One day in Algorithm Design, Mr. Nassar thanked me unexpectedly before class. He said that after my article, they fixed the door closers and now the doors in the Davis Center close quietly. Mrs. Cerniglia also thanked me for the article in advisory. As far as I know, the AI-generated pictures of an anthropomorphic door shushing you are still taped to many of the doors. The real surprise is that it happened about a week after I wrote the article. Apparently, it took very little time to adjust the door closers. I suppose this is to be expected. I have never adjusted a door closer in my life, but all it entails is turning two screws. Most likely, the teachers of the Davis Center never thought to tell the work crew that the doors slam. I doubt the workers were simply unaware of what a door closer was, and only googled it after the teachers found out the name and function of door closers. I suppose the lesson is that when you have a problem you don’t know how to solve, almost all of the time someone has had that problem before.

The real surprise is that the clock in room 209, which was in the title of the article, is still not fixed. I even talked to Mrs. Kooistra before writing the article. She immediately put in a work order after I told her. I just checked today, in fact, and it’s not fixed. I had previously believed the problem to have been at worst a fault with the wires. I admit, I have not talked to Mrs. Kooistra after the article. I still do want to know what exactly is preventing repair. Even if the clock was irreparable, WT could have still bought a new one. Maybe they don’t care enough to spend the money, but they still could take the clock down. Again, the situation seems not too dissimilar to the door closers, and they got fixed. In other repair-related news, a few of the clocks around the school are not adjusted for daylight saving time. For example, the clock in 126b. If anyone else notices a clock that’s not on daylight saving time, I encourage you to tell one of the teachers.