“Hand me a green [allen wrench]” really means “I need a green and a 7/16 [crescent wrench]”
You know you’ve overdosed on FIRST when… even four months after the championship you feel a pang of fear every single time you enter a large room and realize you aren’t wearing any safety glasses… unfortunately a true story…
When you call the robot your baby and want to kill (not literally) anyone who hurts it.
When you buy prescription safety glasses to avoid wearing 2 pairs of glasses
So true! I call Fenix1 (the robot my old team shipped to Australia) my baby sometimes!
When you start remembering the quotes at the top of CD!!!
When you stay awake for 6 weeks straight on caffine to finish a robot and then crashing just to do it again in a week!
You come to work on the robot on a friday night.
When you wish that you could be working on the robot on a Friday night… And every other night.
When you’ve got three laptops in your bedroom, and you’re using them all… to browse CD.
When you are annoyed that a day is a holiday, because that means you can’t go to school and test the code you were awake since kickoff writing.
Oh, and when you take apart a lasertag gun to see if the IR is compatible with and legal for use on your bot, just in case the next year’s game is lasertag of sorts.
When you already have a picture in your head of a robot playing lasertag after reading that sentence.
You know you’re overdosed on FIRST when…your idea of a date night away from the 4 kids (ages 16, 14, 2, and 1) OR your 2nd date with a girl…is to go to the local high school and help the robotics team…:yikes:
Swear on my life true stories…the first is a local engineer who is mentoring for the first time and wanted to show his wife what we do, they stayed for 2 hours instead of going out to eat and the second is our high school welding teacher who on their second date said “I need to run by the high school real quick” and ended up staying for an hour and a half to weld parts of our kicker together…
P.S. Both women proved how cool they were by 1: Not killing their date/husband and 2: Actually asking questions and commenting on how much fun it looked like we were having…
when you actually have time to acknowledge this thread, and do so at 11:23 PM
When after a team meeting instead of relaxing, you are on CD, and working on award submissions at home.
When, after 5 weeks, you realise that you’ve had only 1 day away from the build!
when you have perfect attendance for build season and still get up early on your day off school to be at the build site at 10 am because you don’t want to be accused of having senioritis
when you’re youtube account has more videos of your robot on it than the team’s youtube account
when you go to the build site from 10am til 4pm, go to work til 8pm, and then go back to the build site
when you spend 3 hours cleaning up the electrical guys area and then go on to clean the rest of the site because it will be a safer working environment for the team
when you have science teachers down the hall for a professional development day and as they are leaving the building they all end up stopping by the build room because they have all heard about the team from their students
You know you’re overdosed on FIRST when you take out your earring and use the post of it in order to reset the jaguar rather than wait for someone to get a pen to reset it ~~~one of the girl’s on our team did that tonight while we were practicing driving 
That sounded quite creepy…To someone who isn’t part of First Zing
you go home or any other place besides the shop and smell the smell of the rubber that you used to make the mecanum wheel rollers.
This.
It won’t get out of my nose.
When you have built a pyrimid made intirely out of mountin dew cans that covers an intire table.
i’ve done that a FEW times.
When you wake up with a temprature of 104 feeling like crap and the first thought coming into your mind is " $@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@# I don’t wanna miss a day of robotics"