Early September, my computer took a shit on me. I had two sticks of bad RAM, but so long as I only ran one stick (2 gigs), the system was relatively stable. So long as I didn't do anything that required a lot of use of the RAM, my system wouldn't blue screen. This particular day in September, the system finally went down, refusing to boot up at all.
Since I am a college student, this automagically equates me to being broke as all hell. So my girlfriend, being the wonderful person she is got me the RAM I'd been needing, and wrote it off as an early birthday present.
Currently, I am between semesters in class, with the fall semester starting