Stressed student looking for functional laptop

Hello ENGW 1111 friends. I am currently quite stressed, and not even for the reasons I’m normally stressed! I’d love to say that I’ve grown as a person, but instead I just have quite the dilemma. My laptop is broken. Ergo, this blogger post is brought to you courtesy of my iPad, meaning that the formatting is almost certainly messed up. I tried to fix it, I really did. 

Last night I was doing homework, doing nothing at all to anger the technology gods, when I realized my laptop was almost dead. Of course, I plugged in the charger. Only it didn’t begin to charge. I tried a different outlet, and an outlet in a different room, checked the charging port for blockages, but nothing. It wouldn’t charge. Which of course, lead me to the following conclusion: either my charger is broken, or my laptop is.

This seems like the type of thing that it would be easy enough to tell the difference between, but in this particular case that just isn’t true. My laptop is a Lenovo, and two friends I know of with the same brand have different charging ports. Inconvenient, I know. My laptop is also fairly old, with a backspace key that hasn’t worked in months— I was planning on trying to convince one of my parents to help me get a new one for my birthday over the summer. That does mean that I needed it to survive until then.

This morning I had a lovely chat with someone from Snell ITS, who informed me that the only PC changers they have to loan out to students are Dell, which is ultimately quite unhelpful. My next plan of action is to go to ITS and see if they have any laptops available for 24 hour loan. They have a handful, but it’s first-come-first-served, which isn’t always ideal. You can also only keep them for 24 hours, meaning that if you need a laptop for longer than that, you need to go back to ITS at the same time every day to renew your rental. I just realized that the laptops probably aren’t even comparable with some of the science software I need to do homework. And here I was, hoping that ranting about this would make me less stressed. 

I’m going to try and mess with my laptop one more time, just to see if it was mad at me or something and now will work completely fine. I sincerely doubt this, but it’s worth a shot. After being sick for all of last week, the last thing I need is technology making it just that bit more difficult to make up all the work I missed. Please keep your fingers crossed for me.