So I’ve spent almost 100% of my free time over the past 48 hours working on a Java program and I’ve been ‘almost done’ for the past 12 hours of that. Even on Sunday night I was ready to do anything in the world besides write Java, but no, it is the problem that consumes [...]
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First Grades
Thursday I gave my first speech (FDR to congress Dec 8 1941 on Pearl Harbor). I did ok for only having started memorizing it the morning of. I’ll get my grade back on Tuesday. I got a 67 on the first test in Java, which was mostly a stupid error that cost me over 20 [...]
Burned Switch
Still no internet in my new room, though I am officially moved out/in now. So far I know of a total of 5 rooms, including mine, whose connections are down. I think the problem is that one of the 12 or so network switches that takes care of the building was burned out in the [...]
Balking
It so happens that at least four of the rooms on the basement floor here have been without internet connection since the power outage, including my room-to-be. I could have been completely moved in by tonight, but not without internet, so I’m spending my last night in 117 avoiding the problems that plagued me when [...]
Power Moves
Last night around 7 the power went out across the entire campus. I still don’t know what it was, but it stayed that way, and didn’t show any signs of trying to come back on. All we had in the dorm were emergency lights in the hallways and the rooms were pitch black, so we [...]
