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

[Wildcat]

when your able to convince your tennis team that you got traded to another FRC team and are transferring out at the end of the semester all because you wore another team's shirt besides your own

[rcmolloy]

Building the kit chassis from last year for prototyping drive trains for 2011...in your room.

[Team2861]

you take your robot to a soccer game and make a jersey that fits over your robot to look like a person and you change the team number to "Kick hard, sorry , I'll run over you, and GGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!" (and take out their best player from behind to get a red card! =P)

[Abra Cadabra IV]

When you keep an eye on this thread for months so you can post your team number... and are then angry that you missed it because you had to go get a haircut.

(Poor post #2429 - we were never meant to be.)

Also, when you've gone to college and you're happy that a significant portion of your classmates were also FIRST members. Yeah!

[Phoenix Spud]

When you try to think of posts for this thread so it might someday get to your team number... (C'mon guys, it can't be that hard to get to 3,132 posts!!!)

[J93Wagner]

When you remember that you should get on CD again and facepalm and smack yourself for forgetting in the first place becuase this site is a place that shouldn't be forgotten.

Also, when you spend 12 hours a day for six days straight staring at Inventor and hoping that it will go faster so you can finish the redesign of a drive system (Crab drive in my case) so that at the next meeting you have something awesome to keep the design team going during the summer (My plan didn't work due to a lack of communication).

[MagiChau]

No matter how the word "first" is used you always think of FIRST.

[davidthefat]

When I am looking forward toward the FIRST season than the football game on friday... I am pretty burnt out from Football, I chose it will be my last year, and do Robotics all through my second half of my Junior year to graduation

[Fletch1373]

when you spent 6 tiresome(but still amazing) weeks building a robot and still decided to compete at one(or more) regionals with your team, volunteer at 3+ other regionals as well as champs, get home and wonder what you're gonna do until january...

[216Robochick288]

...When the "Army of Sum" patch/sticker has gone thgough the wash so many times on your jacket that it is now fused to it....

[J93Wagner]

Originally Posted by Fletch1373

when you spent 6 tiresome(but still amazing) weeks building a robot and still decided to compete at one(or more) regionals with your team, volunteer at 3+ other regionals as well as champs, get home and wonder what you're gonna do until january...

:Cry: So true...

[sithmonkey13]

When your parents are glad for build season, for you're out of the house, and therefore not talking about FIRST to them

When you're disappointed that you don't have enough robotics t-shirts, even though your closet is full of them (wish it was true)

You consider only people on your team to be your friends

[Phoenix Spud]

You watch the Grand Final (kind of like the Super Bowl) and wish it was a televised FRC competition!

[Nikki Haux]

When you have spent 18 hours reading every post on this thread.

[remulasce]

...When your physics teacher compliments you on your dowel-taping skillz during a lab.

The dowel needed to be completely covered in tape. We covered the rollers of our ball magnet in electrical tape for better grip. Repeatedly.


Unrelated: Turning a CIM motor with only your wrists is a good workout.