Instead of going to school and watching Jackie Chan movies, I spent three afternoons soldering components onto a perf board.

The aftermath-

It can result in a mess sometimes.
After soldering, I moved on to the part where I usually disappoint myself — testing.

Looks incomprehensible, right? It is! There’s no sound coming out of this thing at all.
Soldering is fun. Racking my brain in an attempt to find out which part of the circuit just shorted is NOT fun. With my luck, that’s probably what happened.
Murphy’s law strikes again. Man, that guy was such as optimist.