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

[Leeebowitz]

This one's from a friend.

...when you're walking in the halls of your high school and you realize you're walking in crab mode!

[kjolana1124]

- Your friends have learned to listen to every other word you say because you only talk about FIRST
- A major factor in what schools you're looking at is what teams you can mentor
- Decisions involving FIRST are the hardest in your life, but the most rewarding
- Anytime the word "engineer" is mentioned in your APUSH class, you get a little happier inside

[MagiChau]

When you think of summer break as great, more time for FIRST.

[AKaul]

When your teacher tell you the homwork is on page 191... and you yell the X-CATS!

When your teacher is talking about rationals and keeps saying division by zero... and you keep the thinking in your head... TEAM 229!




PS it happened to me

[GaryVoshol]

When you're standing in line to sell back textbooks at the end of the semester, and notice a tie-dye shirt behind you and think, "Wildstang". And then notice that it's not a Wildstang shirt, but is being worn by an alum of Team 226 and he gets the joke.

[ratdude747]

when you try to program a universal remote using labview...

[kjolana1124]

When you literally just wished a friend:

Have a Happy [(Second Law Enforcers-Vikings)/(MORT-Juggernauts)]th birthday! =D

[kjolana1124]

Originally Posted by kjolana1124

When you literally just wished a friend:

Have a Happy [(Second Law Enforcers-Vikings)/(MORT-Juggernauts)]th birthday! =D

- You had no shame in looking up teams on TBA to try to find working numbers
- You would've just looked for 17, but seeing as said friend was on 178, you wanted a personal touch
- While typing this, you get sad because you realize how hard it would be for someone to do this for you with your own team number

[darkangel]

When you distinguish between friends with the same name by team number.

[Phoenix Spud]

When you are have already been to the USA 2 times this year (within 6 weeks) because of your robotics team.

You are already looking at hotels for next year's Championship.

[xxjgdancexx]

-"when your buttons weigh more than you do" (as quoted by my friend Pyrite)
-"Hey Pyrite, when you die can i have your robo buttons?" "no, they're MINE ALL MINE." (as quoted by Convy and Pyrite)
-when you cheer more for robotics team than for sports teams

[Stealthguardian]

-you believe you can put omni wheels on anything
-when you design a new system that doesnt make sense for school

[Andrew Schreiber]

When you actually total up the amount of money you spend taking your significant other out over the course of the year and offer to spend that same amount (rounded up) to put their name on a robot as a sponsor... and consider it a romantic gift. (This is a true story, they contemplated it until they realized their other alternative was to eat my cooking.)

[Karibou]

-You wear your team shirt to work, and are entirely shocked when a customer asks where your FIRST team is from. Turns out, he's an old 503 mentor.
-You know that he was with 503 as soon as he mentioned that he used to work for Magna.
-You spend half a hour building towers...out of oversized nuts and bolts.
-You try to apply aspects of your robot (release mechanisms from this year's kicker) to your physics projects.
-Building said physics project was harder than building a robot...because you didn't have the right tools. And couldn't make it out of metal.

[Emily3204]

Everytime you hear the word Australia, the phrase "AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE! OY OY OY!" comes to mind