<center><h1>Well, this is harder than I thought...</h1></center>

The introduction of the Udemy course ended with installation of Mist and a text editor environment for Solidity. Simple right? Apparently wrong. 

First things first, I installed Mist... then it became painfully obvious that there had to be a better way to sync the testnet.

<center>**FAST SYNC IS A THING!!!**</center>

I was overcome with joy.

<center>https://media3.giphy.com/media/kEKcOWl8RMLde/giphy.gif</center>

<h2>HOWEVER... after 4 hours I realized, I had synced the mainnet</h2>
<center>https://i.imgflip.com/1u3xc7.jpg</center>

<h4>So now, the wait continues. I am fast syncing the testnet, but wifi now appears to be an issue. Hopefully this will all finish up tonight. Until then, cheers and Steem on!</h4>