console game you own.

I'm guilty of all of these. I just watched the above mentioned video, and I had that gut feeling of both nostalgia and longing for kickoff to hurry up and get here! I need to get up and go to the high school at 5:30, but I'm sure I'll never get any sleep beforehand.

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

Top Bookmark???? its my homepage!!!! (not really) ;)

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

CD actually is my homepage for build season

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

Just build season, CD IS my homepage year round, 24-7, why wouldn't it be.

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

Huh, so i'm not the only one doing that...

And


Sorry, no i don't. i prefer RTS games to FPS.

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

Christmas and new years? what's that... the only holiday i can think of for a month in either direction is kickoff... am i missing something huge?

oh, wait, my outlook calendar has them listed too, i wonder what they are?

time for wiki!!!

but first, time for caffeine...

-Z

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

When you think of making an Overdrive level for LittleBigPlanet

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

When you think of making an Overdrive level for LittleBigPlanet

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

You take all the stickers from the KoP and affix them to anything you can (I currently have a couple Jaguar stickers in my room).

Or when a few members of your team fight over who gets the stickers...

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

when your family gets you a toolkit for christmas....and its like the coolest present ever.

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

...You're playing on your Wii and your Mii has yellow and black* clothing
...you're talking to one of your friends about how amazing the Wii Fit is, and you find out that her Mii is yellow and black too.

*We on 1189 are too obsessed with our team colors for our own good...even my shoes/laces are imagery compliant!

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

When for the past few years(since joining robotics mainly) you ask for tools for you birthday and Christmas as they both happen right before kickoff and think of what tools you need for robotics on what you want.

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

When you get on CD before opening presents on christmas morning

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

the electrical guy just got done looking at the electrical panel model in inventor, and goes to build the actual thing. So he walks up to a mechanical guy, and without even realizing at first says "how could i constraint this?" (True Story lol):rolleyes:

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

when you see safety glasses hovering infront of you constantly even if you are not wearing them

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

when you have the Overdrive buzzer sounds mixed into songs on your ipod.......



anyone else have the little mixer for the ipod classic? its so cool:D

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

I was sitting in traffic with one of my friends and the car in front of us is not moving, and it should be. He suggests: "Bump to pass"...he was not joking.

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

OMG!!!!! I have done this sooo many times!!!! :yikes:

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

AXEL GREASE AND THE ORANGE SOAPY STUFF! <3

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

When you:
-Pull out your graphing calculator after a test to graph, while everyone else is playing games on theirs.
-When you figure out the equation to allow any pair of wheels on your soon to be omni-bot to be at full power in Language Arts.
-When you are proud to say that you have successfully programmed a prime number generator on your graphing calculator.
-Don't pay attention in Math and Science classes since you have already learned it in two months after school last year.

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

When You can't sleep because your anticipating kickoff.

When the air coming out of your car vents starts smelling like a machine shop, and instead of getting worried you take a big whiff and think about kickoff!

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

...your various account passwords contain your team number.
...you're on winter break in China, and stay home reading this thread rather than going to see the Olympic stadium.

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

no, Dykum (the red stuff used to mark metal...)

that stuff's trippy... jk, always wear a respirator, or at least a mask...

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

...when your parents get you safety glasses for Christmas

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

YES! BEST SOAP EVER!!!! :D

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

when your mentors are trying to get you to stop working on the robot so you will eat, and you say "just one more bolt!"

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

When FRC Kickoff Year means more than New Year

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

-when you copy and send this to your friend cause you can relate to almost every one
-when you just love hearing the word robot
-when around your team, non-robotics personel have no idea what you are talking about either due to the inside jokes or robot lingo
-Your coaches don't call you by your actual name anymore, just the robotics nickname
-when your parents finally stop asking what time they should expect you home and just ask for you to let them know when you're leaving the school
-When you develope a twitch during off season

I FREAKING LOVE FIRST ROBOTICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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

When you walk into your house at 10pm and your mom asks where you've been since 6am and all you can do is grin and say "It's build season".


When your mom understands completely.

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

-When you go to your first competition (even off season) and come back with 4 hours of sleep
-When your non-robotic freinds don't understand half the jokes you tell
-When you start Christmas break thinking kickoff is almost here
-When you stay up til 2 on Cheif Delphi despite the fact that you have a Bio Project Due the next day (and history homework)
-That remonds me; I gotta get to work

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

-you take speed reading classes in the off season just so you can get through CD threads or the rule manual faster
-you're on CD instead of sleeping
-your dates with your significant other (not your robot) happen at build sessions during FIRST season

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

-All during kickoff with all the speeches you say "that must be a game hint" and basically all the ones you pointed out, did have a good connection to the game(even the not so settle ones that they said)
-When you got no sleep the night before kickoff because you are to excited, editing and placing member photos on your website that you just took, and more and yet I'm on CD after 1 in the morning and show no signs of stopping soon.
-When it was the day or two before New Years and people ask what are you doing, and then you reply I forgot that there is a new years because I've been thinking too much about the Robotics Kickoff.
-When the janitors at school have stopped asking you WHY you need to get into the tech ed room because you have asked many times before and have answered Robotics.
-When you make sure you have a new, full ink cartrages for printing of the manual, and other related forms for kickoff.
-Don't know why you are on this late without sleep for the past like 39 hours
-Are going to work on the remaining member photos you got today for website and upload photos to website from kickoff tonight, I guess now this morning.
-Think that you should stop this but you can't, but now I am

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

when you stay up til 4am on January 4th because that is when the Live Kick-off Webcast starts (NZ Time - GMT +12 - go figure)
when the Kick-off you stayed up insistently for is for a competition that you dont compete in un til June :p

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

... when your room is littered with machine parts and your sleeping with a screwdriver and sautering iron (<--- i'm pretty sure that's spelt wrong) in your hand next to your robot

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

when you hear it's going to snow and you say "it had better not! we can't miss another day of build for SNOW!"

your family stops asking where you'll be or what you're doing.

your physics teacher teaches a lesson about the cofficient of friction and you say "that's lunacy!" and start laughing hysterically while everyone just stares at you and wonders if you need a doctor (you do).

all things moon related make you start thinking about the cRIO.

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

You cleaned your room and found; a spike, 2 t joints for pneumatic tubing, and a 30 amp fuse.

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

When you have nighmares about rule G14

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

~when you wake up late, realise its sat., and you have missed an hour of robotics (I love robodawgs ♥). you then proceed to bike an hour in 6 or so inches of snow to get to the last half hour of robotics
~when in your first competition, you see Wo-Bot. your first impression is "AWW!!! HES SOOOOO CUTE!"
~when you get a stomachache when you dont have pizza and coke for lunch.
~when you realise that many of the new rules come from past events from your team (ehhehe)
~when you have a bag full of sharpies, alen wrenches, 3 pairs of saftey goggles, multiple nuts, screws, ect. , and 20 of your teams buttons taking over your school bag. you decide that your textbooks really arent that important.
~when you get multiple tools for christmas and are overjoyed
~when its a snow day and your sister complains about missing a feild trip. you begin to bawl hysterically because robotics is cancelled.

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

When you think your team/you are the cause of so many new rules... because basically every memory you have is about FIRST. (I promise though, it really wasn't us who caused these rules.)

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

when you wake up at all hours of the night with new ideas for robot designs, right them down, then cant sleep because they arent perfect


when you wake up in the moring and cant interpret what you put down for a robot idea last night and it bugs you all day


when you finally remember what your notes ment way after the meeting when its no longer relivent

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

when your school cancels all after school activities, and you immediately text your robotics teammates that our meetings cannot be canceled.

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

You leave your house to go to school and your cat looks at you funny and tries to follow you (like she always does). You tell her, "Sorry, you can't come with me. I'm going to go home now."

(Yes, I have conversations with my cats)

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

-When you find it more practical to pitch a tent in the shop and sleep there
-You and your team cry when you get a new school building, and have a shop no more
-You switch from going door to door to sell Girl Scout cookies to asking for money for robotics

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

The first thing you think of when you wake up is "What am I going to do at robot club today?", spend 15 minutes thinking about it, find yourself wide awake, look at the clock and find it is only 5:00am and you should sleep for another hour. But there is no way THATS going to happen.

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

Maybe the problem here is on a more fundamental level than just "overdosing on FIRST"? ;)

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

SIMILAR STORY (well not really but it also involves cats):

when you can't say goodbye to your 40 inch trackball from overdrive (named Clyde) so you bring it home and leave it in your room, only to find that your cat has made it his new bed. :D

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

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you don't even know what the word "sleep" means.

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

Until the second the robot ships, and then you remember they joy of it.

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

Your wife becomes a robot widow so that you can help mentor a team and she agrees to officially move Valentines day till after the build season.

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

you dont see your family anymore... and forgot your dogs name