{"id":23008,"date":"2015-01-26T12:37:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T17:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=23008"},"modified":"2015-04-04T11:26:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T15:26:45","slug":"experiencing-technical-difficulties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2015\/01\/26\/experiencing-technical-difficulties\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiencing Technical Difficulties"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My new Macbook Pro! (Photo by Zachary Biech)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nOk, so January has been a bit ridiculous here in Zachland. Full-year courses sometimes have midterms in January so stay on your toes! Extra-curricular activities heat up very quickly after the holiday too. And don\u2019t forget about the unforeseen problems waiting to happen\u2026\r\n\r\nNow we get to the fun part of this week\u2019s post!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n-Zach is sorry, he is experiencing some technical difficulties, please try again later-<\/em>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\u201cOh no! Just when this post was about to get interesting!\u201d\r\n\r\nTechnical difficulties=the story of my life. \u00a0They remind me how lucky I am to have FNH as a technical support.\r\n\r\nThey only had wall plugins for Internet in my residence way back in my first year. But then I went for the winter holiday, and when I came back they had upgraded the entire university<\/em>. Should\u2019ve been good for everybody right? Not me, I needed to go through some ridiculous process when they didn\u2019t activate my password properly. I should\u2019ve known it was only downhill from there\u2026\r\n\r\n
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WiFi, lifeblood of university activities (Photo by Zachary Biech)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nSince then I have trashed two<\/em> iPhones, (I dropped one onto a concrete floor and subsequently dropped it straight into a cup of coffee). I should\u2019ve been proud of the accuracy with which the phone landed in the coffee, if I hadn\u2019t wrecked the phone in the process! The next one I wrecked had narrowly escaped being drenched in rain when only ten minutes later I drenched it in Coke Zero. Oops.\r\n\r\n
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This is one of my old iPhones, now heavily caffeinated (Photo by Zachary Biech)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nMy Xbox also broke last year. I guess I overheated it by leaving it on for two months straight. <\/em>Again, oops.\r\n\r\nDon\u2019t even get me started about Rogers. I\u2019m from Alberta, a far away land where we don\u2019t have to put up with that outfit. In my Toronto apartment I pay increasingly large bills for Internet that cuts out randomly during the day and particularly when I need to submit essays online for big deadlines.\r\n\r\nMy printer also has this nasty habit of running out of toner right when I need to print essays for classes that don\u2019t take electronic hand-ins. I still need to get the driver software for my printer on my new laptop. If my desktop crashed right now (which it has done multiple times when I was working on unsaved essay documents, or course), I couldn\u2019t print to save my life. But I\u2019m lucky I can go to First Nations House if there\u2019s an emergency and use their computer lab to save the day!\r\n\r\n
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Toner Low??? But I just refilled it!! (Photo by Zachary Biech)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n
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I am very thankful for the FNH Lab! (Photo by Zachary Biech)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nI also highly recommend setting up a Dropbox account and getting an external hard-drive for backing up your work, just in case your home gets destroyed by a tornado or something ridiculous like that. Best to have your digital life backed up, schoolwork included. Anything can happen!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n-Zach is sorry, this file is not supported on your system- <\/em>\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/em>\r\n\r\n\u201cOk Zach, enough with the jokes, just stick to blogging.\u201d\r\n\r\nAlright, but the last time I uploaded a post, I had to wait three hours because the Student Life website was experiencing technical difficulties.<\/em>\r\n\r\nAnd that, my friends, is no joke.<\/em>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nOk, so January has been a bit ridiculous here in Zachland. Full-year courses sometimes have midterms in January so stay on your toes! Extra-curricular activities heat up very quickly after the holiday too. And don\u2019t forget about the unforeseen problems…\n<\/div>
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