It served me well until this year when my laptop started getting burned in pixels, leaving ghost images on my screen. I bought a new Lenovo Yoga 11s for $800 and it was as good as the MIT IS&T recommended computers but half the cost. I also started my own computer repair business at home to raise money for college.Ĭhoosing a laptop for college was easy because I knew more about computer specifications than just “bigger numbers means better computer”. Our school ran out of vouchers to take these exams so I never got certified but I did learn a lot and worked as a computer technician for my school’s technology department senior year. There I took computer repair classes to prepare for the CompTIA A+ certfication exam and network management classes for Cisco CCENT certifications. I went to a vocational high school to study information technology. As scary as it was almost breaking our very important computer, I enjoyed fixing it and continued to mess around with it. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I finally fixed it. In middle school I tried setting up a dual boot between Windows XP and Ubuntu but I messed it up and corrupted my Windows installation and left myself without a bootloader. I’ve been breaking computers from a young age.
