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

[Arkorobotics]

When you are afraid of eating your pizza's crust because all the metal shavings are stuck on your hand. (You don't want it on your pizza... bad experience)

[Billfred]

...when you receive an award from WUSC-FM for "Best 3D Robot"

Or, when your screen saver is made entirely of robots in various locations.

[jacob07]

Its really funny that almost of all these apply to me

[HRobotics]

Courtesy of Team 1275, Havergal Robotics:

- You don't understand why your English course code starts with 'ENG'. Doesn't that mean 'Engineering?'

[Peter Matteson]

You make reference to students and mentors your students are too young to have known and wonder why they have no idea who you're talking about.

I Did it yesterday.

[Beta Version]

- when your diet consists of metal shavings, copper lube, and microwave tacos

- when you get strangely exctited when 3doors down "Cryptonite" comes on
- when you no longer remember that cryptonite is spelled "Kryptonite"

- when you get extremely excited when you see your team number in a math problem and develop a sudden urge to make 100% sure you get it right
- when you similarly allready know every way to multiply, divide, and square root your team number

-when you get angry at anyone who mentions hydraulics and have the sudden urge to convert them to pnuematics immediately

- when the sight of the FedEx man or the words "ship date" bring a sudden panic attack

[Dan Petrovic]

-When all of your Livejournal/Xanga/Blurty/ect. posts consist of either FIRST related stuff or quizzes and the like.

-When you count down the days until Kickoff.... 30 days...

[Cory]

...when half the people posting in the "you know you've been in FIRST too long" thread have been in FIRST half as long as you

[dk5sm5luigi]

When a person posts:

Originally Posted by Cory

when half the people posting in the "you know you've been in FIRST too long" thread have been in FIRST half as long as you [img]images/smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

and you have been in FIRST twice as long as him.

[Henry_Mareck]

It great because 90% of these apply to me, and I have known FIRST existed for no more than a year and a half.

[Robocat1]

When its 8 pm on a Friday, you're single, and on a FIRST robotics site instead of being out!

[A. Snodgrass]

Originally Posted by Cory

...when half the people posting in the "you know you've been in FIRST too long" thread have been in FIRST half as long as you

Or have information/video proof that you likely have been in FIRST too long.

[Dorienne]

When you see the lead singer of a band with your team number on his shirt...and freak out so much your boyfriend (also a FIRSTer) has to try to calm you down in 10 minutes...to not much avail.

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[Pat Chen]

Originally Posted by dude__hi

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

Or the students ask the teacher...don't you work anymore? (Complaints from students when I attend regionals and world competition).

[slickguy2007]

You have accumulated so many tools over the years that you have an almost complete set.....

You hear numbers and associate those numbers with teams, then you immediately think of facts for that team number from over the years.....

You look at every day objects and think to yourself.. pshh if they used team 111's 2002 design...... or pshhh my team could redesign that to be so much better......

GO 1403!!!