Amazing college professors pt. 2
So today, at around 10, 10:30am, I walked into the library taking a deep breath, kind of dreading the 5,000 word paper that I was about to marathon into oblivion. I'd started it at least, but I'd fallen behind; my Philosophy class was canceled and I intended to put the time to good use.
Surprisingly, I actually did. I was making excellent progress, typing away at one of the school computers, which I decided to use in lieu of my own, since mine has all sorts of pictures and favorite links and IMs to distract me, and I really wanted to get this done, as the due date was tomorrow. And then suddenly... the computer was telling me it needed to restart itself for some computer-geeky reason I didn't understand.
...'Okay,' I think to myself. 'That's weird, but whatever.' There's a timer, so I quickly save all my progress about 5 times over using control+S before the computer shuts down.
...and promptly, never letting me log back on, effective locking away every single ounce of progress I'd made until that point. Along with every single computer on campus behaving the same way. Heck, some of them didn't even turn back on.
I waste about 20, 30 minutes trying to find a computer that bloody works before they finally make an announcement that, HAY, there's a problem with the computers on campus. Something to do with McAfee; I didn't fully understand it myself.
And I didn't really care. I was freaking out at this point, and I couldn't even focus enough to continue working on a different section of the paper. I managed to write a couple more paragraphs, but I was pretty sure I'd been effectively screwed, you know, since I was on a time crunch to begin with without this computer mess setting me back further.
My day doesn't even start to turn around until later that night, when, in an attempt to calm me down, a classmate of mine told me there was a very strong possibility the professor would give us an extension, as he'd spoken to him earlier about it.
He did. He gave us this whole weekend in its entirety, setting the new deadline for Monday morning, 9 AM. Which was pretty much just what I needed to bounce back!
Now, I feel obligated to mention that this is the very same professor who saved my ass back when I was a freshman, and had woken up a half an hour late to my first unit test. He's freakin' awesome, and I doubt I'm the only one grateful for the extra few days. And now I am in a better mood than I have been all day :D
TL;DR: Awesome professor gave an extension on evil paper of doom after I lost a whole bunch of progress due to shite that wasn't my fault and now I is happyface~
:D Anyone else on the good ol' f-list have stories like this?
Surprisingly, I actually did. I was making excellent progress, typing away at one of the school computers, which I decided to use in lieu of my own, since mine has all sorts of pictures and favorite links and IMs to distract me, and I really wanted to get this done, as the due date was tomorrow. And then suddenly... the computer was telling me it needed to restart itself for some computer-geeky reason I didn't understand.
...'Okay,' I think to myself. 'That's weird, but whatever.' There's a timer, so I quickly save all my progress about 5 times over using control+S before the computer shuts down.
...and promptly, never letting me log back on, effective locking away every single ounce of progress I'd made until that point. Along with every single computer on campus behaving the same way. Heck, some of them didn't even turn back on.
I waste about 20, 30 minutes trying to find a computer that bloody works before they finally make an announcement that, HAY, there's a problem with the computers on campus. Something to do with McAfee; I didn't fully understand it myself.
And I didn't really care. I was freaking out at this point, and I couldn't even focus enough to continue working on a different section of the paper. I managed to write a couple more paragraphs, but I was pretty sure I'd been effectively screwed, you know, since I was on a time crunch to begin with without this computer mess setting me back further.
My day doesn't even start to turn around until later that night, when, in an attempt to calm me down, a classmate of mine told me there was a very strong possibility the professor would give us an extension, as he'd spoken to him earlier about it.
He did. He gave us this whole weekend in its entirety, setting the new deadline for Monday morning, 9 AM. Which was pretty much just what I needed to bounce back!
Now, I feel obligated to mention that this is the very same professor who saved my ass back when I was a freshman, and had woken up a half an hour late to my first unit test. He's freakin' awesome, and I doubt I'm the only one grateful for the extra few days. And now I am in a better mood than I have been all day :D
TL;DR: Awesome professor gave an extension on evil paper of doom after I lost a whole bunch of progress due to shite that wasn't my fault and now I is happyface~
:D Anyone else on the good ol' f-list have stories like this?