My computer screen had been dying a slow death since about July. It flickered and faded, unless you held it at just the right angle. Which often changed. In the middle of watching
Office Space, no less (which turned out to be a pretty lame movie, once I finally went to a friends room to watch it on her tv). And then it finally just stopped working. So I took it to the school helpdesk, they told me it needed a new screen, but they really only deal with software issues.
I ordered a new screen on eBay, waited lots of days for my mandatory $15.99 expedited package to finally get here, and then decided I was going to fix it myself instead of begging the helpdesk people to help me since after all, they really only deal with software issues.
So I looked it up online, read a handful of different guides to make sure they were in agreement, and then attacked it with a variety of screwdrivers, pocketknives, and hairclips (yes, hairclips). Fourteen tiny screws, several frantic "please tell me you have a miniature screwdriver!" calls, and only one tiny broken computer case part later, I had it done! I was just finishing up the last of it while I was working at the dorm's lobby desk, and the maintenance guy who had just come in was pretty impressed. He had apparently just fixed a similar issue on his own computer, but he was a man, so it wasn't impressive. But my girl skills were. Then he and I and the girl who was signing out for the night had a conversation about dads changing oil in cars.
Finally, after countless hours spent in the computer lab (my record was five consecutive hours, eight total for the day), I can relax on the computer in my own room! It's amazing, let me tell you. Because I am amazing. The end.
