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Poll Results: Do you use a laptop in college

This is a multiple choice poll
  • 15% (8)
    NO!!!!!!!!!
  • 61% (32)
    Yes undergrad
  • 15% (8)
    Yes Graduate
  • 7% (4)
    Who cares? I'm only here for gaming!
52 Total Votes  
post #1 of 21
3/17/06 at 2:19am
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Do you use your laptop? I do a lot, but I'm in med school.
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post #2 of 21
3/17/06 at 2:23am
smurf casting a vote!
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post #3 of 21
3/17/06 at 3:42am
Yes, about to graduate and head off to Uni where it'll be even more important to have.
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post #4 of 21
3/17/06 at 3:57am
I'm in med school too, but I only bring my computer every once in a while. Mostly it depends on the class, and if they use powerpoint or not. I find it easier to study off paper, though, so I usually don't.

In college, I didn't bring my computer to class.
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post #5 of 21
3/17/06 at 4:13am
Hardly ever. Use it on the rare occasion i have to go to the library to do homework insead of in my dorm room, or on occasion in programing class.

The other 99.9% of my time is spent on my desktop.
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post #6 of 21
3/17/06 at 4:36am
I only use it between classes when I have time to kill and nothing to do..
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post #7 of 21
3/17/06 at 4:40am
4 out of my 5 classes have powerpoint slides. Plus to surf the net.
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post #8 of 21
3/17/06 at 4:45am
I use mine every day, in every class. In fact, most days I don't even pick up a pen. I even take all my exams by computer. But then, I'm in law school, where this is practically the de facto norm. Excessive wordiness and a lack of images lends itself to typing.

You know, having done some basic med school courses, I never quite figured out how a laptop factored into the equation; the only place where it made sense for me was Microscopic Anatomy lab sessions with powerpoint slides. The rest was so diagram-heavy, though, that I felt like I learned by marking up the syllabus.
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post #9 of 21
3/17/06 at 2:24pm
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Thanks to everyone casting a vote and will cast it helps me understand under grad and what other students are using. I do know in the med schools I know of we use them heavily. thought this was funny looking
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post #10 of 21
3/17/06 at 2:28pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by flanken
I use mine every day, in every class. In fact, most days I don't even pick up a pen. I even take all my exams by computer. But then, I'm in law school, where this is practically the de facto norm. Excessive wordiness and a lack of images lends itself to typing.

You know, having done some basic med school courses, I never quite figured out how a laptop factored into the equation; the only place where it made sense for me was Microscopic Anatomy lab sessions with powerpoint slides. The rest was so diagram-heavy, though, that I felt like I learned by marking up the syllabus.
Yea our classes have ppt that we copy and study from, Netters cd I use as an altlas, all my books on pdf ( have you ever lifted the clinical oriented anatomy, wheaters and developing human? WOW it's like 30+ LBS all together verses 5 lbs af computer + ac adapter, which would you choose?) Oh and the netters adds another 7 to 8lbs.
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post #11 of 21
3/17/06 at 3:46pm
I use mine in class on occasion. Especially if theres a lot of writing to do. Its more comfortable to type a lot of stuff than write it down.

I'm an undergrad btw.
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post #12 of 21
3/17/06 at 4:02pm
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Originally Posted by whuds
Yea our classes have ppt that we copy and study from, Netters cd I use as an altlas, all my books on pdf ( have you ever lifted the clinical oriented anatomy, wheaters and developing human? WOW it's like 30+ LBS all together verses 5 lbs af computer + ac adapter, which would you choose?) Oh and the netters adds another 7 to 8lbs.
I was a lazy bastard back in the day, so I mostly brought just the syllabus to class, and studied from that and the notes I got from the note-taking service. I didn't even unwrap my Neuroscience textbook; I did after the final simply because I felt guilty. Maybe that's why I was always nestled slightly below the mean on every test.

I guess it makes a lot of sense to use a laptop if all your materials are electronic. My girlfriend is a med student right now, and uses her iBook in class all the time.
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post #13 of 21
3/17/06 at 5:25pm
I use it, however it wouldn't be a big deal if I have a desktop in the room
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post #14 of 21
3/17/06 at 8:14pm
I voted no even though I might use once or twice a month in a lab. In my mind the reason you buy a laptop for college is to take it with you when you go home, not for classes unless your a grad student.

I am softmore majoring in computer engineering at UW-Madison.
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post #15 of 21
3/17/06 at 9:40pm
Notes, gaming, HTPC
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post #16 of 21
3/17/06 at 9:49pm
I find that the computer is a distraction for me in the classroom... It's too tempting to surf the web/chat/play games than to listen to the professor.
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post #17 of 21
3/17/06 at 11:44pm
I pride myself on the fact that I have enough self control to use my comp for real work.
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post #18 of 21
3/19/06 at 1:20pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DePaulBlueDemon
I find that the computer is a distraction for me in the classroom... It's too tempting to surf the web/chat/play games than to listen to the professor.
Unfortunatly some times I do that.

But still I use it mostly for school.
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post #19 of 21
3/19/06 at 3:02pm
I use mine for notetaking mainly in 4 out of 5 classes. One of my classes on Current International Politics makes heavy use of news web sites from other countries...many people just print out news stories while I can just bring them up on the computer. It makes school environmentally friendly...
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post #20 of 21
11/8/06 at 6:51pm
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Well been here for almost a year, most of it with my Dell 700m! I love this machine small and light, too bad they discontinued it, you can get a M1210 now with better features though!

I made it to Second year in Medschool too ! YEAH!
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