You know you've been in FIRST too long...

[Silent_Stryker]

you remember when there were no segways at the competitions
you remember when none of the robots were more than 2 feet in any dimensions

[Aburame Shino]

...you have more First Robotics shirts than any other form of clothing.

[mechanicalbrain]

When robotics pictures, documents, and videos take up 1.6 gigabytes of space on your computer.
(I know ive only been in FIRST for two years but thats still something )

[John Gutmann]

When your taking notes in class and you draw a triangle circle and square instead of writing 1^st

[Sheer Dumb Luck]

-when all you wear are FIRST shirts
-when you find out one year you don't have a team you volunteer at 2 regionals just to see FIRST at its finest


**2005 Iron Lyons, team 912, did not compete in FRC . But now we're back and better than ever!

[awbreed55]

when your spend more time at teh shop then u home

when you idolize your mentor as higher then a god

[Matt Krass]

When you're hosting a podcast about FIRST...

...and your room is so covered in FIRST paraphernalia that you can't look someone in there and not see FIRST, even squinting....

...when you have at least three generations of the FIRST logo apparent in your room at one time...

...when you regularly wear FIRST/VEX shirts/hats around school/home/work without a care nobody else knows what it means...

...when you can do that for multiple weeks straight...

...when you have a serious argument with your parents why you can't just build a candy dispensing Trick-or-treat Vex bot instead of having to be on candy duty...

[ChrisH]

Originally Posted by Matt Krass

...when you have a serious argument with your parents why you can't just build a candy dispensing Trick-or-treat Vex bot instead of having to be on candy duty...

Hmm Why didn't I think of that yesterday when i still had time to do something about it?

Maybe next year

ChrisH

[SirLancelot]

too long............?!
Is it possible?

[dmurdz]

When you start reading every single form of number that you see around you and trying to figure out what team that number is and what their robot was for the past few seasons!

[geo]

.....when your robotics room becomes your second home

[mechanicalbrain]

Originally Posted by geo

.....when your robotics room becomes your second home

.....when your robotics room becomes your first home

[dude__hi]

....you eat 2 boxes of burritos a week during work weeks

....your spend more time at school than at home

....you still perfect robots from previous years

....you incorparate a tee-shirt cannon to last year's robot using left over pnuematics

....you can't find the room to put the previous robots

....you pillage from several robots

....you spell out the entire acronym for FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) every time because you like how it sounds.

....you warn your teachers that FIRST comes "FIRST" before homework

[John Gutmann]

...when you teams fails in 2005 and you rebuild your robot for the hell of it and for 1 off seson event.

[Matt Leese]

....when you remember the last 8 iterations of this thread.

Matt