Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

...If you've eaten pizza afterwards and kept commenting that there was something funny about the pizza. Your friends have to remind you that this distinct lack of aluminum dust is not a bad thing.

...If you go to the closest machine shop to study because you find the sound of a Bridgeport to be therapeutic.

...If instead of PC v. Linux v. Mac arguments, you have Mill v. Lathe v. Bandsaw arguments.

...If you have ever been kicked out of a building by the janitors because they caught you working when they were opening up the building the next morning.

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

I went to a performance of the Broadway musical, the Lion King, that is here in Austin last weekend. I kept trying to match the sounds/pitches of the drumming/percussion instruments and the orchestra to the machines in the shop. Sad, really.

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

-when the snow doubles as a refrigerator for your 24 oz mountain dew amp...as well as gallons of other energy drinks
-when you forget what your house looks like...
-when you have had more energy drinks than hours of sleep...
-when you can work 36 hours in one day...
-when you forget the clearance for a 1/4-20
-when you can remember the clearance for an M5
-when what little sleep you do get is consumed by dreams about robotics making it seem like you never slept at all...

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

When you wake up to find that you have been maching parts in your sleep...
(hasn't happened yet;) )

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

When you can't AFFORD any more energy drinks...

Jacob

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

When you realize the pizza that you are eating was leftover from last nights dinner some 12 hours ago and it seems odd because you never went to sleep in between the meals. Then you realizre that the pizza has been sitting out for over 12hours.

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

When you find that you can no longer make yourself fall asleep before one AM, no matter how tired you are. (I'm getting back to the right sleeping pattern...)

When you voluntarily put yourself on caffiene restriction until your first regional.

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

we've heated our pizza with a heat gun to, I'm not sure what the reason was for it since there was a microwave 30 feet away....

also
-when you have a dream about center punches (happened to me)
-when you resort to preforming lathe operations on the drill press because you
can't send parts to be machined by your sponsor in time

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

when reporters are eating your cold eggs at 7am that are more than 2 hours old

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

When you park your teachers' cars in the morning just so you can have one more night to do your homework from the first week of build season.

When you don't remember if the day is monday or friday, but you know your staying in school all night anyway.

When your teachers' ask you "Are there problems at home cause I haven't got your homework in 6 weeks."

When your late for first period cause the warning bell didn't wake you up.

When you start call your family by the names of your mentors.

When you see sunlight and ask someone "what's that"

When you come home and your computer is turn on and you are on this site in the middle of this message like this.

When you think girlfriend or boyfriend forgot what you look like, but then you remember that you don't have one.

And finally when you wake up and blow dry your hair with the heat gun cause you stayed in school all night because you know all it is, is a overpower blow drier.

And your team makes up a new lol, ours was LRL ( laugh real loud).

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

--The members of your team can never tell which of several handshakes are the 'official' one at any given point in time due to their ability to change at any time and without any notice.

--You have made up more than one parody of popular songs relating to this year's game.

--You always ask your chemistry teacher who is also your coach to show random videos and pictures from the team in class whenever you have free time.

--You carry your robot code around with you to "keep it close to your heart"

--(This is somewhat of a piggyback; something someone else reminded me) You have heated up a piece of pizza with a space heater.

--You wear safety goggles/glasses to school and don't even notice that you have them on until halfway through second block. ( When your coach finally notices. )

Re: You know you've been in the shop too long during week 6 if...
 

-when at the end of build season all of your friends and even your girlfriend think you died because you havent made any contact with them in six weeks.

-when you refer to "sleeping" as what it really is, passing out

-when 80/20 seems like the most awesome friend and you feel bad for cutting it

-when you make a "5" out of masking tape, put it on your hand and yell "high five"

-when the rest of your team is sick of your stupid puns. :D