Maintain a healthy level of FIRSTism ( the addiction to FIRST)

[crazyone]

I started this thread in response to the 1000+ thread that shows people weither or not their addicted to First. Here are some of the ways I have thought of to maintain a healthy level of FIRSTism.

*FIRST make a CD of music that would be heard a a compition

*buy some building material to keep busy

*Go out Saturday night with a group of FIRST friends

*Register yourself on Chief Delphi so you can post your thoughts

*Feel Free to Add to this List.

[K0r34nB0y]

-Have your team number somehow integrated into one or several of your online aliases
-Have enough FIRST-related shirts to wear one every day of the week and then some
-Your AIM profile consists almost entirely of quotes some poor, luckless, dead-tired soul said one night of the build-season
-Your buddy list has the following categories: Buddies, Co-workers, family, robotics
-Robotics is the largest category on your buddy list
-You plan to name your first child Dean

[Elgin Clock]

You do realize that every thing that is in this thread can be put into the "You know you are addicted to FIRST when" thread.


Try it.

[K0r34nB0y]

Originally Posted by crazyone

I started this thread in response to the 1000+ thread that shows people weither or not their addicted to First. Here are some of the ways I have thought of to maintain a healthy level of FIRSTism.

Reason Given ^^^

[Swan217]

So I guess I'm an overachiever, eh?

SN: ThundrChicken217
FIRST Shirts - 39 and counting...
DJ at Kettering Kickoff = 10 CDs of music heard at FIRST

Profile at one point:
"FIRST - we've got the balls for this competition"
"...Except for secret dodge-ball clubs that are cropping up all over the nation, where students meet at night in abandoned warehouses to play the forbidden sport!" etc.

AIM groups: Close Friends, Family, Close Robotics Friends, Other Robot Friends (Biggest Group)....


Other things you can do-
Collect swag from every team you meet and hang it on a cape in your room
Decorate your room entirely with FIRST memorabilia
Start an unofficial FIRST DOX Fraturnity at your school
Actually WEAR robotics shirts every single day for entire Build season
Realize that when nonrobotics friends ask you "what's up?" you immediately think about what happened at Robots that day...
Make a list of all of the inside jokes you have at robotics
Show school cheerleaders some moves that you learned at Robotics competitions
Buy denim shirts just because Dean looks cool in them.

[Mike Ciance]

Originally Posted by K0r34nB0y

-Your buddy list has the following categories: Buddies, Co-workers, family, robotics

I actually have 2 categories for robotics: Raider Robotix, and Other Teams

[DrWorm]

Originally Posted by crazyone

I started this thread in response to the 1000+ thread that shows people weither or not their addicted to First. Here are some of the ways I have thought of to maintain a healthy level of FIRSTism.

*FIRST make a CD of music that would be heard a a compition

That sounds like a good idea and I might do that.

The three songs that are really sticking in my head from the Chesapeake regional are Darude - Feel the Beat, Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400, and the Chicken Dance. I don't know why.

Oh yeah and Sugar Hill Gang - Rappers Delight. Thats an awesome song. Heard it in the morning the 2nd day of the Chesapeake Regional and it got me really excited.

- Sharp

[Crop-Circles]

-make every paper you write for classes about robotics in some way
-write programming flow charts in your spare time
-convince all your non-FIRST freinds that robotics is the greatest thing since sliced bread
-convert your local drama club to an odd made up religion based around a random handout you got at a competition
-(see my signature for more ideas)

[KenWittlief]

next time Sears has a sale on small drill presses, buy one - and when you feel antsy and anxious go out to the garage and drill lots of holes in something

like, your keys, the handles on your silverware, your bicycle frame, your trash cans, your dining room table, your pocket change - you know, anything that you would like to make lighter.

[crazyone]

*convert a room in your living quaters into a mechine shop.

*devote you computer to FIRST items( ie. programing, aoutcad drawings of robot parts, awards won,etc).

* Paint the FIRST logo on your ceiling so it's the FIRST and last thing you see everyday.

[sanddrag]

Get a copy of Inventor and see how many different gear ratios you can fit into one transmission without making it too big or heavy. Then calculate the speed and torque and current draw and voltage drop of the battery in each of the gears.

[crazyone]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Get a copy of Inventor and see how many different gear ratios you can fit into one transmission without making it too big or heavy. Then calculate the speed and torque and current draw and voltage drop of the battery in each of the gears.

Or Use inventor to build new Field designs.

[Hinkel Y.]

Here's another one...

*You think of FIRST team numbers when you see numbers on the street, text books, and other numbers you see in your daily life

(This has happened to a lot of people in robotics, and me)

[Addition]
*You speak of the wonders of using a gearbox to your "enemy" (Your school's low tech, other robotics team) because they don't use gearboxes.

*You start promoting people in your school to join robotics at least once a week

*You actually miss the stress of the build period during off-season

*You spend more time on Chief Delphi than doing your homework
[/Addition]

[Rafi A]

Originally Posted by Hinkel Y.

*You spend more time on Chief Delphi than doing your homework

you no longer worry about your suffering grades

[Adam Y.]

*You think of FIRST team numbers when you see numbers on the street, text books, and other numbers you see in your daily life

My friend thought there was 564 days in a year.

-make every paper you write for classes about robotics in some way

Ooo.... man. I did that. My English teacher thinks Im nuts and its a creative writing class.