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

[pauluffel]

when you have started a first team

[Wayne C.]

- instead of dieting you drill lightening holes

- the word "Woody" makes you smile but for other reasons

- a keyway means more than 2 ounces

[bigqueue]

The bags under your eyes are packed for Houston!

(I took that from a team member)

[mav]

When you know the history of every robot your team has made but not what you learned in history class 5 minutes ago

[Elyse Holguin]

Originally posted by JosephM

-If they say BattleBots after Robotics Competition, they arn't your friend anymore.
-Murder is the treatment for being a Mole to another team.
-You have two friends: Robotics and Normal
-You see red, white, and blue shapes in your dreams
-Sleep is what you get during English class
-Feb 18th is Armadgedon

(feb. 20 now)

-your team goes insane after seeing the starter pants at walmart with 71 on the side and you decide to make that the new team uniform.
-after your rookie year, you don't make much contact with friends outside of robotics.
-you seriously consider bringing someone from robotics you to your prom.
-you choose being on robotics over a highly selective spot on your school's varsity dance team. (although i was regretting it during football season because of the lack of CDI.)
-you're already packing for the regionals and shopping for warm houston-friendly clothes.

[DaBruteForceGuy]

.......When you take a girl on a date only to wind up browsing the isles with her in PEP-BOYS!!!

[Madison]

Originally posted by DaBruteForceGuy
.......When you take a girl on a date only to wind up browsing the isles with her in PEP-BOYS!!!

*cough*instead of coming to a meeting*cough*

[sprchal]

When the best quote you could think of was the most common phrase at your meetings.. *looks down*

Yep....

[Raven_Writer]

Originally posted by sprchal
When the best quote you could think of was the most common phrase at your meetings.. *looks down*

Yep....

I think at least me (and maybe Matt) fits in this one.

-.- When the only people you know are your robot and your busted wall.

[DaBruteForceGuy]

Originally posted by M. Krass
*cough*instead of coming to a meeting*cough*

......When your at robotics so much that when you actually take a day off, Everybody Knows!!!

[Raven_Writer]

-.- when you can make a song about first, and remember it by heart.

[DaBruteForceGuy]

............When you reach the maximum amount of characters when writing a post for this thread

[Specialagentjim]

When you can carry on an entire conversation in the chit chat forum for a page about getting lei'd....


lol...go look for youself, do a search.


Also, you know your addicted to FIRST when...

-10 people from Chiefdelphi are now in your buddy list for aim
-You've posted over 200 times on Chiefdelphi
-your parents call you, figuring your out somewhere, only to have you inform them "nope, I'm still at motorola"
-You are kicked out of motorola for being there too late (this is a 24-hour facility might I add....)

[Raven_Writer]

-.- When you get dreams of cheif delphi people and FIRST people haunting you.

[PureMachine4]

Here's a couple for ya.


...When you end up sleeping at the school cuz you want to get up early and work on it.

...When you put a car alarm on it so no one can steal it.

...When you tuck the robot into bed and read it a story at night.

[Jferrante]

- when you have so many ways to know your addicted you make multiple posts
-when you get excited about school being cancelled because it means you can work on the robot all day
- when you wake up at noon and are at the meeting within 20 minutes, in spite of a blizzard
- when your entire day consists of wake up, go to robotics, go home, sleep

[Sean_330]

You know you are adicted for FIRST when.

1. You hear techno and the first thing that comes to mind is the team social.

2. You are working as an EMT student and you identify call locations on the log to be turned in to your teacher by writing the closest team's number. (I ran calls in the cities teams 207, 259, 410, 606, 687, and 1135 are located in and confused the heck out of my teacher by my ID system)

3. You dont think duct tape fixes everything. You KNOW it does.

4. You pass up an oppertinuty to see your favorite band in concert to drive 350 miles and referee an unofficial comp in the off season, then decide you had WAY more fun at the scrimmage than you could have ever had at a dumb concert.

[Kris Verdeyen]

...when you ask for the time, and when someone responds, you ask, "AM or PM?"

[a2alexa]

When your old coach tells you not to come to the team's next competition because you don't have money for a hotel room and you promise that you'll sleep in your car if you have to

[rust710]

Originally posted by verdeyw
...when you ask for the time, and when someone responds, you ask, "AM or PM?"

So true. Losing time at Robotics is not hard at all.

Also Asking where is my stripper and no one thinks of the one not for wire.

[Scooter]

- When you start your local chapter of FIRSTaholics Anonymous

"Hi, my name is Bill and I am addicted to FIRST"

Bill B.

[Ashley Weed]

- When you anticipate the last Thursday prior to ship date, because you know it is 'move in time' at the wood shop, and you are going to get to be next to the robot (awake and asleep) until the ship time.

- While on this long weekend, one of your non-Robotics friends actually visits you, brings you junk-food and caffeine, because she hasn't seen you since the beginning of January.

[Katie Reynolds]

... When between Lego League, IRI, your team and other teams, you own enough FIRST shirts to wear one per day for a month straight without repeating!

- Katie

[clockstopped12]

When you had a full day, then an all night laser tag party, then an academic decathlon competition and still go to robotics (basically no sleep for 48 hours)

[Tyler Olds]

When you say that your going home and you head to FIRST

[JVN]

After an allnighter, you still manage to drag yourself to your "intro to engineering design" class, but find yourself reading chief delphi...

Bagh... who needs IED anyway... I have FIRST!

[rust710]

When you have a class with nothing to do and you say you will do your homework but go to ChiefDelphi instead.

[Firewolf]

when you read all of this, and can still think of more

[Da SPAMinatress]

when the majority of your college essays and scholarship applications are all about FIRST

not to mention your laws of life essay written in entirety on robotics.... and your last line reading "FIRST: not just robotics, but a way of life. And I have chosen it as MY way of life"

[Amanda Aldridge]

- the day after ship finds you and all of your closest friends in withdrawal
- all of your stories start with "This one time, at robotics..."
- you have tried to explain who Dean Kamen is, and what robotics is to the waitress at Hooters -- and every other restaurant you've ever been to
- you not only know what a Segway is, but have plastered your walls with pictures of it.
- you know what North Dumpling Island is
- it is perfectly acceptable to tie your long, curly, unruly, easily tangled hair back with a zip tie

[Meyer_Shuky]

When you see 191st street and remember 5 seconds in delta_t

[George]

When your 1st question on 2-21 is
"I wonderer what next years game is??"

[Tyler 178]

-You work 9 hours on your robot on valentines day.
-You have to check the delphi forums every day otherwise you go crazy.
-You work 32 hours on your robot in 4 days.
-You realize that you don't know what your going to do until April.
-You dream about robots.
-You've explained the FIRST competition so many times to your friends that your tempted to just make a pamphlet to give them.
-You see any kind of "battle bot competition on tv", and you cringe when the robot gets dropped in a pit or otherwise destroyed
-You been asked it FIRST is like battlebots so many times that you've lost count
-You begin to think about next years FIRST competition before this year's is even over

[Vincent Chan]

Originally posted by Tyler 178
[B-You work 32 hours on your robot in 4 days.
[/b]

I beat you! 42 hours in 4 days! (Friday through Monday)

[Rysith]

Originally Posted by Vincent Chan

I beat you! 42 hours in 4 days! (Friday through Monday)

HAH! Working on animation over president's day weekend: 68 hours in 4 days (and two of those were 24 hours of animation)


More reasons:
Falling asleep on the ramp (2003) because it looks comfortable

Organizing a weekend around getting 2-hour breaks for sleep during renders

babysitting your mentor's daughter and taking her to play on the 2003 ramp instead of the park because it's more fun

You forget the day of the week but not the status of the robot

you get 6 hours of sleep a day and it's called school

"It's the day after the thirteenth. I'm not sure what number that makes it" 'nuff said

"Please contact us when we can think in straight lines" too much said

You spend enough time soldering that you get high off the fumes

When you spend so much time soldering that you feel cold when you stop

When you know the location to get every part in the kit

When you use the animation computers as heaters

when 4 of your 5 boyfriends have been on FIRST teams

when you have your annual team hairdying outside in front of your robotics classroom

when you spend months planning hairstyles to have at competition
when you plan to spike 1.5 foot long hair

when you have a list of over 500 quotes from robotics team members
when you can quote over half of said list

when you go to other classes while wearing your safety glasses

when your cell phone has more parts companies than people on the contacts list

(collected from many GRT people)

few more...
When you ask the robot to sadies
When you ask the animation to sadies

When you contemplate making a weight loss video about your robot ("I lost 20lbs in 3 days!")

[Heretic121]

When you have to quit your job, break up with your girlfriend (thank god it was mutal.. (we hadnt seen each other in 2 months due to distance reasons (a 45 min drive) and couldnt talk because she only could from 7-9 when i was w/ the team!) to practice shooting balls!!!! UGH!!! but on the up side i finnally have time to concentrate on school and the team =D

[Firewolf]

when getting dressed for a wedding, i give a rather logical explantion on fasion (how to wear what we were wearing) as we were getting dressed
and my sister turns to the rest of the family and says
"she's an engeneer... she thinks like that a lot..."
and all i can do is have a blank expersion saying
"but it makes sense... what do u mean... huh?"

of course they took my advice



when you are disapointed at yourself for not giving "Duct tape" as an ans. for something...

eg
my suitemate was getting dressed but the boots were not high enough to fill the slits of the jeans... so i tell her to just staple the slits togather due to the lack of saftypins...

she did it
and it worked

[Yan Yan Tong]

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

...there's a certain type of Body Shop soap that reminds you of robotics...
(weird eh?)

[Dave_222]

~ When you sit and read 8 pages of you know you're addicted to first when....
~ When you can relate to 90% of the aforementioned thread
~ When you purposely break thing just so you have something to machine.
~ when you respond to you know you're addicted to first when.

[f22flyboy]

- when the robot goes crazy in autonomous mode, runs over a freshman (anybody less than a senior), and you yell at them for almost hurting the bot as they scramble to get out from underneath.

- When you use old robots as weapons

- If you find the words "charfe", "toonces", or "workish" funny

- ^ If you think other people understand your inside jokes