<p>1- What are your suggestions regarding a computer for college - desktop/laptop/etc... Where do most kids study - dorm/study hall/library? What is needed in the classroom?</p>
<p>2- Are cell phones helpful/necessary?</p>
<p>A lot of people carry their laptops on their person all the time, which means they can be contacted at almost any point by email or Skype. If you’re this kind of person, you don’t need a cell phone. I’m one of those people. I don’t even know where my phone is. If you’re this kind of person, your computer is going to need to be light, so you can carry it everywhere. If you’re a mechanical engineer you need a PC to run programs. Other than that your computer type doesn’t really matter. You don’t need a computer in the classroom. People study wherever they want to study. I usually study in my room or in an empty classroom off the Infinite Corridor or, if I’m feeling social, a kitchen in my dorm.</p>
<p>My primary use for a cell phone: maps. Navigating the Boston area, it’s nice to have a smartphone :)</p>
<p>Most people have a laptop - I like Mac. I see more Linux and Mac OS machines than I see Windows machines on campus, but generally, any of them will do. I’ve switched over to not carrying my laptop on campus, though. Opening it up during class is an easy distraction for me, so the past two terms I’ve been using good old pen-and-paper, and just gone to nearby Athena clusters between classes if I wanted to check email or print a pset or something.</p>
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<p>And I also have a Mac. The kitchen I’m in currently has two Macs and two Dells running Windows.</p>
<p>…and one of the Macs is running Ubuntu.</p>
<p>Seriously? My generation feels like we’re progressive because we have only cell phones and no landlines, and your generation just doesn’t even need cell phones? I am flabbergasted.</p>
<p>There was this post on the MIT blogs a while back that I thought was cool:</p>
<p>[Laptops</a>! | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/laptops]Laptops”>Laptops! | MIT Admissions)</p>
<p>I also liked this post:</p>
<p>[Computers</a> and their Programs | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/computers-and-their-programs1]Computers”>Computers and their Programs | MIT Admissions)</p>
<p>I’m not actually an MIT student; just a HS student who spends way too much time on the blogs :)</p>
<p>Awh, thank you for reading and liking and linking my post. <3</p>
<p>^^^No problem! I really like your posts on the blog.</p>
<p>Wow, when I read the specs of all these laptops in the first blog post you linked, I was really afraid ! 256Mb graphic card memory, 1Go RAM… But then I saw the date, 2008, and though about Moore’s law. Amazing how all this evolved so fast !</p>
<p>Should I bring my abacus?</p>
<p>RowZay42, maybe next time:)</p>