If you're in college you have probably heard the famous line of "computer issues are not an excuse for not having your stuff turned in on time."

Well, I am here to say it should be.

While every single college may have a computer lab and every single college student may have a computer, many professors miss the emotions that come with computer issues.

As a college student in a world that is almost fully tech, computer issues are your number one concern and fear at all times and when something does go wrong it truly ruins everything. You can't just stop what you're doing and ask a friend for their computer because guess what, they're using it.

You can't just take a trip to the library because when your computer breaks the first thing on your mind is to call the company and get it fixed. You're then put on hold for anywhere from 30 minutes to 1 hour just to be told that you're going to have to bring it to a store, but you have to make an appointment first.

Professors aren't thinking about the fact that our entire college career is tucked into 13 to 15 inches of technology and when that breaks so does our GPA.

We spend all of our high school graduation money on this one thing just to be told that if something goes wrong with that it's not an excuse for our ONLINE homework not to be completed. Well, what happens when it's 10 o'clock at night and there have been multiple stories of predators seeking college students and the only way to get your assignments turned in is to get across campus safely?

What happens when all of the work we have been spending hours on is not saved on the library computers so then our assignments have to be turned in late?

So, professors, out of respect I ask you this - what do you want 18 to 21-year-old children to do when our technology breaks? You don't want it to be an excuse, but in order to get it fixed, we will have to pay anywhere from $100-$1,000 for it to be repaired after waiting days for it to get back to us.

We will have to redo math problems, rewrite pages of essays, retype emails, and try to find notes that are all on our computers.

Do you think that we purposefully break our $3,000 computers just to get out of doing the work we have been working hours to days on?

If so here is the answer from a college student - absolutely the heck not.

You cancel classes if a powerpoint slide isn't working, or if all of your notes suddenly disappear off of your flash drive, but you can't give an extension for a student who has been writing a 12-page essay for you class that suddenly vanishes into cyberspace? That doesn't really seem fair to me.

So now that I have your attention, Professor, I think that if you don't accept any other excuse the ONE you should accept is a broken computer.