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

[Dylan]

You start wondering about next year's challenge 2 hours after you get back to your hotel saturday !

[Tetraman]

Originally Posted by Dylan

You start wondering about next year's challenge 2 hours after you get back to your hotel saturday !

...You design what you think next year's challenge will be for your Digital Animation project in similar fashion as the animations for showing the game.

Give me a few days and I'll post it on this site.

[Pat Fairbank]

...You realize that the best part of winning the Championship is the fact that you are now the proud owner of one of the ThunderChickens' coveted t-shirts, given to you by them after your win together.

[brainonska]

[quote=Jeff_Rice]When you hit refresh every two seconds to read a new quote at the top of CD

When you consider implementing a mood matrix into the robot just because it would be cool

When you realize how absolutely cool it is for a girl to be in FIRST

When you tell FIRSTers thousands of miles away about your troubles

When you develop an intensive craving for caffeine at anytime while programming

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you pretty much got them all down except

-you start to talk in C (programmers know what im talking about)

-when you contribute to a list of the signs that you are addicted to FIRST

[John Gutmann]

when you have 2 brand spankin' new CIM motors lexan and a control system sitting on the floor of your room

[AmayaSaria]

-Whenever you hear the word 'first', you immediately think of F.I.R.S.T. (happened today when somebody was talking about baseball!)

-When you're waiting at the airport at 2am after championships, waiting for yer bus, and yer EXCITED for the next competition! (Me at the airport excited for Monty Madness)

-You wanna hug yer robot. NOW!

[d.courtney]

when you look at the time and the first thing you think of is a FIRST team and their robot... happened to me 2 min ago at 11:14 then my mind blanked and could only think of a team who could get 34+ points in autonomous (assuming the 10 point bonus)

Edit: Then the only thing after that you could think about was posting it on this thread (that is possibly the worse of the two)... yeah I'm addicted

[StephLee]

When you have more than one post on this thread AND on "You know you've overdosed on FIRST when..." AND on "Quotes that were said during the build season..."

[JulieB]

When typing a paper and the word "first" comes up and you try to capitalize the every letter.

This happen to me today.

[JaneYoung]

you rate the utility truck's bungee work on the tarp over his truck bed of equipment as you wait for the light to change - after you look over ever single placement that you can see: 6/10. (It's been raining in Austin)

[anna~marie]

you know that your friends and you are addicted to FIRST when you tell them to go look at your profile because you put a quote (hopefully more random next year involving more random cute boys NOT from our team, its kind of like....inbreeding almost....) in it... and she goes and looks at your CD profile

[prettycolors91]

Originally Posted by anna~marie

you know that your friends and you are addicted to FIRST when you tell them to go look at your profile because you put a quote (hopefully more random next year involving more random cute boys NOT from our team, its kind of like....inbreeding almost....) in it... and she goes and looks at your CD profile

OKAY so I had a slight blonde moment...I didn't know you ment AIM profile instead of your CD profile! Tis not my fault.

You know your addicted to first when you have this conversation while setting up a soon-to-be-noob's account on CD and you run into a friend from the team:

Sam: Why are you in here during lunch?
Me: I'm putting Candelaria on Chief
Sam: I'm sorry
Me: For...what...?
Sam: They've infected you
Me: Oh, I know
Sam: *funky look*
Me: They've infected me and I love it. I wouldn't have it any other way. I love being a geek.
Sam: *walks away shaking his head*

hehe

[Dylan]

You're still dreaming about it!

[spadercool]

you see the number of students at your school is your FIRST team number

[anna~marie]

when you always smile and write your team insignia all over the page when you get to your team's number on a standardized test (sure makes for a happy point in the middle of the AP's and whatnot!)

[spears312]

When you don't go a single day without coming up with an idea that relates to FRC, FLL, or FVC, no matter how crazy it is.

[Libby K]

your friend says "first" [in this case....SHOTTY GOING FIRST!]

and before she can continur, you cut in with....

"for inspiration and recognintion of science and technology. FIRST is a program designed to bring motivated students and engineers together......blah blah blah"


......oops. sorry.

[BandChick]

...you can no longer count how many posts you have in this thread.

[987HighRoller]

... you type up a paper in Microsoft Word and when you're done, you look for the 'build all' button.

[Michelle Celio]

....When you keep duck tape in your room "just in case"
....When you use Chief Delphi to see who really on AIM, even tough they are away
....When the majority of your email is from your team, team mentors or someone asking about FIRST

...When you know the answer to this..

Originally Posted by BandChick

...you can no longer count how many posts you have in this thread.

It's 29. *Look on subscriptions, if it's new.. click on the post number and a window will pop up with who has posted and how many times. I've posted 7 times *

[anna~marie]

Originally Posted by Fruity Pebbles

....When you use Chief Delphi to see who really on AIM, even tough they are away

do that all the time

Originally Posted by Fruity Pebbles

*Look on subscriptions, if it's new.. click on the post number and a window will pop up with who has posted and how many times. I've posted 7 times *

oh darn this is 39 for me....

When you do a parade for your church and see people wearing FIRST items in the crowd and you start cheering them

[Vince lau]

when u get one of these made

[Beth Sweet]

I think that my aunt wins the "Honorary FIRST addict award." She wanted me in her wedding so badly, she scheduled her wedding around Championship 2007. Love you Aunt Tracey!

PS. Yeah, she's getting a t-shirt...

[Edit] And scheduled her shower around West Michigan...

[anna~marie]

Originally Posted by Beth Sweet

I think that my aunt wins the "Honorary FIRST addict award." She wanted me in her wedding so badly, she scheduled her wedding around Championship 2007. Love you Aunt Tracey!

PS. Yeah, she's getting a t-shirt...

[Edit] And scheduled her shower around West Michigan...

Hahaha I wish my aunt was that great... I'm missing her wedding 'cause it's on kickoff... but I think I will drive the four hours to get there in time for the reception...

[Athleticgirl389]

... you are in Engineering class and the teacher says, "Then, after the groups compete and a top person emerges, the top 8 will be seeded accordingly." And you ask, "Will there be alliances?"

[BlondeNerd]

Whenever anything looks like it might be a projectile, you suggest safety glasses. (or is that only safety captains)

You are usually somewhat of an introvert, but scream at the top of your lungs during a robot match

[StephLee]

...You ask your Chem teacher if safety glasses will work instead of the stupid goggles you're required to wear during labs.
...You tell said Chem teacher that you'll bring in "a few pairs" so she can tell you which would be best for the labs.
...Your purse you bring to homecoming has a team 22 safety sticker on it.

[Graham Donaldson]

...when you're sitting in class with your laptop out and you're surfing CD because you're bored.

ha ha TRUE!

The Canuck

[Dhananjay T.]

you know your'e addicted to FIRST when...

- you try to make a flash game involving all the robots that were made, in a head to head combat.(that would be cool though!)

- you know the profiles of every team intentionally(without it being your job), and know their history, and everything about their bots.

- you get into a fight with another guy who says something wrong about FRC

- you don't talk to your friend anymore because he/she gave someone else wrong info about first by accident

- you yell at your teacher because he/she spelled FIRST, not in capital letters lol!

[Athleticgirl389]

Originally Posted by Cybermesh

- you yell at your teacher because he/she spelled FIRST, not in capital letters lol!

Gotta be one of the best! And I think I have done that in recent past haha.

[BlondeNerd]

...Your favorite jeans have Liquid Nails (or PVC glue, I can't tell) on them; and that's why they're your favorite jeans

[anna~marie]

Originally Posted by BlondeNerd

...Your favorite jeans have Liquid Nails (or PVC glue, I can't tell) on them; and that's why they're your favorite jeans

UGH I have this superglue all over a pair of mine 'cause of a physics project last year lol
The thing is, I was stuck to them too...

[Eric W. Jones]

-you sleep in the machine shop
-you think in machine code
-your purpose in life is to go to Georgia
-you giggle and clap when thinking about speed controllers
-you fail math because you answer in binary
-your mood depends on how fast your robot moves
-you dream in C

[taylort]

-you donate more things (nondescript...could be food...furniture... to your team than you actually have
-you forget that there are people that actually have no idea what FIRST is, and look at them like this: , upon discovering that they do not have any idea what FIRST is. *coughcougheverynon-scienceteacherthatiIhavecoughcough*
-you have wondered if you could program a member of your family
-you have started to write said program
-you have seen some of the signs on this thread and considered it a "good idea"
-you have taken these "good ideas" one step further by actually performing them (my cell phone welcome message now says FIRST=life!)

[BlondeNerd]

...you are looking for a Who Am I pic and realize that you have no shots of your face; you always have your head in the robot
...you team mascot is all over your notes for school (Kilroy was Here!) and your History teacher/mentor thinks you are nuts
...you have decided that going to nationals is more important than looking at colleges over spring break (theres another week off school before nationals anyway...)

[Eric W. Jones]

-you doze off while underneath the robot
-you become emotionally attached to a piece of machinery
-you forget where your house is because it's three in the morning on Monday and you haven't seen it since Friday morning
-you spend most of your waking (and some of your sleeping) time in the machine shop

[thatphotochick]

you're not even technically a part of the team but you keep coming on here seeing what's happening

you can relate everything to something with FIRST: on-field, off-field, competition, the trip to competitions.

[Éowyn]

1. Your family buys a new car with good fuel milaege, and since the robotics team you're on is 45 minutes away, you immediatly christen it "The RoboticsMobile".
2. Since you had Taco bell so often during build season, the whole rest of the year its "robotics food".
3. The day when the mentors are showing the new members around the machine shop you (a) Remember just how much you like the smell of grease and metal shavings and (b) shout to the mentor talking about lathes: And NEVER leave the key in the chuck!

[Nica F.]

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when someone asks you what time it is and you subconsciously reply, "BeachBots" when you were supposed to say "3:30"


you know youre even more addicted to FIRST when the person you said it to actually understood what you meant.

[Dan Petrovic]

When you start arguements between you and another FIRST addict over who has better teams on their licence plates.

(I have HOT's number )