| No network throttling of any kind. If you're caught downloading (which happens, as I said, very common), they give you a 3 strikes deal before you lose network privileges for good at brown.
There is a lot of pot smoking, not as much cigarette, but it's often restricted to weekends and it's only in personal spaces 99% of the time so I wouldn't worry about it at all as an asthmatic.
Though I tend to be more of a Mac guy (well, I use Linux personally), my understanding is that for engineering PC is the way to go as there are a lot of specialized programs that are used. To what extent that is true I'm not sure and considering you could run Windows on a Mac if you want I think that it depends on your own willingness to put up with issues. |