It's been unseasonably warm lately. Of course, UNC, in all its infinite wisdom, decided to turn off the centralized air conditioning. So our awesome A/C unit (which I sacrificed three years in HoJo for)) is useless.

With 4 guys living in one room with a lot of computers on, it gets hot very fast.

Deciding that I had enough of being warm, I set forth to somehow force the cooler air outside into our room.

SOLUTION: Get our huge fan sitting next to the window. This will pull cool air from outside and push it into our room.

PROBLEM: Only the top-half of our window opens. The bottom half refuses to open. Furthermore, we're on the third floor with a parking lot right under our window. If a window fan were to fall out of our window, we'd be in big trouble.

To make things worse, we don't have any rope at all in this room. Or duct tape!

My solution?

Interesting things to note:

1.) The plastic thing you use to rotate blinds has been crossed and is scotched-taped to the other side so that our fan won't fall outside.

2.) Using an elaborate system of crosses, our blind string now serves as the support structure for our fan. The fan leaves forwards, courtesy of our blind string.

Of course, what really sucks is that the window is right above my bed: will I trust my own ingenuity when I go to sleep tonight?

Probably not. But at least we have cool air in the room (finally).