Fall 2025 Wrapup

2025-12-31

Course reviews (WIP)

  • EECS 571
  • EECS 452

Notable gains

  • Moved into Northwoods II, a tiny, but affordable almost-on-campus apartment
  • [CLASSIFIED]
  • Baritone ukulele
  • LED Wristband at the Cincinnati leg of Clancy Tour: Breach (which I later reverse engineered)
  • Breach (2025) by twenty one pilots on vinyl
  • Fragile (1971) by Yes on CD
  • Driver's license
  • SenseCap Meshtastic node
  • Squirrel mug I won at a UMix event
  • Credit card
  • Shure condenser mic that I got at the UM dispo for $11
  • Furry club merch T-shirt
  • New laptop where I'm typing this blogpost(ThinkPad T14 AMD Gen 6)
  • Stylophone and Stylophone Beat (drum machine)
  • Two furry commissions
  • twenty one pilots T-shirt in the holiday sale
  • A genuine copy of the LC2K VSCode extension source code signed by the author herself

Notable losses

  • SenseCap Meshtastic node for ~72 hours because I dropped it at the bus stop and a faculty/staff member picked it up after seeing my flyer

Flyer. See transcript below

Flyer transcript

HAVE YOU SEEN MY MESHTASTIC RADIO

[image of said radio]

credit card-sized flat plastic box, has a red and yellow lanyard from a twenty one pilots show. i lost it while catching the bus here on tuesday 2025-10-28 13:29. yes i have tried looking for it with another radio. foxhunts are only fun when someone knows where tf the radio is

Notable experiences

  • Worked as a GSI for EECS 473
  • Replaced a tube in my bicycle
  • Got my QSL card signed by Ed Vielmetti (W8WMV) on the "500 THz" band on "eyeball" mode. RST was 59 though
  • Co-drove to Indiana to pick up a golden retriever puppy for Rix. His name is Asbestos

Golden retriever puppy chewing on a slipper at Rix's doorstep

  • Listened to Breach on my friend's Sound Burger
  • Installed Arch Linux (dual boot with factory Windows 11) and made this bootloader screen:

Screenshot of rEFInd (EFI bootloader) showing Windows and Arch as two options. On the Windows side Mosfet holds up his palm rejecting it, but on the Arch side he raises his head and makes a check mark with his handpaw

Furry club (AAA)

  • Went to Festifall
  • Lured 13 people to become an AAA supporter for $50
  • Spamming posters around campus (again)
  • Posted one (1) poster next to the 473 lab and rotated it for Halloween, Design Expo, and Christmas without anyone noticing

Three posters, see transcript below

Flyer transcript

Three flyers, all featuring my fursona Mosfet:

Halloween themed, text is "O OOOO OOO OOO OOO OOOOO OOOO"

Design expo themed, text is

Guidelines for a fun & successful design expo:

  1. Don't die
  2. Don't be on fire

Christmas themed, text is the first lyrics to "All I Want For Christmas Is You"

  • Played scrabble that began with "anal" and "nerd"
  • Went to an orchard
  • Made my tail that I had been proscrastinating since March

Dark blue tail

▲ It's literally a pool noodle covered in faux fur

  • Went bowling twice, won one (1) match

Styrofoam cup with a cat playing bowling and the text "about to get a gutter" drawn on it

  • Bought a laminator and invited people to make badges
  • Bought a button machine and invited people to make buttons
  • Ran a building fursona contest and ordered stickers
  • Ran a merch contest and ordered T-shirts
  • Got reimbursed (huge)
  • Played Jackbox and board games with friends

Conclusion

This semester saw me swimming into adulthood at an unprecedented pace. Made many friends. Drove places. Made unwise financial choices. Saw weird shit. Created weird shit. Academically disappointing (I didn't learn much) but things went okay. Need to finish this post before 2026 so that's a wrap. See yall next year!