Technological Catastrophe

Should this have happened on any other day, I would have been fine. I would have had a few withdrawel symptoms, yes, but generally it would not have bugged me as much.

And yet this is the very week that we are subjected to this technological catastrophe.

The whole campus, the accommodation, even the student halls in the city centre had literally no network connection for over 24 hours. You can argue that we live in a world that depend on technology way too much than we should, which would be why everyone was not impressed by this Kafkaesque adventure. (To save you time: Definition of 'kafkaesque' from Google - characterized by surreal distortion and a sense of impending danger)

But the worst thing was not our supposed '21st century dependency'.

It is the fact that this is Week 12. The final week. The week when all courseworks and essays are due, when exams are meant to be going on. So you can imagine how stressful it was to have no internet, no phone network, no access to online journals or programmes, no working printers and in some cases, no working computers. And, of course, a deadline.

Oh, and unless you can gain access via 3G or resort to a Starbucks or so in the city centre, it is impossible to email our tutors for an extension.

All around the campus there are hilariously ironic notices that said, after an apology, that updates on this malfunction would be posted on Facebook or Twitter. I'm not entirely sure how that works.

The internet, as you may have guessed, is back on. There are still some hiccups here and there but I can survive through my final essay. At this point, all students, whether in frantic panic or not, have an extension to their work, while several exams have been postponed to January.

I'll still aim to get everything done by tomorrow though. I need to calm my nerves down by finishing everything off. Then hey, holidays will commence!