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

[Eric W. Jones]

-you doze off while underneath the robot
-you become emotionally attached to a piece of machinery
-you forget where your house is because it's three in the morning on Monday and you haven't seen it since Friday morning
-you spend most of your waking (and some of your sleeping) time in the machine shop

[thatphotochick]

you're not even technically a part of the team but you keep coming on here seeing what's happening

you can relate everything to something with FIRST: on-field, off-field, competition, the trip to competitions.

[Éowyn]

1. Your family buys a new car with good fuel milaege, and since the robotics team you're on is 45 minutes away, you immediatly christen it "The RoboticsMobile".
2. Since you had Taco bell so often during build season, the whole rest of the year its "robotics food".
3. The day when the mentors are showing the new members around the machine shop you (a) Remember just how much you like the smell of grease and metal shavings and (b) shout to the mentor talking about lathes: And NEVER leave the key in the chuck!

[Nica F.]

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when someone asks you what time it is and you subconsciously reply, "BeachBots" when you were supposed to say "3:30"


you know youre even more addicted to FIRST when the person you said it to actually understood what you meant.

[Dan Petrovic]

When you start arguements between you and another FIRST addict over who has better teams on their licence plates.

(I have HOT's number )

[BlondeNerd]

When you spend your entire weekend running a FLL tournament so that you can go to your team's competitions

When you really did it so you could hang out with your FIRST buddies!

When all you want for Christmas is some safety glasses that fit

[NerdPride_1212]

...you can't seem to letter in your sport but somehow manage to letter in robotics...that's new this year at my school...pretty cool i guess

...you're writing your essay for the air force academy and can't think of anything to write about except robotics

[Athleticgirl389]

Originally Posted by BlondeNerd

...you have decided that going to nationals is more important than looking at colleges over spring break (theres another week off school before nationals anyway...)

Who needs college when you have robots that we can build to go to college for us


You might be addicted to FIRST when you're talking to your moentor about where the team (digital) camera is and another teammate says "its right here" and pulls out the light sensor camera.

(Happened in my team 2 days ago!)

[johnnymath360]

you know more about mechanical physics than your physics teacher,

Buzz words like chamfer, I.D, projected, etc. find themselves in conversations really not meant for those words.

The night before ship night you stay till 7'o clock in the morning, pickup your backpack and go to class the "next day"

you are tri-lingual - English, German and C+

Inventor is used for more than just robotics - includes school projects

^^^your friends come to you to make designs for them - including a boat...with potato gun cannons on it

Everyone automatically thinks your going to go into engineering, but you are actually going into medicine.

[230Robokid]

-You come back onto the team even though your in collage
-Your a mentor
-When you talk, sleep, eat, breath Robotics
-When you talk, sleep, eat, breath robotics even though the season hasent started

[woody]

- When even the other students on your team mock you for being way to attached to FIRST.

[Sgraff_SRHS06]

- You update the FirstWiki pages even though you have a few problem assignments due for your college classes.

[StephLee]

- When you open the glove compartment in your mom's van and a few robotics buttons fall out.

[MattLi]

-Whenever you hear the word "chair" you think of food (recipe for sucess)
-Whenever you have a cough drop you think "man announcers have a hard time."
-You go to a basketball game and you think something's missing and you pull out sheets of paper and start writing out what the players' strenghs and weaknesses are.
-You come back from national and you can acually take detailed notes in history class

[amos229]

when people call u not by a human name, but chickenman, check out the photo if you havent seen me at the championship, http://robotphotos.org/v/first/finge..._9178.JPG.html