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

[InnocentBlond]

when your dinning room tabel turns into a design table the day after kick off, covered in tissue boxes, toilet paper rolls, and pitiful model robots held together with tape.

[atomikitten]

how about...
someone says something about pride in being a part of FIRST and then people go on for days about their pride, so they post ideas...
and post
and post
and post
and post....

[hallk]

-when the janitors know your name but your parents forgot
-when your dining table still is covered from last years designs
-when you know you have been in too long but you just want to stay in longer
-when you run out of space to store robots so you decide to paint them on the wall
-when you are looking randomly online (during "off season") and say this would really cool on a robot

[dude__hi]

When you get groupies for successes in FIRST.

[Matt Hynson]

When you get robotics supplies for christmas (including safety goggles...)

[i_am_Doug]

! When you know the WHOLE song and you can dance to it with out no problems. The song i mean is in my SIGGY!

[Aburame Shino]

Originally Posted by i_am_Doug

! When you know the WHOLE song and you can dance to it with out no problems. The song i mean is in my SIGGY!

That song haunts my dreams. But in a good way.

- You know you've been in FIRST too long when you've forgotten what the word "sleep" means.

[cire]

1. When you try to make it so your team meets more often because you think your team is behind schedual.
2. When all your mentors know where your house is because they have to drive you home at 3am all the time.
3. When you do all your homework in advance for a whole week on the day you dont meet on.
4. When you write papers about robotics and other technical stuff in english class, because its the only thing you think about.
5. When you design an entire robot in CAD just for fun during the off season.
6. When you prototype your idea for a design using VEX the day after kickoff- and it works

[Uberbots]

my dad is my mentor, and i dont drink red bull. it gives you wings.

but i have only been in robotcs for 2 years now...


n+1) you see the triangle, sphere, and cube in your sleep.

[Hikel team 319]

You remember "the DONGLE"

[Rick TYler]

When you disassemble your own shop power tools to use the parts to build a mechanism prototype because you can't wait 24 hours for a build session at the school.

And you are a mentor who is *cough* years old.

[Dorienne]

...when you call mentors by names on CD...

EX: One of our mentor's name is Ken..and I accidentally called him Ken Wittlief...LOL.

[Cuog]

When you cary two bags around school:
One for books etc and the other with your programming laptop, soldering iron and various bits that you havent found a use for yet

[nirty]

you forget how look your home

[BradL]

This just happened to me. I was studing for my english final tomarrow and my mother asked me who wrote the poem I was reading and I said atonomous insead of anonymous (I wonder what my mind is really on ). I know that I have been in FIRST to long. The even scarier thing is that i imediatly had to go and post this.