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

[[TBT] Vampire]

You stay at school 26 hours, 17 of which were spent working on the robot.

[kws4000]

you've actually done this?

it's easier to modify, build, deploy, and change the cRIO settings (LabVIEW) than it is to make a split PWM
there are either too many or too few cooks in the kitchen
you need to move the shop air compressor outside to hear yourself think

[Leeebowitz]

...when a sentence that started out having nothing to do with FIRST ended up like this:

"My friend Calvin, who isn't in Warbots, who TOTALLY SHOULD be in Warbots...um, what was I saying again?"

[Wildcat]

...when this is your yearly calender:
Jan-Feb: Build Season
March-April: Competition Season
May-Aug: Demo Season
Sept-Dec: Pre-Season

-When you spend more time on CD than you do on your computer
-When you want there to be school on a snow day so you can go to your team's meetings
-When CD IS your facebook

[darkangel]

When you're up 'til who-knows-when the night before school starts, finishing the homework that got pushed to the side as you concentrate on preparing for ship date.

[Katie_UPS]

When your family knows your not faking sick because they said "you'll miss robots" and you said "I know".

[AnibaS]

When your every other sentence either has the word "robotics" or "chiefdelphi" in it.

Number of times I said "chiefdelphi" today: 14

[Chris is me]

You sleep for 14 straight hours after crating. I didn't know I could do that.

[kws4000]

you prefer to figure it out the hard way rather than asking a guy who could figure it out in less than 2 hours

[kws4000]

some of your buddies go to sleep at midnight from a night of building, then get up at four in the morning to machine some more parts, then skip all of school to work on the robot, and are prepared to go all the way to midnight again (7 hours and 12 minutes to bagging!!!!!), and some new code has yet to be tested with a completely different design than yesterday.

[kws4000]

the only persons at fault are the programmers when the pressure switch isn't tightened
an air cylinder smashes through a gaurd and it is the programmer's fault

[Captain Slacker]

when you come down with a mysterious case of robotscurvyvirusflu on ship day and when you get to school all of your teachers asked how the robot looked in the crate or your french class already came up with a skit on how the robot took you hostage...

[Bill_B]

Originally Posted by Captain Slacker

when you come down with a mysterious case of robotscurvyvirusflu on ship day and when you get to school all of your teachers asked how the robot looked in the crate or your french class already came up with a skit on how the robot took you hostage...

... sur la façon dont le robot t'a pris l'otage. ..

I've been after the "other" school teachers to mentor in FIRST even if they have no presumptive knowledge of robotics. My pitch is that mentoring here is as good a way to demonstrate the relevancy of their subject as there is. How do you expect to make alliance decisions with any of the French teams in
Atlanta?

[Tarzan19]

after winning your first regional, you wake up after dreaming about still competeing, where you were only one seeding point ahead of number 2.

[scottmacdonald]

When I realized I was cheering for the other basketball team today when they scored thinking, "yes a higher seeding, oh wait..."