CS 162 Diary

True Pain 🧃 ↑ research projects thoughts travels

February 10, 2025, 7:06 PM PST

I am starting this diary because my OS class is significantly more painful than I expected.... We're working with this "Pintos" operating system, and somehow it feels like there's just such a divide between the presentations and the actual work that we have to do. I guess it just goes to show that there's no easy way to understand this much code... you just gotta do it. 😭 Obviously, that doesn't mean I won't complain though (I'll refrain from complaining in real life, but this diary I'll keep as my outlet).

On top of just complaining though, hopefully I can keep this as some sort of note-taking system, and also for some fond memories to look back on.


Graffiti in Main Stacks Floor D, distracting me for an instant from my 162 struggles.

For now I'm a bit too mentally exhausted from this... so I'm going to work on my Bayesian statistics homework for some time... also due tomorrow. I'll come back to this later tonight I guess, and then try to go to office hours tomorrow (might have to skip a Wavelets and Signals Processing lecture unfortunately).

February 11, 2025, 5:53 PM PST

This is some crazy stuff for real... all I can do is run my cursor through the spec's text, highlighting it and hoping that at some point I'll know what to do... 😭.

After writing that I feel pretty stupid, so I should probably figure out exactly how I'm going to figure this thing out.