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

[hipsterjr]

in essays, you use Jesus, Gondi, and Dean Kamen in the same sentence!

[Bethany Mc.]

...you wear a FIRST volunteer shirt and an intertube over your jeans to school

[Joe G.]

-When you reschedule your vacation so that you can watch the IRI webcast.

-When your pants weigh three times as much as normal during build.

-When you are involved with four different robotics teams, as well as two independent robotics projects, at the same time.

-When you spend a fair amount of your spare time coming up with FIRST related lyrics for songs.

-When you remember phone numbers, addresses, etc. by team number.

-When it takes you several tries to not put some kind of robotics reference in your definition of "Vex" for English class.

-When CD is your homepage, except during build, when it switches to McMaster-Carr.

-When someone on your team asks where you live outside of the shop and you respond "Home Depot"

-When you ask for and recieve lexan for your birthday.

-When you still have all your buttons from when you went to Atlanta with FLL in 2005.

-When you always, ALWAYS carry at least 5 zip-ties with you.


Come on, January 5th, get here

[vivek16]

Originally Posted by rocketperson44

-When you reschedule your vacation so that you can watch the IRI webcast.

-When your pants weigh three times as much as normal during build.

-When you are involved with four different robotics teams, as well as two independent robotics projects, at the same time.

-When you spend a fair amount of your spare time coming up with FIRST related lyrics for songs.

-When you remember phone numbers, addresses, etc. by team number.

-When it takes you several tries to not put some kind of robotics reference in your definition of "Vex" for English class.

-When CD is your homepage, except during build, when it switches to McMaster-Carr.

-When someone on your team asks where you live outside of the shop and you respond "Home Depot"

-When you ask for and recieve lexan for your birthday.

-When you still have all your buttons from when you went to Atlanta with FLL in 2005.

-When you always, ALWAYS carry at least 5 zip-ties with you.


Come on, January 5th, get here

The thing about heavy pants is oh so true (I have my mini-maglite, a racheting screwdriver with a built in holder with the alan wrench bit, a philips, and flat head bits, my lucky rock, a pen or two, needle nose pliers, etc)

The zip tie idea is pretty ingenious, I'm going to start doing that.

You know youve over dosed on FIRST when you get nostalgic when smelling aluminum outside of the shop

-vivek

[Akash Rastogi]

-When an electrical system begins to look like a fun game to play with.

[synth3tk]

... you spend every waking moment telling everyone you know that another season is starting, over and over again.

[JYang]

..you look at a stack of ringers and wonder how many points it is worth
..you get ahold of a ringer and have it hanging up in your room
..you have another ringer in your room that you are using as a pillow/coach =p

[Pat McCarthy]

...you hear a song played often during the tournament portion of an event and your adrenaline levels and heart rate shoot up in a Pavlovian-like response.

[StephLee]

...Your birthday cake is in the shape of a keeper.
(Pictures coming later today. )

[Zyik]

... When you think of how to put small steps on a robot so that all the small children asking about it can look in for longer, rather then relying on you to pick them up.

[vivek16]

Originally Posted by JYang

..you look at a stack of ringers and wonder how many points it is worth
..you get ahold of a ringer and have it hanging up in your room
..you have another ringer in your room that you are using as a pillow/coach =p

... when you look at a stack of ringers and you KNOW how many points it is worth.

[JYang]

sorry... my bad.

when you look at a stack of ringers and KNOW how many poitns it is worth
when you look at a stack of ringers and know in what orientation on a rack would they be worth most.

[whytheheckme]

When you write your CD handle where it says Name:____________ on the front of the blue book for your physics exam.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by JYang

sorry... my bad.

when you look at a stack of ringers and KNOW how many poitns it is worth
when you look at a stack of ringers and know in what orientation on a rack would they be worth most.

That would be zero--the ringers only count on the rack.

When you see a stack of ringers and start designing a device to put them on the rack.

When you can manage to relate robotics concepts to your current project. (Aero Design for SDSM&T)

[basicxman]

when you discover patterns in the game pieces each year