First day o’ classes, yo

Today was the first day of classes and I sat through 6 hours of classes continuously from 10 til 4. I decided that I won’t take five classes, since my life sort of sucked last semester when I tried that. This means that I’m dropping Chinese, which is not a decision I take lightly — I really enjoyed studying a language last year, and philosophically I feel that it’s really important to learn languages. As it is, learning Chinese right now is neither terribly important for my future goals nor a way to make my life happier and  more satisfying at the present, so I let it go. Also, it’s an awful choice for a fifth class, since it’s probably more workload-intensive than all of my other courses (except maybe CS).

As for right now:

Danny and Charles are taking apart Danny’s Toshiba laptop which is decently old and was making funny noises. I think nobody has done laptop deconstruction before (although Charles is a pro at building desktop computers) so it was a revealing experience for all.

Charles and Danny take the laptop apart

The screen's been disconnected and the motherboard is visible.

It's a Toshiba M35X and the fan was making loud noises, causing stuff to slow down.

In other news, it turns out that almost anything you can say when taking a computer apart is prime bait for “That’s what she said!”. Example: “Let’s pry it open to make the entry point bigger”.