Heck yeah, democracy.

Heck yeah, democracy. So as I mentioned in a previous post, Im taking 6.005 (Software Construction) this semester, which if you remember, I described as a notoriously tedious and time-consuming class. The past three weeks have validated that statement. Ive spent an average of 6 hours each day (read: ~ 8 pm 2 am) for the past 4 days working on 6.005. Our assignment is to create a Sudoku solver, which will read in any Sudoku puzzle and figure out a solution to it. Its pretty cool!! Except hard to do :( So understandably, theres been an outpouring of overwhelmed-ness amongst the 6.005 student body. This feeling of utter panic manifested itself on the 6.005 Piazza site  (Piazza is basically a site where students can ask questions and instructors/classmates can answer them a.k.a. a way to get instantaneous answers to questions) via a thread titled: Extended deadline for pset 2: Hi, can you give a class extension for pset 2s deadline? This is a hard pset, and we are just starting to cover the materials that are necessary to complete this pset, so it is unnecessarily demanding to finish the pset by this Thursday. Thanks! A bajillion people liked/viewed/responded to that thread, and less than 24 hours later, we all received the following email, with the subject line 6.005 announcement: Problem Set 2 Deadline Changed: In response to popular demand, we have decided to move the deadline for the Beta submission of problem set 2 to Sunday 11:59 PM. Armando and Saman Which in turn resulted in the following im-so-relieved-and-in-love-with-freedom-of-speech-and-democracy piazza post: Yay! And the following success baby meme (credit to Edan 12): Which all-in-all made my Tuesday night (or Wednesdy, early morning rather) a bubble of extreme happiness. And now Im sharing that happiness with you :) Happy Leap Day!