My Macbook has become very slow and unresponsive.

Hey, Just yesterday my macbook started playing up on me, before hand it was running fine.
It has started becoming ridiculously slow. Whether it's turning on, logging in or
just on the desktop it is extremely slow. Whenever I try to do anything as simple as clicking
on something the screen freezes and stops responding for a minute or so and gets the
"spinning wheel of death". I can still move the cursor (which is now the ball) whilst its frozen
but nothing else moves or responds. Once the mac starts responding again the same happens
over again if I try to do or click anything else.
   I have tried cleaning up my mac, emptied the trash, cleaned the desktop etc. It still doesn't fix
anything. I have around 24g free of about 75g.
Please Help!

That confirms the hard disk requires replacement. There is nothing you can do about it until you return to school.
If you want to attempt a repair using your sister's Mac you need a FireWire cable with the proper connectors on each end. Connect the two computers, restart yours in Target Disk Mode by holding the T key as you start it, and run Disk Utility on your sister's Mac. The option to repair your hard disk will appear.
I don't believe the error you describe will be repairable.
If you have any information on the computer that you do not want to lose forever, copy those files from your computer to your sister's Mac. Since the disk is already damaged some or all of your data may already be lost.

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