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+# Winter 2025 Journal
+
+Began 2025-01-09
+
+At the end of the last three semesters at UMich, I wrote course reviews
+for each one that I took. The problem is they pile up and by the time
+I write them I don't really remember the experience of misinterpreting the
+course, which can be really helpful for people about to take it. So, since
+I plan to make myself a chill schedule this semester (famous last words),
+I'm gonna take another approach: I will keep updating a journal for
+non-trivial courses, aiming at a weekly/once every two weeks-ish
+frequency.
+
+In addition to courses, I will keep track of my grass-touching endeavors
+as well.
+
+## Courses I enrolled in
+
+Unfortunately, all the courses I'm taking are EECS.
+
+Those I plan to take:
+
+- [EECS 461: Embedded Control Systems](w25_461_journal.md)
+- EECS 330: Antennas and Wireless
+- EECS 201: Enrolled because I needed exactly one credit
+
+Those I plan to drop:
+
+- EECS 491: Distributed Systems. Not sure to drop or not.
+- EECS 493: UI Development. 80% sure I'm gonna drop.
+
+## Get In Loser, We're Spamming North Campus With Furry Club Posters
+
+(and a select few Central locations as well)
+
+On 2025-01-07, Rix and I spammed the following places with ~100 furry club
+posters:
+
+- BBB 1F-4F
+- Dow 1F-3F
+- GGBL 1F-2F
+- EECS 1F-2F
+- Duderstadt 1F
+- Chrysler 2F
+- Art & Architecture 1F
+- Stamps (Walgreen Drama Center) 1F
+- Bus stations @ Pierpont (N553, N551)
+- A cylinder outside Weiser
+- CCTC (C250, C251)
+
+![Hundreds of furry posters on a lab
+workbench.](img/w25_journal/aaa-posters-mesh.jpg)
+
+![Poster on the glass wall of a bus stop. The poster is a bus full of
+furries called "Northowod"](img/w25_journal/northowod.jpg)
+
+By the end my legs were sore.
+
+We were thinking of internationalizing the "I want YOU for the furry club"
+posters (which got me into this club in the first place). Here's my
+efforts:
+
+![Four versions of a poster. In each one my fursona Mosfet points at you
+with a menacing grin. The tagline is written in German, English, Dutch,
+and Chinese.](img/w25_journal/mosfet-you.png)
+
+For German, I originally translated word-for-word, but a couple native
+speakers said it sounded unnatural, so I took their advice and used "wir
+suchen dich", which sounds funny to English speakers. The Dutch was
+courtesy of Dante and [Purple](https://woof.tech/@Purple).
+
+Rix did Korean, and we've got contributions in Japanese and French.