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

your mom tells you you can't go to practice matches :ahh: in order to meet some high tech guy:confused:
you go to the supermarket and see orange juice priced at $1.48 and buy it immediately

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

You should listen to John Cage 4'33" then determine the significance of silence.

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

When your youngest child has almost completed his first year of college, and both Mom & Dad are still very involved and fully willing to beat their bodies up by Educator mentoring, and volunteering at FIRST events in a game w/ what seems like 100's of (empty, but still fairly heavy if lifted repetitively), game pcs., both on & off the field, all at the same time. (And then both Mom & Dad text and call him within minutes of each other to update him on the way home while travelling separately...On what he's currently missing out on concerning his former team.

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

When you know more people at one of the regionals than you do at school
When you spend more time fixing your CD signature than your Facebook profile
When you get home from the regional and immediately check the "You know you've overdosed on FIRST when..." thread

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

... you are part of a thread called "you know you've overdosed on FIRST when..."
...you check this thread when you just got home from robotics
...you check this thread in the middle of an important lesson in one of your college classes

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

^^^^ This!! (except just mom)

...and then when you get home, you are dead tired but still have to give your husband a long recap of the whole event, and are already thinking about next year as you fall asleep!

...and the highlight of your year is when your team makes the semis, for the first time ever, and you don't even have a kid on the team any more.

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

I got so overdosed at the Championship for the 2003 Stack Attack game, stacking totes for just ONE day, that I just about crawled under my chair when I saw the game pieces for Recycle Rush!

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

You can't find something in a grocery store and your first instinct is to ask pit admin for it

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

You laugh out loud when you're buying robot parts at Lowes and the price comes to $11.14

At the airport when you see someone trying to push their cart through an unmoving crowd, you can't resist yelling "ROBOT!"

Everyone you talk to starts their conversations with two things, (a) "Hey, I haven't seen you in a while!" and (b) "How's your robot doing?"

When you're at dinner with your team after watching Einstein, you wonder what you should have for dessert, and the answer is "Cheesecake, of course!"

(all true)

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

When the thought of cheesecaking another 2015 robot makes you want to crawl back in bed and whimper.

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

When you can't find something in a grocery store and your first instinct is to ask pit admin to make an announcement......

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

When actually having time after champs feels terrible, and you're counting down the days until the next meeting...

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

When the 2015 Hurricane name list is released and you realize you know someone in FIRST for every name on the list.

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

I work at a local pizza place, and get way too excited when someone's total comes to $23.38. Also have had an order of $11.14 and the very next order was $20.56.

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

The clock makes me send texts out at 2:54, 11:14 , 1:11 , 1:48 , 3:14 ,and 10:23 ... its a curse.

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

And if you have a 24 hour clock...1501 :D

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

Gas prices are 111.4 cents a liter in Ottawa, but I keep reading it as "eleven fourteen" :p

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

Is it the design for your 2013 robot? :P

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

When you see a trash can on the sidewalk labeled 223 Hendricks and wonder when xtreme heat changed their team name. Then you realize it's an address.

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

This one should really start "You know you're drinking the FIRST koolaid when.."

You go to closing ceremonies and make mental notes on Dean's homework assignment. And realize when you go to write them down that all of them were already in next year's plan in some form or another. And most of the things in next year's plan that weren't in the homework are about team development, fundraising, or the robot. And some of his homework was about stuff you thought was team development.

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

As a college student, you're waking up at 4:00 to drive 2 hours down to an unofficial off season event just to volunteer, especially when your team isn't even competing at said event.

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

you look at house addresses and automatically think of team numbers.

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

you are still in the robot shop at 9 at night working on the robot program post comp.:cool:

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

I have to agree with this because this happens to me a lot. A lot of times I stare at the time and it's a team number (2:54, 5:25, 6:24, 6:10, etc.). It's some sort of curse...

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

When at Champs, you arranged an inter-divisional cheer with another team(Tesla-4481 Team Rembrandts, Curie-1086 Blue Cheese)

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

-When you actually start to like the Pirates of the Caribbean dubstep
-When you're on the bus and talk about it like you're the anouncer("And rounding off the yellow alliance we have have bus 119, sponsored by Staten Island Technical High School it's Iiiiisland Charter")

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

Hah! I'm glad I'm not the only one that does this. :o

Wait, I'm not the only one that does this... right?

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

When your vacuum cleaner cord wraps around the waste basket, dragging it with you, and it reminds you of 254's tether dragging a yellow tote in their second quarter final. This actually happened to me!

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

...When you see the score of 135 on family feud and instantly think of Penn Robotics.
...When you send out a tweet and tag simbotics in it. Then get excited the next day because simbotics retweeted it.
...When you can't stop thinking of how your robot should have been able to do better than it did.
...When you make a web map of all the frc games and see how they tie into each other (Still can't figure out how Lunacy fits into anything)

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

...When you try to drive the shopping cart in the grocery store like it has a swerve drive. (Yes, I got lots of odd looks)

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

When you are still a high school freshman and you are already beginning to plan about how to do FIRST during your college years.

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

I am a sophomore and this is my first year on the team. I am doing the same thing so you are not alone. Haha ;)

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

When you're a sophomore and you are already scouting colleges with FRC teams nearby.

(Looks at WSU)

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

*Ahem*

Look at Seattle... the motherload of FRC Teams in the PNW..?
UW is surrounded by FRC Teams and FTC teams alike. And is MUCH closer to WashingtonFIRST Robotics.

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when, upon looking at your college's robotics website, you find a link to their old college FIRST Robotics team (At UW, it was DawgBytes) and you have a mini freakout session in the middle of class.

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

what if i wanted to stay on the east side? :rolleyes:


...when you pest your friend to join robotics so much he thinks its a cult :yikes:

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

Or when you realize your friend is right.

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

DUN DUN DUUUUUN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61L6hB7c1bg

...when you have a bajillion Chief Delphi and Blue Alliance tabs open
...when you constantly reference random FRC Teams that you know when you randomly see their team numbers in your everyday life

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

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when the playing of YMCA, The Chicken Dance or Cotten Eyed Joe triggers PTSD (Oh God what broke now?).

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

You are on CD all day instead of paying attention in class.
To busy watching worlds to pay attention.
Working on math problems and see other team numbers as the answer and start freaking out about it.
When you realize you are addicted to CD

When you freak out because a mountain dew and a kit kat cost $2.54

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

When you go to Harbor Frieght and try to figure out how to make the shopping carts motorized. They are swerve carts. ( been there, done that) every time!:)

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

When you sit in CAD class everyday and wait until 2:54 to shout Poofs!

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

When you get the receipt back at the restaurant, see that your food cost is your team number ($16.19), and then keep it taped to the wall above your desk.

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

When you send snapchats at 11:14, 2:54, (2) 6:48, etc. with the clock in the snap!

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

After the months of March and April, you realized that there are more than $15,000 of team expenses charged to your personal credit card waiting to be reimbursed.::ouch::

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

- You wonder what your life would be without FIRST. Realize that you can't possibly imagine and go back to working on the next summer project or outreach.

- You set your microwave timer to 1:48, 2:54 or 11:14 realizing that you'll either set the house on fire or burn yourself but in the end it's worth it...

- You buy a VPN to get past the school's web filter to access chief delphi or TBA

- Seriously consider skipping finals to go to NAC

- You write a post about over dosage of FIRST instead of study for Math and Physics tests.

This list could actually go on and on...

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

Or you can take less of a risk and go for numbers like 0:16, 0:20, 0:27, 0:33 for your microwave timings...

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

Safety Award is overrated anyway. Plus, lets be honest, 19:23 is bae

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

Or figuring out the staff login...

and staff wifi password...

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

You have legitimately lost friends over the fact that you talk about robotics too much..
Your favorite road trip game to play is spot the team number and yell the name

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

The block extends for everyone. Many have tried and failed. Proxies were created and then block. Winning the war involves investing money...

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

Our school doesnt block CD or TBA

...when you look at the clock and you see team numbers not time.

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

When you are at a school car wash and people are yelling "CAR WASH" but all you hear is "ROBOT"

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

This one is so true, and sometime if you are lucky girlfriends because of FIRST

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

When the word "dursty" has entered everyday use alongside "janky"

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

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

Whenever your non-robotics friend asks about your robot/team, and you get into a really in-depth conversation about every aspect about your robot. To the extent that your friend just walks away from you in the middle of your sentence.

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

When the passcode for your phone is your team number (come on, hands up all of you)

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

That's just so not secure >_>

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

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

I find that in practice most phone passcodes aren't. A birthday, an obvious favourite 4-digit number like the FRC Team, or just "1111" or "1234".

The Android pattern unlock codes aren't necessarily any better because the mind remembers shapes better than it does random sequences of numbers. Which led to this fun moment during build season:

Student: How come everyone seems to know how to get into my phone?
Me (mentor): You mean this? *picks up his phone, enters his pattern unlock code*
Student: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Other students: *all laugh*

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

when you mentally cheer everytime it's your team number in tennis, even if you're serving (15-40)

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

When one of your friends from robotics is disappointed that you don't know his phone's passcode.

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

... you start reading a long chief delphi thread that started when you were five years old and it's still going on almost ten years later.

... you use the words tote or goat in every sentence.

... your robotics shirts start to outnumber all the other shirts you have combined

... you sit at your computer for 20 min. just to think of something funny to say on chief delphi.

... you compete in FLL, FTC, and FRC all in one year just because you can.

... you spend all of build season perfecting a paper airplane just so it can make it to the stage at Worlds. (You know who you are):D

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

Or all 3 :)
A student on 1111 whose birthday is November 11...

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

This is actually my life though. Except for the first and last points

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

When all you really want on your birthday is to be in the build room.

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

When your college calendar comes out and the first thing you investigate is the week of your local competition.

(I discovered my area's regional is during an end-of-term study period. An excuse to skip studying and check out robots?!? Awesome.)

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

When your CAD rendering of a slice of cheesecake gets 24 replies on CD.

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

When you leave for college in half an hour, and you realize nothing will ever be the same.

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

or if you are like me and you choose another team near yo to be your passcode....

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

Is it 1741? Because we are in neighboring school districts.

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

I thought we aren't supposed to give out passwords and such :rolleyes:.

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

I havent given it away. Its just an extremely educated guess. :yikes:

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

1. When you're at a regional, and the announcers comfortably use a term that you coined and were the first to post on CD.
   
2. When you make a prediction about a specific defense, and not only is it proven true on the field, but the only time the defense is ever used is against your own team, and the prediction is spot-on.

Our team strategy was to work the landfil, figuring the powerhouses would go for the HP stations. By mid-January, I was regularly referring to this as "mining" the landfill at our build sessions, and finally posted the term in February. I heard it used by the announcers at Bayou (week 4) as casually as if it were an official term from the rule book.

I predicted that a "noodle net" would be an ineffective defense, because noodles tend to "hang high" then quickly drop. I have only found evidence of one "noodle net" ever deployed. It was against us at Bayou, in match two of semis. While I do not have enough video to explicitly confirm this, it appears that the HPs of both 3946 (my team) and 3937 (Breakaway) put at least one noodle over that net. Here's Robin's (3946's human player) noodle.

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

When you pay three bills on a Sunday afternoon, and recognize that two FRC teams have numbers in this range, and that you have cheered for, chatted with, and applauded them both as they received blue banners.

• 3337: Panthrobotics in Baton Rouge, Bayou Chairman's winner this year
• 3339: BumbleB, part of the winning alliance on Carson division at CMP this year

Then, later that same afternoon, you notice that the four missing numbers in the bottom central box of the newspaper's sudoku is missing your team's number. (It was yesterday's Conceptis puzzle, in today's Times Picayune.)

I'm not there, but then A Night at the Opera is one of the dozen CDs attached to the visor in my car.

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

When you know the FRC Rhapsody lyrics better than the original lyrics.

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

...please explain this. I'm not familiar with it.

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

That video that played at many regionals, AND the group that did a combined video and live performance at championship... guess it didn't make it to your neck of the woods. Link via the CD thread discussing it.

Short version: An FRC team did a parody of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and it went viral (within FRC, at least).

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

When your phone passcode alternates between 1114, 2056, 1241 and 1477...

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

You find yourself writing parody lyrics to EVERY SONG that pops on the radio in order to fit a FIRST theme.

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

You have nightmares about your robot breaking on a nightly basis

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

when you explain swerve drive to non-robotics people by saying "it's like a shopping cart, but a little different"

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

That's why I LOVE going to IKEA! The carts have rotating castors on all 4 wheels

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

When you read the above and double-facepalm, and wish you had two more hands...

I guess that's one way of making you keep both hands on the wheel cart handle.

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

...you don't even care that you have to wake up earlier than you would for school to go to an offseason event during the middle of your 2 week fall break.

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

When you and your friend have a contest to see who can post something first on page 254 #ItShouldWork

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

I got genuinely disappointed with myself yesterday because I showed up 20 minutes early to a meeting. That's the latest I've ever arrived.

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

When you rewatch matches on theblue alliance from three years ago for the 10th time.

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

You prioritize Chief Delphi and TBA over 90% of your school assignments.

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

Dont you mean 100%?

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

Yes. Yes I do.

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

I have a test in five hours. And here I am :p

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

I think we can all agree to this:D

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

When you mold your "bed time" (Doesn't exist in build season) around surfing chief delphi and looking at old scouting data.

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

When you realize it's apparently not normal to have two screwdrivers, and a USB SD card reader constantly in your backpack.

When you clean your room and discover five pairs of missing safety glasses.

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

Nope. Should be one screwdriver and one 7/16" nut driver. :D

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

Honestly I really need to get a short ethernet cord for myself, just in case I need to program something in an emergency :D

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

This is ridiculously true. Every time I find a pair, I hang them on a tack on my bulletin board.

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

Every day, I have a flashlight (3@AAA), magnifying glass, swiss army knife (with corkscrew and saw blade), Slip'n'snip scissors, 10' tape measure, reversible phillips/flat head screw driver, lint free cloth in a pill bottle (for glasses, magnifier, or optical disks), and a comb in my left pocket; they're all on my morning checklist along with wallet, keys, and cell phone. I have to dump my pockets before I fly, go to court, or enter a psych ward.

I have kept a tiny multimeter in my brief case for many years, and another in the toolbag in the car. When people ask why I keep a multimeter in my brief case, my stock answer is "because I don't need it often enough to justify keeping it in my pocket". At FRC events, it's usually in an old cell phone case on the left side of my belt. It even came in handy at the FLL tournament at Fountainbleu a couple of years ago when an electrical outlet serving a snack machine began releasing magic smoke.