You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...

[JosephC]

When you spend the remainder of High School going to other teams' middle schools and promoting first. (True Story)

[Ekcrbe]

Originally Posted by JosephC

When returning to school after being sick for a day, 5/6 of your teachers ask how robotics went.

WAIT! Since when do our teachers care about FIRST?!?!?!?!?

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by Ekcrbe

WAIT! Since when do our teachers care about FIRST?!?!?!?!?

Lol, you'd be surprised how enthusiastic a tennis coach/math teacher gets when you tell them that you beat the rival school in robotics.

Competition runs deep and strengthens even the smallest of bonds.

- Sunny G.

[Eagleeyedan]

when you try to find some way to relate the game hints to a water game

[bardd]

• When your user auto-logins to CD in about 20 computers, 15 of which at school.
• When you're bummed about the fact none of your classes this year are in rooms 1, 4, 7, 11, 16, or 25 (be noted that our school has only rooms 1-36, and many of them don't actually exist).
• When you consider graduating from your team WAY more important than graduating from school.
• When you seriously try to design a car with tank-drive (an ACTUAL car) and a ship (or boat, I'm not picky) made of stone.
• When you know your computer has exactly 150,338 files.
• When you can fall in love with a design.

[Leeebowitz]

...you reach in your pocket for your keys and come up with an allen wrench and realize you have been taking it with you everywhere "just in case"

[Damiaen_Florian]

- When in a math problem you're told to make a rectangle with random dimensions, and you choose 27x54
- When you open the new kit of parts and it's more exciting than opening presents on Christmas
- When you eat Subway and suddenly think you're at a robotics competition again (Getting subway for lunch is sort of a tradition for me and a few members of my team)
- You can look at any part of the robot and remember all the manufacturing, design prints, and laughs that were had during the time of building and assembling it

[dcarr]

When you type "c" into your Chrome navigation bar and Chief Delphi is automatically filled in.

(Actually...this might be quite common).

[Peck]

when someone's glasses break, you ask what screwdriver head and size they need while showing them a complete computer repair kit you just pulled from your backpack just from being used to using it on the wires at robotics.

[Nathan Streeter]

When you have a FIRST game piece as part of your room's furniture... Ever since 2005 I've had a blue tetra from an official field in my room.

I've found it makes an excellent place to toss hoodies or drying towels! I'm actually kinda curious to see how many other people have game pieces in their room...

[roboraven15]

when your heating/ frying day old krispy kreme donuts on a scrap peice of aluminum on a hot plate.

[Raumiester2010]

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

When you have a FIRST game piece as part of your room's furniture... Ever since 2005 I've had a blue tetra from an official field in my room.

I've found it makes an excellent place to toss hoodies or drying towels! I'm actually kinda curious to see how many other people have game pieces in their room...

well i'v got about 3 poof balls in my room from '06 (and i wasnt even on the team that year...) wish i had a tetra though. wonder if my mentors would let me build one in our shop... probably not...


...when you continue to brave the cold inside our shop to keep coming to 9-5 meetings on Saturdays (darn GM weekend shutdowns... seems just the area we are in is cold...)


and i too wait for 68 but it too will never come... but i continue to laugh whenever i see 1114 on the clock

[dragonrulr288]

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

When you have a FIRST game piece as part of your room's furniture... Ever since 2005 I've had a blue tetra from an official field in my room.

I've found it makes an excellent place to toss hoodies or drying towels! I'm actually kinda curious to see how many other people have game pieces in their room...

LUCKY! i wish i had a tetra in my room! (i wasnt even in that year...)
no, i cleaned my room the other day and found a whole bunch of screws, nuts, bolts, ect.. in my room

[Xizkos]

-You sketch robot/electrical designs for fun when you're bored.
-When you close your eye's at night, and dream that you're back at Nationals.
-When you choose your class/job schedule just to accommodate FIRST.
-When it's 3am and you're still working on the Electronics Board

[dragonrulr288]

when you have gone from drawing dragons to Robotic dawgs in less than one month of joining robotics