Where is my Flash Drive?
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May 25, 2010
Filed under News, Top Stories
There you are, sitting in CAT. You are looking everywhere for the jump drive that holds the paper you still need to finish for the next hour. You are scrambling around, digging to China in your bag, only to find that it is not there. And, gasp! Thinking back to the night before, there you see your tiny little jump drive resting peacefully in the computer…right where you left it. This situation, or one like it, has happened to students a countless number of times. Yet it still happens, no matter how many times we “learn our lesson” and feels even worse every time.
“For English when we were working on our papers, I left my jump drive at home, so I didn’t really know what to do. I also used to forget it all the time last year in my Internet class,” junior Crystal Holly said.
Holly brings up an excellent point. Junior thesis papers: A.K.A. the absolute worst punishment that a high school student will endure thus far- this final contains around 20 pages of information we have crammed into our brains through the year about a single theme of novels and research. Our teachers have reminded us over and over that if we are to lose our information or papers, we will fail. I would hate to be the one who lost everything that was on my jump drive the day that it was due.
“I went to edit my paper from my flash drive the day that it was due, only to find that it was not there. My advice would be to print a hard copy a lot and to save in more than one place,” junior Tayler Guge said. Luckily, she had already printed a hard copy before.
So you may be getting the picture about saving in more than one place, but many may feel like it would never happen to them. This may be true, but others will not be so fortunate. To rely solely on a small jump drive could lead to serious consequences, such as a failed grade because the one day you need it, nothing shows up. This all goes back to responsibility for yourself and making sure that you take school and assignments seriously. In order to do so, save save save! Do not only save on your jump drive, save on your home computer, your school drive, and print off hard copies as much as possible! Although you may feel like you have nothing to worry about, it could happen to anyone.
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Angela Geist
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