I usually work on my papers way ahead of time.
But, this semester, my poor roommate had a huge paper due. About 20 pages on the marketing, management, and financial aspects of Sprint. She spent weeks working on it. She was up the whole night before finishing the reference page. She saved everything to the hard drive but not to a disk (big no-no). I came home around 10am which was about three hours before the paper was due. She had gotten no sleep the night before. She asked me to look over the paper for any spelling or grammatical errors because she was too tired. There was a huge lightening storm outside. All the sudden, a bolt must have hit our building. All the power went out. My roomie looked at the computer and I think she almost fainted. The computer had shut off. I told her not to worry since she had saved everything to the hard drive. My boyfriend spent an hour trying to get her computer to turn back on when he had to tell her the dreadful news...her motherboard and hard drive were gone. I think she was too tired to freak out. She just sat down in the corner and cried for 30 minutes straight. She withdrew from the course the next day (the paper was a HUGE portion of her class grade).