You know who I am?!

[Katie Reynolds]

My freshman year (2001) I was very surprised when, at Nationals, Joe Ross knew who I was. I'd only been posting on Chief Delphi for 5 months (and not very often, either!)

To this day, I still feel bad not knowing who he was!!

[Arefin Bari]

I would like to share this one story even though there are many more.

... 2005 championship, 3 days passed by and came to the night of social. I was hanging out with my friends (neha, barry, genia, dori, jess, bharat, vishal, team 25, 237, 217, 173 crew). A guy just came up to me and said hi. I was totally confuse. I was carrying on the conversation as well as thinking who this might be. Infact, he wasn't the first one to come up to me and say hi even though I didn't know him. Anyways, we were having a very good conversation about robots in general. and now to this day that guy has been talking to me here and there, giving me ideas and became a good friend of mine. Thank you Ryan Foley.

You can only gain friends in FIRST.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Katie Reynolds

My freshman year (2001) I was very surprised when, at Nationals, Joe Ross knew who I was. I'd only been posting on Chief Delphi for 5 months (and not very often, either!)

To this day, I still feel bad not knowing who he was!!

At least you've met him... After 5 years, I still haven't, and we live in the same state! Same with Kristina.

I'm pretty sure Joe was hiding from me at Sacramento

[Bill Gold]

Originally Posted by Cory

I'm pretty sure Joe was hiding from me at Sacramento

Yeah, Joe was sneaking around like the anti-James Bond trying to hide from you at Sacramento

After ~6.5 years in the FIRST community I still find it strange when people say hi to me or recognize me at a competition. I don't think I'm a memorable or meeting-worthy person.

[Alaina]

At SVR in '04 my team had allied with 258 for the finals. Being "Safety Captain" I was allowed to hang with the drive team...

I forget what the conversation was, but one of the Sea Dawgs said my name to get my attention. This really surprised me since I hadn't introduced myself yet...turns out it was Bill Gold...