The First Week
The first week of class is always the worst. Readjusting to having homework again, readjusting my work schedule, and my workout schedule... And watching things blow up.
Including me.
Instantly the stress came back. Some days, I think I'm destined to never graduate. Frankly, I'm getting so frustrated that I really could care less about work or school independently of each other, let alone heaped on top of each other.
I just want to go home. But, as luck would have it, an entire domain of servers went kablooie. God bless Microsoft. All we need is a function in the Intel chip, triggered randomly by (any version of) Windows, which completely and literally MELTS the processor. That would make things... better. If you knew, for certain, that at some point in the product lifetime (which, if you were still in the society of 5-10 years ago could be well over a decade) your machine was going to die a fatal death, you would certainly take ALL PRECAUTIONS to ensure that tomorrow when you arrived at work at 6am, a melted server wasnt greeting you.
Instead, the many bugs features of Windows allow you to get a false sense of security. Admins become passive and complacent. "Oh, everything's fine. I'll do my daily backups and we'll get by in case of failure."
Let me tell you... nobody plans on a corrupt kernel file bringing their machine to its knees. Or a corrupted security database ("I cant log in as administrator, or anyone else!"). Or any number of unexpected but increasingly common maladies.