On Friday, April 21, 2017, Agnes Scott students were tested when the wifi was down for over 12 hours. Scotties didn’t know what to do without Google Suite, printers, Netflix, and more. Faculty and staff were using this opportunity to take care of spring cleaning because they could not do their work either. All of us made it through the wifi outage on Friday, but most of us experienced some (or all) of these stages of grief.
Confusion
What’s happening? Is it just my building?
Stress
I have 5 papers due, 7 finals to study for, an internship application due, and I have to figure out how to save the world… What am I going to do???
Abandonment
How long can it take to fix the wifi? Where is AT&T?
Anger
How are we supposed to do college without wifi?!
Fear
What if it never comes back?
Nostalgia
This is how the Scotties did it in the old days…
Excitement
I wonder if class will be canceled… What if they have to cancel exams?!
Impatient
It’s been over 10 hours… What could AT&T be doing?
Bored
I haven’t gone this long without Netflix since it was created.
Acceptance
Well… This is how it’s going to be now.