You know you're addicted to FIRST when...

[Riverdance]

Your math answer comes out to be a team number. You laugh, but none of your teammates are around and no one else understands your reference and instead everyone just thinks you're insane for getting really excited about 1,124.
Essentially your entire team is going to prom together.
You cry when your mother doesn't want you to stay for the entire Midnight Madness meeting.
You live for competitions.
You spend upwards of eighteen hours in the shop over the weekend and don't mind one bit.
Your best friends are all team members and you could never live without any of them because robotics people are the best people.

[RobotDoktor]

When your browser auto fills "th" into thebluealliance.com

[Kayla_Wallet]

When you class people in two catergories: robo-nerds and losers.
When you leave your advisory hour every day to do robotics stuff.
When you consider Dean Kamen, Wood Flowers, and Frank to be the Holy Trinity of robotics.

[dubiousSwain]

When you start marking years by competitions.

Normal people: oh yeah, 2012, freshman year...

you: oh yeah, 2012, rebound rumble...

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by dubiousSwain

When you start marking years by competitions.

Normal people: oh yeah, 2012, freshman year...

you: oh yeah, 2012, rebound rumble...

So true. I don't naturally remember which year was senior year, but I know Logomotion was my last year in high school!

[tanogirl]

When you use madewithcode.com to make yourself a 3d printed bracelet with your team name and number on it.

[GaryVoshol]

You see a family buying pool noodles, and you think, "Naah, they're not building a robot."

[Qcom]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

You see a family buying pool noodles, and you think, "Naah, they're not building a robot."

This year, more applicable than ever!

[SuperVerl]

When everytime you see the number 107 you freak out and yell your team's once-in-a-day chant, "What time is it?! one-oh-seven!"

[Cole2999]

... you start looking at colleges based on robotics clubs.
... you know you're gonna miss the competitions and building.
... after working on your robot, you go home and think about working on your robot.
... you suddenly have 500 extra points on your Subway rewards card.
... Subway freezes your rewards card after a "mysterious string of 8 purchases" (even though each purchase only added points...)
... you envy the sleeping.
... after a 43-hour day filled with 480+ miles (10+ hours) of driving solo, 4 hours of programming, all-night laser tag, and then 11 hours of driving a bot, you'd still rather be competing than sleeping.
... you register on a forum just to post what you love about FIRST

[SoulianPride]

When you see numbers and immediately know the team name and founding year.

When your entire family realizes that you are all in it for life.

[alephzer0]

When every one of those links in the New Tab Page of Chrome that are based on what pages you visit the most takes you to a different thread on Chief Delphi.

[AndrewPospeshil]

when even your dank memes are robotics related



happy 420 btw

[WillNess]

You know you're addicted to FIRST when instead of doing work in class you're working on your logic for that nights programming.

[Jacob Bendicksen]

When there's absolutely no way you're sleeping tonight because you're leaving for St. Louis tomorrow morning.