<p>I think it depends a lot on the school, the department, and the type of classes. People use laptops here for LOTS of classes, but not so much for STEM classes and foreign languages. I use my laptop for everything except signing my name because my handwriting is awful. It is not difficult to study from, but a printer is essential because I do like to underline and scribble in the margins, I am a visual and tactile learner and need to hold the paper in my hands and be able to mark it up to really remember it. But that’s no great inconvenience.</p>
<p>I store on an external harddrive, and some googledocs stuff-- that technology is new to me. I also really like to use mozilla sunbird for my planner, I make up my calendar and I print out a copy to hang up, too. And that’s about the gist of it.</p>