<p>Are there power outlets in all the classrooms? Are there enough for every student to use?</p>
<p>Generally no. The thing is, most college classrooms are pretty generic: chairs with attached desks in columns, a teacher’s desk in the front, and a whiteboard. Many will have some sort of projector with an audio system. There might be a few outlets along the wall, but spacing is arbitrary and often awkward. </p>
<p>However, you don’t really see that on your standard college campus tours because, let’s face it, it’s boring and not very attractive. Instead, you’ll be taken to gleaming lecture hall auditoriums with plush carpeting, ergonomic executive chairs with long writing tables that have outlets and ethernet jacks at every seat, sound insulation, wall to wall dry erase boards, multiple projectors, cameras, kick ass speakers, and maybe even a recording studio in the back, blah blah blah. Yeah Duke has a few of those, generally one for every large academic building. But it’s really not the norm, neither at Duke nor at most colleges. </p>
<p>So in answer, no, most colleges weren’t built yesterday, so don’t expect them to look like the Googleplex or Mission Control Houston unless they are seriously swimming in dough.</p>
<p>Instead, what is good is that all Duke academic buildings have wireless N so you don’t need an ethernet jack and most portable laptops (I’m assuming you are not lugging a 17in monster around in your bag) will give you 3-4 hrs of battery, some netbooks and laptops will even do up to 8. Since you probably won’t be in class 8 hours a day, there’s plenty of time to get to an outlet and recharge during your downtime.</p>
<p>OK, thank you!</p>