WHAT A RUSH.
I stayed up today after my Jiujitsu class (which upset me) and had a beer and decided to try to solve the CTF’s for my computer security class. I finally had a breakthrough on the first one (I had to hijack 3 environment variables and overwrite a system command to trick it into giving me a protected file) and that was an insane rush of dopamine. By then it was time to sleep, but I wanted to just peek at the second question and I was slowly dragged into doing the entire question once I figured out the encoding scheme was something I could easily reverse with cyberchef. I finished both questions and the feeling I have right now is bliss.