How a liquid cooler works is very simple:
1. The processor (very hot square thing in computer) spits out heat into some coolant that travels through a tube into a radiator (with a water pump).
2. Heat dissipates along the radiator and is cooled by a fan.
3. Cooled coolant returns to to processor to soak up more heat.
The coolant represents the class and Stewart represents the whole system of cpu, radiator, fan
Stewart basically injecting knowledge into our brains represents the heat entering the coolant.
The class (coolant) gets overloaded with information and assignments due to procrastination and the coolant travels to the radiator. The radiator itself is also Stewart and its absorbing of heat represents Stewart being upset with people who go to him for a lifeline when he sees them during class looking at Amazon. "F". The radiator phase is also when Stewart makes it clear that we are responsible for maintaining our responsibilities such as the senior project. This is because all the heat (procrastination+worry) of the class has reached its longest living point at the radiator phase.
The cooling phase (with the fan cooling the coolant (class)), represents Stewart calming everyone down with stuff like moving the book reading thing to 2nd semester, allowing people to turn things in later (not end of quarter), and in giving people time in class to do stuff.
The class then cools down due to either:
1. having more time to do stuff and thus more procrastination = less pressure in the moment
2. actually taking Stewart's advice to heart and finishing.
Then the cycle repeats.
BY THE WAY:
I am basing my assumption that the majority of the class procrastinates based on observational learning and confirmation bias. IF YOU DON'T actually procrastinate....... whatever.
provocative...
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