[CLandrum3081]

...when you brought a cake to the robotics meeting before your regional and it said "Happy Birthday" on it but you didn't care that it was your sweet sixteen - you just wanted an excuse to treat the team
...when you would rather spend time with your significant other working on the robot than going out on a date
...when you say a ten hour bus ride to St. Louis and back without working air conditioning or heat and being sick as a dog was "THE BEST TIME OF MY LIFE!!!!"
...when your friends outside of robotics have stopped talking to you because you can only talk about robotics and you really don't mind
...when you realize you never fit in anywhere until you joined the team
...when you realize you spend more time in the wood/metal shop than at your own home and talk to your teammates and mentors more than you talk to your own family
...when you think the team is going to kill you, but you realize it probably saved you
...when you eat junk food for half a year yet manage to lose four jean sizes
...when you replay every moment since you've joined the team and find yourself in tears
...when you realize that when you graduate, you won't cry because you'll miss your friends or your teachers - you'll cry because you'll miss being on the team
...when you stop calling the people on your team "friends" and start calling them "extended family"
...when you only go to school because there's robotics that day
...when you stop explaining "sportsmanship" to kids and call it "Coopertition" and "Gracious Professionalism" instead
...when you're convinced every moment from the time your team won that finals match at your regional has been a dream
...when you hate physical contact but you cry and hug your whole team when they win said regional
...when you realize the robotics has made you a worse student but a better person

There are so many more, but this is my initial list.