<p>I lost my ten page research essay. I don't know how exactly, but I either saved my 1 page draft on top of the ten page essay or when I saved it a bunch of times I didn't click "save as" since I was doing it from the document i opened from my email.
My dad is a computer genius and he looked everywhere- on my temp, searching the name, backup files, restore previous doc, and bunch of other stuff. I saved the document more than 15 times while writing it 5 hours straight.</p>
<p>Anyways its gone, and im completely depressed, but my teacher said that I have to write it all over again.... I get an extension giving me as much time as needed but cannot write the essay as perfectly as I did before. </p>
<p>The only thing left I have of that essay is a draft I did a week ago, and the 21 citations I have in my separate doc Bibliography. </p>
<p>My question is how should I cope with this?
I'm a perfectionist and over-achiever, and remember the basis of my information I wrote two days ago, but cannot remember all of the word choice and how I worded my research essay.
I asked my teacher if I could just write an outline or recite the basis of the essay in front of him, but he said that it should be an essay. I can possibly push it further and beg him since he is pretty chill and sort of nice, but I get intimidated by him, or almost any guy. </p>
<p>DID this ever happen to you?</p>