Computer Use at Creighton?

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Any Creighton students out there who can shed some light on this? I'm thinking about getting a laptop for school but I want to know if it's really necessary. Does Creighton rely very heavily on internet resources? Thanks in advance!
 
I am going to Creighton in a few weeks and bought a laptop. I suspect that you can get by without one, but I use the computer a lot and figured that it would be worthwhile.
 
Thanks JBJ! Look forward to meeting you in a few weeks. Anyone else have thoughts on laptops? And as a sidenote, does Creighton have a wireless campus?
 
hi! i'm going to be an MSI at creighton pretty soon too. i bought a laptop cause i think it'd be more conveneint - a lot of stuff in med school is online so it'd be good to have a laptop to carry around if you need to. also you can find some really good deals if you look for them. check out dell's refurbished systems - that's where i got mine (with a wireless card) for a $1000.

see you guys soon!

blinx
 
The campus is wireless. The med school buildings had patchy coverage at best last year, but with the remodel finishing up in Oct., they might be adding more coverage. We use internet resources for seeing the powerpoint lectures online in color (better than seeing the pictures from lecture on the B/W handouts), for web atlases (histology slides), and research for writing papers.

I use computers at home. I never found a need to bring my laptop to school unless I wanted to try to keep up with the transcription for noteservice during my assigned lecture (saves time when you have to type it up later that night since you will have a lot of the stuff down already). Otherwise, there are plenty of computer labs at school.

It is also nice to get Cox Cable modem at home to download the big powerpoint files. Let me know if you would like to get a referal for this - could save us both some $$$.

If you have other questions about Creighton, let me know.

One more thing: I was at the student run book room today. PLEASE DONT BUY BOOKS ONLINE until you visit the bookroom later this month - we have a ton of books in the book room, and you can get them for WAY cheaper there than you can online.
 
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