You know you're addicted to FIRST when...

[Sharkbyte]

Your team keeps all of its drill bits in a ceramic food dish, and you only look in the drill bit cases if you can't find it in the dish.

[vic burg]

Those few weeks in between shipping the robot and the regionals you spend all your extra time making extra parts, making posters, making lists, doing last minute fundraising, going on CD, and forgetting about everything else like I am right now.

[popo308]

You get staight C's second semester because of robotics

You sneek into the bot shop some nights to work on the robot because it could be "better"

You are always thinking about ways to improve the robot when you arn't actually improving it

All you think about is robotics

Robotics come above a g/f

You are always eating pizza or fast food

Ductape is your best friend

You would rather stay and work through dinner than drive to subway and eat

You think FIRST should be a year round thing with a competition in the winter and then one in the summer.

You love the segway

Dean Kamen is you idle

You have tried to skip school to go to the shop and work on the robot

You have spent some school nights at the bot shop at 3 AM and completely forgot you had homework, went home, said "screw it" and fell asleep

You have sat in class without taking note or paying attention daydreaming about FIRST

You have made inventor sketches of the robot in CAD class instead of the project you are supposed to be doing

You have used metal shop to make robot parts instead of the projects the teacher assigns you

I might have more but its to late to think





MUST EAT MORE FOOD

[guakam0li1089]

when you get rick rolled and think of a way you could make a program to do it for you

[MiniNerd24]

When you feel like taking a shopping cart and adding the new system to it and submitting it as your robot for the year.
(Not that I've done that... yet)

[DMitriPetrenko]

. . .When the robot attacks you in your nightmares

. . .Whenever you try to make a decision, Dean Kamen and Woody Flowers pop up on either shoulder

. . .When you start to talk in C++

. . .When you ask for "the strippers" you mean THE TOOL.

. . .You stay up till 3 in the morning working on the bot... WHEN IT'S ALREADY DONE- Random Thoughts from Joe

. . .You spend more time working on the robot than wth your own girlfriend or boyfriend

. . .When the show "Robot Wars" isn't as cool as it used to be

. . .When you smack someone because they called your bot "it"

. . .When the Robotics Competition is more important to you than the Super Bowl

[eternalearth888]

-you stay home sick from school but manage to push yourself out of bed and go back at the end of the day to build the robot
-when you had a day where you didn't do any work and still called it productive
-when you could less about your grades and worry about getting the bot shipped in time for the deadline
-what other people would call "social issues" become obsolette

[Raumiester2010]

Originally Posted by eternalearth888

-when you could less about your grades and worry about getting the bot shipped in time for the deadline

actually, when grades become more important because if your grades dip too far, you dont get to travel... then go insane from trying to get the robot done while maintaining good grades in mostly AP or advanced classes (voice of personal experience there)

[carolynn4848]

-When your only motivation for getting good grades is Robotics. (it's not, but still)

[mrbob1000]

When you choose where you will live later in life based off of what teams are in that area.

[BX HANNAH]

...your local hungry howie's knows your saturday order....and your sunday order..before you call them

...you talk about Woodie Flowers and Dean kamen constantly and get frustrated when you realize people actually DON'T know who they are

...your best friend stops asking you to hang out during build season because she know there is no chance of you saying yes

...when you can say what FIRST stands for in less than four seconds

...all you dream about is robotics practice (and they arent good dreams..its the dreams that you cant figure out the problem is and its competition day!)

[rotolomi]

~ you've always got band-aids on your hands
~ you've got bruises from dropping metal on your foot, or being hit with something
~ you've broken a nail from accidentally sanding your fingernail, or trying to rip out stubborn staples
~ you've got sawdust all over your clothes and shoes
~ you think little wrenches and lockwashers are adorable
~ you must think before you speak or else someone will respond with "that's what she said!"
~ there are so many "dirty" words that make you laugh: balls, nut, lubricant, rod, noodle, etc...

[kelseyroo112308]

You know you're addicted to FIRST when....

One of your text templates on your phone is "Are you coming in to Robotics today?"

Your top friends on myspace are all people from robotics.... and your school friends are complaining.

[thefro526]

You go home and think about how to make your robot better.

You go to work and think about how to make you robot better.

You write really long E-mail's to you mentor outlining a modification because you won't see them that day.

You come up with names like "The Shumper"

You refuse to stop practicing until the robot doesn't move.

[gorillamonky]

when you think your safety glasses look good on you (mine actually do)
when you could go home but decide to wait for something to do.
when you know the answer before you finish hearing the question
when you think girls holding screwdrivers are sexy