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

[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!

[gren737]

Originally Posted by Mike Betts

You still remember the calibration procedure for a Tekin speed controller...

+1


or even better....who remembers robots 36" in diameter

[jason_931]

You have enough team buttons you can rebuild your team's entire robotic fleet!

[kio_chan176]

when your cousins get pissed at you for even mentioning FIRST because they've heard enough already

[DevilDuckie1266]

When you go to amusement parks and evaluate the systmes used on each ride

When you see a number similar to your team number and get excited

When your traveling downtown with another robtics member and you see tetras.....EVERYWHERE

When you have your mentors e-mail, phone number( house and cell) Pager number and office extension memorized
-When you ahve his wifes #'s
-When you have his mother and fathers numbers

When your mentors mother reffers to you as " The Grandchildern"

When you are able to beat the living shoot out of your mentor and he laughs

When your mentor throws things at you in class
-When you throw things back


When you cannot sleep at night because you are worried about what next years game will be

When you dream of next years game and wake up and go draw what your robot should look like.

When you can sit down and figure out what makes you a addicted to first

........Yea we actually sat down with some memebers at lunch and thoguht of some of this........We love FIRST

[Al Skierkiewicz]

When you look on your dresser and see an Epcot lanyard with an ASME ID card attached.

When you open the "junk" drawer in the kitchen and several really cool pens, buttons, etc, fall out including a Huskie's dog tag and a Holland Christian tape measure.

Your refrigerator magnets are red, white and blue and only a few of them are flags.

Your computer's FIRST Folder contains sub folders for FLL 2000 and CDI 2000 and it takes more than one CD to give your teams History subteam all your pictures.

And my personal favorite...The son or daughter (or both) who got you into this goofy competition have already graduated college and are working in the real world and you now have someone to watch the dog while you are away at First events.

[Henry_Mareck]

i just thought of one
(it isn't really been in FIRST too long, just that you are obsessed)

if you are 16+ years old, and you would rather be one of the drivers for the robot than get a real drivers license

[Andrew Blair]

When you spend hours viewing pictures of robots, and remember alot of them.

Obsession: When you spend entire class periods wondering about whether this years game will be underwater, handling water, handling batons, or if it will be "Pop the Billfred".