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

[robotaddict]

...when you sit around thinking of ways that show you've been in FIRST too long.

...when you realize that you don't care that you've been in FIRST too long.

...when you learn the html shorcuts for the smileys in delphi.

...when your Delphi signature is longer than your average post.

...when even your dad is saying you're a nerd.

[aaron341]

...when your AP U.S notes are covered with end effector doodles
....when instead of taking away TV or computer as punishment your parents take away robotics meetings
....3/4 of your e-mails are from Mr.Ostrow from 3 in the morning
......you think 6 is early to wake up for a competition
.... you try to work out math problems to get your team number as answer

[team222badbrad]

You have been on CD since its creation or remember what it looked like in the good old days.

[camtunkpa]

If you can remember the days of R-nets getting hot and not transmitting/receiving signal properly.

If you can remember the good ole days of P-Basic.

You know what a floppy was and wish for the return of floppies and a puck.

If you have ever built a FIRST robot that ran on drill battery packs.

If you miss the familiar smell of magic smoke coming from Tekkin Rebel speed controllers.

I can keep going on and on so maybe that's a sign I've been in FIRST too long

[BRosser314]

When your in Trig class and your teacher says somehting about using Pi you dont think of 3.14 you think of the ways and reasons we should change the team name

[anna~marie]

when you can finally convince all your friends to join the team simply because they want to find out what you won't shut up about
:yay: for 2006 season, its going to rock!

[button boy 1100]

Originally Posted by Henry_Mareck

a couple from team 418

when you would prefer to be in the shop than at home (even in off-season)

thats more of a shop rat type deal... trust me i would know i grew up a little brother of a mechanic... ah exauast and radiator fluid in the morning... oh sorry i had a flash back!

[killerofkiller]

you are still wearing a Vex rubber braclet from nationals even though noone knows what it means

When you are sitting at ur desk studying for a chem exam that's in 20 min , and u think, wow i wounder whats been posted on CD today, and u close ur chem book and logon

[mechanicalbrain]

When you remember when your team used to be 9 kids and now it has 79 kids! (not me but someone else on the team)

[Wetzel]

When someone asks for 'old videos' that are less than halfway back into your FIRST time...

Wetzel

[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