i was a senior in college working on my senior capstone which was a magazine prototype to complete my magazine major. i had designed and wrote stories for a 32 page publication that took me an entire semester to finish. two nights before it was due i was in the mac lab on campus at Drake University (go Bulldogs!!!) and the computer just crashed. no warning, just the bomb of death. at first i thought it was a prank since we had students who thought it was funny to send the bomb screen to others in the lab. i knew it was real when other students randomly screamed in horror. i was in the process of redesign three spreads and updating all the helpful edits i had gotten from my editors. all was lost. the computer lab was closed for two days and i was forced to complete my project at kinkos in downtown des moines. it costs me $120 and i had to start all over on my redesigns and edits. thankful i didn't have to start from scratch but i missed my deadline by an hour and had to take an entire letter grade deduction because of it. the thought of mac labs still makes me cringe!!