Frigging laptop
My laptop died over the weekend. AGAIN!
I was literally walking to get my thumb drive when -- oops, there goes the laptop! And, of course, OOPS, there goes your paper!
Sigh.
The last time it crashed (last MONTH!) I had everything already backed up. I had a spreadsheet up with my students' grades, backed up on my thumb drive. The file got corrupted when the laptop crashed.
This resulted in the fun-fun announcement in my Intro class that students will get a bonus point if they hand in exam 1 again!
I hate that I'm so frigging reliant on this piece of shit machine! We bought a new one on Saturday. We've put so much money into this thing that's less than three years old. So, we spent the equivalent of a month of rent that I have NO IDEA how we'll pay at the end of the summer.
It was the least costly way to go. If we didn't get the laptop, there was a good chance that I would not be able to finish my classes this semester. That would have led to me having to buy a semester out of pocket, not to mention retaking some very painful classes. That way of handling it would have cost about $25,000.
God. I can't wait until I graduate.
I was literally walking to get my thumb drive when -- oops, there goes the laptop! And, of course, OOPS, there goes your paper!
Sigh.
The last time it crashed (last MONTH!) I had everything already backed up. I had a spreadsheet up with my students' grades, backed up on my thumb drive. The file got corrupted when the laptop crashed.
This resulted in the fun-fun announcement in my Intro class that students will get a bonus point if they hand in exam 1 again!
I hate that I'm so frigging reliant on this piece of shit machine! We bought a new one on Saturday. We've put so much money into this thing that's less than three years old. So, we spent the equivalent of a month of rent that I have NO IDEA how we'll pay at the end of the summer.
It was the least costly way to go. If we didn't get the laptop, there was a good chance that I would not be able to finish my classes this semester. That would have led to me having to buy a semester out of pocket, not to mention retaking some very painful classes. That way of handling it would have cost about $25,000.
God. I can't wait until I graduate.
posted by Wild West Intern @ 4:50 AM
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