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The program does not take its time to drown you in work. I told myself that there’d be a small window of freedom left as classes got ramped up. So, in thinking that the first two weeks would be the calm before the storm, I stocked up on personal action items but as it turns out, we skipped the calm altogether. It is extremely busy and an absolute mad house.<\/p>\n

My touch pad stopped working at random and Apple couldn’t fix it so I have to buy a new one. My iPhone is as slow as a snail nowadays and the Safari browser keeps voluntarily shutting down. My laptop is also slowing down despite having ample of memory left. What’s happening? I might not love Apple as much as I used to.<\/p>\n

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