Macbook Pro Black boxes across screen then crashes

I have a Macbook Pro that I got 2 months ago. A couple days ago it froze and had black boxes all across the screen, then it crashed. Today when I started it up after I logged in while it was loading the black boxes popped up again, then it crashed. And when I tried to restart it it just beeped. The battery was around 50% so it wasn't dead. Its been fully updated and I haven't made any changes to it. Please help if there's anything I can do without taking it in

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