Hey guys, looking forward to attending Harvard next year and just now had a quick question that any former students could answer.
In my room I happen to have a computer setup that includes three 27inch monitors, a sound system, and a desktop “tower” computer case. This of course takes up a great deal of space. However, I was wondering if I would still have room for it at Harvard.
Do people use desktops in college? Will it fit in my room/suite?
I have a laptop that I use for work so my desktop is more just for fun/programming/rendering hobbies.
My guess is that 99% of students to Harvard (or any college these days) are using laptops, as the portability allows them to be taken to classrooms, libraries, cafes, lawns, airplanes, buses, trains, etc. I don’t recall seeing one student at Harvard or Yale when my kids were students there who had a desktop computer.
And . . . if for some reason you need a desktop computer, Harvard has desktops for student-use all over campus. My immediate reaction: keep your desktop at home and bring your laptop.
Funny you should ask this question. A kid in a my dorm–a computer science major-- actually has a really cool desk set up where he can drag windows from his laptop to his giant desk top screen, and work from two different screens. Great for computer science homework. He can have his code one place, and watch lecture videos from the other screen simultaneously. It’s really pretty cool. You definitely have space for it. If you use it all the time and have some legitimate reason for doing it, then do it.
@oxoxhawja3xoxo Thanks! I’ll probably leave it at home for the first semester and then determine if I need/can bring it from home then. Once you start with dual/triple monitors it’s hard to ever go back though.