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

[Pavan Dave]

-When 3/4 of your harddrive is full of first week matches broken down with notes on almost every robot as well as every rev of every update and manual released and a team picture of last year's robot and team as your desktop background.

Pavan.

[ScoutingNerd175]

-When your TA asks if anyone is doing anything interesting and you proudly tell him that you are going to regionals.
-When you tape your spring break packing list to your wall and it only has one thing on it- safety glasses.
-When you spend Friday-Wednesday of spring break looking forward to being dragged out of bed at a really unreasonable hour and dropped of at the CT convention center at 7:30 am.
-When you try to figure out how you will follow one regional while volunteering at another.

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by ScoutingNerd175

-When you try to figure out how you will follow one regional while volunteering at another.

With text messaging, of course. How else?


-When you find yourself updating SEVEN people at a regional...and somehow manage it (mostly).

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by rachal

- You get really irritated when people ask you if you do Battlebots.

When your friends know to hold you back when someone asks.

[Josh Fox]

-when you spent the last three hours of life reading all these!

[Athleticgirl389]

Originally Posted by mizscience

...when you are upset over graduating because it means you are no longer a student FIRSTer.

But we get the awesoness of being a MENTOR!!!! Teach the new students the tricks and trades of your team and FIRST!

... you realize all your friends are in robotics, were in robotics, or know so much about robotics now because it's all you talk about.
... you dream about an upcoming regional and hope the [good] dream comes true!

[vivek16]

when you start to talk to your non first friends about mechanical stuff like drive trains and cathodes and victors and whatnot just to see their faces and thier replied

[Tetraman]

--days after a regional you are still finding broken zip ties in your pockets

[BlondeNerd]

...your Mom spends an hour explaining FIRST, the game, the robot, and the excitement of regionals to someone...just because she was saying that she was unavailable on a Friday because she is coming to see you compete. (or does that mean my Mom is overdosed on FIRST?)

[Tetraman]

--your new dorm chair is a collective of a Keeper, two ringers and a spoiler.

[Josh Fox]

Originally Posted by Tetraman

--days after a regional you are still finding broken zip ties in your pockets

Same thing but with rivet ends

[Jeremiah Johnson]

You dream of the day you become a play-by-play announcer.

You search the entire Quad Cities looking for cold cathodes to pimp out your new lexan scouting clipboards and your newly completed Vex robot.

[whlspacedude]

you can only choose a university with a robotics team

[zakk]

when you spend an hour explaining how much more complex FIRST is than battlebots after someone says "so, you do Battlebots?

[Rich Ross]

You know you're overdosed when you read all the posts in this thread ( i did not, silly college gets in the way)