So good news and bad news. First and foremost, I did a lot better on my plasma final than I was expecting. I got lucky on the hard question and had most of it on my allowed one page of notes. This is not to say that I did well; I would estimate a grade of not more than 50%. But seeing as how a 35% on the midterm was still a B, I'd be more than happy with a 50%.

I don't like classes where everything is so difficult that no one does well on any of the problems. I leave every test and homework feeling like an idiot and assured of failure, only to find that I did quite well in terms of grading. As a result, I don't know where I stand in terms of grasping the material. Was the class intentionally designed to cover material we were not expected to understand? Or have the grades just been inflated and standards lowered?

Anyway, I won't let myself get too worked up over that... I'm done with classwork until February. No more class, no more finals. *sigh*

I was so exhausted after the class that I went home and crashed out for awhile. A long while. I slept from 3:30pm to 9:30pm, basically constituting a full night's sleep and leaving me at the beginning of the evening with no hope of ever sleeping. I went back over to campus and hung out at the Thirsty Ear with some people from the class. We got to witness a very uptight and abnormal desk worker at Ashdown yell at us for attempting to cut through the lobby to get to the car with less rain. It was very humorous and made my night.

So. I went to my office and discovered the bad news. Apparently the salary advance that MIT gave me for my missing October paycheck never appeared in my account. I had the check and I deposited it as usual at the bank, but it's not part of my balance. And as a result I am now $900 overdrawn. Shaz. And I've racked up $100+ in overdraw fees. So this is not good, and it's not my fault. So now I have to spend most of tomorrow probably doing legwork on this.

And I have a stinking suspicion that I'm going to have to eat some of those charges despite my innocence here.