From 948175a6f2c63db8b498585fd5c56bbdcfd3ee1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederick Yin Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 22:13:51 -0500 Subject: New post: umich/w25_journal, umich/w25_461_journal --- docs/umich/w25_journal.md | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 72 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/umich/w25_journal.md (limited to 'docs/umich/w25_journal.md') diff --git a/docs/umich/w25_journal.md b/docs/umich/w25_journal.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a7d4e68 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/umich/w25_journal.md @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +# 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. -- cgit v1.2.3