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...When you wait for your team number to show up on your clock.
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... when after you graduate from high school you are still addicted to CD & visit it regularly
... when after graduating you find not one FRC team, but THREE to mentor ... when you rearrange your college class schedule so that you have the most time possible for mentoring ... when your family gets you a scrapbook with robots on the cover & robot ornaments for Christmas ... when you stay up for 48 hours to set up a FLL tournament, judge FLL, and then tear down the tournament ... when you are so involved with the teams you now mentor that, after meeting you only 3 months ago, the students call you their "big sister" ... when you are already trying to figure out how to take time off of work for the Michigan FIRST State Championship & the FIRST World Championship because you will be back in your co-op term at that point ... when you went to the Google map of all the FIRST teams & added 4 teams because you knew all the information for them off the top of your head |
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When you write more posts on these kinds of threads then anything else.
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... you experience "robotics snot" (the collection of dirt/sawdust/metal shavings you find in your tisssues when you blow your nose after the build season).:D
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...when robotics meetings are the highlight your day
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you get a call from Akron OH and the first thing that pops into your head is Beach Bots.
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When your on this thread waiting for 6:00 to come so you can get to another off-season meeting!
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When you have a custom Chief Delphi search button (with RSS feed of new threads) for your Google Toolbar. (Now I have no excuse to skip searching before posting!)
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When you're using a dual monitor setup and have a web browser on both windows... both open to CD (on purpose D: )
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Your food gets overcooked because you punched in a team number on the microwave...
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You strive to park in your teams numbered parking spot (103)!
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when you and your friends all have Robotics themed Facebook Profile Pictures
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you spend the remaining days before x-mas constantly updating chief delphi waiting for the 2011 game hint...
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You try your hardest to come up with the solution for the game hint even though you know from past experience that you do not have a chance.
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When you get 2 text messages first thing in the morning warning you that said hint is out.
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when after waking up at 9 this morning, you debate going back to sleep while casually checking CD on your phone, only to find that the first post in the recent activity list is "2011 Game Hint #1"
so much for that plan :p |
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When you procrastinate on your homework until 9:55 just to read each and every post on the hint thread.
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... Google toolbar lists CD's Game hint page as the most visited website
... You've read every single post on the Game Hint thread and you've never done FRC (and there's a good chance I never will... (I don't think there's much interest at all (besides me) where I live...)) :( |
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When you get home from the hospital right after getting your tonsils out and the first thing you do is log onto CD to check the latest posts on the 2011 hint thread!
:o Although I cannot talk, my fingers are in prime condition! |
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Your the only kid today who was saying 17 days, while everyone else was only saying 3 days.
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u no u still have the First Fever from the last Atlanta chamionships when - 8 months later u wake up and automatically put on ur safty glasses |
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When you read the posts you missed since last posting, and reach up to your head to see if they are on, and discover they arent on. you go to get cereal, pour the milk and the milk splashes up only to get stopped by the safety glasses you had on your face, not pulled up onto your head.. then you realise you didnt take them off from the roboparty you had last night til 11..::safety::
When you check your most used words on Facebook and #1 is GDC and 2 is safety with 3 being glasses.... -.- |
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when you're in college and you pack 20 credit hours into the fall semester so you can take fewer winter classes so you can have more time to mentor your local robotics team.
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...when you wonder why everyone's celebrating 15 days early. |
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14 days til Kickoff! Oh... Err.. and Merry Christmas.....
[oh boy that should say enough...] |
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when you log onto CD 3 times on Christmas day! :p
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you are a rookie coach and you are already losing sleep even though it isn't build season yet.:yikes:
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...when you realize that since the beginning of this school year you have not worn a single non FIRST related shirt to school
...when you spend all day reading this thread because you cant get your mind off FIRST ...when you've had a countdown on your desktop and igoogle to kickoff since Atlanta ...when you keep searching CD every 5 minutes for "2011 game hint #2" ...when you wonder why so close to kickoff there has not been a post in nearly 3 days |
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All you can think of while driving through St. Catharines is "1114 1114 1114 1114"
...the same thing happened while relatives mentioned "Simcoe" in a sentence. |
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When I am more excited for kickoff than my birthday...
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When your Christmas gifts are new work gloves, safety glasses, and enough cases of Coca-Cola to last through 6 weeks of build season.
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When you set your homepage on Chrome as the Kickoff Countdown Clock. :D
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During the New Years Countdown televised from Times Square you realize that you could play a full match from 2:30 minutes till, and at 0:20 minutes till you would be in the finale stage.
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....everything in your life between January and March is not based on times or dates, but rather what robotics meetings or competitions they were near.
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When you start telling time based on how many weeks into build season it is.
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When Firefox says you visited CD 54,919 times.
When Firefox says you visited usfirst.org 15,181 times. And I only got this computer in October. |
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I have a series of countdowns on my desktop lined up for the following
- Kick-off - Suffield Shakedown - Robot Ship (Bag&Tag for 1071 this year) - CT Regional - Champs Edit: In case you were wondering Kickoff- 5 days Suffield - 47 Days Ship - 51 Days CT Regional - 87 Days Champs - 114 Days |
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You know youve overdosed on FIRST when you and a team mate who are 15-16 walk into Lowes and know exactly where to go.
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When you are dying your hair blue and orange for the season(:
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...You firmly believe the GDC will actually be sane this year. >.>
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You have a clear-cut way to explain FIRST to anyone who asks what it is in one sentence.
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When hearing your parents say you can't participate this season makes you cry.
And you're still can't stop thinking about the Game Hint, even you know you can't play. |
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...when you get back to school you are telling time by how long it is until kickoff.
...when your remind every person on your team you run into during school how long it is until kickoff. |
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...when you know exactly what your teammate's going to say today, and make sure you don't run into them.
...when you open your mouth and say "five"...and your teammate cuts you off with "I know." |
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...when you notice that all the blue alliance banners in our signatures are not showing up.
...when you discover that the blue alliance is down and start frantically wondering why. ...when you become very happy when tba is back up 6 hours later. |
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Oh countdowns. Theres just soomething magical about watching time melt away to some of your favorite days of the year.
Probably already been said but: -when the KOP is like a late Christmas present -When February Break (for schools that have it) isnt really a break, because it's almost ship date -when you spend your spare time watching the game animations from prior seasons |
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When you get instant email notification on this thread.
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... you have a countdown on your phone/computer till kickoff, and the world finals were yesterday.
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...when you've been listening to sandstorm in a loop for the last hour and are not tired of it yet.
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you read this whole thread. BTW 4 days
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the only time you get to see your girlfriend from Jan-April is during robotics meetings, and you will be spending your 6th month anniversary together at Championships
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when your girlfriend knows that she will not see you out of school for at least 6 weeks. :rolleyes:
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.you hear an add for Sprint 4g and when it says FIRST constantly you want to yell at it cause its not first FIRST is first
.you run up and down the halls at school during the day finding fellow robotics nerds and telling them the second game hint then jump up and down and hug and scream. . when you look forward to being anti-social for 6 weeks .when you spend a better part of your machine shop class on chief delphi . when your surgeries are scheduled around robotics . when all you want for christmas is the new rule book |
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When you read this thread.
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...a mentor from Lockheed Martin comes to a pre-season meeting and mentions how everyone at the company has been talking about the test chassis you've been completing over the past month.
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...when your dad says he would expect you to get married at some techie place 'like the Georgia Dome'. ...when you hang out with a couple of first-year team members for an hour after the meeting ends, reminiscing about past FRC seasons and listening to them planning how to build a box-stacking robot [they would seize on that idea....]. ...when kickoff is starting to look like a huge reunion. |
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....You feel the need to be down in your shop all the time, even if your not doing anything (I see to be down there every chance I get)
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...when you post on this thread because no one has in 24 hours.
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...When finally having a day when your not visiting the shop in pre-season feels weird
The week after Build Season will be torture... |
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When you wear safety glasses to cut onions
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...when you're so used to having safety glasses on that you get all the way home before you realize you never took them off.
...when you realize since you joined your FIRST team you have recorded every practice and match your robot has been in, on season or off. |
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I can't sleep... I'm waiting for kickoff so I am browsing the forums when no one is posting anything. Oh can't wait to wake up at 5am on Monday for morning lift...
Oh wait! Kickoff is in another day! Oh darn it |
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..... You wake up thinking today was Kick-Off, sadly it was not :(
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- you have http://frc.heroku.com/ 24/7 open since it was up.
- when you are counting the secounds to the kickoff months ago XD - looking on andymark's every day. - you get home after the paper arrives. - your teachers hate you (:D) - you have a bag filled with Souvenirs from first competitions. - when your friends see you early for school and ask when did you arrive and you answer "yesterday, i think". - when you lose you sense of taste from the food that your mentor ordered. |
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... friends come up to you and ask, "how much time left until kickoff?"
... you realize that you are waiting for something that takes up hours per day of your life and yet you are more antsy then when school is out. ... you have three copies of the encrypted pdf manual. ... when your phone background is a picture from setting up a previous match. ... when you go to bed at one because you are on chief delphi and arent tired because you are excited for the kickoff at the end of the week. Thanks FIRST for engulfing my life. :) |
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By request....................
'Twas the night before Kick-off, we’ll call it Kick-off Eve, No team knew what challenge tomorrow conceived. The guesses were many but none were for sure, The enthusiasm was high and the excitement was pure. The students were restless as they went to bed, While visions of robots raced through their heads. Flowers knew the challenge along with Kamen, Tomorrow the rest of us would find out, AMEN. The long awaited answer to what we would do, For the next six weeks would soon come true. Our mentors and team have been working for weeks, Teaching our CNC group how to produce the many tweaks. Showing our mechanics how holes get tapped, Instructing our controls team on not getting zapped. Our programmers were contemplating autonomous control, While our drivers thought about their manual role. Our challenge I’m sure which will be first rate, And in just six weeks it’ll get stuck in a crate. Off to our first regional for 2011, To a competition that will be just like heaven. There’s work ahead building our robot and crate, As we work with the manual and “daily” update. And for tomorrow, make sure you’re there at eight. Weighing our robot and counting each pound, If it’s too heavy, more holes will be found. We brainstorm, plan and build what a feat, While having fun 'til our robots’ complete. There are awards available, very many we knew, We all hoped we would end up with one, maybe two. The awards presented by FIRST, our mentor he read, As thoughts for winning them began to be said. There’s Chairman’ s and Quality and Safety and Visualization, There’s Inventor and Spirit and Website and Innovation. Tomorrow won’t come soon enough for Team 2062, We’re always looking for better things to do. A short time from now received by satellite dish, Will come the answer to each teams wish. As we get prepared for another busy build season, We say to all teams for all the right reasons. And it needs to be said and comes from the gut, “Gracious Professionalism to all and to all Good Luck “ |
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...when you make that^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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...when you spend your night rewriting music to be about FIRST. (We Will Rock You and Fireflies are "done" - IE I want to fix them before posting)
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...when you're already writing song parodies for next year's kickoff
I'm working on "Kickoff don't be late" to the tune of "Christmas don't be late" The pre-song words: "Alright you GDC, ready to reveal your game? Yeah, let's reveal it now! Ok Dean? OK! Ok Woodie? OK! Ok Dave? Dave. DAAAAAVVVVVVEEEEEE! Kickoff, Kickoff time is here..." |
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"Bad Program" (Bad romance) "Read it" (Beat it) (A lyrical plea to read the manual) "Pour blue Loctite on me" And many more... |
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That's it. I'm making a FIRST Music thread.
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Music thread created. ...when you got no sleep last night because you were thinking about kickoff. |
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