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

[RbtGal1351]

Originally Posted by MikeWasHere05

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

or this:

if x < 0
y = 8;
else
y = -8;

// i know we're sad

~Stephanie

[davelu]

-smashing stuff
-bulding a aircannon(using first parts)
-shooting at monitor (and breaking it)
-building a robot
-breaking speakers
-soldering a mouse ball on top of a peice of almu
-creating a robot that does popwhelly
-taking A part of robot
-skiping classes
-Pooring water on top of a computer see how long it will last before teh blue screen of death.

-my favor one is bossing people around and zip tying people bags
it's so much fun though. oh, and numbering the niners..are favor ones would be numbered 1 and we call them slaves or some other nick name

have you guys ever considered bulding air cannon? and shooting at somthing?

[half geek]

-You tell your friends you can't go get food with them because you need to go to robotics... only to realize 5 minutes after they left that the season ended and there was no meeting.

[Simon Strauss]

... when you get the nickname "the usefull freshmen"
... when you have to cancle a date with a girl because you have to go into the shop on saterday to build
... when the team knows your mom only as "the dougnut lady"
... when you willingly gave up 3 chances to see the ska is dead tour because it was build week 5 and you needed to finish pnumatics
... when you have developed the rare disease known as aluminum lung
... when FIRST is in the intrests on your livejournal
... when your parents finaly realize that a tetra is not just a pyramid shaped thingy made out of PVC

[probizzle]

Originally Posted by MikeWasHere05

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

-2 pts.
Shame on you. Wasting an extra byte when you could have used a char.

[Katy]

When your idea of a bad hair day consists of
a) Locktight
b) Gearbox greese
c) Industrial vacuums

[shyra1353]

.. when some one is talking about how your left hand is linked to the right side of the brain and your right hand is linked to the left side of the brain .. and all you can think about is "the wires on our motors are crossed"

[Katy]

When somebody says "2 plus 2 is 5 for large values of 2" and it takes you a moment.

[Shu Song]

When you gain 5 pounds over the 6 weeks of constantly eating DP Dough.

[BandChick]

...when you stay up until 1am because you're spray painting your team number on the back of 25 shirts
...when you take the leftover spray paint and the stencil and start decorating other stuff in your room
...when you apologize for not being online and your friends know it was because you were doing 'robotics'
...when you get excited to hear teams talking about your robot on chiefdelphi

[Koko Ed]

When you go to other messageboards and your avatar, signature and a good portion of your posts are all FIRST based.

[Cyberguy34000]

- you don't have enough to do after build season, so you organize a scouting team that meets as much as the team did during the actual season.

We'll see how that turns out

[GennyMS]

- When over half your laundry consists of: your team shirts, other teams shirts, and various FIRST apparel.
- dinner table discussion is: ideas for the robot, how to make a part work, and how to improve next year.
- Going home sick from school then coming back to do FIRST.
- When Word automatically capitalizes the word FIRST.
- When literally blood sweet and tears go in to the robotics season.
- your boyfriend feels he’s lost your to it.

[Towns1024]

When you don't go anyplace for spring break and live in Indiana so you make another robot in a week with lots of battery power.

[Jill1022]

• When you scour myspace all night looking for FIRST members / groups
• When you actually have a friend from another team who is called (your name) 2.0 (for example, my friend from 234 is called Jill 2.0)
• When you hear about a city you automatically think about what teams are from that area.
• You talk to your FIRST friends about what I'd be like to have a robotics wedding together complete with a flowergirl robot with a pneumatics to throw flower petals and a ring bearer with a fork lift design to carry the pillow
• You decide that when you and said FIRST friend have kids (after the robo wedding) you will name them after either parts of the robot/game or after the playing fields at Championship
• You get really bummed during the summer because you miss robotics
• Everytime you see something about a robot your heart skips a beat
• When you see someone not on a robotics team talking about robots like experts or just because they think robots are the new cool thing, you get angry
• You can bring robotics into ANY conversation.
• When your chemistry teacher tells you to make as many words from the word, "THERMOCHEMISTRY" you write "M.O.E."

Of course, all of these apply to me. Ha.