9 Reasons to Buy Your Own Computer and 1 Reason Not To
- You can get a lot of work done from the comfort of your home.
- You can work at strange hours of the day and night.
- You won't have to compete with all of the other students for a computer to use at the lab.
- You can balance your checkbook on it if you forgot how to do it the old fashioned way or don't own any pencils or a calculator.
- You can get a modem, hook up to your phone line or the campus network, and access the Internet, research topics on the Web, send e-mail, and log-on to your account on the school's computer.
- You can design your dream house, that you'll live in 30 years from now -- about when your student loans are finally paid off in full.
- You can play computer golf and convince yourself there really aren't 34 inches of snow on the ground outside and a wind-chill temperature of minus 85 degrees below zero.
- You can start a resume service, and earn a small fortune helping your classmates find gainful employment, although if they aren't able or willing to do create their own resume, it's unlikely you'll have success helping them anyway.
- You can write your heart wrenching autobiography -- including the spellbinding chapter: "How I Survived College and the Untold Story," and sell it to a major publisher for millions of dollars.
- You can waste 5 hours a day of your precious study time talking with anonymous losers on the Internet chat lines, thus, guaranteeing academic failure in the near to not too distant future.