Tuesday 3/4/25 - Talk about a time when you felt like you were about to lose your mind. Answer in at least a paragraph.

A time I felt like I was about to lose my mind was when I was working on an essay for my final exam in a literature class in my sophomore year. The essay was about a book relating to Asian culture and the essay had to do with a character analysis. I had worked on it for weeks. The first couple of days I was brainstorming and drafting my essay. Afterwards, I had rereviewed my essay and wrote a more finalized draft to correct mistakes from the first draft. For my final stage, I had others peer review my essay and checked it myself for grammatical errors and other minor issues. Although, the day I was ready to submit my essay the whole thing was gone. I had worked on it through a Google doc, and when I was ready to turn it in I saw a blank document. I had begun to get extremely worried and angry. I didn't understand how it happened or why it happened. I tried to fix it by clicking undo, but to no avail. I had scrolled through all of my docs to see if I had clicked on the wrong one. I genuinely felt like I was going to lose it, even if I had an extension, it would feel like starting over and that I had worked all that time for nothing. I started to wonder why this had to happen to me, and thought about what I could have different to avoid this. Although, I was finally able to return to peace once I realized the essay was on another Google account with almost the same name. 

Absent this day.

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