OLA VIRUS

The Office of the Legal Aid has become part of the lives of fourth year UP Law students like me. Writing pleadings, motions, and letters for our clients have become a usual occurrence. So far, I've written and filed around 10 pleadings and motions. This would have been an extra difficult task to accomplish without the OLA computers and printers. I usually type the pleadings using my laptop, email it to myself, then I open it up in one of the OLA computers and print them. But once in a while, when technology fails me, as when the internet is down or my mail won’t allow my attachment, I use a USB flash drive, which I borrow from friends.

Imagine my frustration when I couldn’t open my file because the USB flash disk was infected by a virus, just when I was trying to beat a deadline. What’s worse is that when I tried editing the file again in my own laptop, the programs kept crashing every 10 seconds. I almost wanted to cry. But with patience and Ctrl+S every 5 seconds, I was able to finish my pleading and finally printed and filed it. So now, off to cleaning my computer from all those nasty virus.