[Elyse Holguin]

...when at your annual robotics banquet, you see a picture of your boyfriend's team and jump around and squeal in delight, forgetting it's a formal event.

...your engineers show their acceptance of the girl you've been hanging out with the whole time (They start cracking on her like she was one of our own [Elyse: haha, Z's little comment...lol])
...Yeah, your parents have never even SEEN the girl your dating, they have NO idea what she looks like, and your engineers have seen her enough during those few days of competition (BUT I HAVEN'T SEEN HER ENOUGH!!)

yeah, that was really funny... and wrong on many levels... i totally hear the not seeing enough part. other first couples probably are saying the same thing, except those lucky to have found someone on the same team or pretty close.

..when your parents think you're insane for dating someone 4 states away, yet because of first and so many similar interests and experiences, the relationship works fine because no one else would be as excited talking about old matches and robots as them.
(..when other engineers [i.e., the engineers of boyfriend/girlfriend's team] accept you as part of their team)