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

[Jonathan M.]

...when you get to homeroom in school and the only thing you really do is surph Chief Delphi's forum.

[S L A C K E R]

When you get your 9 week report card and you are failing all of your classes.

When you get the name SLACKER even though you do some of the most work.

When you are sitting in a class, either dreaming or spacing out, about cool ideas that you could of done but you didnt

[nancienancie_47]

YOU JUST KNOW IT,ME? YES YOU KNOW I'M CRAZY FOR FIRST*NANCIENANCIE_47*

[Heretic121]

when you get out of lunch, look at the clock, notice it's 11am est, and wonder if those 4+ people from the UTC hypnotist show are freaking out and if it will be on tape =D

[MrToast]

Originally Posted by Heretic121

when you get out of lunch, look at the clock, notice it's 11am est, and wonder if those 4+ people from the UTC hypnotist show are freaking out and if it will be on tape =D

Amen! Where are the vids!

[shyra1353]

Originally Posted by kid robusto

- your out of school for 2 weeks, becasue you back is so bad u cant walk, and you still attand most of the meetings

.. when you just had surgery and you dont go to school because you cant sit in a chair but you go to all of your robotics meetings

... when after said surgery you are feeling better but your mom wants you to stay home and rest but you think you can go to school and robotics ... and she settles at letting you go to the robotics meeting and not school

(this was back in january)

[mtaman02]

I'm sure this will relate to at least a few of you.

...when you have participated in FIRST since it first began and was one of the first people to sign up to CD Forums when it first debuted and still is active today.

...You're in English class, you're bored, and you're on chiefdelphi looking for something to do. You go through all the forums only to realize...you've answered everything you can answer! You become sad that you are on chiefdelphi so much that you've run out of threads to post in!

...your English teacher catchs you on Chiefdelphi and goes "Oh...that robotics thing right? Oh ok..." (and she isn't involved in your team nor has she ever seen them)

...your English teacher knows more about your team mates and mentors then you do and she has never met them BUT she has read your voacabulary sentences which all have to do about your Robotics team...always.

...you've cried because your mom wouldn't let you go to your meeting since you were too sick to go.

[MrToast]

You've been searching CD for two days looking for 11:00 vids.....

WHERE ARE THEY?!?!?!

[Kiwi_queen]

~when you suddenly realize that your college choir concert (which you've been looking forward to since last semester ) is the same weekend as Nationals, and you, without hesitation, decide to go to Nats instead of the concert. (...now I just gotta figure out how to break this to my mom. hmmm)

[Jordan]

...your calculus teacher, who is also your FIRST advisor, personally tutors you before every quiz so you won't get kicked off the team for failing.

...when typing, you automatically capitalize "first," whether you mean FIRST or not.

...you've seen marriages end because of a robot.

...there's too much snow to go to school... but not too much to go to the shop.

...the only contact you have with your parents is the occasional cell phone call while driving to the shop.

...you have every take-out Chinese and pizza place phone number memorized.

...you don't remember what to do after school and on weekends once the end of February rolls around.

...you remember directions on Interstates by team numbers.

...you can sleep under the table in your pit.

...the leftovers from your sponsor company's board meeting look like a gourmet meal to you.

...you know which motor just fried... from the smell.

[mtaman02]

...when your able to build a website revolving around FIRST with in 2 hrs only b/c you can't find nothing else to do to pass the time quickly so that you can attend the regionals in less then a day and a quarter away

http://firstprojects.tripod.com


...when after reading Jordans post everything makes sense and is considered normal for 100% of all the teams participating.


...when you continue to pray that when you go to work later on today that the 8 hrs goes by quickly so you could rush home and prepare for thursdays practic and the qualifying matches.


A real good one !

...when you start rearranging the amount of views this particular thread has had to form an alliance pair or to try and see how many teams you can come up with before moving onto the next thread !

[shyra1353]

... when you buy a frame that says "best friends forever" and put a picture of you and your robot in it

i didnt do this, but looking at a pic of me and my best friend made me think of it ... (maybe i will though ... )

[Ryan Foley]

when your obsession with robotics and your habit of talking about it all the time, and dragging friends to competitions eventually drives your girlfriend to want to join the team and learn how to build a robot.

when you talk about things on chief delphi so much your now-robotics-enthusiast girlfriend decides to browse around, and starts picking up FIRST jargon and using it in conversation, or emailing you links to funny threads.

[shyra1353]

... when someone is complaing to you that they only got 4 hours of sleep the night before and you are jealous

.. when you get a test back that you wrote the day after build season (okay so i fell asleep through it .. but i had to be there) and you get a 7/30 and your teacher's comments are: "i hope your robot does better than you did on this test"

.. when you go to your bio class to tell your teacher you cant stay because you have robotics and he says "your robot better do well" and when you are leaving he says "ill see you next time you decide to stay for a full class"

... when your msn picture is your robot (it used to be the FIRST logo until i got my pics back ... ill upload the pic here when i get a chance ... )

... when a non-robotics friend sees said picture and you end up talking about FIRST for 3 hours instead of studying for physics