This End Down

… when your laptop locks up randomly, without reason or warning, in the middle of an online quiz that has no option for retaking and which you have not yet submitted for scoring. Actually, I was considering listing other reasons, but that alone is enough to merit a new laptop. Unfortunately, there are not really any words that can describe to you how angry I am at this situation. Professors with partly online courses have all heard so many technological excuses that the general policy is now: If your computer didn’t work, it’s your fault. Get one that works by the next test/quiz/whatever. o0()@#$*()H@#$H*(@#$*(H@#$*(H@#$@#4. Ok. Done now.