Laptop Suicide!
Whoah...it has certainly been forever since I've written.... but a ton has happened so I might as well recap for the negative four individuals that actually read this thing! Ahem, first of all I destroyed my laptop...yes actually I still maintain that it committed computer-cide, but does anyone believe me? NOOOO!
Okay let me start from the beginning. I might of mentioned how physics is completely taking over my soul, it seems like every day i have to do something else for this class. Anyway, last wednesday, I was typing furiously away on my laptop for a formal physics lab report that I THOUGHT was due the next day....and since its customary for me to start labs the night before thanks to my extreme penchant for slacking off...I pulled an all nighter to finish this lab...meaning I actually saw THE SUN COME UP! Yeah, it was fricking 6 a.m. when I finished, I dragged my sleep deprived form into lab only to have the TA Liu (who enjoys mocking me at every turn) inform me that the lab was only due next week. I swear I could have cried. I mean, to top it off, I had a physics midterm the next day which I COULD have been studying for had it not been for aforementioned lab from hell. Anyway...what does this have to my destroyed laptop you ask? well..yes, i'm getting to that. So that Thursday, I pulled ANOTHEr allnighter to study for the physics midterm, so by friday morning I was really in bad shape mentally. I don't know how I made it throught that physics test but by the time I got home I was ready to dive into my bed for the nap to end all naps.....but did I GET that nap? NO!
Here's what happened: I stagger in after the test, ready to fall into bed....only I'm so clumsy, my foot gets caught in the cable wire attached to my laptop...I'm so disoriented I hardly notice the loud CRASH behind me. By the time I extract my foot from the wire, I notice my laptop lying on the floor...not breathing....not RESPONDING!. So almost in slow motion, I run towards it, cradle it in my arms, yelling for it to come alive, but no...there's this enormous crack running over the monitor. And because it's a laptop, and all the bloody parts are connected to each other, I find out after a 2 hour convo with a Dell technician from India named "Sue" that my LCD is broken and it's going to cost me...$450 dollars to have a new part shipped to me, and then another $200 to have it installed, all because I don't have complete warantee! Yeah, cough...this is the most expensive accident I've ever been responsible for, but I'd like to think I've learned my freaking lesson....I mean for the last couple of weeks I've been forced to return to the overcrowded computer labs, not to mention endure countless lectures from my parents on responsibility and of course the "back in MY day, we didn't HAVE laptops! And if we had we would've guarded it with our SOUL!". Yeah, well as soon as I get it fixed, I swear I'm going to encase my precious laptop in lead, with a freaking force field surrounded by kryptonite. There is NO way this is ever going to happen again....
But I suppose, in an odd twisted sort of way, some good came out it. Since I have no laptop...and hence no internet to distract me, I'm sorta doing more work than usual. And also, when I dragged my roomate Tara along to drop my busted up computer off at CompUSA....I initiated a bit of matchmaking between her and this guy at the bus stop. Boy, that sounded creepy. He was a guy at the bus stop who knew a friend of ours....there...now it sounds slightly more normal. Well, I kind of went overboard with it, but in the end, I'd say it's going really really well between those two....score one for me! If med school doesn't work out....I can complete my spinster image by going into matchmaking...lovely...
Well, I voted today, that's right...I did my civic duty, and so help me god it better pay off. Because if Bush wins, I'm going to OD on chocolate to numb the pain. But then again, if Kerry wins, I'll still binge on chocolate out of sheer happiness....hmm, making that stop at Rite Aid today I guess. Speaking of which, after a weekend of STARVATION, I have $115 in the bank account. I keep printing out statements just so I can look at that lovely...round...number. Cough. I'm going to stop now.
Hmmm...what else...oh yeah. Lately, the dark sceptre of doom that is MCAT/Med school is weighing heavily on my mind. Maybe its always been there but in the last few months, its been so oppressive I honestly can't bear to think about it. I'm not even the nervous/panicky type, and yet I dread next semester. O.Chem 2 w/ lab (SHUDDER), Genetics (Nina having spasms), and....Calculus (the one class that refuses to die, I blame myself for not having taken it earlier). And of course....I have to finish off in April by bombing the MCATs. I can't afford those insanely expensive Kaplan courses, so I'm stuck relying on myself to construct a strict study routine...HA! And we all know how successfull I've been with THAT in the past! So bottom line: I'm screwed, totally totally screwed. In fact, the only thing pushing me to even attempt at med school is that if I don't, it'll invariably mean staying at home with my parents until I'm too old to realize how miserable I am. Boy, this is one depressing post. I swear, this semester hasn't been THAT bad. Maybe it's just today...hmmm...I'm going to end with a couple of Fresh Prince quotes to brighten me up:
" Carlton, I don't know what's worse; dying a slow agonizing death or staying alive and listening to you." Will Smith
"I could yell...I could even scream...but one of us has to be the mature one.....and it AIN"T GONNA BE ME AUNT JEMIMA!" Will Smith
Okay let me start from the beginning. I might of mentioned how physics is completely taking over my soul, it seems like every day i have to do something else for this class. Anyway, last wednesday, I was typing furiously away on my laptop for a formal physics lab report that I THOUGHT was due the next day....and since its customary for me to start labs the night before thanks to my extreme penchant for slacking off...I pulled an all nighter to finish this lab...meaning I actually saw THE SUN COME UP! Yeah, it was fricking 6 a.m. when I finished, I dragged my sleep deprived form into lab only to have the TA Liu (who enjoys mocking me at every turn) inform me that the lab was only due next week. I swear I could have cried. I mean, to top it off, I had a physics midterm the next day which I COULD have been studying for had it not been for aforementioned lab from hell. Anyway...what does this have to my destroyed laptop you ask? well..yes, i'm getting to that. So that Thursday, I pulled ANOTHEr allnighter to study for the physics midterm, so by friday morning I was really in bad shape mentally. I don't know how I made it throught that physics test but by the time I got home I was ready to dive into my bed for the nap to end all naps.....but did I GET that nap? NO!
Here's what happened: I stagger in after the test, ready to fall into bed....only I'm so clumsy, my foot gets caught in the cable wire attached to my laptop...I'm so disoriented I hardly notice the loud CRASH behind me. By the time I extract my foot from the wire, I notice my laptop lying on the floor...not breathing....not RESPONDING!. So almost in slow motion, I run towards it, cradle it in my arms, yelling for it to come alive, but no...there's this enormous crack running over the monitor. And because it's a laptop, and all the bloody parts are connected to each other, I find out after a 2 hour convo with a Dell technician from India named "Sue" that my LCD is broken and it's going to cost me...$450 dollars to have a new part shipped to me, and then another $200 to have it installed, all because I don't have complete warantee! Yeah, cough...this is the most expensive accident I've ever been responsible for, but I'd like to think I've learned my freaking lesson....I mean for the last couple of weeks I've been forced to return to the overcrowded computer labs, not to mention endure countless lectures from my parents on responsibility and of course the "back in MY day, we didn't HAVE laptops! And if we had we would've guarded it with our SOUL!". Yeah, well as soon as I get it fixed, I swear I'm going to encase my precious laptop in lead, with a freaking force field surrounded by kryptonite. There is NO way this is ever going to happen again....
But I suppose, in an odd twisted sort of way, some good came out it. Since I have no laptop...and hence no internet to distract me, I'm sorta doing more work than usual. And also, when I dragged my roomate Tara along to drop my busted up computer off at CompUSA....I initiated a bit of matchmaking between her and this guy at the bus stop. Boy, that sounded creepy. He was a guy at the bus stop who knew a friend of ours....there...now it sounds slightly more normal. Well, I kind of went overboard with it, but in the end, I'd say it's going really really well between those two....score one for me! If med school doesn't work out....I can complete my spinster image by going into matchmaking...lovely...
Well, I voted today, that's right...I did my civic duty, and so help me god it better pay off. Because if Bush wins, I'm going to OD on chocolate to numb the pain. But then again, if Kerry wins, I'll still binge on chocolate out of sheer happiness....hmm, making that stop at Rite Aid today I guess. Speaking of which, after a weekend of STARVATION, I have $115 in the bank account. I keep printing out statements just so I can look at that lovely...round...number. Cough. I'm going to stop now.
Hmmm...what else...oh yeah. Lately, the dark sceptre of doom that is MCAT/Med school is weighing heavily on my mind. Maybe its always been there but in the last few months, its been so oppressive I honestly can't bear to think about it. I'm not even the nervous/panicky type, and yet I dread next semester. O.Chem 2 w/ lab (SHUDDER), Genetics (Nina having spasms), and....Calculus (the one class that refuses to die, I blame myself for not having taken it earlier). And of course....I have to finish off in April by bombing the MCATs. I can't afford those insanely expensive Kaplan courses, so I'm stuck relying on myself to construct a strict study routine...HA! And we all know how successfull I've been with THAT in the past! So bottom line: I'm screwed, totally totally screwed. In fact, the only thing pushing me to even attempt at med school is that if I don't, it'll invariably mean staying at home with my parents until I'm too old to realize how miserable I am. Boy, this is one depressing post. I swear, this semester hasn't been THAT bad. Maybe it's just today...hmmm...I'm going to end with a couple of Fresh Prince quotes to brighten me up:
" Carlton, I don't know what's worse; dying a slow agonizing death or staying alive and listening to you." Will Smith
"I could yell...I could even scream...but one of us has to be the mature one.....and it AIN"T GONNA BE ME AUNT JEMIMA!" Will Smith
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