Woo! Congrats on the MIT acceptance!
No photo-related prezzies, this Yule season, but that's OK, ...almost all my discretionary money has been going toward photo this, photo that for quite a while, so a nice sweater is good.
By the way, Flyer, have you considered putting some kind of extra platform on top of something in your computer room? (like, if you have a table with printers on it, adding another level?
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I did something like this to get an enlarger into my little office room here, ...not that you likely need anything quite that stout, but I have a pretty easy little design you could use that even lets you get an extra slide-out workspace in there. I've found that if you have a tight space you can often augment it by putting some things up on things like these little closet organizer platforms, or even by shortening the legs of a likely looking end table and putting it up on something.