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

[The Megan 2207]

Originally Posted by KarenH

By the way, does anyone have an antidote for a FIRST overdose??

I believe the only cure... is more cowbell?

[jutayo23]

We feed Thor (yes, we named the watchdog) Kibbles and Bytes!

[Karibou]

You have a brainteaser problem for physics about Issac Newton, and at the end of your work, you write "ISSAC-"

[Hadar]

At the minute the season ended you started brainstorming on next year's challenge.

you see a known combination of team number in random places you get excited.

Chief Delphi is your second most visited page on the internet.

[GaryVoshol]

You send off a player in soccer for Denying an Obvious Goal Scoring Opportunity, and then think, "Did I report that as DOGSO or DOGMA?"

[kjolana1124]

You have so many ideas at meetings, paper just isn't fast enough. As a result, you will probably get ink poising from all the stuff you have written on your hands and arms.

...and your team is starting to accept this as common place.

[Dancin103]

You're watching a hockey game and do oh well if they win, their seeding points will be 5+4*2+5, which would be 18. That's not bad, oh wait never mind that means nothing here. lol

Cass

[Wildcat]

when you get so caught up thinking about robots that you take a wrong turn on your way to your next class about a mile away on the other side of your high school campus

[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.