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

[Cuog]

-You swear you hear people cheering "Blue Alliance" in the middle of lunch

You actually do hear people cheering blue alliance(they are watching a tape from nats)

[ahirsch2589]

you run up to random people standing in front of them, then you bump into them knocking them over, and run up a a flight of stairs until you hear a buzzer

[Jessica!]

--You are more excited about upcoming off season events than you are about the fact that you won the championship

--You are sad because you're not sure what you're going to do with all your spare time now that you can't go to robotics everyday...

[HyPhire111]

. . You can't help it if you go into radioshack and see a box of vex part and feel the need to construct a robot

[KelliV]

... You have spent the last 18 hours editing the Championship footage
... You refer to everything by numbers
... You chant Oink Oink BOOM as you watch the bacon in your microwave
... Your friends offer to buy you lunch if you don't say WildStang for 30 minutes, and you end you not eating becuase you left your lunch money at home.
... You order Thunder Chicken Nuggets at the school lunch line

[Lea103]

--on a day off from school, you wake up at 8 so you can watch the opening ceremony for friday.
--you have an ap test in four days and are on delphi or watching the final matches

[SarahBecker]

When you skip school the week before exams just so you can go to Nats with your team.

[anna~marie]

you don't know how to spend your day... so you just veg out on CD
you check your email and all the messages are from CD

[Qbranch]

Originally Posted by Psychoflood

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

-Cheers from the competition accidentally slip into normal conversation
-Every time you see a helicopter you think "Dean Kamen is my hero"
-You swear you hear people cheering "Blue Alliance" in the middle of lunch
-You come home with a suit of armor made out of buttons from random teams.
-Every time you hear a whistle you think about switching to offense
-Every time you hear "FIRST" you proudly show off the finale party wristband... which you still have on your wrist.
-When you watch basketball on T.V. you could swear you saw a green light on the backboard
-When your parents call you up for dinner, you whip out your phone to text your friends to ask when they want to meet at the CNN tower.
-When you see people in a group wearing shirts of a similar color, you wonder what team they are.
-When you hear people go "Awwwwwwwwwww" you look for the toppled robot.
-You type "FIRST" into google just to see it appear on the top of the list.
-Upon your return home you try and convince your entire group of friends to join FIRST
-90% of the words out of your mouth are inside jokes from the trip to Atlanta
-You wait on the bottom step on a flight of stairs wondering why the escalator isn't working.
-You carry a pair of safety glasses on you at all times... in everyday life.
-You come home and write a thread on Chief Delphi about knowing when you've overdoesed on FIRST robotics.

This is kind of scary.... I do most these things all the time...

I've tried to get all my friends to join FIRST, I always include "Lets all go nuts, ROBOTS, ROBOTS!" when talking with my programming teacher.

Oh yeah and I really really miss the escalators... don't need them here in good ol' flat Indiana.

I still have my side shields in my wallet (just in case there is a Safety Captain around )

So here's what I have to add:

- Your team cheers for the robot's autonomous programming (they named it RALFF )

- You often think that people are calling you by your FIRST name (mine's "Q")

- You have nightmares about the target light changing from green, to red, to blue.

- You look online to see when the date for the 2007 kickoff is. (already have it in my phone countdown )

- You check Google Earth to see if they have the golden poof ball marked yet.

- You can't find MARTA anywhere, but still carry your "Breeze" pass around.

- You think you pretty much know what next year's game is going to be. (I know I do )

- You type "sundial.first" into your address bar to see if it is counting down to next year's national competition.

- You just opened another tab to check the previous item.

- Not seeing Segways on a regular basis seems odd.



Might have some more later...
-Q

[Master Dictator]

Originally Posted by Psychoflood

-Cheers from the competition accidentally slip into normal conversation
-You swear you hear people cheering "Blue Alliance" in the middle of lunch
-You come home with a suit of armor made out of buttons from random teams.
-Every time you hear a whistle you think about switching to offense
-When you watch basketball on T.V. you could swear you saw a green light on the backboard
-When your parents call you up for dinner, you whip out your phone to text your friends to ask when they want to meet at the CNN tower.
-When you see people in a group wearing shirts of a similar color, you wonder what team they are.
-When you hear people go "Awwwwwwwwwww" you look for the toppled robot.
-You type "FIRST" into google just to see it appear on the top of the list.
-Upon your return home you try and convince your entire group of friends to join FIRST
-90% of the words out of your mouth are inside jokes from the trip to Atlanta
-You wait on the bottom step on a flight of stairs wondering why the escalator isn't working.
-You carry a pair of safety glasses on you at all times... in everyday life.
-You come home and write a thread on Chief Delphi about knowing when you've overdoesed on FIRST robotics.

and
- You often think that people are calling you by your FIRST name


These apply to me and some are so true, which now I think about it is scary. Oh and my FIRST name is C Monster or CMOS

[StephLee]

I've done more since this afternoon...


...When you turn CNN on while you do your homework just because it reminds you of Atlanta.
...When you have your team coonskin hat "watching you type your paper" (it followed me home, I have to take it back to the team... )
...When you hear the word autonomous on CNN and freak out.
...When your non-FIRST friends seem surprised to see you.
...When your school bell makes you think "Are we backbot this match???"
...When you regret your decision not to buy three more championship t-shirts.
...When you take all the robotics related junk out of your purse...and it's got next to nothing in it.
...When your teachers say "So what city will you be in next weekend?"
...When your parents announce a family weekend trip and you wonder if there are any FIRST teams in the area that you could visit.

[amanda547]

you know you have overdosed to first when while you are reading all of these things, you can smile and say "oh yeah, i miss doing that" and then, you start to tear up and scream "I MISS FIRST!!!"

-But out of all honesty, I have just experienced my first free monday in what seems like forever. I dont know what to do with myself. I feel like Im failing at life or something. "I MISS FIRST!!!!!!!"

[irishninja]

No yeah I'm serious. Check the chit chat section. There are multiple threads like this.

[ScoutingNerd175]

Originally Posted by Psychoflood

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
-You come home with a suit of armor made out of buttons from random teams.
-Every time you hear "FIRST" you proudly show off the finale party wristband... which you still have on your wrist.
-You type "FIRST" into google just to see it appear on the top of the list.
-Upon your return home you try and convince your entire group of friends to join FIRST
-90% of the words out of your mouth are inside jokes from the trip to Atlanta
-You carry a pair of safety glasses on you at all times... in everyday life.

I have all the buttons on BAE bandannas from last year and they are hanging on my wall. Yes, I still have the wrist band, it is plastic, so it will last. FIRST really does come up first! My best friend says she will not join robotics at my school, she is too busy with earth club. My mom can't wait for me to go to college so that she won't have to hear about first any more. My safety glasses have been in my purse since... build season.

-Your Latin class is numbered 103, you looked at the clock and it said 2:36, you looked up again and it said 2:52... so you waited until it said 2:54, You saw a road sign that said 451, and you notice your team number everywhere.

-You had to stay home sick because you caught something awful (viva la Championships petri dish)

- You didn't finish any home work because you have been online ever since you got home, even though you had a day more off to do your work.

[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.
...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.