New Members Event Can't Accomplish Big Things

This is an activity from the guitar club. Finished it with such a sense of accomplishment!

Preparations

Honestly, I hardly did anything because our art and design senior took care of everything. This time I could just lie down—I’m not good at designing things, and I know nothing about digital drawing either. So I could only be the errand runner: buying materials, printing name tags, setting up the canopy. I memorized the school’s unified business number from all the shopping trips. We mainly went to Nchu Bookstore and Xingwen Bookstore—the paper colors at both stores were different. To find the right colors, I来回跑了好几趟。After all that careful selection, the art skills weren’t up to par, so in the end it was: “They probably can’t tell, right? Won’t be discovered!” This time the name tags turned out great, although two people filled out the form too late and their colors were different from everyone else. The lamination cost was way cheaper than I imagined—like, way way cheaper. So why doesn’t camp use printing instead of making everyone serve time together…

We originally planned three songs¹, but the camp’s loading was just too much, so we had to cut them… in the end only played “Lovers,” and we’ll definitely make up the rest next time. The broken chords in “Lovers” are super hard to play. At first, practicing left my hands sore—they’re all bar chords. The tab I played mainly references Bruno Fries and the Iron Man Teach You to Play, though some parts were modified. Modifying their tab is faster than starting from scratch. If I have time, I’ll transcribe the tab I’m playing.

New Members Event

The number of people who showed up shocked me—we ended up even spilling to the door. It looked like there were fifty or sixty people, almost double the amount at the guitar week event. First time performing in front of so many people—kind of nervous.

This time I was the snack manager at the snack cabinet, mainly responsible for distributing snacks. Simply put, I played the OS role. The purpose of an OS is to be Easy to use and Efficient to run, but our hardware only had two CPUs², so there were limits. During intermission, the audience launched a DDoS attack³ on us. Because the hardware buffer⁴ was insufficient and the CPU clock was too long⁵, we were Denial-of-Service’d in under a minute. The subsequent problem was that the ready queue still couldn’t be cleared, so they started chatting with us. This is when CPU time needed to be allocated—the same process can’t stay in there too long, so as to achieve a multi-user, multi-tasking environment.

Above is me having learned too much Operating Systems. If you don’t understand, open the plain language version.

• Lovers

My head was too low during my solo—I looked dumb. {{< youtube id=“Q7WOF-nkwq0”>}}