Okay so this was a few months ago but i still think about it. My laptop just fully died. Not a battery thing, it just stopped working completely. And the paper i'd been writing for 3 weeks was on it. Last saved version in google drive was usint an older draft. I wanted to cry.
I was studying abroad at the time so going to my professor felt really awkward. Different country, different system, i genuinely didn't know how extensions even worked there. So i just... didn't ask.
I ended up finding one of those essay writing help online at like 2am. I wasn't really sure it was a good idea. Honestly kind of felt weird about it. But i was out of options and the deadline was real.
They got it done. I submitted, passed. That's it.
Anyway. I passed. My gpa survived. And i learned to actually sync my google drive. That's the real lesson here probably.