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

[Vincent Chan]

Bored, tired, and waiting for food, so I thought I'd start up this list.

...you skip school to spend eight hours working on your bot.
...you have dreams about robotics.
...you talk about FIRST all day in an attempt to recruit people.
...you no longer have friends outside of your FIRST team.

[PureMachine4]

I have to agree with you there. I too have been talking alot of robotics hoping to recruite freinds to join and i think it's working.

















Fix it before it breaks, so you don't have to fix it when it breaks

[narenr]

....your robot is your valentine.

....your coach/teacher has to get you an extension on a class project so you can work on the robot.

[supertinni]

Originally Posted by narenr

....your robot is your valentine.

....your coach/teacher has to get you an extension on a class project so you can work on the robot.

Or, you know you are obsessed with FIRST when you try and nominate your robot for the sophomore class homecoming princess

[Joe J.]

When your in China on a business trip and are still on Chief Delphi. [cough]Not2b[/cough]

[i_am_Doug]

When you start to abbrivate like a Nascar driver.

[Koko Ed]

Your wife refers to FIRST as your "Second wife"

[Robert Cawthon]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Your wife refers to FIRST as your "Second wife"

I think you have it backwards. My wife thinks that FIRST is my first wife and for six plus weeks of the year, she's right.

[NorviewsVeteran]

you get depressed at the beginning of winter break because the school is locked until the fifth of January

[Torboticsmember]

When you ask your mentor's if you can take home the new control system home over the break to work on it.

And they let you.

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by Torboticsmember

When you ask your mentor's if you can take home the new control system home over the break to work on it.

And they let you.

That's pretty freakin' awesome!!! Fortunately, our mentor convinced the school to give us two meetings during the break.

[Melissa Nute]

When your b/f looks at your hands and nails and says "Been at the shop again?"

[FAKrogoth]

. . . Your study hall teacher says every day, "Why don't you just transfer over there?"

. . . A discussion with a team engineer involves you saying, "Look, I built the $@#$@#$@#$@# thing, and I know it does this . . "

[Trashed20]

...every sentance ends with "your mother", "in bed", or "and then you die twice"
...you find the word toaster funnier than usual
...Will cries for the robot
...run out of freshman to file things
...wheels aren't round anymore
...when you order 4 big mothers a day (pizza)
...when subway hates you
...it works


yeah, fun stuff

[waiakea2024]

[quote=Trashed20;133621...run out of freshman to file things
[/QUOTE]

i agree. i am a freshman and i tend to do a lot of fileing!

[BlondeNerd]

...Your mom just rolls her eyes when you send a zip-tie through the wash

[Joe Matt]

-You talk in criptic language to people.
-If they say BattleBots after Robotics Competition, they arn't your friend anymore.
-You dream of Segway
-Food becomes day old pizza left in the work area (no, I DON'T do that, that's just, not right....)
-You start to become insane by jumping into walls... durring school.... infront of girls.... Senior girls....
-You must check the storage lane in Target every day.
-You start to not shave and obsess over The Simpsons episodes and how they arn't how they used to be.
-Murder is the treatment for being a Mole to another team
-Brandon Martus becomes your arch nemissis
-You wonder if something can be completed quicker using a robot
-You have two friends: Robotics and Normal
-You start to come up with sayings such as "DON'T LICK THE BATTERY!!!"
-You'll kill for a Segway
-You see red, white, and blue shapes in your dreams
-You wake up to Smooth Criminal
-You know what Pubarso stands for
-Sleep is what you get durring English class
-You can't wait till the TNT James Bond marathon.
-Feb 18th is Armadgedon

[DanLevin247]

....You spend at least 4 hours a day on Chief Delphi's forums


....You fail countless test because you were too busy building a robot to study


.....When given the name of a team or a team's number, you can tell them the name or number of that team ( ex. "247" would warrant "'da bears" as an answer and "da bears" would warrant "247" as an answer.

[crazyone]

[quote=DanLevin247

.....When given the name of a team or a team's number, you can tell them the name or number of that team ( ex. "247" would warrant "'da bears" as an answer and "da bears" would warrant "247" as an answer.[/QUOTE]


Don't joke about that, my adviser (Mr. Harding) can do that with just about any team. A skill, few on my team(222) have mastered.
.... when your idea of fun is creating a scoresheet and running scenarios just to see the score for that years challenge

......when your idea of a wieght loss plan is drilling holes

......when can list the wieght of each item on your robot from memory

[Joe J.]

When you walk into the gym storage closet of your old elementary school and the first thing you see is a 30 inch yellow ball (the same brand as the ones shipped in the kit of parts) and you know you have been at robotics too much in the past few months.

When you walking past the buses at your school and see bus number 47 and buss number 71 and you instanly think of Chief Delphi and Team Hammond

[quote=crazyone]

Originally Posted by DanLevin247

.....When given the name of a team or a team's number, you can tell them the name or number of that team ( ex. "247" would warrant "'da bears" as an answer and "da bears" would warrant "247" as an answer.[/QUOTE

Don't joke about that, my adviser (Mr. Harding) can do that with just about any team. A skill, few on my team(222) have mastered.
.... when your idea of fun is creating a scoresheet and running scenarios just to see the score for that years challenge

......when your idea of a wieght loss plan is drilling holes

......when can list the wieght of each item on your robot from memory

You can name a team by it's colors/mascots. (example: Someone goes "You know...the orange team with the tiger.." and your response is "Tigertrons." Or..."The lime green team..." and you go "Oh yeah..MOE 365")

[shyra1353]

.. when youre in india and you are wondering what is going on in the world of FIRST because you havent had access to the internet for a while

.. when HP no longer stands for hewlett packard or harry potter .. but only for human player

.. when you meet a 3-year old cousin of yours for the first time and think "when he is in high school ... hell definitely join a FIRST team" and then you realize that because he lives in india there are no FIRST teams so you start to think about starting some ....

[crazyone]

...on your free time your building mock models of previous years robots.

....you look at the clock and see a team number and not the time.

[mtaman02]

....when you look at a serial number and see 2 team numbers and think that would be a great alliance (e.g 922303)


....when you go to type an option ( 1st , 2nd or 3rd ) you somehow always capatilze the word FIRST, Second, Third rather the First, Second, Third.

[Jonathan M.]

...when you see some one wearing a pink shirt and automaticly you THINK PINK! Lol.

[mtaman02]

...when you decide to paint your hair and dress in pink so you blend in with the florida team.

...when you hit the refresh button on FIRST site to see if any regional updates have been posted (same goes for CD)

...when you go to the regionals wearing all the corresponding shirts concerning the teams and volunteering you'll be representing (as silly / stupid as it may be i shall do this got 4 of em to wear already)

...when you get a shaved hair cut with the FIRST logo faded into the cut

...when your phone gets the faceplate with the FIRST logo on it....

I think in april 2002 I saw maybe 1 - 2 people with the FIRST logo'd faceplates for Nokia phones


...when after reading the local newspaper(s) you log onto CD to read more interesting things that seem more logical and have more common sense.

...when wondering what kind of motor pushes the newspaper through the newspaper making machine.

...when you have read this thread fully more then once in the past hour.

...when your buddy list is divided into groups :family / friends / FIRST / CD and Team # (Insert team numbers here)

...when said buddy list contains more various team members names then your grouped family names

...when you have 2 different AIM accounts one for FIRST / CD and one for personal life yet the FIRST / CD contains more names and you use it more often then the other one

Edit:// To: BRM789 you know all this time I was doing this editing I never once looked up at that. So here it is the 1000'th post. Sheesh a few seconds of happiness for reaching that far lol kinda reminds me of New Years and as soon it changes to 12:01 the fun is over. The next goal for this thread shall be set to 1100, 1250, 1500, 1750. 1900, 2000 I think Erin will make it to those points before I do. hehe

Anyways heres to the 1000th. post. happy 1000th post.

...when celebrating top postings of this thread becomes a monthly event.

...When you realize that Mike has reached to 1000 post on the board and you're upset it wasn't you.

[mtaman02]

Hey Erin Got some good news and some bad news

through the greatness of how vBulletin works

WE can both be the 1000th post.

Look at the attachment. It clearly says you were the 1000th post yet I officially posted 1000th. In any case we're both 1000th. So Happy 1000th. Post.

If you wanna know how that happened just talk to Brandon ;-)

[Specialagentjim]

...when you go from junior member to custom title in a 6 week period
...when your main requirment for getting an iPod from school is so you can transfer a gig of targas back and forth
...when you have a Delphi group on your buddy list
...When half of your daily classes (2 of the 4) are "Do your FIRST work..when your animation's submitted with that, we'll get to doing regular class work"


More to come!

[Jeff_Rice]

When you seriously consider taking the robot to Prom

When you begin to wonder if you are a robot

When you form mental algorithms to do stuff while you think about robots

When life becomes First with irrelevant stuff in between.

When you convince your mother to feed the pit crew and programmers

When you drive 45 miles away to work on the robot.

When you place willingness to participate in FIRST as one of your top criteria for a g/f

When you can reason out why the robot does what it does.

[CaptainDanger]

Originally Posted by Jeff_Rice

When you seriously consider taking the robot to Prom

It's definitely happening

[MichelB]

When you relate everything to build season, or FIRST and your friends get annoyed with your references they don't understand.

[Ken Loyd]

Originally posted by Koko Ed
Your wife refers to FIRST as your "Second wife"

My wife has a team shirt with "FIRST Widow" where here name should be.

Ken Loyd
Team 64

[Matt Attallah]

Originally posted by Trashed20
...every sentance ends with "your mother", "in bed", or "and then you die twice"

LOL!!!

-When you leave knowing you made a difference in a child's life.
-When you can't wait for march to roll around
-When you change a life of a child
-When you yell at people that say battle bots are cool
-when your girl/boy friend says you wanna marry FIRST
-when you want to do nothing but long trigonometry to find out the exact angle for a drive train part
-when you wanna see Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers at your pit!!!!

[AJ Quick]

Originally posted by Trashed20
...every sentance ends with "your mother", "in bed", or "and then you die twice"

Seriously.. they do.

[NeedMoreEngines]

Originally Posted by AJ Quick

Seriously.. they do.

ABSOLUTELY.

...when you can transform anything anyone has ever said at any build meeting into a "your mom" joke...and it's still funny.

...when everyone knows the different between "the wrench that fits" and "the other wrench that fits"

...when every tool set you've ever owned is missing a 7/16'' wrench, a 1/4'' drill bit, and an 11/32 allen wrench.

...if the phrase "hey, freshman, come over here and put your head right here in case this hits me in the face." is ever said.

[Hiteak]

when even when you are sick at home, you call people who are at robotics at the moment, just so you can see what is getting done and to say hi to team mates.

[Raven_Writer]

Originally posted by Matt Attallah
LOL!!!

-When you leave knowing you made a difference in a child's life.
-When you can't wait for march to roll around
-When you change a life of a child
-When you yell at people that say battle bots are cool
-when your girl/boy friend says you wanna marry FIRST
-when you want to do nothing but long trigonometry to find out the exact angle for a drive train part
-when you wanna see Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers at your pit!!!!

good reasons...good reasons. but what about these:

- when matt drives, and they know to move out of the way (just playin)
- people yell your names from the stands (actually, it's kinda...wait, really scary then)
- you treat people like robots by putting an ateanna on their head, and try to move them with a joystick

[jedilearner]

when you go crazy at scholl and draw stratagies instead of doing school work.
when you take of work to have fun listening to wody.
when you finaly get a small amount of sleep after ship date.
when you get a diserved rest after the competion season ends.

[BandChick]

when you realize that you should go to sleep so that you're well rested for kickoff but realize you will probably be up all night pondering