Painful Learning

I think you get the picture (ha, get it?). This has been my weekend, so to speak, and I've felt like doing this multiple times. Why? I've been trying to clone my hard drive (make an exact copy from my current hard drive onto another to replace the old one), with limited success. I'll spare you the details.

However, throughout all this, I have learned a lot of things about computers, how they work, how they don't work, a tiny little bit about how and why they do what they do, and a whole lot about patience while waiting for my computer to finish doing whatever it was doing. Multiple times.

I won't claim to be an expert on cloning hard drives successfully (though if you ever need to, I recommend the DriveClone program found HERE; it worked well for me, more so than some others, though for cleaning off my hard drive, the EaseUS ToDo Backup tool worked alright - failed at successfully cloning, though.). However, I have gained a bit of insight into learning.

I studied education at BYU-I for years, and I learned a lot. Today, I learned even more. The best learning really does come after a lot of hard, and often painful and frustrating, work. It costs a lot of time, effort, sweat, tears, feelings of throwing things out of windows, praying, and all-around hoping that things actually work. But, eventually, you learn something. You learn how something works. How to do it right. How to make things not blow up. In the end, it really does end up worth it. Somehow.

Or maybe something more like this.