Excuse Me While I Spam The Save Button

My friend’s grandfather was a professor known for being an effective educator but a bit of a hard-a**, and he was not afraid of a “tough love” approach. As computers started becoming more popular, he would emphasize to his students over and over again the importance of saving their work as they went along.

In the era before personal computers were common, his students would work in a computer lab on their assignments. Without warning, he would leave the room and flip the breaker switch, turning off all the computers, and any work that was not saved would be lost.

“Save your work” was not a lesson that needed much repeating!