So apparently down at Duke University the new students are going to get iPods, preloaded with course content, campus calendar, and contact info. It sounds kinda lame to me, a waste of an otherwise cool piece of entertainment technology.
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Damn, I want a free iPod.
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As I learned at RPI, free is relative to how much you’re paying in tuition
But it would be nice to get an iPod that I had no choice in getting, I guess there’d be no question about whether or not to buy it! -
lol, good point.
When I was college shopping, either Ball State or UD (I think it was Ball State) had a computer requirement – all incoming Freshmen had to buy a computer from them. Regardless of weather or not you already had a computer – and if YOUR computer was a better one!
I think it was Ball State, because I think the scholorship I won from there included the computer. And I think UD just gave me something pidly like half of tuition.
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My University is sort of like that. We all get laptops and the price is worked into our tuition, then we have the choice of buying them every 2 years (when we get new ones). Internet access all over campus and free dial up from home. Pretty good deal I guess…well…they most likely rip us off but still
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Yeah… the ones at Ball State were overpriced and underpowered. I could have built a better computer for half the price… oh, wait. I did.
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heh, yeah we had IBMs the last two years…now we have Dells
luckily i have my own computer now…i don’t trust having all my work on those..eek
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