<p>What do college students use a computer for? That is the question. Are they needed in class? Are they used for taking notes? Do some students use paper and pencil for notes? Obviously for assignments that require typing or programming or something related. What other uses? Is a desktop suitable?</p>
<p>I use mine to take notes most of the time, write papers, do powerpoint presentations, and most importantly: watch movies on Netflix and Facebook-stalk.</p>
<p>Some use paper/pencil for notes, some use a computer. It’s purely a matter of taste. Beyond that, going on Facebook/e-mailing/games/studying/research/wasting time. Most people are on the computer for a good portion of the day.</p>
<p>Some take it to class, some don’t. Personal preference. I’m going to college this fall and plan to use my computer to take notes in most classes. I prefer that (for classes except math, science, and probably music theory), which I already know because I used my laptop in class in junior year of high school when I had a wrist injury and wasn’t allowed to write, except for math and science (writing was too much wrist pressure, piano playing injury, all better now)…anyways…besides taking notes- for papers, internet-surfing, research, email, Facebook, CC, etc. all what you’d use in high school, also registering for classes is done online.</p>
<p>I use mine so I can spend my time writing papers in a relaxed place that doesn’t require trekking to a comp lab or library. Let alone finding a comp once you get there. Just makes everything more convenient. Highly recommended.</p>
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We were required to have laptops all through high school- we used them in every class… even to take notes in math class.</p>
<p>Totally thought I’d be using it to take notes when I got to college… but don’t. No clue what happened.</p>
<p>I used to play a lot of video games in high school but went into my freshman year without a laptop to force myself to find other things to do.</p>
<p>It really worked out perfectly. I played maybe a few hours of video games total in college - maybe some call of duty with friends - and instead went out and met a ton of people, did a lot of crazy things, and really experienced my freshman year.</p>
<p>I’d recommend more people to try it. When you don’t have a piece of technology to fall on as a crutch when you “have nothing to do”, you’re motivated to be much more social.</p>
<p>Oh, and when I did have a paper to write, I had to go to the library to do it. In other words, instead of sitting in my dorm room trying to write a paper while talking to a bunch of people hanging out (and not getting anything written), I was in the library, by myself. Homework got done - quick.</p>
<p>To take notes with, especially if my professors use Powerpoint. They usually have the Powerpoint files up on Blackboard, so I can just download the Powerpoint files and take notes on each of the slides as the professor goes along. I also use it to check my email, do other stuff during the break, if there are any (my 3 hr long Psychology class has two 10 minute break intervals), and write papers.</p>
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We weren’t allowed to have them in class in HS, except when you had “special circumstances,” such as my injury with a doctor’s note saying I needed it. The only other time we could was senior exam week because they don’t care what seniors do that week- just get your finals taken and papers in, bring a laptop, be out of school uniform, they don’t care…break rules the last week.</p>
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Jokes aside I used mine for typing paper, research and general entertainment during my free time.</p>
<p>For guys, usually look up dirty things. But for a real college student with a real useful major like Sciences/Math/Engineering, we use it for programs like writing codes on Java, Pythron, etc…</p>
<p>Also for our college portals</p>
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<p>Don’t get a desktop for college. Even if you don’t plan on taking it to class, you could change your mind, or also just for taking it around campus to study, like to the library. I think you’d be sorry later if you got a desktop. If $ is the issue, I’d go for a cheap laptop over a desktop still.</p>
<p>Taking a computer with you is probably not a good way to get studying done, though a lot of this depends on the classes you’re taking. As a math major, I’ve never had any need for a laptop, and the times where one would be even remotely useful have been quite rare. A cheap desktop is far better for recreational usage than a cheap laptop.</p>
<p>I take pencil and paper notes most of the time. If I’m going to have time between classes to study, it’s good to have it. If I forget my papers (I am the most absentminded), then I take notes on the comp, but that’s happened like 3x/semester at most.
Obvi, I use it for my work. I sort of hate printing out practice tests, homework sheets, etc., so it’s great. I’m usually carrying around my ipod touch, so I don’t need a computer.</p>
<p>I know a guy who came into an Apple desktop cheaply. He has a netbook in addition to that, and, like seemingly everyone, an ipod touch. On the go, either one can do most of what a student would need a laptop for.</p>
<p>Nothing in college actually needs any computational heavy things? Perhaps for a final project in a computer science class, but that usually means you are doing it wrong and need to optimize to the max…</p>