Academic Overload before Spring Break

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This week is my final week of classes before spring break, and as expected, I have an overload of work to get done.

Earlier today, I had a presentation and an exam. Tomorrow, I have a paper due. On Wednesday, I have a quiz in the morning. On Thursday, I have another exam; on Friday, I have yet again another quiz.

What made things worse was that there was an epic fail with the Internet yesterday at my workplace, the Badger Herald. I, being the web director and the closest thing the office has to technical support, was asked to come in to fix the Internet.

Usually, fixing the Internet is an easy fix – I simply call our Internet service provider and ask them to make sure there are no strange outages on their side. Unfortunately, yesterday, this didn’t work out at all. Our Internet service provider was giving us internet perfectly fine, but our router wasn’t distributing that Internet signal properly.

I had to go into the office and lose some studying time, but I didn’t expect it to take too long. I just planned on restarting our router and sort of expected it to work again. Sadly, that didn’t work out because our router itself was completely broken. The worst part was, it took me about an hour or two to figure out that it was irreparable.

I asked for help from the former web director, but he didn’t really know what to do, so we had to call someone who graduated from our university four years ago and retired from his position back in 2008 because he was the one who originally set up our router system. He was heroic enough to drive two hours to Madison from his home, and get everything set back up and running for us.

So, as a result of my academic overload, I will most likely not be blogging or tweeting much throughout this whole week. Also, on a slightly related note, I will also most likely not be doing my weekly com­pet­i­tive Tetris live stream show this week either, as Friday evening, I will be getting a ride back to my home town to visit my parents. I’m not 100% sure when my ride is going to arrive yet, though, so make sure to keep an eye on the announcements at the top of the home page of my website and follow me on Twitter for the latest updates.

 

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