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

[mtaman02]

.....Your g/f (or wife) want to go out with you but need to make an appointment b/c your too busy doing first related work

[JasJ002]

you know your addicted to first when the janitor knows you on a first name basis and has to kick you out of the school because your not allowed to be there by yourself.

[dede]

-when you ask the basketball coach to make the number on your jersey your team number
-your license plate says " CD 47" (my coach actually has that)
-you get happy whenever you see your team number
(these are all examples of my coach Mr.Martus! (except the FIRST one))

[JamizzleHavok13]

When someone drops a washer and you take it and cherish it forever, and sometimes use it as a monacle.
When all you and your friends seem to talk about is what you plan on doing at the day's meeting.
When all you think about till the meeting is robotics.
When, even though you should be doing homework or sleeping, you'd rather either think about robotics, chat about it, plan for it, or post on CD about it.
When you dream about the perfect t-shirt design.

[Vashts6583]

...you spend over $100.00 to try and understand the coding
...you spend all your time posting on chief delphi()
...you get along with people you'd normally hate just so that your team can win the chairman's award
...you don't miss a second of any minute of any hour of any robotics meeting(even if you're missing your school's science fair which happens to be on the same day)
...you ask the entire team for something to do

[Projectchon]

....you make a ring out of a Alum spacer, and put your team number on it, and wear it

[shyra1353]

instead of spendingn $250 on a grad ring, you wear either a spacer or a massive nut as one ...

[Jay Trzaskos]

...You make a ring out of a busted bearing. Truly believing you must treasure it and wear it forever.

[JamizzleHavok13]

When you start gauging your ears with random nails, etc. from headquarters because you're too poor/don't have time to go to the mall to get real gauges.

[Ammonium]

...when your parents ask you what you've been smoking when you come home at 3am and reek of flux
...when you hand in your term paper late because you wrote auto mode code on the back
...when you wonder why your C++ isn't working because you wrote it in C
...when you make the C work
...when you you have pneumatic flow charts written on your arm
...when you do geometry proofs and have an else statement
...when you get Yellow 5 cancer from all the Mt. Dew you drink
...when you get ip banned from your own MUD because of your FIRST rants
...when you can't play AD&D because your 4-sided dice are strategy tetras
...when your shoes are held together with old PWM wires
...when you have 8 strippers under your bed
...when your more awake between 11pm and 4am than any other time
...when the FIRST CD is the only CD you haven't pirated
...when you have 32 Chief Delphi windows open at any one time
...when you have to bypass your schools security network to download the newest team updates
...when you realize, it's not TV...it's HBO

[Ashley Weed]

You suddenly realize there is a new "Robots" movie out... and you scream ecstatically in the middle of the P&C (NEPA grocery store) at a high customer rate time (right after church lets out)...... as you spot a display of boxes with pictures of robots on not only Cereal and Pop Tarts, but also Gummies.... and must purchase one of each to have on display in your room!

[amos229]

...when you cant find anything in your room due to allthe KNEX robot prototypes.



Yeah i know i am sad

[Denman]

you do your coursework early so you can do more building
(its in for ship date...)

[Rabbit222]

When your Jazz Band shirt doesn't fit the day after ship date and you know you put on weight from the build season.

[Mike]

When your write int 7; for an answer on a math test.