Saturday, May 3, 2014

RIP Dissertation Laptop

I managed to survive one of the top 3 PhD nightmares: my laptop died the day before my pre-defense. Really. I attempted to turn it on and all it did was beep at me. Beep codes are never a good sign. On the bright side, I did learn that the number and types of beeps correspond to what is wrong with the computer. Mine translated to "It's dead Jim."

Luckily, I had a backup laptop (my little ASUS netbook) and I had all of my work and data backed up using SugarSync. I was actually surprised I did not freak out more than I did.

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