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

[Ryan Albright]

When you are tryin to take a hiatus and CD is the first webpage i visit everyday

[Chief Samwize]

..........if your like me and your posting things like this to get your rating up LOL

[Chief Samwize]

..............If you have ever writen a team name for an answer in your math class.

.............. If your the only one still posting on this subject. (ME )

[EricH]

If your favorite T-shirts are all related to FIRST in one way or another.
If you check CD more than once a day.

[Chief Samwize]

Originally Posted by AndyB

When you have actually offered to sell bodily fluids and or organs so you could go to nationals (multiple members of my team)

If you have ever looked disappointed at a christmas tree because it didnt have a tetra on it

If you have ever seen how fast you could stack your mothers rubbermaid containers

If you and your mentors have email conversations regularly at 3AM

If youve ever had to set up an alternate gmail account just because your other one was full of robotics shtuff (Me)

If youve ever asked a girl what team she is from and what division she is in as a pickup line (2004-05 Nationals)

If you have ever thought of an ultimate christmas gift as a pair of dean kamen worn jeans and matching denim jacket

If you have ever considered denim fashionable for that matter

If you have ever bragged about the number of mySQL databases your host supplies

If when you here the word woodstock, Woodie flowers instantly comes to mind

If you've ever offered to shave your head if your team gets their 3D animation in on time. (Greg Owens)

If you have ever brought a backpack to regionals and nationals just to fit your 2 2 liter bottles of mountain dew in

If you've randomly started asking people to deciver what really is "a shovel's show"

If you've ever been forced into robotics via peer pressure

If you keep a bundle of zip ties with you in your back pocket, just in case...

In engish, you've been downgraded for putting the word 'first' in all caps

If you've ever gotten off on a tangent about why dean kamens hair never moves

If when hearing the words red white and blue, you think FIRST over america

Youve gotten addicted to playing your teams computer simulation for that year's game

If when saying the ABC's, you shout the letter F, I, R, S, and T as they come in that order

If youve considered buying a laptop just so you could make scouting easier this year

If youve ever been working on your teams website at school, looked at the clock and said to yourself, shoot, i have school in 3 hours...

If after winning a regional, you wore your medal around school and bragging about how you double stacked on the center goal with 2 seconds left to all of your non-FIRST friends

If youve ever gotten in a fight with a band-geek that FIRSTies are cooler than Bandies

In that last one im both. Im in band and FIRST at the same time. TALK ABOUT NO FREE TIME!

[Kim Masi]

-When you have dreams of UTC regional every night for months prior to the competition...and u capped the vision tetra in those dreams...hah.

[atomikitten]

"Pot" means potentiameter, not a plant.

[mechanicalbrain]

When ChiefDelphi creates a smiley ( ) for your teams mascot.
If you don't get this take a look at my avatar.

[KrtZer0]

when your first aid kit and tool box are the same thing.
when you know how to splint a potential broken finger with a bolt and some duct tape
when you refuse to go to a hospital because you dont want there to be an argument in the school board about somebody breaking something else during robotics
when the real reason that you wouldnt go was that you were making a prototype of a prototype out of a treadmill and some plywood, and you needed to know how it would work.
when you still still wince using the right side of the keyboard because you simply refused to even go get some ice

when you fall asleep at night and wake up staring at the ChiefDelphi forums

[InnocentBlond]

When you see the words "FIRST STUDENTS" on the side of your school bus and get excited

When you spend 5 hours going to 15 different stores looking for poof balls and come back empty handed because they have all been sold to the other San Diego teams

When you see a message on the official Poof Ball website directed to FIRST robotics teams. Check the site:

http://www.poof-slinky.com/catalog/c...actio n=prov&

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by InnocentBlond

When you see a message on the official Poof Ball website directed to FIRST robotics teams. Check the site:

http://www.poof-slinky.com/catalog/catalog.asp?org=4&prodid=92&catid=42&start=6&actio n=prov&

FIRST: Changing the world, one website announcement at a time...

[mtaman02]

When someone mentions kickoff to you and you automatically get a headache just thinking about what the 3 amigos have in store for everyone =)

3 Amigos = Dave Dean and Woody =)

When the above happens and your still working on last seasons game and robot

[atomikitten]

...when you're dating a guy, he's totally into you, but then he decides to ignore you because he thinks you spend too much time building robots with other guys.
(aw, come on! they're like brothers!)

[InnocentBlond]

when you get excited about getting zip ties for christmas (even though it was just a joke gift)

[ChuNalt787]

when you break out the legos to prototype some designs. Sadly it didnt work