HOLT!!!!
It's always nice to hear from you my friend. Sounds like things are going well for you, I hope it will get even better! I'm a little bit confused though. Are you going to school or are you studying? I guess the latter?
I know that feel though. Back then when I studied, my friends and I chose automotive engineering as one of our focus areas. There we had combustion engine as one of the lectures. And this lecture was held by a, well, kinda difficult professor (he didn't even greet me back when we were alone in the elevator, lmao, just wtf is wrong with some people?). In a couple of weeks, my friends left the course. One by one, until I was the sole survivor of our initial group. They either changed the complete focus area or the lectures within the focus area, because it was too difficult.
Making a long story short: I somehow managed to
BARELY (NOT KIDDING) pass the exam. Don't ask me how I did it, I can't explain it myself.

But it felt like a 100% A. It's most likely the grade I'm most proud of even though it's actually a bad grade, kishkishkish. People admired me for that feat, I was the king.
ANYWAY... so Holt holt (pun intended) a great speech to the noobs? I'm sure there is a neat video of Holt holting said speech, no? We want to hear it! We are curious!
In regards to Umineko: I had a busy January actually (oh god, I wrote this for god knows how many times on slack and discord, I feel like a broken record

).
The last time I played Umineko was approx. 8 months ago. It didn't feel right to continue from where I stopped (end of EP4). So I started from scratch. I'm hitting the end of D1 of the first episode. I'm letting myself get distracted way to easily, but it's moving on! It's actually pretty fun to read it again after the knowledge you have gained til EP4. I've put every manga/anime on holt (pun intended) for now. I'm giving my best.