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

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

You don't "know". You ARE overdosed on FIRST, know it or not. And fortunately, there is no cure for this kind of overdose!

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

You are my hero! My team wanted to have a bunch of students form the FIRST logo outside our shop right before the Google Earth satellites take a new picture, so our team will be in the form of the FIRST logo forever online.

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

• When you've read most of the posts on this thread.
• When your wearing your team shirt for the yearbook photo.
• When someone calls you "that robotics kid"
• When you start finding 80/20 fittings in the dryer.

I'd consider it a good thing if you overdosed on FIRST :)

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

One cannot overdose on FIRST! As Will.I.Am says: "I just can't get enough".

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

You know you've been here too long when you think your mentors yelling, "And don't cut yourself!" is commonplace. That, and the scream when somebody doesn't listen. :)

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

When you go into Hobby Lobby and tell them casually that your hobby is building robots, and go on to ask them if they have spare parts. When they say no, you leave the store and decide to stick to ACE hardware.

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

Now that's embarrassing. 80/20? FIRSTers mill their own. ;)

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

That is in no way a reason why I should be your hero! And that sounds like an awesome idea! Even the fact that you can go around and show your friends the logo on google earth is worth it!

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

Thanks! Now all I need to do is figure out when Google takes their next picture on my school..... Anyone have any info on that?

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

The real reason is because your name is Phil. It's a great name... ;)

Back on topic... how exactly can you find out when the Google Earth satellites pass by a certain place? Because that's kind of important to know if you're trying to get in their shots (and standing outside for days on end is not fun at all)

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

On the contrary, it would be a great simulation of build season compacted into a couple of days, minus the robot building. :rolleyes:

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when your English essays start to include math in them :eek:

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

Ask someone at Google. I'm thinking about emailing them.

BUT, this is for another thread, this has gone off topic for too long.

Now, back to the thread:

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you cry at your last meeting of the year. :'(

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

Now that is a legit reason. :cool:

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

-You take a tour of a robotics facility and spend most of the time talking about your team's robots and your experience with FIRST. :cool:
-Your senior project involves coaching FLL Teams. :]

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

- You are going to miss some of a day of build to volunteer at an FLL competition.

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

When after your first kick-off, you can never think of the word 'first' the same way again.

When later on taking the PSAT writing portion, and the word 'first' is mentioned to mean like the number, you stop reading, and start writing about robotics, and still get a good grade!

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

WHEN you schedule surgery, like I am doing, to remove a major organ around making sure it doesn't interfere with Kick-off/Game Announcement and the six-week build period...

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

I had to do that last build, I had to get minor knee surgery, luckily it got rescheduled haha.

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

When the power goes out during a team meeting and nobody really wants to go home.

When you still try to demo a robot in said power outage.

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

... When you are up at 1:30 in the morning and wake up the house bouncing around seeing that you get 4 emails from your coach.

..... When you quickly text your friend about how your coach is "still alive" (he's a very busy man, Emails confirm his existance. We are also pretty sure the man never sleeps)

... When you feel horrible at the end of your least LL meeting realising it is the last time you can mentor....... As a highschooler...

... When your 6th graders try to convince you to go to the local engineering college so you can mentor until they are throuh HS

... When you plan to make a list of numbers- from # of glasses of pop drank by your team at resteraunts to the amount of time spent traveling and miles gone...

... When the reason for the list is because your coach mentioned in an email that appx. 5000 miles are going to be traveled, as well as going to 2 countries for competitions and throuh 15 states for all of your competitions this year

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

When you start ordering your contacts by robotics and not cool enough for robotics. :)

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

When you watch someone struggle to cut thin wire with scissors and without even thinking about it pull out your multi-tool and hand it to them.

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

Or one labeled "robotics family":)

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

...when you think that every Bill's Blog post is a game hint!

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

You see -2.17 in you bank account and you say aw crap and sweet at the same time...

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

When you're a Boy Scout and you go to District Roundtable to get your Eagle Project approved, and you somehow manage to intrigue your reviewer when you mention Robotics in passing...and he asks you more questions about Robotics then your project! XD

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

You mean you didn't manage to have your Eagle project involve robotics? Sorry, not overdosed yet.:p

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

When the Vice Principal comes in and asks the teacher why everyone is working on the assignment except one person (you), and the teacher says, "Oh, that's just Andrew. He's on the robotics team."

When this is the same for EVERY teacher. :D

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

On boy scouts related

• When you tell your troop that you won't be able to make a campout or you have to leave a meeting early, and they automatically assume you are going to robotics
• When you ae able to convince your dad to become a robotics merit badge councilor
• When you suggest to your troop that they come over to your robotics team to check out your robot, as an "eductational" experience for them, but mostly so that you get a few more minutes close to your robot
• When you are supposed to be working on Merit Badges, but are on CD instead

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

You're overdosed on FIRST when you consider your FRC team as your family, and your family as a bunch of people you receive free room and board from.

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

...when you are having trouble deciding whether to go to a Saturday build day or the Debate State Championship.

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

When every time you pass a house (or 23) while on your bus stop, you keep thinking about making a thread about how your life is "run by numbers", and no matter how you try to look at numbers, you just see team names.

When you have started associating your newer friends names with numbers.... It's easier to remember...

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

There is so much wrong with this statement.

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

When your Boyfriend is someone you met at a First event because he was a driver for another Robotics team and you were the driver for you team.

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

When the "offseason" time between May and December is still robotics time for you, but not your team.

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

When there is no offseason! :D

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

Off... season? You aren't making any sense. Stop speaking gibberish.

[/sarcasm]

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

When you have been told you need to set up a tent in the machine shop because you spend so much time there.

When you start verbally responding to the CD thread you are reading and the people around you see it as completely normal.

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

You can have off days - Christmas and Fourth of July (or Canada Day, as applicable). All other days are robot days.

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

Since when is Christmas not a robot day? What do you think people put on their wish lists?

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

...You dance the Cotton Eyed Joe in your room because it reminds you of the competition. (25 days to go!)

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

When your phone says your most contacted person is your robotics mentor, and the other people in most contacted list are team members, your family, however, just manages to squeak onto the end of the list.

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

This might have already been said:
When someone asks you a tech-related question, and your first/only response is "Check Chief Delphi, and if there isn't a post, make one."

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

When you're reading Bill's Blog, and you look down at your clock, and you make an audible noise when you see that you 1. Are reading Bill's blog. 2. You're not reading a new post, but an old one to try and get a hint out of it. And 3. you notice that it's Thunderchicken time! (Mostly that bit about Thunderchicken time.)

You were also hanging out with a friend today and you say that it's Robowrangler time and they give you a blank stare.

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

When you see a friends status on facebook has been hacked. You then realize that no one has commented on it. So now you can report its as spam to the moderators. I have done this. Kinda embarrassing when no one has any idea why you commented with the word "reported" in the status.

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

When you open this thread just to see the post number matching your team number.

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

GOOD LUCK !!!!!!!! 2012 FRC

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

What is offseason? what is this? =D

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

When your 9 year old sister wants to wake up at 2AM to watch kick-off....

When you sneak back to your room at 5AM after kock-off said sister wakes up and won't go back to sleep till she hears about the game!

When everyone in your family does FIRST, from your 9 year old sister to your 80 year old grandmother!!!

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

...your family's dinner conversation consists of figuring out some of the math behind vision tracking

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

When your team starts monitoring members' grades to make sure they don't fall below a 95...

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

...You have entire dreams in LABVIEW code.

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

...you have had an entire dream of nonstop cotton eyed joe. I woke up and knew how to do it 3 days before the competition last year. :D

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

I actually did and am doing this... Right, Mr. Safety Goggles? ::safety::

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

When you actually have MULTIPLE safety glasses you carry around and are never more than an arms length away ::safety::

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

... When you start having conflicts because your FLL, FTC, and FRC teams are all having meetings at the same time... AND you're team captain of FLL and FTC.

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

You're checking chief delphi, bill's blog, and the first website for the latest clue to next year's game every 5 minutes.

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

Hold on there Filmsor, let's finish up THIS season first

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

I was just describing how everyone is later in the year when kickoff comes around.

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

...when your family gets into a big fight over robot designs and build schedules.

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

You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you sit down on a city bus, look at the seat opposite you, and start thinking about which tools were used to machine each component part.

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

When haircuts at the workshop become a regular thing

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

We are now going to do this...no joke.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

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

:D When your leaders wont let you clock in UNTIL the team's # eg. 9:32

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

that would be a little hard... besides what time is 3044?

When you wake up and the first thing you think of is Autonomous better work::rtm:: :ahh:

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

The most upsetting thing about your senior year is not because your leaving your friends and family for college, its because your leaving your team... *sob*

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

6:44? We R on Jupiter time right?LOL
:D

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

TRUE TRUE:( :( :(

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

when u get ideas for a robot part by playing a video game & vice virsa

p.s. actually happened

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

...when you start to not only talk to the robot, but you have a dictionary of pet names for him/her/it.

...when your tools talk back to you.

...when you start counting the number of robotics-related injuries you suffer daily as a measure of sacrifice for the robot.

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

when you are in a history lecture, and you see robot parts

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

... you go home very late with little to no time to do homework everyday

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

You also know you're overdosed on FIRST when you can name every game name from 1992-2012

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

You are learning about the Pantheon and, when you hear about the Oculus (the giant hole in the ceiling), you think, "THEY SWISS CHEESED THEIR BUILDING!!!"

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

When your in humanities class and finally figure out the algorithm needed to convert the pixels of the backboard to distance in feet.
Then can't wait to try it out.

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

When you get home at 11 close to midnight, and your parents ask, "why are you home so early"

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

....you write your division and classification essay for English about good robot ideas, great robot ideas, and awesome robot ideas, and then your English teacher promptly asks you what is robotics?
.... your mentor says, we will let you guys stay another hour , and you say "only one why not 4"

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

You wonder how socially acceptable it would be to name your child after your team

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

...when you think the above is acceptable (Only for MOE)

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

... You've never gotten along better with your annoying little sister, because you never see her!

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

... you caught yourself saying, "OK, now that none of my 3 active video feeds are actually showing a match, guess I have a minute to check CD."

And you're an adult lawyer with LOTS of other things you should be doing this weekend...

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

...you think of yourself as the mother of your robot.
...you nearly get suffocated in a 45-person group hug because we just found out our teacher mentor won't be on the team next year:(

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

So true!:p

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

You mean you guys haven't corrupted your little sisters toward robotics yet? Shame on you!

...when you're driving back from college and one of your main thoughts is "I wonder how my team's doing?"

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

When one of your fellow alumni asks to help out with scouting... from 1,200 miles away in Florida.

(and a scouting sheet was emailed to him)

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

~ When you think you can NEVER be overdose on FIRST
~whenever you see the word "first" you feel like it should be in capitals... the right way to spell it ;)
~You carry safety glasses with you wherever you go... and you forget you still have them on
~You carry a small screwdriver in your makeup bag
~The best English essay you've written has been about FIRST
~When you realize the only reasons you are a leader is because of the love you have for your team and because of the great impact that FIRST has been in your life.
~Family dinner conversations are all about strategy
~when you agree that "Legos ARE a serious business"
~you say "robot" instead of excuse me x) lol
~all you want for your birthday is a 7/16 wrench and a set of hex keys
~you think about the Championship every time you listen to the black eyed peas
~when you just KNOW that there will never be another basketball game as cool as Rebound Rumble
~You have an "elevator speech" ready for whenever someone asks about FIRST
~whenever you talk about FIRST you feel like you'll never find the right words to express how amazing your experience and the program itself is.
~ You go to bed tired from doing robotics and wake up excited to do robotics.
~the only reason you wish there were more hours in a day was to finish wiring
~You won't miss your team after graduation, because you know you'll still be there next year and the year after and the year after... to support, to represent, to mentor, to be FIRST

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

You can never overdose on FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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

Whenever you are in a McDonald's Bathroom and you think you hear "Robot!" out in the main restaurant.

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

When, on the drive back from competition, over 2way radios you develop a new dialect of the FIRST Language, "8020-speak", derived heavily from 1337/chatroom speak.

When, on the way back from competition, you attempt to figure out why so many cars straffed into the ditches without any fancy mecanum drive system and independant wheel control.:eek:

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

... when you're in traffic you lean out the window and yell "ROBOT!!!!! ROBOT!!!!!".

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

You see numbers like 148, 254 and 111 in daily life or in textbooks, and you think of the robotics team, FIRST (also when you can only write FIRST in caps).

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

...when you spend most of your time looking at other teams facebook pages or on chief delphi.

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

... when you fill up your car and it stops at exactly $19.86. I didn't top it off.

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

When you put on safety glasses after a competition while walking around your house, just to try to trick yourself into thinking you're still at competition

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

So very, very true. I'm so glad I at least have 5th period with my boyfriend, or else we'd never see each other.

... When you won't be in school a single Wednesday through Friday in April because of competitions (and the band trip).

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

When your time spent on CD rivals Reddit....

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

When all of your top 5 websites are Chief Delphi.

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

You know you've overdosed on FIRST® when you know (and OCD over) all the FIRSTlogo rules... Also you're driving home from a competition, your parents, they have the windows locked, and all you think over saying when you fail at trying to open it is "Programming!!! The turret rotation is broken!!!"

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

When you wear your safety glasses while watching regional webcasts to make it seem more realistic.

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

When you go nuts because this thread is at 3000 posts (and soon to be over 3000)!