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

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-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.