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

-You do a double-take when you see your robot's name to make sure that they're not talking about your bot xD
-You are going to wear everything that you wore to GLR to school--buttons and safety glasses not withstanding.
-Nobody's going to give you weird looks at school tomorrow, because they've seen you dress like that after the last regional

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

... You could swear they're screaming "____ robotics" at a basketball game
... You think "prom" is some weird abbreviation for "program"

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

You can't open your Mountain Dew can due to equipment malfunction, but have pliers in arms reach to get it open (while in your bedroom).

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

One of our team members covered herself in buttons. Pants, shirt, shoes... She even had me braid her hair so that she could put 10 more buttons in her hair on Saturday. I believe she wore approximately 20 lbs of buttons that day. They became much like scales. After a while, clanking buttons became white noise.

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

she was tin girl, since she was covered in buttons,

when you jump up and down when you see the robot weighing 119.4 lbs after changing your entire winch design between two matches and not knowing what it will weigh

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

...when you have 2 tests that you haven't studied for during the day and yet, during your free period, you have 3 different newspaper articles about your team, a window of CD, usfirst.org, and TBA open on your computer

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

You try to figure out some way to incorporate your robot into a wedding. (ring barer:p )

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

You scream so much that your throat bleeds the first day of competition:ahh: (yes this actually happened)

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

you see different team numbers that you know all over the place, on tv, workbooks, school, etc
team numbers include
364
34
442
555

and you consider putting your Regional Operator's badge on your clothes for prom.

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

Speaking of robot weight...
The weight of your robot is equal to your team number, and it has been for the past 3 years (it weighed 118.9!), so when you get the robot re-weighed at GLR and it only weighs 118.2, your mentor says "Ok, we've gotta find something that is functional/legal that weighs seven tenths of a pound!
-He promptly starts looking through your pit for something that actually does weigh .7lbs

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

....Your planning on buying more tube skirts for $2.25 so you don't have to cut up the original set you have.

...you've figured out a way to make a prom dress out of tube skirts

...you would willingly skip Prom (It's the week after Atlanta), to pay for a trip to Atlanta, because it would cost about the same for those dang tickets.

...you're going to miss all of your friends in Atlanta because you just didn't make it this year T_T

...you get your robo rookies hooked on CD. (Hee hee Katie!!)

...You know you're not going to be able to function normally till about May, when Atlanta is over.

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

Great idea, but whose the driver? That's the key!

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

I would just get co-driver to drive...eew, maybe not a great idea lol.

I told my gf this and actually though it to be interesting:ahh:

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

...when you spend all day on CD and you forget to do your homework for the next day. *raises hand*

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

Autonomous!