Why I Am Fed-Up With School Computers

So I know that last week I said I would be posting my documentary on my blog but when we were trying to export it the computer freaked out.

This wasn't the first time that I have had problems with a school computer while working on my documentary project, or any project at all for that matter.  While some of these problems may have been my fault/someone in my group's fault, some of them were also computer malfunctions.

Problems I have had that have not really hurt me include the computer just not logging me in, the computer taking a solid 20 minutes to log me in, the computer not logging me out, or the computer taking at least 10 minutes to do absolutely anything (open a document, go to the internet, go to a given website...)

Other problems that I have had have more affected my work.  During the documentary project, our project got saved to some random folder and it took us an hour to find it (this problem was probably self induced.)  Also, during the documentary project, we would try to render what we had made so far and it would take anywhere from 45 minutes to and hour.  Another time, I clicked on a document to open it and then all of the sudden the most high pitched, obnoxious beeping anyone could possibly imagine started happening.  We finally got it to stop by unplugging the computer - which obviously made us lose the most recent work we had done.

The most recent experience I had - which is why I am not posting my documentary on my blog this week - is that my group mate went in at lunch to export our documentary.  The computer said it would take an hour, so she left and went to class.  The next day, I went in at lunch to try to upload it to my blog and my group mate was still logged into the computer and there was a message up saying the export had failed.  Not only was this extremely frustrating, but I had to make sure that the documentary was not altered in anyway.  I know that maybe had she stayed something could have been done - but everyone in our group had class.

This entire experience has been very frustrating, but for some reason I am still looking forward to our next video project.  I will probably begin posting about it soon so...

 

This is a picture of a Final Cut Pro screen - the program we use to edit our videos

Image Source: Final Cut