You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:

[ElfMaster]

When someone hands you a box of cupcakes and you're more interested in the box and how it can be cut up and used on the robot

[katiyeh07]

the students from buzz would have to say...
-when you went to grab your bottle of coke...you instead picked up the methyl ethel bad stuff...and almost drank that until you realized coke doesn't smell like pure death
-every parent has stopped by with some form of "food" (baked goods)
-when you fall asleep in the teachers lounge...more than once
-when human player practice turns into an all out game of dodge ball...but you just keep pegging one person
-when you start making up songs that fit the mood like: "there's so much hostility....and our robot has no capabilities"
-when more than one alumni comes back and is not surprised to see that the robot is in shambles
-when onomatopoeias start making sense when you're asking for a certain size drill bit
-when you get so frustrated that you call the Greek kid on the team Poseidon because he's doing something wrong
-you don't see daylight
-weather doesn't matter
-weather doesn't exist
-you spend more time at school...than you do at home
-the janitors know you better than your own parents
-you called a janitor mom or dad
-you have time lapses
-your dog doesn't recognize you anymore
-your own family doesn't recognize you anymore
-there's no such thing as a curfew
-you don't realize you have about a foot's worth of PVC shaving on your shoulder for about an hour after you've done it...and it's more than one person...and they're all staring at each other
-you're sick of pizza
-you can use the lathe without really paying attention to it
-you go through about a dozen or so band saw blades a day...and you think it's not a problem
-stopping the milling machine turns into the worlds best game
-when 8 people at 10:30 in the morning the day before ship have nothing better to do than this...and the robot is nowhere near done...you know you've been in the shop too long


see you all at competition...if we're still alive

[James1902]

-When more than half you mentors have a fever of over 100 and they still show up at the scrimmage

[nifty]

your entire body is covered with a film of PVC dust.

you don't notice the metal shavings in your nose anymore.

your hand seems to vibrate when you're not holding the dremel, and seems to remain still when you are.

you drink someone elses coffee despite the huge skull and crossbones sharpied onto the cup, and just plain don't notice because of sleep deprivation.

your parents are becoming increasingly suspicious that you've been sneaking off to drink (drinks that you really aren't allowed to drink by law) because of the sheer amount of time you spend out of the house. you think i'm kidding.


and good luck everyone; happy ship day tomorrow.

[PiKman]

When non-robotics students leave school, come back to watch a basketball game, leave again, then drive by in the wee hours and to stop in to say "you mean you guys never left since 3:00?"

When you fall asleep while sitting on the floor next to the bot waiting for the electrical team to re-wire a Victor, and you don't realize you're asleep until the team mom wakes you up by calling your cell phone (Saturday afternoon).

When you leave at 11:00 pm and you feel guilty for stopping work "so early."

When the students express a deep desire to sleep overnight in the school.

When playing a game of double-entendre with the robot's "working name" reaches it's 153rd consecutive verse and every one of them gets a laugh.

When the janitors' looks have changed from interested, past annoyed, to sympathetic.

When every single person on the team thinks that "Whizzenator" is a great name for the ball feed mechanism.

[Sgraff_SRHS06]

Originally Posted by LightWaves1636

if your bot looks like a shopping cart and so you take it to a grocery store(our teacher said just because the prototype bot looks like the shoppping cart of doom, it doesn't mean we're going to use it to go shopping. We almost took it to McDonalds across the street in so that we could have dinner with the bot outside the shop)

And you realize the front of the cart has an advertisement that reads either "Vote for Pedro," your team motto, or features a personal ad (e.g. "Team Sweetie") for your mascot.

You know you've been in the workshop too long when:

You post 20 posts a day on ChiefDelphi for the last 21 days.
You think that Whole Foods is a hardware store.
You come home and you think you're staying at a 5-star hotel.
You order Delivery from the Ram's Head Tavern.
You think the world will end at 5:00.01 AM.
You dream of that last modification you wanted to put in, but you never had the time to do so.
You think your Fix-It Window is too short.
You get in trouble with the school for trespassing because you've stayed on school grounds from 7 am to 9 pm the next day.
You can't work at a computer unless it has MPLAB IDE, Easy-C, IFI Loader, and C-Compilers

[Towel]

Wait... people actually LEAVE the shop during build season

[ChuNalt787]

Originally Posted by LightWaves1636

if your bot looks like a shopping cart and so you take it to a grocery store(our teacher said just because the prototype bot looks like the shoppping cart of doom, it doesn't mean we're going to use it to go shopping. We almost took it to McDonalds across the street in so that we could have dinner with the bot outside the shop)

haha we nicknamed ours the shoping cart of doom as well.

when you use ur mentors house and call it home(i actualy did that when talking to his wife)

[AV_guy007]

Originally Posted by Dzdconfusd

The Police show up to find out why there are cars at the high school at 5AM and the first thing you ask them is to borrow their radar gun. <--Really happened Friday!

Coming Soon: A time lapse of the last 48 hour of the Bobcat Robotics build.

yep heard about that.
one of mine is leaving the shop to go eat and then on the car ride back relise you are still wearing safteys

the time lapse is coming i just need to get back to school some time

[AV_guy007]

2 more:
the day after the robot ships, looking in your wallet and realizing how much money you spent on fast food and energy drinks
Friday i had 50 some dollars now i have -2 dollars
also when its 4 in the morning and someone says "wow your up awful Early" and you respond with "nope technical I'm up awful late!!"

[macgyver]

when you stay after school even though you already shipped the robot just because you have no idea what you are suppose to do when you get home anymore.

or when you have a caffeine withdrawl and your friends think that you have a hangover

when the janitors tell you how to get into the school at night without a key

when you realize you are almost failing most of your classes because you forgot what homework was

[pyroslev]

Originally Posted by macgyver

when you stay after school even though you already shipped the robot just because you have no idea what you are suppose to do when you get home anymore.

When the dog doesn't bark at you when you get home before midnight and you realize she's ok.

When you tell the cop that pulled you over why you ran through that stop sign (Making a Caffine Run!) and who it's for and he gives you an escort!

[santosh]

You are at the shop more than you are at school

The machine shop floor feels like a bed

You cant find your keys, and dont really care because you are going to be in the shop so long it wont matter

you have imprints of your safety goggles in your face

your grades plummet

[dubious elise]

When a team member is speeding home and runs a stop sign at 9:45 at night and gets pulled over only to be let go with a warning because, earlier in the day, one of the engineers on your team had asked the same officer to stop by the school with his radar gun. (yes, another true story ~ Andy can tell you all about it)

[NeedMoreEngines]

- When you blurt out "I NEED THE WRENCH THAT FITS!" and EVERYONE knows which one it is.

You blow a fuse because you're using too many tools at once. (Happened a lot)