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

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#2361

When, while sitting in Urban Affairs class, your professor talks about people in the 60’s thinking that people of today would have robots, and your professor then going on to say no one today has their own robots.

You all know where I’m going here :smiley:

ALSO

When someone’s Facebook status is “no1 can hang =(”, besides you getting mad about the grammar, the first thing you think of is commenting “what about [insert 20+ teams here] just from [insert region here] alone?!” only to then realize that he doesn’t do FIRST and would thusly be confused.

#2362

When your background on your computers are your team’s colors (monitor 1=Purple, Monitor 2=Green, Monitor 3=Black)

When you have part of an older robot sitting in your garage so you can program a mechanum drive

When your dad, who’s job is robots in a warehouse environment, is jealous of your desk set up.

#2363

I worry about a professor who is completely unaware of the ROOMBA robotic vacuum. They’re even sold at Target, so they’re mainstream.

But I don’t worry about you, because after this you’ll be aware that your professors don’t always know what they’re talking about. :slight_smile:

Does owning 3 Roombas count as overdosed on FIRST?

#2364

No, making them competition legal does.

#2365

When you hear Taio Cruz’s song, Dynamite,
you mistake the “Gotta let go!” part for “Galileo!”

#2366

When every time you spray the window at work to clean it you spray a question mark shape…and you didn’t even realize it until today and you have been working there for over a month.

#2367

You’re watching Shaytards and he’s telling a story and the phrase “this is a literal holy cow moment. Has anyone ever had a literal holy cow moment.”

And you just smile.

#2368

Because it won’t just let me edit ^^ for some reason…

When you’re at a dance for camp, Cotton Eyed Joe comes on, and the first thing that comes to mind is “I was unaware that the field was having errors.”

When, while typing that, you wanted to write first as FIRST, but then groaned at yourself and your stupid puns.

#2369

When you have to stop yourself from dancing at a party when the Cotton Eyed Joe, YMCA, Cupid Shuffle, and Sandstorm comes on because no one there is dancing or from robotics.

#2370

when you hear “We Like to Party” come on at prom, and everybody from robotics jumps up and does the “Mormon Dance” (if you’re confused, watch this. the video’s courtesy of a mentor from 2859, and this particular instance happened at the Colorado regional social. I wasn’t there, but I’m pretty sure we did this in KC as well)

#2371

Apparently on CD you get 24 hours to edit your post. After that, it’s cast in stone. Internet stone, that is.

#2372

…when by now, if someone says “Holy Cow!” you wonder if there’s been a 1538 sighting

…when you want to hop whenever the numbers 503 or 33 come up

…when you want to bang on the nearest glass whenever 494 comes up

…when nerd alerts are in fact necessary every day at 11:37 pm

…when you realize you have an inherent dislike for 2009 due to the L-word (the game-that-must-not-be-named)

…when you get home from the championship past midnight and wish you could skip forward to kickoff

…when you’ve developed a tolerance for Mountain Dew

#2373

When you realize that your Domino’s pizza cost $11.24, so you’re keeping the receipt to frame back home.

Oh yes.

#2374

When you rather be doing a robot presentation at the moment.

#2375

When while watching the World Cup, you were half expecting a player to climb on-top of the goal

When you see India’s lunar rover for their moon mission you think it would make a great Breakaway goalie bot (it has a solar panel that folds perpendicular to the robot and a bogie system to climb over rocks (or bumps :P))

#2376

…or you want to get as far away from the nearest glass as possible to save your ears :stuck_out_tongue:

Funny story about that; I was with some friends last night, and my total was 5 glasses of Mountain Dew. Still didn’t keep me awake. Maybe I need to take a break from that stuff so that it will still work by the time 2011 comes around…

#2377

When you read through these and realize the same thing happened to you.::safety::

#2378

:smiley:

Well, this may happen in twenty years or so, when this year’s FIRSTaholic soccer (sorry, footaball) geniuses compete in the World Cup.

Thaine

#2379

You know you’ve overdosed on FIRST when…
You know which exits to take to go home because they are team numbers.
Get off 79, pass 34, and merge onto 67. No joke.

#2380

your dropping your iPod because it is really HOT when the battery percentage is 67%.