[Jeff Rodriguez]

10) You drink a case of Mountain Dew everyday to donate the bottles to your team's fundraising effort

9) You dream of being engaged to a fellow FIRSTer so you can register for gifts at the Innovation FIRST website

8) You own a sign that states, "Will build robots for donuts"

7) You consider initiating a Congressional hearing to clone Woodie Flowers Award winner Paul Copioli for each FIRST team

6) You have drawn up plans for an appropriately scaled tetra that could be placed on one of the great pyramids of Egypt

5) You realize that every movie you've watched over the past four years has been animated

4) You seriously question the credibility of any college that doesn't have a staff of distinguished looking professors with gray ponytails

3) On a recent history test, you state that the Battle of Waterloo took place on March 26, 2005 in Ontario, Canada

2) You have a recurring nightmare that all your qualifying matches are against three team 71's and every person in the driver station looks just like Bill Beatty

1) Your physics teacher will no longer accept the excuse: "But I was working on Dean's homework assignment"