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

[Scott Shaw 237]

When you want to tap the holes on everything you touch just so the screw goes in easier.

[Jeff_Rice]

When you try to make a quilt for a school project and end up thinking up ways to integrate the footpedal from the sewing machine into the robot controls.

OT

When I was sewing that quilt the quilt dragged the tablecloth up with it, and I sewed the tablecloth to the quilt. Shouldn't have been thinking of the robot.

[Jeff Waegelin]

...when you are at school 24 hours out of 48 in a weekend

[Katy]

when you have slept over wherever you work on the robot

[Ashley Weed]

Originally posted by Katy
when you have slept over wherever you work on the robot

haha... have that beat!.....
.... .... when you look forward to 'move in day' everyear. - the day when certain 'freaks' literally move into the shop for the last week of build season.

[Vincent Chan]

You've programmed your cell phone's welcome message to say:
"FIRST is life!
<insert team name here>"

My dad called me crazy when he saw it. :-)

Now if only I could find a FIRST operator logo...

[rust710]

When this tread hit 200 posts and you have read every one of them and you enjoy rereading them.

When suddenly you are quite color cordinated and you don't know why. Wait, yes I do...everything I now own is MOEgreen and you like it that way.

When your team gets together outside of meetings and wear their safety goggles to whereever it is you are going. Sometimes saying this: "We build robots"

You use above line "We build Robots" as a pickup line.

That line actually works because you've said it to someone from First *never seen this happen*

You have a nightmare about Moe Sticks attacking you and then make more of them because you find it thrilling.

[Raul]

When you get a vanity license plate with you team or robot name on it or some other FIRST reference.

[Solace]

When you realize just how empty your life is without FIRST, and so you endlessly surf ChiefDelphi in search of a quick fix.

[yangotang]

when your name's yangotang

[srjjs]

Originally posted by yangotang
when your name's yangotang

No, your name was Yangotang before you got involved with FIRST.
When you learn PBasic in 10 minutes because the team's programmer didn't show up to a meeting.

[Amanda Aldridge]

...when your best friend has kicked you for clapping together your souvenir moe-sticks one too many times.
...when you base your college career, and thus your future, on FIRST (i.e. my biggest criterion for choosing a college was either having a FIRST team or having lots of alumni willing to help start a team -- go Purdue, WBI!!).
...when your fondest wish for the future is to marry another first-er and make little first-ers(kidding).
...when you think of things like the above statement.
...when you make decisions like what color safety glasses you want.

[Katy]

when WPI sends you a letter because of your standardized test scores asking about college and your first reaction is "190? What do they want?"

[Team238-aholic]

When you get a vanity license plate with you team or robot name on it or some other FIRST reference.

someone at my school has that....they are from NH and it says:
FRSTRLZ or something like that....and they have a bumper sticker that says, my other car is a FIRST robot....still trying to figure out who this kid is...I NEED TO MEET HIM OR HER...


hahaha i just thought of a great one:

-when you have a midterm on the day of the regionals, and you want to go home to watch them, so you email your professor at the beginning of the semester and say your in a wedding and ask if you can take the midterm at another time....and the teacher believes you!!!


hahahahaha!