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

Oh, I never would have thought. :rolleyes:

When I am playing soccer and keep thinking that you could save so much work if you could rebuild 2010's robot.

When swimming in water polo (right at the end of build season) and cannot stop thinking about the robots that are going to be unveiled in the coming weeks. This causes you to miss instructions and have to do more swimming as punishment, so you get to think of the robots again... a glorious cycle. :D

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

When you're still going to robotics meetings, even though you've graduated and thus aged out, because you can't think of anywhere you'd rather be on Monday and Thursday nights.

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

You have read the entire thread for the 4th time to make sure you haven't forgotten anything.

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

you're on chief delphi in the middle of the summer..

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

When you stay up all night wake up in middle of the night and come up with a new design for your robot

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

When you do that several nights a week....during the summer.

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

Yes needed to add that

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

When you feel that Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, and Kevin Durant of the 2012 Olympic team should be replaced with 341, 1717, and 2056's 2012 machines.

When you think that real basketball should have a bridge balancing element.

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

When the first two people you meet at the University of Michigan were in FIRST Robotics.

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

You know where you have six pairs of safety glasses(1 in my marching band locker, 1 in my school locker, 1 in my bookbag, one in my mom's car, 1 in my dad's car, and 1 on my bedroom shelf) and still are disappointed over losing the seventh pair.

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

When you have a pair of safety glasses in each purse you own (all eight of them) and two in your car
When you spend so much time in the schools front office working on your teams marketing/business plan your schools director asks you if you live in the schools front office.
When your teachers asked you to write all the things you've done in the past for your team on a sheet of paper and normally people only wrote down two sentences and you wrote three pages listing everything you've done for the team

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

When you hoard all the good safety glasses(7 iat school, 5 in my backpack, 6 at home)

When you help a fellow FIRSTer writ his English paper about FIRST.

When SLFF becomes more important then Fantasy Football.

When you talk about robotics constantly on Facebook with members of other teams.

When a quote from those talks ends up in your CD signature.

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

When for some reason you get half of the FIRST online community asking to revise Koscielski's paper.

When your plan of talking to tons of FIRST people on FB to get other non FIRST people interested actually works (+6 new members).

When, once again, something you've said ended up in Joseph's signature (He takes that stuff seriously)

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

...when you brought a cake to the robotics meeting before your regional and it said "Happy Birthday" on it but you didn't care that it was your sweet sixteen - you just wanted an excuse to treat the team
...when you would rather spend time with your significant other working on the robot than going out on a date
...when you say a ten hour bus ride to St. Louis and back without working air conditioning or heat and being sick as a dog was "THE BEST TIME OF MY LIFE!!!!"
...when your friends outside of robotics have stopped talking to you because you can only talk about robotics and you really don't mind
...when you realize you never fit in anywhere until you joined the team
...when you realize you spend more time in the wood/metal shop than at your own home and talk to your teammates and mentors more than you talk to your own family
...when you think the team is going to kill you, but you realize it probably saved you
...when you eat junk food for half a year yet manage to lose four jean sizes
...when you replay every moment since you've joined the team and find yourself in tears
...when you realize that when you graduate, you won't cry because you'll miss your friends or your teachers - you'll cry because you'll miss being on the team
...when you stop calling the people on your team "friends" and start calling them "extended family"
...when you only go to school because there's robotics that day
...when you stop explaining "sportsmanship" to kids and call it "Coopertition" and "Gracious Professionalism" instead
...when you're convinced every moment from the time your team won that finals match at your regional has been a dream
...when you hate physical contact but you cry and hug your whole team when they win said regional
...when you realize the robotics has made you a worse student but a better person

There are so many more, but this is my initial list.

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

... you cry not because You graduate from HS but because you are leaving your family(team) :Cry:

P.S. I Love you and miss you guys (Go T.E.A.M) 932