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When you fully realize the team name of the post coming after this, and hopes someone from that team is hungry enough to post it.
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....when your college has a floor for the FIRST mentors from your school.
Clarkson FIRST Living Learning Community ... best. thing. ever. |
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This one needs a bit of explaining...it's a paraphrased version of a chat conversation between a certain Alex Dinsmoor and I while playing an online game. The current course was called "Robot vs. Bear"
Me: ROBOTTTTT! Alex: The robot would win, of course Me: But then there's Da Bears... Other player (non-FIRST): Chicken? Me: And then there's the SimChicken Wranglers... Alex: That's EXACTLY what I was thinking! So basically, when things like that happen :) And Libby, I'm super jealous! |
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When you're watching Star Trek and you realize that the forklift in the background is utilizing a mecanum drive.
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you know you are addicted to FIRST when...
-you read all 128 pages of this thread and realize that it is all so very true -you take your senior pictures with your robot from your junior year -you have last year's robot sitting in your garage because you have taken it to so many presentations and robotic summer camps -your friends threaten to kidnap you from robotics on your birthday because it's the middle of build season and they know you want perfect attendance -your friends refer to you as safety captain outside of robotics -you have multiple pairs of safety glasses in your purse -you have multiple non-team shirts that have your team name and number on them that you designed just for the fun of it -your mentors text you at all hours of the day giving you updates on sponsor presentations -you and your best friend become team leads and the only thing you talk about anymore is FIRST -your family doesn't see you for 6+ weeks during build season because you go straight to the buildsite after school and dont come home until they are already asleep then you leave for school before they wake up the next morning -you refuse to date anyone who isn't on a robotics team -your family no longer knows anything about you, they just know everything about your team -you spend all your time thinking of new things to build and new ways to try to recruit sponsors -the FIRST thing you tell your boss when you get a new job is the days you need off for competitions -everything in your room becomes related to FIRST in some way -you convince your parents to become mentors so they will stop complaining about never getting to see you -you choose where you want to apply for college based on the location of FIRST teams in the area -you go on vacation to visit family and are disappointed that you can't find any FIRST teams in the area that you can visit -you think about the major possibilities of starting a FIRST team on an Air Force base when you go to visit your brother who happens to be in the USAF -while thinking about starting a team on your brother's base you ramble about FIRST to your brother until he gets up and leaves the room -you spend the majority of your vacation time on CD -your team wins a regional and you are more excited to be taking home the Gracious Proffessionalism award -you combine pits with the rookie team next to you at competition so that you are better equipped to help them -when the judges ask you as safety captain about the safety procedures of the rookie team you are helping because there are more members of your team in their pit than in yours -when you spend your entire summer working on robotics -when your team no longer knows which subteam you are on because you have worked with all of them -when you beg your parents to let you stay home while they go on vacation so that you wont miss anything robotics related -when your team calls you FIRST to get another team member/mentor/sponsor's number because they know you will have it programmed into your cell phone -when you have a box in your room dedicated to other teams' buttons -when you have a collection of stuffed animals from competitions that you have been to that was started by a friend on another FIRST team -when you find out you are going to be an aunt and the FIRST thing you think about is what FIRST team your neice will be on when she is older -when you check USFIRST, CD, and your team website as often as you do facebook and your personal email -when your closet consists of mostly your team colors plus a shirt or two that you haven't had the heart to get rid of because they are from your well meaning relatives -when you have a necklace with a limit switch on it -when your school plays cotton eyed joe during every passing period for a week during a fund raiser and you as well as your teammates are dancing down the hall to class -when you stay in a hotel as soon as you get to the lobby in the morning you automatically start singing "G-O-O-D-M-O-R-N-I-N-G, Good Morning, Hey, Hey, Good Morning" whether you are with your team or not -you have more pictures from robotics than anything else on your computer -you have all of the FIRST promo videos as well as all the videos of your team from competition on your computer ... i think i should stop for now. more later =) |
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when you are speechless from reading that last post
when you realize that the only reason you know 5 different computer languages is because of FIRST when you find out that you get at internship (at a biology lab) because you know LabView when you get bored at that lab and (using labView) figure out how to take a picture of your brain with an ultrasound machine :) when you fall asleep at night and dream once again you are at a competition when you spend 4 weeks of your summer planning and running 3 different FLL robotics camps when you keep the program from Atlanta in you backpack at all times when you look around and realize that so many things around you deal with robotics when you check CD every day during the build season when you check CD every day when it's not the build season when you start writing apps for the Palm that deal with FRC scouting when you realize that you picked all your high school classes based on STEM whenever you see and triangle, circle, and square together, you think of robotics when there is so much to write, you cannot put it in words. p.s. (when you realize this is a quick reply) |
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...when you clock out at your job and without trying the time lands on your team number(22:07) and then you start jumping and shouting with excitement scarying the other workers and then have to explain.
...when you are still helping with programming the website while at college ...while waiting in the forever ending line at target when all the college students got target to themselves and Cotten Eye Joe starts playing on the loudspeaker and you start dancing while in line. |
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I was playing a game of scattergories with my family, the letter was C, and a cattergory was awards/ceremonies, and chairmans award was the only thing that popped up in my head...
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You know your son is overdosed on FIRST when...
...he comes in the door and announces that his room number in his college dorm this year will be "ThunderChickens Special" (217). Of course, we knew EricH was way overdosed already. There is no cure! :) |
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.... a post like this gets 145,000 views.
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... all of your stories now start with "this one time at robotics..."
... all of the competitions your team will be attending as well as your friends' teams will be attending are on your calendar as soon as you sign up ... you have driven a half hour to get robot stickers from hobby lobby so you could finish your robotics scrapbook ... you actually have a scrapbook dedicated only to robotics ... the FIRST thing you tell the new girl in school when she asks about you is about your team ... you have different contact groups on your phone for your team: mechanical, electrical, business, mentors, parents, sponsors ... you have a contact group on your phone for other teams ... you plan your social life around robotics events ... you determine which classes to take which part of the year because you don't want your GPA to drop during build season |
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When you randomly ask people at freshman week if they're into robotics...
When you've found someone from 175 / 111 / 2753 so far... |
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When you take off time from robotics and skip meeting just so you can spend time with your family so your mother won't take you off of the team. |
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When on your keyring you keep a flash drive with all your CAD files. :D
(When typing files you accedently put first... :D ) |
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... when you look at the last three digits of California* license plates and wonder if you know that team from somewhere.
... and you keep a tally of how many teams you know. I'm winning. * - also works with any other state |
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... you and a friend fight and one of your mentors helps work it out because it's bad for the team
... you spend your free time during the summer planning the team open house ... you automatically invite your mentors to hang out with you and your friends when playing ultimate frisbee or sardines ... you can break down in front of team members but not in front of your family because your team has been more of a family to you the last couple years than your real family just because you haven't been home ... you haven't eaten dinner with your family in months, but have had "family dinners" every few weeks with your team |
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-When your friend tells you to stop talking about anything that has to do with robotics around her. You are scilent for almost 5 hours. what makes you talk? A house number of 216 [Robodawgs II]
-When you are at a football game where you dont think you know either team. Then you hear the school name and realize.. "Hey! They have a team!!!" |
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when you are checking out to see where people are from that are going to have their name go to mars, and you jump with joy when you see one of the states have 2207 residents have done it.
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When most of your after-thoughts are "now where can I post this on delphi..."
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... when you move half way around the world (NH to Sydney Australia) and the FIRST thing you do is start the continent's first FRC team! (really, look at this thread!)
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-When your friend posts a facebook status about Haagen-Dazs cups, diet Coke, and Crackerjack, and you launch into a discussion regarding it.
-When you realize that you know more robotics people from other teams than you have team members -When you have a three-way twitter conversation regarding robots, a FIRST team member exchange program, and not letting SoCal students drive in MI winters |
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When you accidentally skp mealtimes 3 days in a row, fall down, and resort to eating that lost cheese curl from 2 weeks ago you found under the toolchest. :eek:
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when you shamelessly push FIRST on strangers that you meet that are in any field of business related to FIRST.
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...you see a tomato truck driving down Interstate 5 that has the number 330 on the back of a bin, and point it out to your spouse.
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When you are walking down the street to drop your brother at the babysitters before going to your bus stop and you realize the house across the street is your FRC team # (I havent looked for FTC yet lol)
when you are sad that youll never look at your phone and see your team # because either you are asleep by then (23:33) or the time just doesnt exist (36:79) when you read this and all you can think is "i remember the time that happened to me..." hahahahaha were all addicts!!! we need FIRST ADDICTS ANONAMOUS!!!!!! (sp?) |
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When you're at an MIT admissions thing, and are upset that Woody Flowers was apparently there and you didn't see him...
*cries* |
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OOH I've got one of those on the 17th!
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When you keep seeing all of your Wisconsin friends make mean-spirited comments about 'Da Bears on Facebook, think they're being rather rude to a great robotics team, then realize that they were referring to the football team.
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you have fallen asleep, head in laptop. And when you wake up, you were running LabView, and firefox (chiefdelphi)
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When while following your cousins soccer team in New Jersey, you go home and see if their high schools have FIRST teams.
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When you're at an event and looking at the year long schedule and thinking "those three dates will conflict with build season" and then you hear the folks behind you discussing the same issue!
OK, so it was an event about teaching students engineering but still! :) Trying to Help |
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...you go to your BME professor for academic advising, she asks you why you went into engineering, and you promptly launch into an enthusiastic twenty-minute explanation of FIRST and robotics.
...you're at college, and when meeting new people, you ask if they were on a team in high school before you ask their names. ...your first paper at college deals with FIRST robotics in a completely serious and professional way. ...you haven't entirely figured out your weekly class schedule but already know the meeting times and places for the college robotics team (not quite FIRST related). ...everything reminds you of FIRST robotics in the college robotics team, of course... |
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When you're playing an RPG and you're upset when your XP is just under or over your team number
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When you're playing an RPG and your damage always seems to be 1306 per hit
When you feel guilty for not wearing your safety glasses at all times When you cringe whenever you hear the words "chains" or "dumper" |
Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
...your status is "My heart is about to burst," and someone thinks it's because you got asked to homecoming... but it's actually because you're going through pictures of your team that you make your heart swell up with pride.
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When the number 111 starts stalking you... Your lab drawer in Chemistry, the seat you have at the football game, the numbers of letters in a text to your FIRST friends....
When you go to your first engineering class in college and the first people you meet are FIRSTers : D |
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When you see a kid at lunch wearing a Thunderchicken's shirt and you freeze up trying to figure out what is going on.
P.S. im still in high school. |
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When you flip out because you found out that 33 squared is 1089. :o
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If I saw someone at my school wearing a Thunderchickens shirt, I'd probably worship them. And if they're not a "real" Chicken, then I'd ask them how they got it :P
*worships Karibou from afar?* |
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I meant to add something about "still worshipping them" to the end of the line. :)
You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you've thought of this kind of thing before. |
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When a college comes to your school and asks you to fill out weird things, you stray off topic, tell them about FIRST, and tell them to contact you if they are interested in getting involved.
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When you spend your math class converting FIRST team numbers into binary (11000011010!) When your non-FIRST friends get sick of hearing of your story of how Dean Kamen signed your shirt When your FIRST friends get tired of hearing your story about how Dean Kamen signed your shirt |
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When this is your Facebook FarmTown farm.
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(mostly for the folks who compete at GTR or Finger Lakes) You see the movie Surrogates and upon hearing that one of the shut down codes was "772" you immediately turn to your friends (fellow FIRSTers, of course) and you all say: "77 WHO?!"
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When meeting new people at college and getting their phone numbers, you can't help but scream when someone says "217.." or "330..."
When your Chem TA asks you about the aluminum square necklace you have and you debate if you should tell him or finish the lab.... Lab came first, then I talked his ear off!!! : D GO FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!! When you go to football games and get confused when people aren't cheering for alliances... Then realize you're a total nerd. : D When you bring 8 rolls of colored duct tape, your tool box, and colored zip ties to college and are known as duct tape girl. SUCCESS!!!!!!! |
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...you see a truck on the freeway with "FIRST" written in huge letters on the side. You slow down and take a closer look, only to realize that it also says "Freeway Incident Response Safety Team," and you are extremely disappointed. True story.
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When your school projects are in team colors because its the most readily available color in your house.
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and when this joke is funny;
Once Dean Kamen talked to Wave Robotics. He stretched their meeting on so long they missed IRI. -Chris is me |
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When you go to a summer camp (I live in the southern part of the world) and you realize half of your conversations end with "It's a robotics thing..."
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When the nicest dress you own was gotten for robo-prom
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When you fall asleep think up posts for this thread!:rolleyes:
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When you move and you are dissapointed that the number is 5 away from your FRC team number but waaaaaay happy that house #2333 is right across the street ^-^
when you are walking home and you notice that one of the lightpoles is numbered 2333 when you are at work (I work fastfood at Taco Bueno) and you go to give the customer his total and you realize its $23.33 and you proceed to tell the customer and the people youre working with all about your robotics team when right after you gush about your team to the customer you print out an extra copy of the receipt for yourself just because it has your team number on it (hahaha the customer and fellow employees laughed at me... i think i might be addicted a little!!!!) |
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when you have this many(look at my sig) frc shirts and find time to wear them all and thats not including sponsor shirts that are given away at champs:D
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when your friends come to visit and the only thing you talk about the entire day is robotics fund raiser ideas your teams have.
when your email inbox only has emails from your robotics team when you have more text messages in your inbox about robotics than any other topic |
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-When your coat check number from homecoming is 48, and you spazz and start discussing with your friend how awesome it is
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-when you stay awake at night because you can't stop thinking about how to make everything you own black and orange. GO TECHTIGERS! GO 1251!
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OMG that's cool!
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when on the last day (night?) of build season, you get kicked out of the school...because they shut down the power.
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When you remember your student number because it's 3 team numbers.
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Oh, right, different school.:p Now, it'll be funny if whoever is in 217 at your school was on a FIRST team, funnier if they were on 217. |
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when your team can win highest rookie seed two years in a row at CalGames :D
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Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
... You freak out because Dean Kamen is in the latest Popular Mechanics Magazine
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When you think to yourself, "HMMMM, is there more to life that FIRST?":rolleyes:
the answer is yes |
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When you take a trip to South Carolina and have a connection flight in Atlanta, Georgia and as you are landing, you start to point out things like the Georgia Dome and the mall that you ate dinner at before Robo prom. And then you feel extremely sad because you wish that you could take a picture, but they have already made you turn off all battery operated electronics.
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when you sit in class every day and read this and think wow i love first !!!!
when i cry thinking about how this is my last year on the team... :( |
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When you try to use other forums and then can't because they are not CD.
When you see a bar across the screen on a forum and you think to yourself, "That should be CD Orange" When CD Orange is an actual color in your mind. (As is 233 Pink and Moe/Chicken Green) When you have to plan what events you are going to just so you won't go to too many and stand a chance of passing your Winter term classes. |
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..when.. "this one time at band camp" becomes "this one time.. at a robotics meeting..."
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When you are hoping your pancake breakfast fundraiser won't conflict with anything cause you're just so excited to participate...
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when it takes YOU significantly less time than it took me to figure out that CD stands for "Chief Delphi" :o
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You go an entire week without being on CD and then freak out...
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The same thing happened for my team last year >.< about 7/8 of my team was in the band! (so to be exact 3 members on my team were not in the band.) |
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When you make everything clear (like 1714) to continue a pun from another thread.
(I left the enters to be more obvious) |
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- when you have a fever of 103 but you go to school so that your parents wont keep you from going to robotics that night
- when your robotics team tells you to go home and you refuse because you have too much to do before the next meeting - when you finally are forced out of your build site only to go home and work on more robotics stuff |
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This is actually something that happened to my mom today:
There was an unknown laptop and bag in our van today after my brother was driving around some friends and she opened it up to find if any identification was in the bag and after opening the first pocket said, "Oh, it's someone from robotics!" and she pulled out some type of software CD from itellitek. |
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When I am going to skip most of Halloween (personally one of my favorite holidays) to go a robotics competition. Brunswick Eruption ftw!
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Agreed. Can't wait for River Rage!
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-when you check the FRC blogs everyday
-when you planner has every day marked tell you how many more days until kick off *In addition when you go up to your team mates and tell them how many more days there are unitl kick off eveyday* |
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When you can't tell the difference between yourself and the robot
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You are helping your friend create character sketches for her creative writing class, and you have the most fun plotting the characters' futures because all you do is find ways to get them involved in FIRST :)
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when you go to toys r us to find new design ideas.
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you insist that you take your senior pictures with the letterman that you got from being in robotics most specifically FIRST
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When you keep a tub of K'nex for "prototyping" design ideas and have won arguments with a k'nex model.
yea 2000th post:p |
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