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Being the good kid you are you call your mom everyday when you get to school and tell her your home*.....
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and i donno who said it, but the one about pitching a tent at the build site... I considered sleeping in a bed of duct tape (we had used and crumpled up) and staying there all night, telling stories to our robot. lol :D oh, and when you are inside your build site so much you forget you have 1+ feet of snow.. or what snow is.... |
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... when your world history teacher reads the class an opinion editorial article and when it mentions Dean Kamen you excitedly turn to the 2 kids in your class on your robotics team and all exchange huge smiles. and you all have to refrain from jumping out of your seat and screaming "YES! FIRST DOMINATES ALL!!!" :D
(heres the link) FIRST DOMINATES ALL!!! |
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When your kids join robotics just to remember what you look like.:eek:
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...when your world history teacher is reading the class an opinion editorial about the economy and teacher salaries and youre not really paying attention but when the article mentions dean kamen, you excitedly look at the other 2 kids from the robotics team and exchange huge smiles. and youre so excited that you must refrain from jumping out of your seat and screaming, "FIRST ROX UR SOX OFF! I LOVE DEAN KAMEN!!!" :D
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-when you set your alarm to wake up at 4:30 so you can get into the shower before anyone else.
-when you hear the words woodie or flowers and think "gracious professionalism." -when you are in math class, someone yells out a number and you wonder where that team is from. |
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when ever you get a answer for math homework you wonder what their name is and were their from....
You told your new members about buttons, and they go i can keep them in ziplock sandwitch bag, you laugh and don't tell why... |
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-when you are constantally looking at the clock to see your team's number that will never show (2:88)
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when you carry a pair of pink safety glasses in your purse at all times and offer them to students who you feel need to be safe...haha
when all you do is talk about robo in comp sci when you get to school and the first thing you realize is that you did none of your homework because you were on chief delphi all night when i got caught working on fleece designs and sweatpant designs for our team in history class when you text inside robo jokes to friends when you go to school and want to wear pink tights underneath your skirt instead of the white ones (probs on the Robettes...katy?) more to come... |
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-your parents just assume you will be home around 10pm every night
-your diet for six weeks is pizza. -you spend eight hours trying to find orbit balls -you can't think of anything to do after build season because you are just so use to Robotics -Chief Delphi is a quick link on your browser -you have a long list of Robotics quotes that seem to last forever |
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when you think about failing on purpose to do another year of FIRST
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When you reply to this original post
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When you go to AndyMark to pick up parts and end up staying for an hour and helping them unpack 1200 wheel bearings.
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When you see the roman numerals "VI" on a website and instantly think of Labview.:yikes:
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When someone at work asks if you spent more time on project X, project Y, or Robotics this week... and he already knows the answer.
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...whenever you get an answer for math homework you KNOW what their name is and where they're from. |
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You definitely know you've overdosed on first when you wash the aluminum shavings off your hands AFTER you eat dinner.
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I think MIT has been overdosing on FIRST today. I was handing out our class of 2012 sweatshirts at an event today, and I had CD open on my laptop. Someone waiting for their sweatshirt walks up, goes "SWEET, Chief Delphi, anything new?", and proceeds to open up a few threads. Then, while I was walking down my hall in my dorm, I passed a group of people discussing the merits of shooters vs. dumpers and what will be more effective in the 2009 game. I love MIT. (:
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Put in a good word for me?:) |
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when you leave your home (the place where your family lives) and say goodbye, I'm going home (referring to school cause of robotics) without really realizing that you just did that.
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...when you're having a WWI lesson about the different alliances and everytime the teacher mentions "alliance" you automatically think "alliance?!"
...when the teacher asks "What's an alliance?" and you think in your head, "a set of 3 FRC teams that work together during a match...." :D |
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When you kept flipping back to chiefdelphi out of habit yesterday.
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when you stay up all night to check who will post the answer you need on Chief Delphi:yikes:
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When you put your clock to military time just so you can see your team number once a day.:rolleyes:
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2:88 never shows up... i always wait for it though!! |
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When you have a FIRST game piece as part of your room's furniture... Ever since 2005 I've had a blue tetra from an official field in my room.
I've found it makes an excellent place to toss hoodies or drying towels! I'm actually kinda curious to see how many other people have game pieces in their room... |
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when your heating/ frying day old krispy kreme donuts on a scrap peice of aluminum on a hot plate.
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so instead I stopped the stopwatch feature on my watch to exactly 6.92 seconds! (and refuse to use it to time anything because I don't want to mess it up!) |
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...when you continue to brave the cold inside our shop to keep coming to 9-5 meetings on Saturdays (darn GM weekend shutdowns... seems just the area we are in is cold...) and i too wait for 68 but it too will never come... but i continue to laugh whenever i see 1114 on the clock |
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no, i cleaned my room the other day and found a whole bunch of screws, nuts, bolts, ect.. in my room |
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-You sketch robot/electrical designs for fun when you're bored.
-When you close your eye's at night, and dream that you're back at Nationals. -When you choose your class/job schedule just to accommodate FIRST. -When it's 3am and you're still working on the Electronics Board :D |
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when you have gone from drawing dragons to Robotic dawgs in less than one month of joining robotics
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Right when you close your eyes, you start imagining your robot being destroyed in various ways.
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When you watch "I, robot" and wonder if your bot could do that.
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I did too, and the whole time I was thinking "dude.. I wonder if that would be legal" |
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how long it would be until we can create adaptive intelligence in computers? |
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When you are learning about the Constitution and you keep applying it to FIRST. The Constitution would be the rules, the Amendments the Team Updates, the Supreme Court cases would be the Q&A, and the founding fathers the GDC
Only, I don't think they sent out game hints... |
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When you miss fighting about designs only to have both of them fail.
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when doing a sideshow for a school project that depicts yourself growing up, the second half contains almost nothing but robotics pictures...
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- You have AutoCAD inventor on your PC
- Your Backpack is covered in team buttons |
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When, playing combat dodgeball in PE, you keep thinking about making a robot that could grab bottles from the baskets, pick up small balls from the floor and hurl them at others.....and that had to be legal, meaning you can't extend beyond the perimeter of the box!
(I was slightly alarmed when that happened to me :D ) |
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same when they got me a USB mouse that fits on your finger!!! the stuff in the background of the pic (attached) were also great x-mas presents, the redish thing is a Korg KP3, and the thing with all the knobs is a BCDJ3000 usb dj controller... fun for robotics, as it outputs in usbmidi, which the control system can read... plus, who wants to work on cad without music... -Z |
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Same here, my got me a really nice caliper set, and some ball end allen wrenches. Only problem I forgot them in Utah =[ |
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When you are best friends with the janitors because you are still there when you are building
When you get to see the janitors leave and you are still at school not planning on leaving yet |
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You need something to hold your hair up after you spent an all nighter at school so you use a screwdriver
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you walk to school in the morning with saftey glasses on, and noone thinks its abnormal
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There are more safety glasses on your dresser than in the shop from accidentally bringing them to your house.
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having no life cuz you are at robotics all the time. friends and family have forgotten my number, cuz i never answer my phone
you know the build site's number by heart, but not your own cell |
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When you dont get home till around 9 each night, school or no school, and you find yourself to be looking forward to the next day because your hoping your robot will be done by then
When you get really excited and yell random YES's when something gets done right When you lookk at anything mechanical and imagine what type and how much programming went in to making it |
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...the first "person/people" to wish you happy birthday is chiefdelphi.....
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... when you get a pink hexbug for christmas and you just think it's the cutest thing. (it's the one bug i'm not scared of!) :D
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When you waited a week to get the 1501st post since it is your team number only to miss it because you were wiring a practice bot!
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Hello everyone, my name is Z, and i overdosed on FIRST. |
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When you're sad that this thread dropped off the list on the CD homepage!!!!!
-Z |
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I'm waiting to be post 1735.
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Post 166 has been long past...cry
When you look at a robot in a game or movie and wince at how much programming would go into its AI. (WOPR, I'm looking at you and your unrealistic-at-the-time AI!) |
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when you followed Dave through the pits in order to get to a clearing for a picture. as for the WOPR, i really wondered why there was about 1000 flashing lights on it. it did not seem like they could be interpreted in any way for anything useful. |
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"Greetings Professor Falken
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?" ilshifoomsad...but I never got the point of them either...OMG! It's binary! Better read fast! ...when Chief Delphi is your homepage. |
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when you watch the FIRST video during kickoff and realize numerous members of your team are in it
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no fair, we thought we were in it (some of our members came from another team), but later found out it was another team...
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You know your overdosed on FIRST when most of your favourites are Chiefdelphi threads
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When pizza hut stops calling your phone when they go to deliver to the address of your location to ask where exactly you are, what door to go into, and everything else, and then also bring plates and crushed pepper and parmasan cheese topping when we had never gotten that before. Lets just say lots of pizza has been ordered.
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You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you tear apart robots from past years to build the new one
When you're on Chiefdelphi during EVERY SINGLE ROBOTICS MEETING |
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When someone ask's you: "what's today's date?" and you automatically reply 329. Last year, at the SPBLI Regional, the final day was our teams date. And we're proud to say when they annoucned the chairman's award winner, they ended the speech with "there's only one question to end this with; what's today's date?" Twas an amazing day.
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...you hear something non-robot-related, and get completely confused because you're brain is still trying to relate it to FIRST.(i.e.today someone mentioned getting a new trackball for his computer--my first mental image was of a giant red Overdrive ball sitting next to it)
You find yourself conversing entirely in C++("Okay, it's while targetAquired...no, ParticleAnalysisReport declaratiog at the if boundary") |
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when you sit on Chief Delphi refreshing every few seconds to read the new quote they have for Valentine's Day on the top of the page, reading aloud to your mother and sister, and then putting it on your facebook in your quotations part of your profile :)
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....it's been a year since you had your blue hair, and even though you are no longer part of a team, you want to dye it blue JUST because you're volunteering at a regional.
....you're volunteering at a regional even though you are no longer part of a team. |
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The guys on your team are trying to order pizza using C++ and they're arguing about the best code, not the best pizza place!
Trying to Help |
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You start suffering from what I call "post-robot ship syndrome". Something that has consumed your life the past 6 weeks is gone, just like that, you worry about things like FedEx trucks spontaneously combusting, and (best case scenario) you're left for at least ~1.5 weeks with a mediocre stand-in [aka a practice bot] :]
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...someone asks you about FIRST over TeamSpeak, you start going nuts explaining the program, it's founders, the fun, the stress, then linking them to your team website and the current year's animation.
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you start drooling over all the pictures of the new 09 robots.
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when you hear "I Wanna" by AAR and can picture the robot youtube video made for your team....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz8Pk...e=channel_page |
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The response 'magic' doesn't cut it to the old question 'how does that work?'
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but, magic blue smoke does :) ...
lol... everyone knows that all electronics are powered by magic blue smoke, and if the blue smoke decides to come out of the electronics, then it just don't work no more... -Z |
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or when you get all pumped just from seeing pictures of Atlanta :cool: |
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when you go and play lasertag with annother Robotics team [W00T GO WOBOTS!!!!] and include several chants... [lets go red team! *clap clap clapclapclap*]
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When driving home from a competition at 11pm, you look up at the drivers GPS and you see the vision target.
A team member and I were in the back seat on our laptops, I glance up at our mentors GPS, it outlines the road in the same shade of pink...and all I saw was the vision target, for close to a minute. |
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-You hear a number, any number, and you look down to see a scouting sheet with their info.
-You feel naked without your safety goggles. -You memorized the pit. (note: 1 and 3 of those are scout/strategist specific) |
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When you suddenly realize you're on an alliance with 71 against 1114 and 217 in the Championship finals... And wake up in Health class.
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when you try to plug your laptop into the washer to try to get your laundry to start.. the stupid programming must have been erased............
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When told that there is no meetings you don't know what to do with the free time but try and build a robot
then the day after shipping you finish your last class and think to yourself "O.K. I finished my last class of the day...(stand at locker for a few minutes) what do i have next... (1 min later)... o YEA i get to go home and have life" |
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When you still can't accept the fact that you're not going to nationals. And it's not because you had an awesome robot or because you felt you "deserved" to go. When it's because your schedule just opened up and you don't know what you'll do with all that free time...
When you get home from a competition and need a tool and you turn to grab it from it's location in the pits. When you reference the number of safety tokens you earned to a FIRST team. (We had 47 :D ) When you know you're going to spend 3 days on your feet, you're going to lose your voice, run on sugar and adrenaline, eat the world's worst food for your body, and get NO sleep, and you know that you'll still be fine. When you've considered a failing your senior year to spend another year with your team. (Instead, I think I might take a gap year between hs and college.) |
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You replaced the picture of your girlfriend on your phone's background for one of your robot.
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lol this one is my coach's!
at the airport, when talking on the phone with annother mentor, talking about the B.O.M. [bill of materials] and having security pass you. you pronounce B.O.M. as the word bomb. security.. well, isnt very happy with you! |
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when your at work and every other total your almost positive is a team that was at the regional you went to or one you watched the webcast of
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-when you close your eyes and see robots running into each other
-when you still think winning your first regional was just a dream -when upsetting the 1 seed as 8 seed and winning said regional made your more excited then when you beat your HS football rival for the first time in 11 years |
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When you catch a bit of a football game in the hotel lobby, see the coach on the sideline, and think, "Hey, where are his safety glasses?!"
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When you Stay up all night writing grant applications to various organizations, get dressed, go to work, and realize that it is Sunday when you set off the Alarm!!!
48 Hours without sleep and still writing... and it's almost coherent!!!:yikes: |
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When you have worn a hole in the arena floor from the pacing back and forth hoping you are watching your first regional win ever!
Oh my aching feet! |
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you spell ATLANTA in all caps
you pray for the competition and your entire class knows what you are talking about because you've said it so many times |
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