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

[chellyzee93]

When your with another firstee and when you realize that you just connected something completely random to First and say. "You know your addicted to FIRST when.... "

[Mike Schroeder]

you know your addicted to first.... when you have nothing robotics related and you are thinking of a way to reply to this thread

[Jeff Waegelin]

When your social schedule for the week consists of this:

Monday: Have party with 3 friends from your team, and go watch a movie.
Wednesday: Have party with other 2 Rochester teams, followed by a movie with a teammate.
Thursday: Go see a movie with a friend from another team.
All Week: Check CD hourly, Tigerbolt occasionally, and AIM with robotics people all day

[Firewolf]

when u miss ur last chance to take a pic w/ Dean Kamen, so you take his name tag after he has left, smuggle it under ur shirt out of LSC, and wear it at home for a day pretending ur on a segway... um, ok, i didn't do the last part - :: clear throat::
if i had a way to put it up here I'd show you, but i really got his name tag!
its w/ all my first medels and such
<3
but i really am upset i missed my so close chance to take a picture w/ him

[Victim of Fate]

Dean sees you and mutters "Dang it, not this kid again"

[Specialagentjim]

When, on your first day back to work at the state attorney's office, you start talking to one of your co-workers who attends the University of Florida. Your other co-workers ask ya how robotic's has been, and he says something about the robotics at UF. Needless to say, no work gets done for another 20-30 minutes and a convo on robotics proceeds, lol. (It's good to be in I.T. )

[Amanda Morrison]

...when 60 Minutes II shows coverage of you walking across stage last year at Championships, and they focus in when you go to hug Dean and he yells, "You're too hot and SWEATY!"

(For those of you who are going to review the tapes after this, my best friend Shane - 71, 1020 - is the guy that Dean is revolted by. How's that for a FIRST reputation? )

[Nelly51987]

when your sister starts calling you and your friends robots.


it's kind of funny

[Mike Schroeder]

you know when your addicted to FIRST, when someone calles you an Oaf, Goon, Dork, Geek,etc and you dont care

[Elyse Holguin]

Originally posted by Specialagentjim
When, on your first day back to work at the state attorney's office, you start talking to one of your co-workers who attends the University of Florida. Your other co-workers ask ya how robotic's has been, and he says something about the robotics at UF. Needless to say, no work gets done for another 20-30 minutes and a convo on robotics proceeds, lol. (It's good to be in I.T. )

when you read that and were like, but you're going to be on 461 jim!!

and when you're EXTREMELY mad about this whole onlce or twice a week internet thing because you can't keep up with CD

[Specialagentjim]

Originally posted by goosefrom71
when you read that and were like, but you're going to be on 461 jim!!

and when you're EXTREMELY mad about this whole onlce or twice a week internet thing because you can't keep up with CD

For those of you confused, she's currently in a study abroad program over in Germany for 7 weeks, where they allow her internet one to two times a week.

...and yeah, all I'm saying is I talked to a UF guy, didnt say where I was going

[Firewolf]

... you find out your new roommates for college, and notice ur box# is the same as ur current team (25!!)... and you know that it's an omen ... even though you have no clue what the heck a box # is for

... when you exclaim while watching The Matrix for the nth time that the room neo walks into in the end is 303 - and you scream out 'PANTHER ROBOTIC' making everyone around you jump w/o a clue of what's going on

[Nelly51987]

when you pass someone in school and they shout "ROBOTS" at you trying to make you cry, instead you think.... "I CAN'T WAIT TILL THE ROBOTICS MEETING TODAY!"

not that that happened to me or anything...

[utishpenguin]

after yrou euthusiasm about robotics you dread the question:

"what do you do in robtoics"

you have two possible answers:

1)"we build robots"
2) 3 horus speech on gracious professionalism

[Marc P.]

...when you look for a linux kernel revision to compile that contains your team number, e.g. 2.5.38, despite the bugs associated with such early versions.