Fall 2024 Wrapup

2024-12-20

My third semester at UMich was a very important one. I made substantial progress in my self-growth and self-discovery. It is not only that I turned into a furry. OK, it is mostly that I turned into a furry. But I also climbed out of my EECS cavern and dabbled in some high arts, such as Laura Okkema's creative writing group where we wrote fairy tales, horror stories, and poetry. If this semester had a tagline, it would be "Learning to Live Again".

Course reviews

  • EECS 473, Advanced Embedded Systems
  • TC 496 (full course code TCHNCLCM 496): Advanced Technical Communications
  • EECS 496: Major Design Experience Professionalism
  • GERMAN 231: Second-Year German

Notable gains

  • $75 worth of Amazon gift card, which I spent on a bike helmet and some reflective stickers
  • An abundant amount of furry stickers
  • Four boxes of rapid tests for free
  • Social Security Card
  • A flu shot (covered by insurance)
  • Access to the MESH lab so I can play with soldering irons floofmischief
  • Whitfield Diffie signed my PGP key

My PGP key printed on a sheet of paper. On top of it written in red is "This check is fraudulent" and Diffie's autograph

Places I Went

  • Festifall North & Central
  • Saviors Tour by Green Day
    • They played Dookie and American Idiot on full
  • Clancy Tour by twenty one pilots
  • An apple orchard with the furries
  • CAPS for two therapy sessions

Things I Saw/Read/Otherwise Perceived

  • Aurora borealis (2024-10-10)
  • The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, written by Gerard Way & Shaun Simon, illustrated by Becky Cloonan

Music I Made

I covered four songs in two sessions.