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

[SporkyGrl]

... Your standards for a boyfriend or girlfriend includes them being on a FIRST team.
... you turn down dates to build your robot.
... you correct the mentors
... the robot becomes part of the family. *sigh* it really does..
... you eat dinner in the plant for 6 weeks straight
... you know every word to every Green Day song there is
... you start speaking with odd words your team makes up
... you drop kick someone that says, "Sooo.. it's like BattleBots!?"
... you build a fuzzy launcher in class
... your room is covered in our teams Fuzzies
... when your room is painted your robotics spirit colors
... on spirit day for the high school you come in robotics colors instead.
... you come to competition covered in spirited colors

[tiggsterk]

-when you've slept at school
-you're addicted to coffee
-you spend all night in the hotel at the end of the day at a competition playing Halo 2
-all you ever wear are your robotics logo clothes (your team uniform)
-when other kids are coming to school in the morning, and you haven't left school at all

[Lisa Perez]

When you get this notice while writing your IRI scholarship essay:



and get all too happy

[Jill1022]

• When you can look at a map and all you can think about are the teams in that state/country and your friends there
• When you have basically and entire floor of a GE factory to yourselves
• When you watch sporting events on tv just to get good sponser ideas
• When you carry a pad of paper and a pen in your car so in case you're driving downtown and get an idea for a sponser
• When you long to be home with frontpage so you can update your team's webpage
• When you cant hear the word Flowers without smiling
• When the first questions you ask when looking colleges are: "Do they mentor a robotics team?" and "How is their engineering program?"

[Brian Lesser]

You know you're addicted to FIRST when you do something crazy like this for one of your games...

[wilshire]

when you go through all 1,250 posts to this thread and still can think wait what about sleeping with the CNC machine. I don't think anyone mentioned that.

[FIRSTnameisJay]

when you search the forums looking for this post that you started three years ago. Wow 1250 posts and still goin!

[MChapman]

When you decide to have your robot in your senior pictures instead of your girlfriend or friends.

(he chose the robot over me..haha)

[Billfred]

When you contemplate borrowing your team's robot to drive up and down the halls of your college residence hall to recruit some college student mentors.

[MChapman]

...when your default homepage is your teams website
...when you start counting down the hours left of school before your kick off meeting for new members
...when you give your parents the shop phone number in order to get ahold of you for 6 weeks

[JVGazeley]

lol...

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

...your biggest worry about your re-sits is that they fall during the build time...
...you actually try to turn up for the team meeting when the new Captain messes up and says it's at 2:55am on the otherside of the county...
...you get annoyed because you missed the receipt with your team number upon it by a few minutes in Argos...

[sure_smile]

when its september and you're not counting down to christmas, you're counting down to build season!

[MChapman]

...when your shop number is the 1st speed dial on your cell phone

[MChapman]

(i got bored in asian studies class an was thinking about FIRST)

...when you know that from today there are 106 days till kick-off

[Joe J.]

You know your addicted to FIRST when:
you know more about FIRST than anyone else on your team.
you have your senior pictures taken with your teams robot.
you have ridden an old robot around school hallways during lunch.