You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...

[CalTran]

You're studying about World War 1 in AP Euro and when the teacher mentiones Alliances you automatically go into a "Blue A-lli-ance" chant (more or less) under your breath

[XXShadowXX]

You have ever used the term, 'If you went to Atlanta you would understand.'

[Karibou]

You're at a party and you realize that you don't know the words to "You Shook Me All Night Long"...but you do know the words to "Pinned Me All Match Long."

[cadmanDOM910]

When you constantly talk about people from the HOT team as "the hot guy" or the "hot girl"

[TPNigl]

When you do your final stats project on the influence of minibots on the outcome of matches

[thurston2619]

When you spend more time on robotics than on work & school combined.

When you take time off work to fly out to St. Louis to work Scholarship Row for your college.

When you spend an entire day at work coming up with a new business plan for your robotics team.

When you create a separate resume specifically for FIRST because it won't all fit on your work resume.

When you go to college and start mentoring not one, not two, but THREE FRC teams.

When the only graduation parties you have time to go to are for the FIRST kids you mentor, all others receive a "Sorry, I have another grad party I HAVE to be at that day" message.

When you leave work early to go talk to your college's faculty members about the FIRST Ambassadors program at your school.

When your friends ask for a ride and have to move robotics buttons and pamphlets off the seats before getting in your car.

When you are debating whether or not it is worth it to skip a college class to go to IRI this summer or not.

When you set your last day of work for the term so that you can attend MARC without worrying about missing work.

When you have more FIRST contacts than any other contacts in your phone.

When your parents come to your teams' fundraisers and competitions even though you are now mentoring teams rather than competing.

When you go to the world championship to work scholarship row as a college recruiter and your parents tell you they missed going and want to go with you next year even though you personally aren't competing anymore.

When you have successfully addicted your family to FIRST too and they no longer ask you to come home on weekends from November - April because they know you are going to be at robotics (FLL & FRC).

[TPNigl]

When you start jumping up and down yelling "YESS" over and over when you learn your roommate in college was on a FIRST robotics team

[StephLee]

...When you're still wearing the awesome tie dyed sweatband you got from 88 that you haven't taken off except to shower.
...When your wrap party wrist band was lovingly cut off so it wouldn't get damaged and you could save it.
...When you spent today sleeping in more than one class.
...When you told every single person you talked to a story from Atlanta.
...When you have a countdown on your myspace already until next year's kick-off.
...When you spent 2 1/2 hours on the ride home making plans for the off-season and for next year.
...When you're posting on this thread regardless of the fact that you have a 10 page paper due tomorrow that you haven't finished, plus make-up work.
...When you get to school and immediately, from a teammate, hear how long it is until kick-off...to the second.
...When several teammates post this information on your team website during school.
...When you realize you have four internet windows up right now: the FIRST website, ChiefDelphi, and two e-mail windows...and both e-mails are to people on FIRST teams you met at competitions.
...When you see three championship sweatshirts and one t-shirt at school, and another team member says hers was dirty or she'd have worn it...and you only have 7 people from your school on the team.

[Fuzzy]

...When you set your alarm early on the Monday after Championship, just so you can beat the other teams to Dunkin Donuts.

[coastertux]

...when you think you can never overdose on FIRST!

[KTorak]

-when you get back to school and realize you have hours of homework to make up, however, you would never trade the championship experience for anything else.

[aallen88]

--When you walk back into school on Monday and realize how dull and quiet everything is...and how no one at school will ever REALLY understand where you've been for the past few days.

that and...

--When you are constantly crying or tearing up (and believe me this is not an exaggeration) because you realize the best thing that ever happened to you in HS is coming to a close and just a wave of depression hits you.

I <3 MORT and robotics for LIFE.

[Denman]

Probably been mentioned but

When you see threads like this ...

[Danielle H]

Originally Posted by KRoth

You know you're overdosed with FIRST when...

... You don't make it to school on Monday after the championship because you're too busy catching up on four days worth of missed sleep

In our school, we won't be able to take trips like that again if we miss the day afterwards.

[KelliV]

...I'm still waiting for a Cheifdelph-aholics group to form at the local YMCA.