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

[Sheer Dumb Luck]

-when all you wear are FIRST shirts
-when you find out one year you don't have a team you volunteer at 2 regionals just to see FIRST at its finest


**2005 Iron Lyons, team 912, did not compete in FRC . But now we're back and better than ever!

[awbreed55]

when your spend more time at teh shop then u home

when you idolize your mentor as higher then a god

[SenseiSkins]

When you make topics like this

[mill_master1018]

When you specially choose a class book with your team number

[Nuttyman54]

when your natural tendency is to capitallize all letters of FIRST, no matter what the context...

[Mike Rush]

When you make the 200th post the the thread "You know you've been in FIRST to long when..."

[ida_noeman]

When you skip lunch to surf Chief Delphi

[Schneidie]

Originally Posted by kireitenshi00

Hey everyone, I found this little list while I was digging through some of my old school stuff. Some members of our team made this list up at about 2 or 3 am on the way back from nationals. So please enjoy and feel free to add your own.

10 things that tell you if you've been in FIRST too long (courtesy of 677):

1. You know all the words to the Vengaboys Party Album
2. Red Bull and coffee are food groups
3. You start incorporating you mentors' mannerisms into you own everyday life
4. Your mentors no longer feel bad about calling you names
5. 3 AM becomes an early time to go to bed
6. When "CAR" does not refer to a moving vehicle
7. When one of your team members is considered a possession of VEX
8. When baked goods are the preferred form of currency
9. You spend Easter Sunday inside Home Depot looking for the PERFECT pair of safety glasses
10. You know stories about your mentors' childhoods complete with song and dance

Here's another- When your parents are talking about your uncle Victor and you ask which CIM he is controlling.
Long story... but true.

[Marcel]

When your diet now consists of, bagels, doritos, and coca-cola...

Yea pretty much when building season starts, the parents have to bring the food and pretty much they bring chips, with sodas, and if no parent brings any food. We're stuck with bagels donated by some sponsor we have. And yes sometimes we have to have...left-over bagels -.-

[Adama]

When you spent the last three days before shipping with the team completing the robot in your own garage.

( this actually happened to me last year, my garage has yet to recover )

[Marcel]

When your weekend includes:

Working on the robot.
Shopping for parts needed for building robot.
Going to chief delphi forums to see other peoples robot.
Discussing the progress of the robot during dinner.
Dreaming about the robot.

Lol

[Michelle Celio]

When you can look at somones picture (be it on CD or just a normal digi) and they are on the computer and you can go HEY LOOK! THEY ARE ON CHIEF DELPHI

[KenWittlief]

You know you've been in FIRST too long

when your key ring ends up looking like THIS:




DISCLAIMER: some car keys have a chip in the plastic & if you cut it off or drill through it the key will no longer work in your car & dont ask me how I know this!

[Aburame Shino]

...When you can look at a random number and figure out which FIRST team has that number.

[Ben Martin]

... when you design multiple Lego League, Vex, and FRC games during your spare time