-you insist that all of the seniors on your team get prom dates, because you know they need to get out
-3 of the 6 guys prom dates are on FIRST teams
-one of them is you
-your parents ask for the computer, but then proceed to see you on cd, and go "nevermind, i'll come back later" [just happened]
-your parents don't worry about you spending 6 weeks in one room with 15 men between the ages of 17 and 50 until the wee hours of the morning
-you take pieces of the previous year's robot, because you know it will be sacrificed, but you must always have a part of it
-your friends ask you what the big chunk of metal their brother brought home last night is.....and you get either insulted or tell her to steal it
-your father thinks you have an addiction to cd and gets upset when he sees you on [he thinks the seasons is over!!]
-your friends dont know what you are talking about for the 6 weeks of build season, but smile and nod because they know you have too much caffine in your system to shut up
-you know what you are getting the team seniors for graduation presants [DEW CUBE!!!]
-you give people evil stares if they ask you if FIRST is like battlebots
-people have stopped mentioning battlebots in your presance for fear of you freaking out
-your non-FIRST friends know there are large chunks of time in the winter when they will not see you, but you are not hibernating
-your non-FIRST teacher lets you come into his room during study hall to let you sleep [after the build period of course] because your study hall teacher believes in "silent study" but they still won't let you sleep [i dont snore!!]
-your team can taste the difference in shipments of DEW
-your team found walking to FIESTA at nationals to buy DEW was not a option, it was a way of life
-your team figured out the DEW bank can hold 8.3 lieters of DEW, but everyone on the team checked the calculations
-your friends have to sneak you DEW cuz they know you can't go cold turkey and your parents refuse to buy it
-your FIRST seniors bring you dew in the morning after they know you were writing an essay until 3 am [cuz you no longer have an excuse to not fall asleep, build season is OVER

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-you hang out with FIRST people outside of competions and meetings
-your team starts team-dating the team you used to mentor [WOO go 173-571]
-only one person on your team understands your gibberish, however, it always ends with BAH [steve!!]
-you put up an away message to post on CD [darnm those people, always distracting]
-your engineers laugh when you try to find guys at a robotics competion
-your engineers know who you are dating, your parents don't cuz he's at your pits, when he has a break.....maybe