Computers are just as much of a miracle as they are a curse. You can talk to anyone anywhere in the world using your computer, but you also have this problem of becoming dependent on it. Everything you work on is on this one piece of equipment and if you lose it or something happens, you're screwed. My hard drive is dying and I'm currently using Meagan's iBook to type a paper I was working on earlier. Thank goodness that Word documents can be worked on regardless of what operating system you have! However, I do need to thank my dad who has already ordered me a new hard drive and it will be here either tomorow or Thursday! The bad news is that I have to re-install everything on the new hard drive. I really don't want to put programs like MatLab on my computer that I won't be using after the first week in May. They're bloated programs and I don't want to install them for only a couple weeks and then get rid of them. That's what can cause your computer to slow down in the first place. Windows really doesn't do a very good job of getting rid of the remnants of uninstalled programs. Oh well, a busy week just got busier and I'm sure I'll figure out how to get everything done. I always do.