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

[Tharioth Pillow]

Originally Posted by Why_A_Username?

You write a literal book on 101 ways to improve your team... the day after you fail to qualify for worlds.

You get visibly angry at the mention of "Battle Bots"

You spend an entire weekend CADDing an outreach robot. During the off season.

You bring up FIRST in every single conversation you have.

Chief Delphi is your homepage.

You seriously consider never getting a job and living in the machine shop to mentor the team forever.

Food becomes synonymous with Pizza, Mountain Dew, and gearbox grease.

You brag to non robotics friends about the speed with which you can rebuild a gearbox.

Most of your vocabulary is incomprehensible mechanic and FIRST jargon.

You buy a Lego Mindstorms set just to design ideas for drivtrains.

When asked to do something at home, you design a robot to do it for you rather than actually doing it.

You feel happier under build season stress than any other time.

You haven't slept since January 8th, and won't until May.

When someone says "cheesecake" you look for a climber mechanism, not a delicious treat.

You wear your team shirt more than any other article of clothing.

You consider quitting your job to spend more time with the team.

You have no friends outside of FIRST.

You know how to assemble a drive train in under 2 hours, but not how to talk to your fellow humans.

You are more used to the sound of power tools than silence.

If someone says the name Dean you seek them out with the unshakable resolve of an assassin to hear what they said about Dean.

you lack a knowledge of major news stories from during build season.

you wish you never had to leave the shop.

#thenumberoftimespeopleactuallysay"Oh? You mean like Battle Bots?"