So I am almost done with my degree. I just have to finish my thesis. It took a little longer than expected. After my computer got toasted I was working on it from a thumb drive. I was so excited when I finished it, I sat the laptop down to grab something, as I turned I heard the computer fall and looked at the computer on the floor with my thumb drive broken in to two pieces. I stood there in shock!!!
I really didn't fall apart until I called Greg and tried to tell him what had happened. I began crying so hard I couldn't even talk. Poor Greg is on the other end of the line thinking that some life threatening event had occurred. When I finally got out what had happened we decided to try a data recovery company.
The data recovery company had me send it in and said that they would fix it for $500, that seemed worth it to me to get back my nearly 30 page thesis. Unfortunately after they saw the drive the realized that they couldn't use their usual methods to recover the data; I was then informed that if I had three weeks and $2700 they could rebuild the circuit the board and there was a chance that I could get it back that way.
Really??? What kind of document must it be for someone to be willing to pay $2700? I can't imagine anything that valuable. It was a stretch for me to want to pay $500. Are they rescuing the cure for cancer? Maybe the finalized peace agreement between Palestine and Israel?
Well in the end I just rewrote the paper. It took a while but now it is done. Hopefully it will be ok, it is now in the revision stage. I have a few weeks to get the bugs worked out so that I can defend it on May 1st.
I will be so glad when May 1st is over. If anyone is looking for me that day, I will be celebrating!!!!
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1 year ago
3 comments:
So glad you got it done, AGAIN! It was great to see you this past weekend.
Wow Donna! what incredible patience you have! I probably would have throw a complete and total fit! like one of my 3 year olds! LOL Hey, maybe they were pictures of someone important doing something naughty... like blackmail or something! LOL... can't imagine paying 2700 for anything! We lost our first 4 years of photos as a married couple when our computer was fried by lightning... that wasn't even worth 2700 dollars! =0) May 1st is soon, we should get together soon to celebrate with you guys! =0)
OH NO!! That was always the nightmare I had when I was doing my dissertation so I always had multiple backups (an external hard drive and email). I can't imagine having to redo those 30 pages. I know just how long it can take to do 1 or 2!
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