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

[Nin_estarSaerah]

When your non-FIRST friends know what 39 days, 12 hours, 19 minutes and 52 seconds means.

[Cow Bell Solo]

When you are on CD and posting on CD at your cousins house on Thanksgiving. And when you tell your family about some stuff like Deans inventions and other stuff when you talk about things at the table. And many more things but then I would be on here for hours posting.

[Renee Becker-Blau]

You get into a huge fight with your parents because you think that "being to sick to go to school" is different from, "being to sick to go to robotics"....ggrrr

[Nate Smith]

Originally Posted by Littleswimmer14

You get into a huge fight with your parents because you think that "being to sick to go to school" is different from, "being to sick to go to robotics"....ggrrr

I actually got away with this once...had the day off school because I was getting all of my wisdom teeth taken out, but despite the painkillers, i still drove to the meeting at our sponsor that night...

[Renee Becker-Blau]

Originally Posted by Nate Smith

I actually got away with this once...

I was given an ultimatum, if I go, my dad wouldn't go.. and he was the mentor in charge of the preseason workshop today...

Thus the next best thing: surfing CD

[lingomaniac88]

When you start speculating on a game hint that hasn't even been released yet.

[SCROSSLEY-GCEC]

VEX related technically but still...

when your parents think you're dating every guy in the robotics team
when you have to explain to all your non-robotics friends as to why you have a roll of duct-tape and zipties in your handbag
when it takes you five minutes to actually think of any non-robotics friends to justify the above
when your grandparents come to your house to visit and ask why you're at home
when your teachers have stopped asking why you werent in class
when you walk around the school quietly in a sleep-deprived state waiting for a class you can get away with skipping
when you sprint from one end of the school to the other (while recieving weird looks from everyone you pass) just to get that precious extra 2 minutes on the robot
when you and your team spend every lunchtime in the robotics room even when you have no robots to build
when your robotics mate's older sister (who happens to be your hero [other than Dean Kamen :L]) is standing right behind you and you dont even notice because of the heated discussion you're having with the mate on who's robot will be finished first
when you can write all this stuff even though you havent had your rookie FIRST competition yet
when you have heated debates over whether cardboard team signs in the VEX competitions have to be made of 'vex cardboard'
when you program your calculator so that you can make notes about robotics during math class (then i had to clear the memory for an exam and cant remember how i did it )
when you complain that your internet cord doesnt stay in and all your friends immediately yell 'DUCT TAPE!'
when the one person who doesnt suggest duct tape starts explaining in great detail how you can fix it 'properly' and everyone stares at him like he's mad
when someone at an event hears you talking about Delphi and asks if you know who <insert screen name here> is.
when your immediate response to the above is 'well she IS my teammate. if you like i could recite you her weekly schedule'
when you've rebuilt your VEX robot so many times that you start informing everyone that when you finally get a FIRST number, your rebuild-count will be higher
when you walk into your class after lunch - late - wearing your safety glasses, because you forgot to trade them for your normal glasses, and have to run back to get them
when you dont care when everyone laughs at you for the above
when you log onto Chief Delphi in in the middle on the night and are disappointed to see the 'Nightly Backup' notice
when the seniors at your school go on study leave and you suddenly find yourself a loner because all your junior friends are non-robotics friends and refuse to hang out with you within a month of a VEX competition
when you dont care about the above and spend all lunch in the room anyway, fiddling with gear and tank-tracks
when you no longer laugh at the word 'joystick'
when doing a project on cults in english class, you seriously start to wonder if FIRST is a cult - then decide you wouldnt care even if it was
when you cant wait to get your team number so you can do the things that people posting here do
when the worst threat you can possibly make to someone is 'I wont give you the small allen key!!'
when you come up with detailed plan of how to survive six weeks at school so that you dont have to go home

[The great thing about liking someone in your robotics team is that they've already seen you at your worst, and you cant shock them with ANYTHING anymore ]

[XXShadowXX]

Your computer has a countdown program telling you how many days, hours, minutes, and seconds until kick off and ship.

Your robotics friends constantly remind each other in the halls guess what XX days XX hours till ship!

You still arn't completely sure how many button you have becuase everytime you count them you find somemore

You sit in class reading wiring diagrams, and blueprints for silent reading. And your teachers don't ask anymore.

When you are called out of class the teachers just say, "Robotics?" And you nod.

You forgot about christmas and is more concerned about kickoff.

You have Chiefdelphi as your homepage.

Your calc. teacher directs question to you.

[The Megan 2207]

You make an enormous FIRST logo cookie for a Christmas gift.

[Raumiester2010]

... when you get depressed still thinking, darn, it's still 12 days, 23 hours, 59 minuets until kickoff starts

... when you have a ton of posters in your room and most of them are robotics related

... when just watching old 2006 videos get you so pumped for competition that you stay up until 2 in the morning just rocking back and forth trying to think of new ways to get the team out there and how to get more sponsors...

... when your robotics friends complement you on your newly dyed orange hair while your non robotics friends laugh at you, and you honestly don't care

[BlondeNerd]

Originally Posted by The Megan 2207

You make an enormous FIRST logo cookie for a Christmas gift.

That cookie is epic!

[viperred396]

....when your a rookie at FIRST and your attempting to get all Six weeks of homework done over winter break

[phencer42]

Originally Posted by Laaba 80

When a game hint is posted, and in less than 1 week there are over 500 replies.

...you hit the refresh button constantly within the first week just to see how much the page number increases per minute.

[Aurent]

-when your more excited about kickoff than christmas and new years

[Mrashes]

... you know Gracious Professionalism isn't just a buzz word, its a way of life