Most students keep their notes and essay drafts on a laptop computer. Especially for international students they are easy to carry from country to country, and can be conveniently taken to lectures or classes.
But every semester some students discover a serious drawback to storing their work on a laptop. This happens when either:
a) The computer becomes infected with a virus, or otherwise malfunctions, so that files cannot be accessed, or
b) The computer is stolen or damaged.
In some cases this has happened just before the deadline for handing in an essay, so that the student has lost weeks of work and faces failing the course.
Don't take the risk - back up your files onto a memory stick or other storage device every day, and keep it in a secure place. That way you can't lose more than a day's work.
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