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 # Winter 2024 wrapup
 
-2024-04-30
+2024-05-02
 
 My second semester at UMich is just over, and I will recount major things
 that happened. I will continuously update this blogpost.
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 - [EECS 482, Intro to OS](w24_482.md)
 - [EECS 373, Intro to Embedded System Design](w24_373.md)
 - Other courses WIP
+
+## Notable material gains
+
+- A bicycle, as described in [2024-04-05](../random/2024-04-05.md)
+- A MIDI keyboard (AKAI MPK mini play) with which I made a few loops
+
+## Notable losses
+
+- My sanity over the 373 project
+
+## Notable expenditures
+
+- $39 for the MIDI keyboard
+- $512 for the Boston trip
+- $90 for the bicycle
+- $187 for a ticket to tøp's Clancy Tour (ffs fbr)
+
+## Notable experiences
+
+- I visited my friend in Boston over spring break.
+    - I saw The Museum of Fine Arts
+    - I saw The Museum of Bad Art
+    - By law of the excluded middle, I saw all art in existence
+    - I took a lecture on Chinese policy at Harvard
+    - I took a lecture on computer systems in the Banana Lounge at MIT
+    - I took the MBTA subway
+    - I saw a weird MIT exhibit with a bunch of glass, lamps, and wood
+      rescued from a bathhouse on fire
+    - I went to the MIT museum
+    - I talked with W1ATO over the W1XM repeater
+    - I went to the Harvard art museums is basically a tub for rich people
+      to dump their art in and as an excuse to exhibit stolen shit
+- I went to an iDKHOW show in Detroit, as described in
+  [2024-04-05](../random/2024-04-05.md).
+- I watched the eclipse (98% partial in Ann Arbor)
+- Except for two occasions, I participated in the W8UM/R Sunday net every
+  week, getting to know AC8TO, KE8BZJ, W8EMV, and KB6NU. Also I love our
+  net control WD4DSR.
+- Attended a W8UM monthly meeting (though one hour late and didn't get any
+  pizza) and met AC8TO in person
+- Saw a crime drama play called Trojan Horse. My friend played a role who
+  died for the most of the play
+- Applied for IA of 370 and 373 next semester
+- Cracked open a beer, which I just finished as I write this. The cashier
+  typed a "1" into the YYYY field on the auto checkout before realizing
+  (1) I was born 2003 and (2) aging is inevitable
+
+## Things unrelated to coursework that made my day worse
+
+I received the prize money for last semester's GERMAN 103 roleplay.
+Instead of $200 per group, it was $200 per person. But it went straight to
+my direct deposit and was split to two parts:
+
+- $172 to repay my "financial aid"
+- $28 in federal tax
+
+It pisses me off that I worked so hard on a roleplay just for the prize
+money to fund genocide.
+
+## Things unrelated to coursework that made my day better
+
+Last year I signed up for [Kristin Henry's Stickers and Stamps
+project](https://kristinhenry.medium.com/stickers-and-stamps-a-bright-spot-in-2020-d3011afefa09).
+It took months, but I finally received their letter in the mail. Enclosed
+is a sticker, a handwritten postcard, and a stamped envelope for me to
+return something in. So I handwrote a brief letter a few days later and
+sent it to Kristin.
+
+It was the second time I physically put something in a US mailbox. The
+first time was when I had to send form 8843 to the IRS to prove that I had
+zero income last year.
+
+## Albums discovered
+
+I spent the entire semester listening to Radiohead, all thanks to [a meme
+video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KGRvIFrF3c).
+
+- _The Bends_ (1994)
+    - Favorite tracks:
+    - Fake Plastic Trees
+    - Street Spirit
+- _OK Computer_ (1997)
+    - Paranoid Android
+    - Let Down
+- _Kid A_ (2000)
+    - Everything In Its Right Place
+    - The National Anthem
+    - Idioteque
+- _Amnesiac_ (2001)
+    - Pyramid Song
+    - Life In a Glasshouse
+- _In Rainbows_ (2007)
+    - Weird Fishes
+    - Videotape
+
+And if you stretch the definition of "discover", I discovered _Clancy_
+(2024).