Students are in low-key crisis mode, and classes haven’t even started.

Mocha — the brainchild of some computer science students and Banner’s supposedly superior sibling — is down, leaving everyone except freshmen (who registered at 5 p.m., before the crash) blindly casting about for the elusive fourth class.

“I think it’s more stressful and inconvenient for upperclassmen,” said Kara Ramos ’12, a Meiklejohn adviser.

At least Banner is still working. Even if it’s chromatically challenged and doesn’t go as well with whipped cream.

UPDATE (3:40 p.m. Wednesday) Mocha appears to be back online. Looks like the problem has been solved. Cue deep sighs of relief.

When President Obama speaks to schoolchildren nationwide today around noon, hard work won’t be the only thing getting a shout-out. Jazmin Perez, an ’09 graduate who is now a masters student at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, is one of a handful of individuals he will single out as a good role model for today’s youth. Quoth the President:

Congrats to Perez, who by our unofficial count is the first member of the class of 2009 to be mentioned by name by the President in a high-profile public address — and a controversial one at that!