My Mac starts, but won't load...

Yeah, so I got the beautiful machine yesterday and I tried to install the software that came with it.
Here's where I become the absolute moron.
I got bored, decided that it was taking too long and I stopped the loading of the software. This screen popped up asking me which system I wanted to restart on and I chose my hard drive.
It restarted, but wouldn't get past the white screen with the apple and loading circle thingy (I don't know the name, but hopefully you know what I mean.)
Please help. I need my computer by this afternoon so I can work on my huge project.

+and I tried to install the software that came with it+
what software would that be? Are you talking about re-installing the OS?
if you need to re-install the operating system, put the installer disk in the drive, and hold down the "c" key after the computer reboots.

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