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

-When 3/4 of your harddrive is full of first week matches broken down with notes on almost every robot as well as every rev of every update and manual released and a team picture of last year's robot and team as your desktop background.

Pavan.

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

-When your TA asks if anyone is doing anything interesting and you proudly tell him that you are going to regionals.
-When you tape your spring break packing list to your wall and it only has one thing on it- safety glasses.
-When you spend Friday-Wednesday of spring break looking forward to being dragged out of bed at a really unreasonable hour and dropped of at the CT convention center at 7:30 am.
-When you try to figure out how you will follow one regional while volunteering at another.

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

With text messaging, of course. How else? :p


-When you find yourself updating SEVEN people at a regional...and somehow manage it (mostly).

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

When your friends know to hold you back when someone asks.

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

-when you spent the last three hours of life reading all these!

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

But we get the awesoness of being a MENTOR!!!! :cool: Teach the new students the tricks and trades of your team and FIRST!

... you realize all your friends are in robotics, were in robotics, or know so much about robotics now because it's all you talk about.
... you dream about an upcoming regional and hope the [good] dream comes true!

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

when you start to talk to your non first friends about mechanical stuff like drive trains and cathodes and victors and whatnot just to see their faces and thier replied:D

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

--days after a regional you are still finding broken zip ties in your pockets

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

...your Mom spends an hour explaining FIRST, the game, the robot, and the excitement of regionals to someone...just because she was saying that she was unavailable on a Friday because she is coming to see you compete. (or does that mean my Mom is overdosed on FIRST?)

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

--your new dorm chair is a collective of a Keeper, two ringers and a spoiler.

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

Same thing but with rivet ends:D

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

You dream of the day you become a play-by-play announcer.

You search the entire Quad Cities looking for cold cathodes to pimp out your new lexan scouting clipboards and your newly completed Vex robot.

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

you can only choose a university with a robotics team

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

when you spend an hour explaining how much more complex FIRST is than battlebots after someone says "so, you do Battlebots?

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

You know you're overdosed when you read all the posts in this thread ( i did not, silly college gets in the way)