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

[maxgebhardt]

Originally Posted by MisterX

When your team attempts to make a petition making snow days illegal in your school idstrict during build season and was actually able to get others to sign ( it failed though and as we speak we our missing our 5th day )

When you woke up your little sister and mom by yelling "NOOOOO!!!! NO ROBTICS!!!!!" when you found out school was canceled

When the only thing that brought you joy this morning was knowing that they can't cancel school during weekends/vacations.

when dispite snow days you still work, and you cross country ski uphill to get to the build

[Steve782]

Originally Posted by maxgebhardt

when dispite snow days you still work, and you cross country ski uphill to get to the build

when you hope there is school and the snowstorm misses your state so you can work on the robot right after school

[Mike Heinowski]

When there is a snow day and you think about giong to Visteon to work on the robot a 7:15 in the morinig.

[dez250]

when you shouw up at 6:30 pm on a snowday and are told your not meeting so a group of 20 students wait in the front of the builduing for a teacher to show up to flood down to the tech wing to work...

Muwahahahaha

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Steve782

when you see lisence plates on cars seeing numbers of FIRST teams you know.

When you realize that "FIRST" is already assigned to a licence plate in your state... (sigh)

Also, when you realize that you are the author of 13 of the 25 newest posts....
Yeah.. ummm, I haven't had a chance to visit CD in a while and had some catching up to do!! lol

[Kiwi_queen]

~when you realize that there are only three people (outside your family) that you really talk to that aren't involved with Robotics

~when your room is covered in robotics paraphenilia and your lampshade is so flooded with team buttons that you have to hide some for the moment until you find another place to pin them up

~when you get more excited over the wonderful gift a teammate presents for the pit crew's usage than you do over the fact that your choir has been invited to sing for Nelson Mandela

[Katie Reynolds]

... When you wish for a snow day, not so you won't have school, but so you'll have extra time to work on your robot!!

[anna~marie]

when you come even though you get 2 hours of sleep.

when, after coming and falling asleep again only to get waken up and forced to do electrical work, you actually manage to strip your pinkie...

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Katie Reynolds

... When you wish for a snow day, not so you won't have school, but so you'll have extra time to work on your robot!!

You are evil.... lol
I wish I had a school district that would let us work when we had no school!!

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

You are evil.... lol
I wish I had a school district that would let us work when we had no school!!

I just recently graduated (at the end of first semester) and moved about 2 hours away from Appleton ... When I heard that the AASD had a snowday, my first thought was "great!!! That gives them 8 extra hours of worktime!!"

[maxgebhardt]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

You are evil.... lol
I wish I had a school district that would let us work when we had no school!!

our district does let us work, since the custodians are in the building anyway to clear snow. also the general reason we close school is because the busses which are further west have more snow than us, and cant make it on time. you might want to talk to your district, they might let you work, as long as the custodians are in the building.

[Jay H 237]

Originally Posted by maxgebhardt

our district does let us work, since the custodians are in the building anyway to clear snow. also the general reason we close school is because the busses which are further west have more snow than us, and cant make it on time. you might want to talk to your district, they might let you work, as long as the custodians are in the building.

I know this thread isn't for this but I just want to answer Maxgebhardt. We have, it's useless, It's called "red tape". If school is cancelled they don't want anyone in the building--period. If we use the school on weekends or odd hours we have to pay the board of ed out of our team funds for use (custodial coverage) of the building. No other teams (swimming, track, volleyball, ect.) have to do this. Needless to say our team knows where it stands on the totem pole in relation to the school board. Like I said, red tape. If anyone wants to discuss this more we'll start another thread.

So, in keeping with the current thread,

When you start figuring out how much vacation time you have so you can take days of just to work on the robot.

[anna~marie]

See, we can work on snow days too, I think, because our shop is at the GM proving grounds!

[Steve782]

when you talk to your friends outside of robotics about FIRST, telling them what it is and all about this year's competition. I did that at a meeting I had today, getting people interested and excited about FIRST. (One or two people had heard about FIRST before, but many of them had not.)

[Specialagentjim]

Snow day? what is this snow day you speak of?...We've had hurricane days... Those are fun to go outside and play in.

Anyways...

...When you agree to spend four hours inhaling 2nd hand smoke just to get a robot frame welded. (for those of you who know this experience, I leave you with one word, Panzer.)

[Aignam]

Your dad accuses you of being involved with a cult.

True story. ::shudders::

[mtaman02]

.......when you start using the official FIRST logo as a wallpaper for any electronic device.

mobile phone, computers, any program that uses a wallpaper.


.......when you go to an FLL competition to do a volunteer referee job and you wear your team colors thinking your heading to and FRC competition.

to think where they held the FLL event is where they will be housing the FRC event just a month and couple of weeks apart from 1 another! NYC is great

hehe Feb7th. was the best thanks rich again for putting up with me. you might luck out for NYC FIRST! but thats pushing it lol

NYC FIRST FLL Competition and NYC FIRST FRC Competitions Rock!

[Ashley Weed]

When you are traveling 400+ miles this weekend to see your fiance but are even more ecstatic that you are going to get to go to his robotics team for a while, since you are currently experiencing withdrawal from FIRST.

[anna~marie]

when you buy hot head to match your team colors

when you go to five different stores looking for orange and NO ONE has it

[Kiwi_queen]

~you consider getting custom made contact lenses with the FIRST logo in them...and the only reason you don't go through with it is because you don't have the money for it. (that upset me greatly)

[Joe J.]

When the first thing you do when you get home from camping is check your team's website then check Chief Delphi.

[Joe J.]

When your Spanish teacher knows why you want to use the computer before class

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Kiwi_queen

~you consider getting custom made contact lenses with the FIRST logo in them...and the only reason you don't go through with it is because you don't have the money for it. (that upset me greatly)

SWEETNESS..... How much??

I can wear them with my FIRST class ring I want to get!!

[Mike Heinowski]

When the last post was number 862, and I say "yay" because thats my teams number!

[Rhs953]

your answering this thread.

[anna~marie]

When after readin all the posts, you get curious to what 67's said and go looking....
(page 5, post 67,
-- You made it this far in to the list

-- You can recite the whole thing without thining about it)

[BandChick]

when you plan to take the train home to hang out with your team, and whine when your dad says it's time to go back to school because it's only 7pm and they'll be working for at least another 3 hours.

[Aignam]

your reputation points drastically reflect your self-confidence.

[Rhs953]

-You give up playing ddr (dance dance revolution) for 6 weeks to work on a robot.

-You ditch school to work on a robot.

-You answer this thread.

-You have no firends outside the robotics group

-You try to make a robotics class. (soon very soon)

-You actually read what i'm saying

-You read the thread and on 99% of them you say, "you know what, that sounds like me..."

[ngreen]

When neither ice, snow, nor the weather channel can keep you from making a two hour drive home to work 23 hours on a robot on Friday and Saturday.

When you have to finish something before you go home means your not going home.

When your best accomplishment happen at 1:30 am and either there is no camera, not enough people to take a picture or you take a picture and you forgot your safety glasses...retake.

When you go on a six week streak of always noticing your team number before you go to bed (11:08).

Studying for Chem 2 involves putting the book in front of you and reading CD.

[Joe J.]

When you spend your whole electronics class reading Chief Delphi.

When you want to smack people on your team for not knowing what Chief Delphi is.

When people say they don't need to check the team website because you tell them everything thats going on anyway.

[littleelectron]

you get mad at anyone who thinks your robots only goal is to beat on other smaller roobots...

when you spend more time at the workshop than you do at home.

when you yell at someone for not checking the post he never made on chief delphi.

[Spikey]

Your GPA drops ten points, and you eat more pizza in a month then you do in a whole year!

[Kiwi_queen]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

SWEETNESS..... How much??

I can wear them with my FIRST class ring I want to get!!

so far the cheapest custom lense offer I've found is $450-$650 per pair depending on size, detail...etc etc etc.



~when you have a dream that you're running for president, and your whole campaign speach revolves around the theme of robotics and FIRST (somehow it made sense in the dream too....)

[Alaina]

When you don't mind eating pizza after working with chain without washing your hands, yet you wash your hands after eating becuase you don't want to get pizza grease on the chain.

[Aignam]

when the generic response to absolutely any question asked to you throughout the day is "Robots".

So, Anthony, what're you doing?
Robots.

Whatcha got for lunch, pal?
Robots.

How're you?
Robots.

It all makes sense, in some strange, sick, twisted way.

[Katie Reynolds]

... Moving 2 hours away from where you grew up is suddenly made easier by the realization that you know most of your friends through FIRST, you only talk to them online (for the most part), they live scattered across the country, and you only get to see them once or twice a year anyway!

[Rhs953]

- when you give up playing ddr for 6 weeks
-when your only friends are in the robotics group
-When you read through this thread and on 99% of them you say, "Hey thats me!"
-When you get sick of pizza.

[shyra1353]

Originally Posted by Aignam

when the generic response to absolutely any question asked to you throughout the day is "Robots".

So, Anthony, what're you doing?
Robots.

Whatcha got for lunch, pal?
Robots.

How're you?
Robots.

It all makes sense, in some strange, sick, twisted way.

wow .. thats like my exact conversations with most of my friends .. he was soo shocked today when i said i could go to lunch with him (he stopped asking me for a while)

.. when you clean out your locker and one shelf is all robotics and the other is class stuff

[Joe Matt]

When doing chemistry problems, one of your answers turns out to be 3.65L, that's including correct significant figures!