You know you're addicted to FIRST when...

[Gabe]

...you fall asleep with your DeWalt drill.
...hearing restaurant order numbers makes you look around.
...you are constantly reaching up to adjust imaginary safety glasses.
...anything edible becomes a gourmet.
...you are asked to think of your best friend and you have to explain that they are all over the country.
...you set your alarm clock for 6:04 am.
...you've memorized everything in McMaster-Carr.
...you become addicted to ChiefDelphi

Who's the Big Cheese?

[Michelle Celio]

When you're cleaning out from underneath your bed and you find the following items

1. 2 Poof Balls
2. A FIRST information book (its got random information, I'm not even sure what it is..)
3. 2 years worth of your teams Summer Camp flyers
4. FIRST Impressions from Fall 2001 (Keep in mind, this is my first year...)
5. An AIM HIGH book
6. A "FIRST Frenzy: Rasing the Bar" book
7. A CD of pictures from before I was on the team..
8. A 186 Coach Badge.. (im on 1065 and 186 disapated before I joined FIRST...)

[Storcky]

...you freak out every time you see a Segway(none any where close to here )
...you count down minutes to the next FIRST event whatever it may be
...you set numerous alarms when a FIRST event is occurring even if you are there
...you have your watch alarm go off at 1629 military time every day even though it doesn't read military time
...you have numerous windows up on your compuer and all of them relate to FIRST and 3 of them are CD

[Tetraman]

...You cheer everytime your team number appears anywhere
...You use your Nickname you got from your team members in fourms other than FIRST fourms.
...People think you are nuts when you start talking about Thunder Chickens, Explodeing Bacon, and Mad Cows.
...You call any intervention a Bovine Intervention.
...You swear Tricorner hats with long cyan feathers were stolen from Tech Fusion
...The weather forcast predicts wind and rain, you say 1511 is coming.
...You all Go Nuts (robots, robots!)
...You never have trouble finding Waldo.
...On your last test, when asked what was Newton's greatest accomplishment, you answered "He got my team to visit Einstien"
...You can prove to your friends Martians exist! And this time they broguth more!
...You tell your gym coach you want 10 seconds automous mode before the start of the dodgeball game.
...At the end of the dodgeball game to run to the end of your side of the field for 5 bonus points.
...to you: 4's company, 5's a crowd, and 6 is someone off-sides.
...You actually dream to be an MC
...Flowers is an awsome last name.
...Legos are a serious business
...Atlanta is your Mecca.

[anna~marie]

...when you go back to school and see people wearing pink and yell "go think pink!!"
...when you hear Bohemian Rhapsody and think of your field in ATL
...when you consider flying out to NJ to go to Monty Madness and meet up with some robotics people

[Michelle Celio]

Originally Posted by anna~marie

...when you go back to school and see people wearing pink and yell "go think pink!!"

Or when you see a team mate wearing a 233 button, and proceed to tell them the whole story about the finals on Archimedes

Or when you yell at the rest of your team mates for not watching the web cast and refuse to tell them who won, that they must download it and watch it in all it's glory.

[anna~marie]

when you go to your POPs concert rehersal and see a guy in your school's other choir wearing this crazy outfit for this crazy number (aka cowboy hat and pink boa) and you can't help but think of tech fusion's driver

[Tetraman]

...You know at least 50 team names and their numbers by heart.
...You believe 71 is possibly the greatest number of all time.
...You know who's hot.
...You watch scary swamp movies and swear 179 leaped out of the bog!
...You see '33' enscribed on most bumble bees.
...You believe cheering for your high school's basketball team will give you the Team Spirit award.
...You've got designs, plans, names, and ideas all ready to begin your own FIRST team.
...To you, the name Technobots is like the last name Smith.
...You don't make Canada jokes anymore. It's not very Gratious and Professional.
...Your best English essay included FIRST
...You only listen to songs on the DJ list.
...You can't wait for Winter. (build season)
...Your Myspace has at least one Atlanta/Regional Picture.
...You don't feel akward when Dave, Woodie and Dean partisipate in the "You-ought-to-know" Gameshow during kickoff
...You want to play a FIRST video game SOOOOOOOO badly
...You want a water game challenge for one year no matter how hard it would be.
...Friends hear you talk about FIRST and they think you got draged into a cult.
...Mountain Dew is the beverage of builders.
...You have a medal from a year you mentored.
...You school grades drop a letter in Janurary than go up two after April.
...You have a FIRST keychain on your keychain. (I got ours and 71's)
...You accidently called a Triangle a Tetra in Math class
...Your photo project for Photography includes a Robotics picture
...Regionals pwn that Kindergarten Field Trip to the zoo you had.

[Joe Matt]

...you realize your student ID number is xx365xxx

[Mark McLeod]

...Your return flight# from Atlanta has to match your team number

[Dylan]

You start wondering about next year's challenge 2 hours after you get back to your hotel saturday !

[Tetraman]

Originally Posted by Dylan

You start wondering about next year's challenge 2 hours after you get back to your hotel saturday !

...You design what you think next year's challenge will be for your Digital Animation project in similar fashion as the animations for showing the game.

Give me a few days and I'll post it on this site.

[Pat Fairbank]

...You realize that the best part of winning the Championship is the fact that you are now the proud owner of one of the ThunderChickens' coveted t-shirts, given to you by them after your win together.

[brainonska]

[quote=Jeff_Rice]When you hit refresh every two seconds to read a new quote at the top of CD

When you consider implementing a mood matrix into the robot just because it would be cool

When you realize how absolutely cool it is for a girl to be in FIRST

When you tell FIRSTers thousands of miles away about your troubles

When you develop an intensive craving for caffeine at anytime while programming

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you pretty much got them all down except

-you start to talk in C (programmers know what im talking about)

-when you contribute to a list of the signs that you are addicted to FIRST

[John Gutmann]

when you have 2 brand spankin' new CIM motors lexan and a control system sitting on the floor of your room