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

[StephLee]

...When you help your mom clean out her van and find: 4 pairs of safety glasses, a 375 bandana, a Chesapeake Regional agenda booklet, and a robot tether...not to mention the dozens of buttons that have been making their way inside for two weeks now.

[Nin_estarSaerah]

when you you couldnt make it to your team's second regional, and you have had three windows on your computer open: the first website, chief delphi, and the webcast, which you havent stopped watching since this morning.

[BandChick]

...when you get dubbed the "spends more time at competitions than she does in the real world" officer of the "FIRST is a cult...give in now" facebook group.

... and it's TRUE!

[TheIrishOne]

...when you go to a competition in your Homecoming dress because you need to go straight from the competition to the dance that night

[SPurekar]

... When you think of the Gearhead's button each time you see a pedestrian crossing sign

[Josh Fox]

...your student teacher becomes academic enforcer and mascot
of your team in the time that he's going to be here. yeah Mr. E/Captain RUSH!

[cire]

When you get interviewed about a internship / co-op and it turns into a conversation you feel like you've had before about 100 times while talking about FIRST. Oh, and you get hired

[Otaku]

When you see a bright orange shirt and you think: "Hey, Team 100!"

When you get excited when you hear "We're going to Atlanta!" in a non-FIRST setting (yes, such things exist).

When you cheer as a of plastic, rubber, aluminum, and other things falls over.

[ScoutingNerd175]

You watch the final four in the GA dome and spend most of it thinking how weird it is to see some other event crown its champions there. And that most of the country doesn't know that FIRST will be taking over that floor in about a week and a half. But for those of us who do know, this Championship was just the warmup.

[Alpha 997]

-When you and all your team mates are wearing the team t-shirt and gold metal the Monday after you win your regional. Other students give you weird looks, think you are a nerd. Yet in your mind, you know that you, and not the jocks or skaters, are the future of the world.

-When you as a senior, is crying at home not because your team had a bad year. No, your team had just won two regionals and is headed towards national in one week. But because your last season on the team is coming to an end.

-When you have so much adrenaline from a bad call against your alliance team during the previous quarter-final match that your freshly smashed finger that is dripping with blood feels just a little warm.

-When all your A’s drops to F’s because you’ve been living at school for the 6 weeks of build season.

-When the only reason that you don’t want to move out of your little town and on to college is the feeling of emptiness when you think about life without robotics.

-When your friends stop calling your cell phone from January to February because they know exactly where you’ll be.

-When you think that the EXIT sign is green so that robots can get out during a fire.

-When your school’s robotics team does better than your football team, which took state.

-When you are driving home from a regional and see a car dealership with cars displaying on platforms and comments that the ramp to the platforms is too steep.

[FF_1610_EMT]

When even though i'm part of the military and there is not one team within 15 mintues of me i will still find my way to SE Raleigh High School next season.

[Pavan Dave]

When you have installed every possible media player to play every possible feed from every possible stream to try and ge EVERY view of EVERY regional you possibly can.

[coreyk]

...when you are in Health class and...

Write "BAE" instead of "BAC"
Write "Safety Glasses" instead of "Safety Classes"

[1359th Scalawag]

Originally Posted by Alpha 997

-When you and all your team mates are wearing the team t-shirt and gold metal the Monday after you win your regional. Other students give you weird looks, think you are a nerd. Yet in your mind, you know that you, and not the jocks or skaters, are the future of the world.

-When the only reason that you don’t want to move out of your little town and on to college is the feeling of emptiness when you think about life without robotics.

-When your school’s robotics team does better than your football team, which took state.

-When you are driving home from a regional and see a car dealership with cars displaying on platforms and comments that the ramp to the platforms is too steep.

I can relate to ALL of those. I remember just a couple weeks back seeing the cars on those platforms at a car dealership and thinking it would be impossible for the car to get up. I still dont understand that... And my entire team wore our medals to school the following sunday. (though I bet every team does that)

[Nin_estarSaerah]

Originally Posted by Alpha 997

-When you and all your team mates are wearing the team t-shirt and gold metal the Monday after you win your regional. Other students give you weird looks, think you are a nerd. Yet in your mind, you know that you, and not the jocks or skaters, are the future of the world.

we so did that after Peachtree regional! and the other kids not only thought we were nerds, they thought we were crazy because we had so many private jokes.