My Computer Ate My Homework

Eng 111-30c/ Narrative paper

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Nov. 15, 2005

          My Computer Ate my Homework

“Beep, beep, beep.”   It was 7:30am on Tuesday November 1, 2005.   The sound of the

alarm had just given me the signal it was time to start the day.   As I laid in bed taking in a

couple of extra minutes to prepare for the day, I was totally unaware of the stress the day was

about to put upon me.   After about five minutes, I gathered myself and managed to get out of

bed.

This was the due date for the argumentative paper for my English class.   I had been

working on this particular project for approximately a month.   Because my weekend was long, I

worked twelve hours on Saturday and Sunday, my birthday was on Saturday and Halloween was

on Monday, I had taken the effort to finish my paper early.   All that was left to do to my paper on

Tuesday was save a copy to a CD and print out the final copy.   Nothing that would take more

than ten minutes, so I thought.

I walked out into the dining room and sat down at the computer.   I opened up Word

Perfect to retrieve my paper, and to my surprise a message appeared on the screen, “File

Corrupted .”   What does this mean, I thought.   I knew it had to be something bad.   I instantly

felt as though someone had punched me in the stomach.   I had spent more than a month working

on this paper, and I had completely revised the paper from the draft.   All I could do was cry.   I

tried everything from opening all files that I thought might contain my lost paper to shutting down the computer and restarting it.   Nothing seemed to work.   I picked up the phone and called

my husband at work.   When he answered he knew something was wrong.   Since I have very little

knowledge of computers, he left work early to come home and search through the computer filed

to try to find my paper.   All I kept thinking was, why didn’t I save a copy to a CD?   I guess I just

didn’t think   anything like... [continues]

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