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

I think the picture says enough...
Just realized that I forgot to write in 447 and 1732 :(
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Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you came in to the season not knowing what an Allen key was…
… And now you don’t know how you couldn't have known that
When as soon as you see Frozen you start parodying Do You Want to Build a Robot immediately
When your team goes to Championships, but you stay home… and you’re on Spyder all day in school
When your friends know about as much as you about FIRST, mostly because you can’t shut up about it
When you see team numbers everywhere
When this is your FIRST year, and all the posts in the thread pretty much apply to you…
…And you can’t wait for next build season

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

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you go to a competition every week, even when you are not competing.

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Let me tell you about the dream I had two days before Battle of Baltimore.

I had a dream that our team was out on the field about to shoot when a robot that had a razor sharp piece of metal built onto its chassis ran into us and cut the surgical tubing we use to steady the ball once it's been picked up. Later our team found out the the robot had been built specifically to cut that length of tubing on our bot and only our bot. The team was disqualified, but we couldn't shoot for the rest of the competition. I then woke up at around 2 am, muttered some gibberish about needing to pack extra surgical tubing and then fell back to sleep.

Conclusion: I might need to take a few days off. :D

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

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you still are designing robots for FRC when you are in college.

Also, I had a Lego Mindstormers project in my engineering class and it had to follow a line. So I put a PID loop and threw away the regular example code. Only FIRST people got what I did, I just confused everyone else, even the TAs

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

... when you're in a hotel lobby where you're staying for your daughter's wedding, and you see a couple people in purple polos, and you think, "What team is that?" And she thinks the same thing.

(Yes, the daughter that some of you know - congrats Brittany and Blake.)

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

...when you look at the clock randomly and think, "It's 3:59. I know that team!"

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

When you have nightmares of the interactions generated by people yelling ROBOT in the pit area

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

When you try to think of your address and replace your house number with your team number. (I live at 2375 West Maldon-- Wait, no I don't!)

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

...when you remember your university ID number by taking your team number and rearranging it a bit and adding some other numbers.

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

When you are listening to music and you think, "Hey, that would be a good reveal song!"

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

When someone asks you for your number and you just say your team number...

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

... when you're listening to music, and instead of trying to remember the name of the song, you immediately search for the robot reveal video containing it instead.

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

When you scream at a classmate, "If you tamper with my baby's drivetrain, I will dismantle your 3-D printer piece by piece!" Also, when you refer to the robot as "my baby".

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

when your passwords for everything are your team name/number