be me, third year compsci at Churchill
have one (1) humanities friend, an HSPS at Newnham
met her in freshers when we both got lost looking for Sidgwick
she's brilliant, going to be a professor probably
also technologically illiterate in ways that make me question reality
last week she messages me at 2am
"my code isn't working can you help"
she's doing a stats module, R for the first time
she sends me her "code"
it's a .docx file
open it
the code is written in Calibri 11pt
some lines are bold for "emphasis"
there's a fucking SmartArt diagram explaining what a for loop is
she copy-pasted from Word into RStudio and is confused why nothing runs
the quotation marks are curly
the curly quotation marks are curly
i fix it, explain plain text, send her a .R file
"why won't this open in Word"
last term she emailed her DoS a "spreadsheet" of her reading list
it was a Word table
with merged cells
colour coded with highlighter tool
tonight she texts me "emergency"
her dissertation has a regression equation in it
she needs to send the equation to her supervisor
screenshot of the equation
taken with her phone
of her laptop screen
the laptop screen has a Word document open
the Word document contains a photo
the photo is of her handwriting the equation on lined paper
ask her why she didn't use LaTeX
"isn't that a type of glove"
try to explain Equation Editor exists IN Word
she sends me a voice note instead of reading my message
the voice note is 7 minutes long
she's crying about Foucault now
tell her it's going to be okay
she sends me a Word document titled "feelings.docx"
inside is a single sentence in Comic Sans
"thank you 🥺"