What to buy and What not to buy.

Karnam

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

I think a printer and computer is relevant to 99% of students (if not most of the population of the UK nowadays)

not true at all!

obviously this depends on your course but 99% is a ridiculous overestimate.

i do a humanities degree and i too spent my time in 24hr computer rooms and libraries. i finally had to give in and get a computer in my final year due to personal reasons rather than problems with university computers. and i dont neeed a printer, almost everyone i know simply uses university printers. again this is simply for humanities as we dont need to print off horrific amounts of work. 5p per sheet for maybe 40 sheets a term (being generous) is more economical than £40 for a printer and then ink costs, paper costs and electricity costs.

tr3mor

TeaBoy wrote: »

BUY:
the guardian (from uni)

DEFINITELY DO NOT BUY:
The Guardian

kittiwoz

I did Mechanical Engineering but your average PC package doesn't come with Fluent, ANSYS, Gambit, AutoCAD, ProE or even MathCAD so when I had access to those through my department and also access to well equiped 24 hr computer clusters there was no need for me to spend a lot of money on a PC.

It is now that I'm not a student and I don't have free access to 24hr computer clusters that I need my own.

TeaBoy_2

tr3mor wrote: »

DEFINITELY DO NOT BUY:
The Guardian

do u ever read it?

i really dont think its the strerotypical liberal bullsh*t i'd expected. if thats why you dont think we should buy it.

tr3mor

TeaBoy wrote: »

i really dont think its the strerotypical liberal bullsh*t i'd expected.

Keep telling yourself that

Impet_Limpet

anewman wrote: »

Not sure I see the point to this post, but I shall add anyway.

to buy:

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I assume the laptop died taking all the work with it!!! hence the reason for this post!

As our university get us to print off our own note I recommend

a printer (go for a brand who sell cheaper cartridges)
and an old computer no need for a fancy laptop
Pen drive
tin opener
2nd hand text books (around summer if poss when postgrads sell theirs)
Alarm clock
half a dinner set as mentioned above
torch

wouldn't really recommend

buying brand new textbooks at beginning of term
gym membership
joining every society at freshers fair

a ringbinder for each subject/module