-the dremel has a song that everyone knows
-you dream about using the lathe and share that dream with the team that has the same dream
-you hold a wake for your “killed” drill bit
-think about lathes and mills more than girls :rolleyes:
-when the sound of a bandsaw cutting aluminum that once was deafening and painful becomes soothing to the ears
-when your hand continues to vibrate a bit and you feel like your using a dremel an hour after you finish using it for a LONG time
-when you find hard tables comfy to sleep on
-when you remember exactly what size wrench is for what nut and what allen key/screwdriver is for which bolt on your robot (almost) 
-when you look at your bed in the morning and see lots of metal shavings on it
when you drive home so late that you see one car on the road, all the stop lights are flashing, and the radio is actaully plyaing music.
when u go home and take a shower and you have more metal shavings in you hair then hair itself( this is a true story )
when u are so tired that u sleep in the computer room so you have enough energy to drive home( another true story about one of our college students )
When you…
Err… I forgot.
Get tattoo’s of the logo of your robotics team?(And they look awesome.)
When you go under a table and sleep with a bumper under your head and another in your arms.
If you have more mountan dew in the shop than walmart has on their shelves
when you take a break for supper and your trombone lesson, and walk into the music store still wearing your safety goggles.
when you find a nice place to take a nap, and you wake up in a 4’ x 4’ x 5’ plywood room, and it feels like you are flying in a big jet.
When you fly FedEx no one can hear you scream!
One of your team members wakes up, and the first thing he thinks, is “Tomorrow is ship day!” instead of “Today is my birthday.”
Local radiostation does the 9pm shoutouts and next thing you hear is them doing the 2am shoutouts and then the 3am.
Are just now preparing for the first real sleep(>2 hours) in 2 days. (its 4:15p.m.)
Drink 8 cups of coffee in 3 hours
Fall asleep lounging on a moped and dream about programming
The people around you have minidreams about “press the program button!”
set off a fire alarm 4 times in one night
Start wearing robot pieces.
launch balls at anyone who dozes off
fantasize about the bed waiting upstairs
have a component on your robot called the “hopper flopper”
You are speding your night in a har chair at a table made of a door and 2 sawhorses. On the table is your laptop, a desktop, the OI, a few sandwiches, about a dozen empty soda cans, and endless assortments of other odds and ends.
realize what excellent pillows poof balls make
-when your mentor joins you in a game of skeeball through the center goal
-when you know which of the 50 keys on your mentors key ring opens his office door
-when you go home and crawl in bed, and think that your robots launch mechanism is tangled in your sheets
(all are true)
When you start barking commands in C very fluently, but for some reason cannot pronounce “salad,” or “dongle.”
You make incessant jokes about the robot “smoking your ‘pot’” after witnessing the potentiometer sizzle.
You bat poof balls out of the air from pure instinct, no matter which way they fly from (assuming you aren’t goal-tending).
No matter what, you can’t seem to shake the vision of a giant error message popping up whenever you think about catching some ZZZzzs
You’re making me feel like I’ve been at the shop for three days instead of in my dorm room slaving away at homework… but… I have one…
You know you’ve been in the shop to long when …your mentor decides to run cable through the ceiling to the TV in the shop so he can watch his news.
(yes, this happened when I was home for winter break)
When time no longer matters and people think you’ve become a tool in the workshop
When the students are no longer allowed to talk to the programmer because he’s got to finish up the autonomous mode
When you start replacing steel bolts with aluminum bolts just because you know in the end it **will **matter
When you realize that an all black background for your side panels will add weight because of the extra toner
When the large deadweight hammer becomes a viable programming tool 
When you have recurring nightmares about your robot being destroyed in a scrimmage, days after it happened and was fixed
When you almost have an aneurism when the scale reads 290 and you don’t realize there’s an engineer crawling around on it
When you get teary-eyed about the time the robot is supposed to ship
When you’ve learned to intercept the balls your robot shoots in mid-air with another poof ball
…when you weld on your camera mount and forget to check the clearence of the shooter. Then on top of that not realize it until you try and show the whole school how cool it is and it fails!!! (Really happend to us today right before we shipped it. We never did fix it, not enough time.)
Josh
Team Driver/Designer(That^^^ mistake was NOT my fault by the way )