IMPORTANT: Saving Your College Essays

Applying to College
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<p>It is extremely important that you save your college essays in a number of places after you are finished typing them. Saving the essays to your hard drive alone in not a good idea. Several times this summer I encountered computer problems and if I did not save my essays in alternative places I would have to start from scratch (and believe me, I worked too hard on my essays to do that). </p>

<p>My advice for saving you college essays:</p>

<li>First save them to you hard drive.</li>
<li>Save them to a floppy disk or another type of removable harddrive.</li>
<li>E-mail the essays to yourself!</li>
<li>Print the essays once you decide that you will no longer work on them for a period of time. After you print them, write the date on the top to stay organized!</li>
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<p>I am sharing this advice with you because I do not want the same thing to happen to you as it did to me. After I had to re-boot my computer last week, I lost the harddrive file. Today, when I placed my removable harddrive into my computer to open the file, it was not working. Luckily, I did e-mail myself my essays. At first, it was quite a scare but I soon calmed down after realizing that I had my essays in my inbox. So please, save your essays in a number of places because you never know what might happen to them!!</p>

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<p>Great Tips! Thanks!!</p>

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<p>This is good advice, I agree. I'll follow it in the coming weeks.</p>

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<p>Thanks! Glad I can be of some help to you. I really don't want this to happen to anyone else!</p>

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<p>BUMP This post should definitely be saved so others can see it!</p>

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<p>Bump ...</p>

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<p>bringing it up for others to see</p>

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<p>thnx i didn't really know that. i just have a folder. I guess i should upload them to my email just in case.</p>

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<p>This is a GREAT advice!
When I first read this thread back in September, I e-mailed the essays to myself and printed out a hard copy. Two weeks later, my computer crashed, and I lost all my Word files. I'm so thankful for the essays I emailed to myself and for this thread. Thanks :)</p>