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

well we can check our grades online. But he doesn't check our grades.

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

Before FIRST, you had trouble distinguishing Newton and Einstein. Now, you realize, Einstein is a whole higher caliber.

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

...you're too sick to go to school, and your first thought is "but I can't go to the Friday Meeting!"

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

When the ONLY Reason you would EVER miss Robot Ship Day is because you're so tired that you can't move until 3 in the afternoon!

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

When you wake up the morning of the regional with a 7/16 wrench in your pocket

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

When you wake up days between the end of build and your regional with a 7/16 wrench in your pocket, on your key-chain and in your backpack. You can never be too prepared.

~DK

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

When your parents catch you watching 5 regional feeds at once, hogging the bandwidth. :D

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

I can only barely watch one! :ahh:

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

...When you just got done reading all 2708 posts on this thread, and wonder why you're hungry, then you realize dinner was 4 hours ago.

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

Ahhhh this has happened to many times. I have gloves, shaft collars, safety goggles and Allen wrenches all on my shelf waiting to be returned to the shop.

Your sisters guess your team number for your iPhone password and get it right.
1. my 2 little sisters know my team number
2. my team number is my iPhone lock combo

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

When you're mentor puts a label on your minibot switch that says "turn me on" and then asks you to rub the minibot a little before the match... =P

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

When lunch break means you are not eating lunch until matches start up again because you are working on the robot.

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

When you go to the community theater to see "Putnam County Spelling Bee" and keep thinking about Exploding Bacon, because one of the characters is wearing a white jersey with orange sleeves.

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

... you can't notice your headache over all of the heart-pounding stress.

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

.... When it doesn't matter in the least that your team didn't get picked in an alliance, that you get sucked into another team's group to cheer, then get taken next match to cheer for the other side- you simply have too many friends and teams that have adopted you to take sides and cheer for one. :)

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

...When you arrive to your regional after a 5 hour drive only to remember that it was a bag and tag...:yikes:

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

When you wish your robot had broken down before lunch, so you didn't have to miss matches to fix it :rolleyes:


When your headache goes away as soon as the robot returns to the pit

You're not crying because your robot didn't work, but because of how it got fixed.

When you almost say "thank you" to the voltmeter. Actually, I'm not entirely sure that I stopped myself before saying it.

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

when you spend more time on CD than facebook.

when you start talking to your minibot telling it it's better than the spare minibot.

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

When you and a bunch of friends go to the arcade and pool tickets, and have a complete nerdgasm because the total number of tickets is 1188 (or whatever your team number is)

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

When a parent scolds you for not eating luch until two because you were working on the robot.

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

When you hear 'Strippers' and you think about electrical

When you go to school w/ no voice and your teachers realize its normal

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

When you are playing NCAA football or basketball on your ps3 and you swear that the crowds are chanting RED ALLIANCE or BLUE ALLIANCE!

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

When you don't sleep an entire night because thinking of how and what is needed to build a minibot and deployment system before your next regional took priority

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

...you obsess with your friends about different numbers, such as 2:16 PM.
...you look forward to the weekend, not to hang out with friends, but to go to your next competition.
...you look forward to Spring Break to build robots.
...you have enough buttons to make yourself a full-body suit.
... you have a hard time readjusting back to everyday life after the season's done.

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

You and your friends only know when prom tickets go on sale because it is the same week as one of your competitions.

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

...when your mind wanders during school thinking of improved minibot and minibot deployer designs
...when you spend your lunch reading cd
...when you post on cd during lunch

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

when you have done almost everything on this thread, while only being a sophomore.

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

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


You and another team member shave your Team Number (2081) in the back of your head.... when prom is right around the corner :D

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

When you've already filled half a notebook with robotics projects since last weekend :D

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

When you admire textbook problems having a perfect world where they know what is wrong immediately.

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

You get used to no sleep

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

When your teammates make bets about shaving your team number in their head if you go undefeated at your regional. Way to stick to your word Evan!

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

When you skip senior prom to go to champs

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

but, there is always roboprom :D

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

When you spend two hours loading a trailer with toolboxes in the snow...and enjoy every minute of it.

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

When in Art class you draw to scale sketches of a new claw design.

When robotics take priority over getting a date for prom.

When you don't worry about it cause you know you're going to RoboProm!

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

This one time at band camp become; this one time at robot camp...(yes we have summer build)

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

When, at a boy scout meeting where your scoutmasters are talking about other troops, you hear their troop numbers and immediately begin associating them with FIRST teams...::rtm::

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

...when you are so tired from competition that you fall asleep in the middle of browsing the internet...

Then you wake up in the morning and realize that the site you were browsing was Chief Delphi and your dreams were filled with minibots.

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

... when you wake and immediately begin designing/ working on said minibot is even better :]

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

...when you are having an online discussion about printing layouts for booklets, and the printer's layout for an eight-page "signature" reminds you of the Eliminations Quarter Finals pairings (1-8, 2-7, etc.).

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

when watching regional web-casts takes precedent over Saturday morning cartoons.

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

When in English class you're trying to figure out what you need to do in autonomous! :eek:

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

You know you've overdosed on FIRST "when you like FIRST so much you just can't stay away." :D

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

when you open your Boy Scout Handbook at a meeting and two VEX shafts fall out! :ahh: (so that's where those went...)

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

When "tap that" is no longer an innuendo.

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

When you about jump out of your seat every time you hear FIRST, even when it's not in this context of FIRST...

When all you ever think about is new outreach projects you can tackle...:D

When you crack robotics jokes to your friends who don't participate in FIRST...

When you start rambling off random phrases from your Chairman's Presentation...

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

Your friends who aren't on FIRST are considered honorary members, because they know almost just as much (strategy, design flaws, rules, outreach projects, the meaning of gracious professionalism, what the team should do in the off season, and where the best places to get Chinese food are) as FIRST members, because you won't stop talking about it to them.

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

When you ask people if they will get you a persuasion tool (mallet, hammer, something hard that you can swing around).

When you see a cartoon Segway for about half a second on the Fanta commercial and stand up and yell "Dean! Dean! Dean!" and your family doesn't treat that as unusual.

~DK

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

When looking at different robots not related to FIRST you imagine making how to make that robot able to accomplish this year's game.

I saw a tiny robot on youtube that could grasp an object and drive around controlled by an accelerometer and buttons on a watch. Thought it needed some rollers.

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

When you got Amir to sign your copy of The New Cool ;P

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

When you get so into The New Cool that you start freaking out, and go "OMG it's build season, why am I reading?! .... oh, right. Not build season. That's just in the book."

(^and jealous. My copy is an e-book. Couldn't get it signed even I did get the chance to meet him.)

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

Haha. Sounds just like me! Luckily I got the hard cover and I am just waiting for the day I meet him!

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

When you reach into your back pack to pull out a pen and you get TJ^2 Team 88 wrist bands. It's totally normal. lol

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

When you're almost late to day 2 of a regional because your dream was of day 2, so you thought it was over. :yikes:

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

... Your realized you last updated your facebook or twitter wednesday.

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

You're a mom that has a multi-tool, safety glasses and WD40 in her purse at all times.
Oh....and you somehow end up on VIMEO singing about FIRST...what WAS I thinking!

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

...your room is full of people watching movies seperately, and then one of them notices that the C++ code in 21 (the bar scene, about 11:20 in) makes absolutely no sense, shouldn't run or even compile, isn't in a function, and is WAY too small to do autonomous (even with barely legible comments!), and the whole room spends a while laughing at it.

EDIT: It COULD be in a function, and page 2 looks like it might be, just with REALLY thin margins. Still, though. "twopi"?

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

When you can't figure out if day 2 of a 3 day regional was preordained by a dream you had several weeks before.

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

The week after learning about FIRST, yo udo a biography article in Writing abotu Dean Kamen.

I then saw him at Northstar and went insane.

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

When you do your senior project on Robotics Programs and Student Success. :D

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

...you go to a restaurant to eat with friends after church, and after the tables are suitably arranged, someone says, "OK, slide to the left!" and you think of that cha-cha dance from the competition.

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

...when you start naming teams that won't exist for a few years, based on the numbers they'll have(#6022---Avogadro's Army)

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

when you are in taco bell and you hear them call an order, and you look around to try to find that team

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

When you pick your dorm room based on the number. Seeing as how room selection was right after Worlds last year I settled on 341, it must be lucky, right? :D

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

1.When whenever you hear a bell of some sort, you yell "MINIBOT TIME!!!!", and then after realizing that nobody is deploying after 3 seconds, you try yelling to your drivers, and realize that the bell was the school bell, and you are supposed to be in 3rd period at that time.

2. Whenever you are carrying a heavy load, or see someone carrying a heavy load in a crowded place, you start yelling "ROBOT!!!" at the top of your lungs.

3. When your team-mates are with you when you yell "ROBOT!!!", and they all start yelling.

4. When your physics teacher starts making jokes during class from the competition, and the next day an event from the regional about a robot falling over is on your test. The question number is the number of the team who's robot fell.

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

you dream of building a car with interchangeable red and blue bumpers

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

Either a low number team fell over or you have quite a few questions on your tests...

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when:
You're friends feel legitimately concerned you're too into robotics.

You've accidentally spent a class period writing down all the different drivetrains and designing out the ones you want to try out offseason.

You decided that as an offseason project you want to build a segway since you don't have the money to buy a segway.

You're idea of a great Saturday afternoon was being holed up in your room with a bottle of Mountain Dew watching the Michigan State Championships and being in the Chatroom on Ustream.
Also, the same night, you spent 4 or 5 hours downloading each and every MSC Video on the FiM channel on Youtube.

You're sure there are other moments that shouldn't go unsung, but you can't remember all of them.

You've posted on this thread more times then you feel you're entitled to.

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

......You demanded a refund at the Blockbuster when you realized that 'Driving Ms.Daisy' had no robots in it.

..... If you come back from a competition sounding like you are wearing chain mail.

..... Your family has gotten the full chronicle of your build season.

..... You dont yell at the comp. team, you yell at the robot.

..... You want your team number tattooed on your forehead.

..... Your poems for English class begin to artfully describe your team/your bot/your last competition.

..... Your bot has a gender (Im guilty of that)

..... You give your robots hugs.

..... Your favorite bracelet is a roller chain.

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

..you can't stop beaming over the 25 incoming freshmen who signed up for our team after seeing us at the Virginia Regional, and hearing your director say: "I don't care what anyone says, this is the best robot and the best team."

All the other clubs at my school can BUZZ OFF. :D

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

But "Driving MISS Daisy" stars Morgan Freeman, who is featured in the latest FIRST commercial. I wonder if Team 341 will let him drive Miss Daisy 10.

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

When your a senior and all your friends have a count down to graduation but your countdown is for St. Louis. 15 days 8 hours 32 minutes 28 seconds

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

YES! Oh my Lord, if the lady that played Miss Daisy was still around (Rest in Peace, Jessica Tandy) she would need to come too!!!

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

you know you've overdosed on FIRST when;
you see a giant banana or ninja and want to give them a free hug.
you replace sunglasses with saftey glasses for 6 weeks straight.

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

She would. :D

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

You sit through an hour of stat class with safety glasses on your head and don't even notice. No wonder my professor was looking at me funny.

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

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when:

... You talk to your tools because you feel that they work better when you do.

... You squee out loud when you see ear rings/ necklaces/ ect. in your team colors.

... You look forward to the robot apocalypse

... You will only go to a collage that has a FIRST team within driving distance.

... You have named one or more of your hunter pets in World of Warcraft after your robot/s.

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

I have done all of these...xD

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

...when so far this school year all you've worn is team shirts to school

...when you have a panic attack because you can't find your team shirt that Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers signed

...when you find the shirt and find a way to hang it on the wall so it wont accidentally get washed and the sharpie will come out

...when your mind wanders during your classes about minibot improvements and championships and you cant stop it

...when even though it feels like its 20 degrees during the fundraising event you're at and you cant feel your hands you still drive your demo bot around

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

-When someone asks you for your phone number you say (###) Impact-RoboRevolution
-When you give your number in that fashion, understand, and ask someone else for it.
-When you decide that after you get (Team Number) songs here on your ipod/mp3, that you will not ever get another song again, unless you remove an equal number to keep the total the same.

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

When you and your friend consider dressing up as a Potentiometer and “magic smoke” for Halloween!

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

you see a semi-truck with a three digit number on it and wonder which team it belongs too

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

When you silently squeak in joy of seeing your team number as total time played in Pokemon. Not to mention OP Robotics too.

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

you equate looking at colleges to scouting :D

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

While on college visits you pull out the camera to take a picture of all the exit numbers that are associated with FRC Team numbers. Seriously. I will post a Thunderchickens exit later.

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

Your team celebrates because the odometer turned to your team number.
Even though the competition just ended, you get right back to work on the award submissions.

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

when you keep safety glasses in your purse at all times and are able to pull them out and use them when in your lab ::safety::

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

You're at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in WV, and you could swear that your tour guide was Dave Lavery, without the evil grin.

And then you remember that this isn't NASA.

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

I always have mine in a side pocket of my backpack. ::safety::

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

You go to Driver's Ed still wearing safety glasses and wonder why you are getting funny looks.

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

You dance to any random song that comes up

you feel the need to dance to cotton eyed joe all the time

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

...you have a playlist full of songs from competitions.

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

When you notice that your team number is the number on an issue of manga this week. Go 662!

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

when you spend IED on chiefdelphi instead of doing a chess set or a bio project due next period...

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

When after queueing at an offseason event you realize the following: you worked with a well appreciated name on Chief (THANKS AGAIN ED!), your legs fall out from under you, and you want to do it all over again.

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

When you ask for a LEGO Mindstorm NXT 2.0 kit for your 17th birthday so you can build mini-robots with your friends over the summer...

(My parents looked at me like I was crazy because a "normal" teenage girl would have asked for a car or something of the sort. haha)

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

When your parents are 30 minutes late picking you up because they drove to the wrong location when they automatically assumed that you were in the build room.

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

When you keep a thread about how you overdosed on FIRST alive for 5 years...

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

When you see Bill using "diabolical" in a blog post it means 4v4 for 2012.

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

When you throw a birthday party for your dad, (a mentor), and you're both wearing team shirts, and then another mentor shows up, also wearing a team shirt.