These Are Trying Times...
The last few days of my life have been difficult, at the very least. My midterm marks suck, assignments are due constantly, and exams loom in the not-so-distant future.

The stress level multiplied by a factor of no less than ten, when yesterday the EngSoc RAID array containing everyone's data started misbehaving during a routine rebuild. At one point, it looked as though two of the four drives had failed, which would pretty much signify the end of what I've poured three years of my life into. Thankfully, we managed to recover completely from the incident with nothing but downtime, though it was really touch-and-go for a good several hours. I finally cracked a smile when in Music class, on the ninth floor of Loeb building, a mouse ran across the classroom and behind a cupboard. It was just one of those things...

Tomorrow is the last Quantum Mechanics midterm, and I'm counting on this one to do well. The last two were really poorly written. This one has significant overlap with my IC design class material, so I may do well. Certainly better than the 17/60 on the Software Engineering midterm. That class worries me.

Today, in a lame attempt at procrastination, the EngSoc folk took apart a Pentium 90 processor. It would have been good to know that the bottom plate could simply have been removed before the thing was smashed to bits. Those edges are sharp!