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

....when you call your favorite mentor--who's now in Canada till next Build Season--crying to her about how you can't find all the drill bits....
....when that same mentor tells you that those drill bits are in the Guidance Departments minifridge....
....when the day you come back from Regionals, you're supposed to be in religion, but you're teacher (who's also a mentor) needs her speakers from the workshop so you sprint down there, and slam into the work bench from the excitement of being around tools again...
....when you speak in code to the programmers in the off season....
....during your computer apps class you have 10 windows up, 3 involving CD, 4 involving CAD, 1 involving youtube videos of BattleCry, and the last 2 involving team scouting....
....the fact that my teachers allow me to sleep in class during build season, ask to be excused to go share a design with my teachers that are also mentors, and to use the SmartBoard during class to draw up a quick CAD design to email to everyone on the team before that days meeting....

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

...When your emails are almost only from FIRST related things, you team, and
your girlfriend.
...When your Girlfriend thinks you look better in jeans and t shirt with chain
grease on it, than a suit and tie.
...When you Girlfriend considers a Regional as a date!
...When you give your Girlfriend a piece of the old robot as a necklace for her
birthday, and she actually wears it because she likes it.

Am I lucky to have a Girlfriend like this? Oh god yes!

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

When you realize that you have spent the last hour watching your 3:07 season wrap-up video over and over again.

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

When you spend the last week of build season eating nothing but Doritos and Mountain Dew.

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

When you check Blue Alliance for your team's match videos which are never there...and then you check again five minutes later hoping that they have magically appeared.

When you can't stop thinking about ways to improve the robot, even though there are no competitions left.

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

When you continuously refresh the page on ESPN so that the "comments" counter will show your team number.

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

...you can't stop typing "FIRST" every time you want to type "first".

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

When you feel like it is your sacred duty to revive this thread.

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

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

You are on Chief Delphi every day even though you are not on your team anymore.

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

You upgrade to a smart phone and the only new capability you really care about is FRC Spyder.

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

You check Chief Delphi before school every day even though you know that pre-build season there probably won't be anything useful.

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

When you watch videos of regionals that your team has never been to and never will attend.

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

When you think about CAD and FIRST throughout the entire school day, and the first thing you do when you get home is design a new drive train and CAD for 3 hours.

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

...You get unreasonably excited by the sudden realization that Kickoff is less than a month away, even if you're no longer actively with your team (AKA: a college student that's 400 miles away from your hometown/high school team). :p

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

... When you go to college and start an FTC and an FRC team with other FIRST alumni...

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

-When you're constantly searching for potential sponsors
-AndyMark is always open on your browser
-You're on CD 24/7

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

When just the announcement of new products from suppliers like AndyMark, VexPro and WCP makes you start designing new systems for the coming season, even when the coming season hasn't even been announced yet.

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

When teachers just think you are living in the school.

When you store a two month supply of food for the build season in your locker.

When you come home at ten from working on the robot and instead of starting your homework your on Chief Delphi

When your in pre-season and you are just waiting for a game hint, but mostly Kickoff to come already.

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

When you have to sleep backwards on the bed so your hair hangs off the end and doesn't get messed up.

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

When you unpack from moving, your first thought is "I have to find my safety glasses!"

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

when you don't remember the last time you left the lab before 10pm
when you call the lab your home
when you refer to your adviser as dad
when you know more about your robotics family then your real family
when you are willing to sleep on a table to take a nap, just so you don't have to leave the lab
when you sleep in the back of a truck at 4am just so you can back in the school when it opens at 6am

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

When you're up all night thinking about the new game hint....

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

When the coaches tell you to back off the build and let the students do the work. It's at that moment you realize you are now an FRC Alumnus :o


NOTE: I say this because this is how a Team 178 season operates. Yes adults do still have input and are available in a pinch, but it's our students that put forth the effort for everything. A reason I keep coming back is to see what they do next.

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

This was the toughest adjustment I had to make in the student -> mentor transition. 449 operates this way, as well, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

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

You see a picture of Togepi, and instantly think of LogoMotion tubes
(Togepi would make a cute FIRST mascot)

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

When your snot is the color of grease and aluminum chips.

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

...You always laugh when you see a clock at 2:54 or 11:14

When your the only person on your team who goes on Chief Delphi 😫

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

THIS!
I'm head of scouting this year because a mentor says that I waste so much time on CD, I've gonna know tons about other robots. :p

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

you make wishes not at 11:11 but at 11:14 instead

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

Forget your bus number after build season.

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

...it's the last friday of the grading period and you're at school with two laptops, one with Chief Delphi open and one watching multiple regional webcasts on The Blue Alliance.

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

i'm from team 2582 (Pantherbots) and i have overdosed on FIRST i also would like to add these.
... if you have taken apart 3-4 VCR's, so you can try to make a robot with the parts.
... if you have 5 computers at home and are using 3 of them to repair one of them.
... if you know someone who has done a CAD design in minecraft in less than an hour.
... if you are adding to this thread while in school

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

When you are watching the competitions in class...
and showing them on the projector...
and the teacher is perfectly fine with it :cool:

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

You injure yourself on the robot and the first thing you say is "I'm ok how's the robot?"

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

When your biggest gripe with your high school's internet firewall is that is bans Chief Delphi and Blue Alliance but not Twitter.

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

The Chief Delphi forum is on your most-visited website list in the summer

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

-When you should be doing schoolwork and are watching TBA. Then realizing some events ended today on Sunday, and watched some more (when I should still have been working on homework)

-When you've been wondering for a while if a mecanum drive is possible in Kerbal Space Program

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

and i thought that my school's website blocker was screwed up... your school needs to get its priorities straight on what needs to be blocked :ahh:

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

You need to get your IT department on your mentor list. I work for IT in our school corporation and you can believe that CD and TBA are unblocked :)

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

And the teacher switches the feed to their school computer when you have to leave for your next class :D

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

you walk up to a co-worker and announce "I've got a robot that could launch your chair."

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

When you include the tag from all robotics emails in a email to a teacher who is not an advisor.

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

When you have nothing to do, so you CAD up some sunglasses to 3D Print.

When you take extremely careful scouting data when you're just watching the feed.

When you're bored, and you spend your time on Amazon, looking for robot parts so you can build again.

When Championships just ended the week before, and you take apart as many electronics, just to make something new.

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

-you are wondering how long has your team coach been overdosing on FIRST
-when you realize that right after an important interview for collage scholarships you immediately started worrying about your robot
-when you once again find yourself adding to this thread instead of doing research for an assignment in the middle of class
-you check this thread everyday to see if there is anything new and funny to read

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

When after a competition you hear random teams cheering while going to sleep :ahh:

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

when the first CD search after your last regional is "off season events"

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

..when your at work, but on CD....

Your passcode is your team number!

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

...When you're bored in class and the teacher/another student gives you a weird look for doing your team/another teams competition chant totally absent mindedly. (M-O-R-T MORT! MORT! MORT!, 16! 76!!!, seventy! five!!!, Go MOE!, what time is it? Knight time!, tick-tick whoosh!, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.)(All MAR chants by the way)
...When you can't stop thinking about cool designs and mechanisms you've seen.
...when you can't stop thinking about about how much you can't wait for next competition,
...When you can't stop thinking about your past competitions and how fun they were and how things could have gone differently...
...When you can't stop thinking about cool new strategies and who you should pick first at your next competition(I'm strategy/scouting lol)
...When you look at the clock, see a team number, and say (team name) time !
...when you see team numbers everywhere, let alone the clock!
...When you stay up until 1 am looking through this thread! :rolleyes:

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

When your sitting in your 4th hour writing a paper and on Chief Delphi (teacher looks over your should and says get off of that site) :cool:

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

you spend your spring break on the blue alliance memorizing teams names and numbers :ahh:

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

when more than half of your final cut projects are about robotics

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

when you see a four digit number under 5300 and wonder what their team name
(happens a lot in history)

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

When you're busy trying to find someone else to run a Fantasy First draft, because you'll be volunteering for the 7th time this season at MSC.

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

-When this thread is over 200 pages long and you've read most of them.

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

...you are at Home Depot and notice the lumber carts use a 6-wheel, drop-center drivetrain.

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

...when you go to a museum with tanks and think to yourself "Hey, I can design and build a robot with the same drive as this tank when I get home"

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

You know you're addicted to FIRST when you text your mentors more than your friends from school.

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

...and when your only friends from school are on robotics.

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

Or when you end up dating someone you met through robotics.

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

And you get help preparing for those dates from one of the mentors you've been texting.

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

Brad plz. I crie ever tim

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

What's a dating?

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

You'll always have a special place in my heart.

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

when the week after championships you try to build the winning alliance robots out of lego's

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

And then you married the person you ended up dating that you met through robotics

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

oh um......
Maybe I n eed to get some more friends than. :cool:

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

This is actually super accurate. I got advice from our head mentor. Not to mention my entire team was constantly bugging me about it.

Also, an additional OD:

When you can't figure out what you're gonna do with all that free time after the season ends.

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

You know you are overdosed on FIRST when your only friend is the robot.

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

Or when you cry on the robot when the final match of your senior season is played. (then get so much separation anxiety from FIRST that you start next Year's Chairman's award for your new team)

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

When you can't remember what the original versions of songs sound like before they were remixed for competitions.

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

...you see people you know from other local teams acting like big "nerds" for a news interview or promotional video.

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

You spend your prep period writing a color-coded, numerical, and words-based analysis of part of your team leadership...and you find it fun. :p

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 :(
Attachment 17047

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.

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

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

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

When your favorite song list IS your "good reveal song" list.

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

Now that I think about it, Can't Hold Us by Macklemore and Pinball Wizard by The Who has somehow become some of my favorite songs... Team 118 may be to blame

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

When you talk about directions, and simultaneously act it out as if you were driving the robot.

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

You flip out when your parking pass number is your teams number. And then you look at other peoples parking pass numbers trying to see if you find any teams you know

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

you get overly excited at a shiny new set of calipers.

you occasionally look on the floor in your own house for dropped robot pieces

your head perks up at the slightest mention of anything related to first

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

When you spend more time watching FIRST match videos from 7 years ago

When you've taken the time to compile every Regional Winner/Finalist, team match-win percentage since 2007, etc. in excel files....

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

When you finish writing an essay for a class and then instinctively look for the compile button. :)

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

Blinking yellow lights cause you to stop for at least 2 minutes while the robot loads code but there is no robot and the other motorists are impatient ;)

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

Counting down the days until PSAT's so that you can count down the days until driving practice so you can count down the days until the scrimmage :eek:

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

When you spend more money on Dr. Pepper during build season than anything else