My Macbook Pro went crazy and now won't turn on!

My macbook pro (that is barely 1 year old) wont turn on - I take very good care of it and it has been functioning perfectly fine. I uploaded some pictures to my laptop (which already has thousands of pictures) and my laptop started lagging and freezing and eventually just randomly turned off. After trying to turn it back on it wasnt responding so I left it over night. The next day I turned it back on and it loaded my desktop picture but none of my desktop icons were visible and not even the top bar or the scrolly bar and the spinning rainbow ball was there for half an hour. After a while I tried restarting - didnt work, tried closing the lid and opening it and the top bar appeared after a while but still nothing else. I tried starting it in safe mode and my desktop image was gone but the desktop icons slowly appeared and it was apparent that everything was there and nothing was lost - but I couldnt open anything because it kept freezing and then after half an hour returned to idleness and had not opened anything. After finally leaving it I decided to restart it one last time and it switched off after freezing for another half an hour but now when I try to turn it on (in anyway) it loads the light blue background with the apple and the spinning loading icon thing - and after 10 minutes just switches off - refuses to turn on at all... what to do? The battery is fine, it had been charging fine and my laptop is given to me by my university which means if I mess it up (or people who think they know what they're doing in the apple store mess it up) I have to pay. As of now I am on vacation and really need to use it but dont know what to do right now. Help?

Try running Repair Disk: Boot from install disc (insert disc>restart>immediately hold down c key and keep holding it until you see “Preparing Installation”)>at first screen select the language and click Continue> click on the Utilities Menu in the menu bar>open Disk Utility>select your HD in the panel on the left side>click Repair Disk at bottom of main window. Run this at least twice, and keep running it until it says “appears ok” twice in a row. If that doesn’t happen, you may need a stronger utility such as DiskWarrior or if the directory is damaged beyond repair, you may need to reinstall the OS, or you may have a damaged HD (repair utilities can only repair the directory structure, not the HD itself).

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