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

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.... when your chem teacher has to talk to you after class because the five times he told you to stop looking at robotics pictures didn't stop you.

.... if your respective December holidays have gotten less important to you as kickoff has become the lead holiday.

.... you have checked the NASA channel when there is nothing else on to see if they are rebroadcasting something that has to do with FIRST.

.... if you have a copy of inventor, autocad, solidworks, or any other programs that you use for FIRST on your personal computer because you want to be able to work on robotics at all hours of the night, and you do.

.... you have passed up social events to work on your robot.

.... you do robotics before your other classes homework.

.... you don't ditch during build season because its build season

.... you dont eat lunch because you are in the shop the whole time, and usually end up showing up to class late.

more to come and happy holidays!!

[i_am_Doug]

When you go to a school whom doesn't have a robotics team. Then you start one up, then remember about chief delphi and post about it.

/\Greetings peoples!/\

[Chaos Marine]

when you spend all your free time going back and forth from Chiefdelphi and FIRST.com in may just to try anf find next years game.

[neutrino15]

Originally Posted by Chaos Marine

when you spend all your free time going back and forth from Chiefdelphi and FIRST.com in may just to try anf find next years game.

--When you constantly draw robots in class

--When you program during class

--When you post to CD during class

--When you enjoy staying at school till 11pm

--When you are excited to be deprived of sleep.

[Mandi_|<o>|]

..when you're studing Environmental Engineering and you hope this year's game have something like trees, and water(ohh, not again!), and saving the world!

lol

[vivek16]

when everytime you see a drill press "ice, ice baby" starts playing in your head...

-vivek

[EricH]

When you are driving along and you see a drivable toy car and your first reaction is "Motor source!"

When you try to find team numbers in gas prices. Unfortunately, a number above my team's has showed up.

[Kiwi]

-when you wake up at 5AM on Christmas morning and, ignoring your bulging stocking, go directly to the computer to see if by some miracle there's been a third game hint this year...
-when you have horrible nightmares about a FIRST competition where they don't announce the game until regionals
-when there are still nylocks (sp? the little nuts with a plastic piece in them so the bot doesnt fall apart... too much...) in your purse from LAST BUILD SEASON
-when, at scrimmages, you lecture for half an hour on precisely what each part of the robot does and how we developed it... and you only shut up when one of your friends mentions the fact that the non-FIRST-person's eyes have glazed over
-you make jewellery out of robot parts... and then actually wear it

...but the symptom of the REAL overdose is when, on the way to regionals, at every construction zone you wake up just enough to mumble "PHRED colors..."

[Nuttyman54]

when you're twice as busy during your winter break as you were during finals, because of all the robotics prep...

[Joe G.]

When you actually consider reading through the 47,000 anagrams in the game hint 3 thread.

[dlavery]

The holiday season is formally known as "kick-off rendering season"

-dave




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[GBIT]

Agreed when you spent all of tonight thinking of how THREE game hints will work together!!

[EricH]

When you realize that the fastest-growing threads belong to game hints.

[minirose224]

When you are feverishly hitting the refresh button waiting to download the competition manual to your computer even though you know you won't be able to decrypt the files until kick-off.

[Nin_estarSaerah]

when all your friends know, your life begins Jan 5th...and dont plan on hearing anything but robotics from you