Successful Mission, Captain Kirk
In 1998, as an undergrad, I encountered what I remember to be my first real university challenge: write a MIPS kernel which had to run on the appropriate emulator. An acceptably decent running kernel should have made the emulator output in the end the Star Trek quote in the title.
Now, a lot time after (wow, 10 years, has it been that long?), it's over. Yesterday I defended my PhD thesis.
I feel a bit emptied now ...