It Sucks When Your Motherboard Dies

If there is any piece of advise I can give you guys about going to college, it is this: Save your money, do not spend it wildly. Because in times like this, when the motherboard of my iBook dies, it makes me grateful that I at least have the money to buy a new one. But it still sucks.



Well, two days ago my motherboard died. Luckily, I was able to extract all my documents for graduate school before things got too terrible. I thought things would calm down after senior seminar. But they didn't. Here's the basic breakdown:



After senior seminar, Friday-Sunday: I went to Ripon, Wisconsin for a weekend with my friend, Erin, to visit our friend Jon. Jon was an REU at Coe for a summer (an REU student is a student from one college to another to do research for a summer. It's like a summer exchange program. REU= Research Experience for Undergraduates). We loved seeing him! But let me tell you, that visit made me appreciate Coe...

Monday-Friday:I came back and had a busy week of attending three other senior seminars and trying to catch up in all my classes that I had gotten behind in due to senior seminar. It was ridiculous.

Friday-Sunday: 18 hours spent on a P Chem lab report. 18 hours....
Went to Iowa City to help boyfriend look at a truck he considered buying. He ended up buying it.
And I ended up with the responsibility of trying to get it back to his hometown somehow this week.

Monday Long story short, my roommate and I got bf's truck and my car to his hometown. Really, it is a long story. Sheesh.

Monday-Tuesday: Relax in Decorah.

Wednesday: Drive 6.5 hours to Chicago. Need to get home for Thanksgiving!!!

Thanksgiving: It's thanksgiving. Eat good food, study for p chem test, read for middle eastern literature paper.

Friday and Saturday: Spend quality time with family... all the while studying for P Chem and reading for paper.

Sunday: Drive through TERRIBLE snowstorm. Get back, write middle eastern literature paper, study p chem, go to bed at 2 am
---> Sunday night: toss and turn all night over daunting final p chem test

Monday: wake up early, take p chem test, finish middle eastern literature paper, realize I forgot about Dr. Bob's project, freak out, CRASH!!!!

Rest of the week: Do random assignments in preparation for end of semester. Somehow Dr. Bob's project will get done.... Somehow.

Yep, and tomorrow's the last day of classes.

Just wait until next week when I write about me freaking out about finals!!!!!