Let's face the facts. Unfortunately, at some point in time, we have allmost likely experienced the pain of losing an assignment to the vast void of cyberspace. Whether this has happened due to an accidental file deletion, failure to save, or a corrupted flash drive, the outcome is usually the same. A tsunami of emotions floods through the mind of the pitiful student or writer who lost hours of writing, procrastination, and fighting to resist tempting distractions. These rueful feelings tend to include aggravation, frustration, and a (lot of the time) regret—questioning, "why didn't I triple-save it in multiple locations?" or "why did I write my paper on an online document creator?!". These questions are then usually followed by a sequence of fuming tears and curses. Below, some of our favorite and beloved TV personalities voice the emotions that a lot of us feel after undergoing the loss of a "blood and sweat" assignment.
1. Emma Stone beautifully represents the first feeling that most of us undergo in stage 1: denial.
2. We then move onto stage 2: vigorously exploring every single option to attempt salvaging our piece of writing.
3. And after many failed attempts to do so we move onto stage 3: sitting in awe, wondering where in the world our masterpiece could have gone.
4. At this point we have clearly lost our sanity; so, moving onto stage 4: we relentlessly bargain with the computer, begging it to give us back our work.
5. After this fails we finally move onto stage 5: Acceptance. We come to terms with the fact that our computer has outsmarted us and successfully robbed us of precious jewel.
We must admit that we live in a time where we are truly blessed with some very "futuristic" technology. However, sadly this blessing also comes with a lot of arising troubleshooting difficulties to combat. Technology can be absolutely wonderful when integrated into the classroom correctly. This means that it is functioning up to speed and running smoothly. However, I think that we can all attest to the fact that this is not always the case. On various occasions test and assignment windows time out early, e-mails fail to send, one doesn't realize his or her lack of printer ink until the last few minutes leading up to class, or the assignment's so-called "simple instructions" transform it from a one hour assignment into three.
These frustrating times really know how put us to a test. They make us question our motivation and ponder the possibility of simply not turning in an assignment at all. After all, we already wrote it once; so, why should we have to do it again? However, in the end we always know that we will remorsefully return to sitting behind the screens of our computers and trying our best to hold back our tears while we recreate the work that we had previously put our hearts, blood, and sweat into.