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

[tatsak42]

Originally posted by maclaren

-If every finger on both your hands have been either gashed, smashed, burned or, blister due in some way to the robot.
-If you deburr your finger instead of your work piece(I slipped)
-If every minute you have off during school is spent in the shop on the robot.
-If you had to fix and or setup a milling machine, lathe, drill press, and welder so that you can make your robot.

I know what those are like... especially deburring. Too many times. And it doesnt' stop bleeding if you're operating a lathe or a mill and you keep reopening it when you turn the things to make the stuff move..
And i can't weld, but I did the other stuff...

-- When you say I'm going to school see you tomorrow, and your parents understand what you're talking about.
-- When you mourn the death of the 2002 robot, when it has been sacrificed for bracket things. And there's actuallya paper that says "RIP......."
-- When you stay up till 3 in the morning because "that's what's normal."
-- You go into robotics re....sion (it's not regression or recession... I'm too stupid to think of the word... they use it when talking abotu drugs too) after robotics ends.
-- When you really start unintentionally start speaking Yoda-speak, because good syntaxically correct sentences form, you cannot