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

[ahecht]

- When you have an entire drawer devoted to FIRST T-shirts
- When you are moving, and one of your boxes says "FIRST Buttons"
- When the words "tether" and "entanglement" in the same sentence make you cringe
- When you are in a job interview, and the interviewer asks a question and then specifies "give me a non-robotics answer"
- When you hear the song "We like to party" and you think of FIRST, not Six Flags

[snowdragon]

While working around the house you attach things with duct tape, zip ties and velcrow

[Nitroxextreme]

when you walk into a room and see a triangle on the board and immediately thing about some concept that you have been developing and how triangles can now be implemented into it

[Dan Petrovic]

Here are a bunch from the first_robotics LiveJournal community

http://www.livejournal.com/community...ics/63910.html

I started the thread... >.>

And I just came up with another one

When you start fixing things yourself with rivets, zip-ties, and bolts
Including a smashed guitar that was found in your school parking lot before going to a mini-competition *cough*

[Cuog]

-You personally own almost as many robots as your robotics team
-You tell the incoming freshmen they will be elevated above other freshmen if they join robotics
-You have a breifcase with general electronic peices which you have dedicated to FIRST uses only
-You are the proud owner of over half a dozen computers soon to become robots or robot programming stations

[Scott L.]

1. You spend so much time around your robot and team mentors, that they have adopted you as one of their kids.
2. You favorite sport is FIRST Robotics.
3. Your hero is Dean Kamen.
4. When asked, "You ever meet anyone famous?", you immediately think of Dean Kamen.
5. When robotics becomes your life.
6. When your daily routine is: robotics, eat sleep, repeat.

[Jeff Pahl]

When you are a mentor and people who should know better think some of the students on the team are your children

[Joohoo]

When a Long night in the shop becomes an early morning, to meet the shipping deadline.

[Jeff Waegelin]

... when you realize that the students who were freshmen your senior year will graduate in the spring

... when you start talking about why you disliked the 2001 game at a meeting, and realize noone in the room knows what you're talking about

... when you post in a thread like this, and realize you don't know 3/4 of the posters, and they probably don't know who you are, either

[Lisa Perez]

... when you're explaining something to peers in calculus and go "So, tell me what the bounds of this tetra... er... I mean tetrahedron... are"

[Michelle Celio]

when you get your friends bands to play for free but charge people to listen just to get enought money to go to regionals

[Steve Horn]

When you have gone to every year of Battlecry that you have been in FIRST.

When you build parts in Inventor in the offseason because you're bored that day.

[Timmyd]

When you carry around a steel rule in you pocket (just in case) and when you pull it out of your pocket and people ask you why you have it you say well i needed it this time didnt i

[Joe J.]

When your winter coat still has orange hair spray on it from Great Lakes last year.

[Church]

When you get into your car, you check to see if you're on the right channel.