You Know You've Been on FIRST too Long When...

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You Know You’ve Been on FIRST too Long When…

You have dreams about drive trains
Talk about the competition in your sleep

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When you go to social gahterings and ramble on endlessly about FIRST to people who could care less about FIRST and don’t notice thier eyes glazing over.

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You’re on these boards on Christmas. :smiley:

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You search and find another thread almost exactly like this one…

Thread One

hint hint, search, then post

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you open your closet to pick out a shirt and see FIRST, Duel on the Delaware, FIRST Robotics Championship 2004: Atlanta Georgia, FIRST, Final Bin Bash, Ramp Riot, FIRST Robotics 2003: Stack Attack: Housten Texas, Brunswick Eruption, FIRST…

  • you hear a number and think of the corresponding FIRST team
  • you sit watching a movie about futuristic robots and pick out all the reasons why robots would never turn out that way
  • you consider Curry Donuts a landmark
  • you start a project to make a game based on the competition
    *]you try to promote your game with corny posts (see above), even though it’s right in your signature anyway
    there should be a “you know…” sub-forum :slight_smile:
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*you have a best friend on a different team see post before me
*you get mad that some friends won’t join robotics (true story…)
*you make dumb puns about FIRST robotics…the name, anyway.
*you find random FIRST memoribilia when you’re gutting out your room, and can actually put a story or two to the object. (cleaned my room yesterday, true story.)

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  • You are leaving for the Airport to head to Germany in 2 hours and you are on Chief Delphi
  • You are worried that you will miss a lot of cool information on Chief Delphi when you are in Germany for 8 days
  • You spend your christmas vacation learning how the C Programming language
  • You lay in bed at night for hours thinking of wiring diagrams and animation ideas
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  • You come up with words to a FIRST version of “A Partridge in a Pear Tree” while working on the robot during the offseason.
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-when you plan everything around FIRST.
Dates, birthday parties, graduation, etc…
-when you call your mentor your mother or father. Note: True Story. :yikes:
-when you spend more time at your school than you do at home.
-when your mother hounds you if you finished the robot, then starts rambling about how you should already be done.