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

[maxgebhardt]

Originally Posted by MisterX

When your team attempts to make a petition making snow days illegal in your school idstrict during build season and was actually able to get others to sign ( it failed though and as we speak we our missing our 5th day )

When you woke up your little sister and mom by yelling "NOOOOO!!!! NO ROBTICS!!!!!" when you found out school was canceled

When the only thing that brought you joy this morning was knowing that they can't cancel school during weekends/vacations.

when dispite snow days you still work, and you cross country ski uphill to get to the build

[Steve782]

Originally Posted by maxgebhardt

when dispite snow days you still work, and you cross country ski uphill to get to the build

when you hope there is school and the snowstorm misses your state so you can work on the robot right after school

[Mike Heinowski]

When there is a snow day and you think about giong to Visteon to work on the robot a 7:15 in the morinig.

[dez250]

when you shouw up at 6:30 pm on a snowday and are told your not meeting so a group of 20 students wait in the front of the builduing for a teacher to show up to flood down to the tech wing to work...

Muwahahahaha

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Steve782

when you see lisence plates on cars seeing numbers of FIRST teams you know.

When you realize that "FIRST" is already assigned to a licence plate in your state... (sigh)

Also, when you realize that you are the author of 13 of the 25 newest posts....
Yeah.. ummm, I haven't had a chance to visit CD in a while and had some catching up to do!! lol

[Kiwi_queen]

~when you realize that there are only three people (outside your family) that you really talk to that aren't involved with Robotics

~when your room is covered in robotics paraphenilia and your lampshade is so flooded with team buttons that you have to hide some for the moment until you find another place to pin them up

~when you get more excited over the wonderful gift a teammate presents for the pit crew's usage than you do over the fact that your choir has been invited to sing for Nelson Mandela

[Katie Reynolds]

... When you wish for a snow day, not so you won't have school, but so you'll have extra time to work on your robot!!

[anna~marie]

when you come even though you get 2 hours of sleep.

when, after coming and falling asleep again only to get waken up and forced to do electrical work, you actually manage to strip your pinkie...

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Katie Reynolds

... When you wish for a snow day, not so you won't have school, but so you'll have extra time to work on your robot!!

You are evil.... lol
I wish I had a school district that would let us work when we had no school!!

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

You are evil.... lol
I wish I had a school district that would let us work when we had no school!!

I just recently graduated (at the end of first semester) and moved about 2 hours away from Appleton ... When I heard that the AASD had a snowday, my first thought was "great!!! That gives them 8 extra hours of worktime!!"

[maxgebhardt]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

You are evil.... lol
I wish I had a school district that would let us work when we had no school!!

our district does let us work, since the custodians are in the building anyway to clear snow. also the general reason we close school is because the busses which are further west have more snow than us, and cant make it on time. you might want to talk to your district, they might let you work, as long as the custodians are in the building.

[Jay H 237]

Originally Posted by maxgebhardt

our district does let us work, since the custodians are in the building anyway to clear snow. also the general reason we close school is because the busses which are further west have more snow than us, and cant make it on time. you might want to talk to your district, they might let you work, as long as the custodians are in the building.

I know this thread isn't for this but I just want to answer Maxgebhardt. We have, it's useless, It's called "red tape". If school is cancelled they don't want anyone in the building--period. If we use the school on weekends or odd hours we have to pay the board of ed out of our team funds for use (custodial coverage) of the building. No other teams (swimming, track, volleyball, ect.) have to do this. Needless to say our team knows where it stands on the totem pole in relation to the school board. Like I said, red tape. If anyone wants to discuss this more we'll start another thread.

So, in keeping with the current thread,

When you start figuring out how much vacation time you have so you can take days of just to work on the robot.

[anna~marie]

See, we can work on snow days too, I think, because our shop is at the GM proving grounds!

[Steve782]

when you talk to your friends outside of robotics about FIRST, telling them what it is and all about this year's competition. I did that at a meeting I had today, getting people interested and excited about FIRST. (One or two people had heard about FIRST before, but many of them had not.)

[Specialagentjim]

Snow day? what is this snow day you speak of?...We've had hurricane days... Those are fun to go outside and play in.

Anyways...

...When you agree to spend four hours inhaling 2nd hand smoke just to get a robot frame welded. (for those of you who know this experience, I leave you with one word, Panzer.)