I'm only laughing on the outside
My smile is just skin deep
If you could see inside I'm really crying
You might join me for a weep.
The Joker
That's pretty representative of my second year at Swarthmore. We can call it The Dark Period. I lived in a basement with rattling pipes going through the ceiling and walls. Cobwebs decorated the corners of the room.

The picture above is from my first month back at school when my computer was still working. The next month, when the warranty had run out, my 1-year-old Hewlett Packard ceased to work. I spent the rest of the year using the scant public computing resources available on campus. Now, there are tons of public computers... too late to help me; I bought a new computer over the summer.