NYU and the "VitalBook"

[Mackchops]

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Anyone who attends or has interviewed at NYU want to comment on your impressions of this "textbook on a DVD" idea? I'm a ferocious highlighter and don't know how well I would be able to adjust. Plus, you can only look at a computer screen for so long.

I just received my NYU letter and couldn't be more excited! However, this is a bit of a concern for me. Thoughts?

Mack

 

[Turnerjo13]

One concern that I had about CD textbooks.
Some one at a traditional book school said that the licensing agreements on the the textbooks run out once you have graduated. If you want to keep using them then you have to keep paying for the licensing. I am not sure if this is true but because I have not experienced it myself first hand, but it would suck to have to keep paying after graduation to reference one of your textbooks.
Can anyone substantiate this claim?

 

[Mackchops]

I was worried about this but believe that the vitalbook is ours to keep after graduation without further cost.

 

[jlo26]

its not bad, you get use to it, but seriously you wont be using it that much bc all the exams just like any dental school are from the class notes.

 

[HeMan]

One concern that I had about CD textbooks.
Some one at a traditional book school said that the licensing agreements on the the textbooks run out once you have graduated. If you want to keep using them then you have to keep paying for the licensing. I am not sure if this is true but because I have not experienced it myself first hand, but it would suck to have to keep paying after graduation to reference one of your textbooks.
Can anyone substantiate this claim?

Basically updates are available to you while you pay, and when you stop (when you finish school unless you have too much money) you are left with that edition.

 

[DDSY]

Hmm, no more lugging around those old textbooks. Plus since you have the ability to make laptops smaller and smaller, makes studying on the go easier.

However, eye problems can be a problem.

 

[amichail]

Just reading all these freakin threads has payed quite a toll on my vision, I can't imagine what reading hundreds of pages of Biochem, and Histo, and Physio etc. pages on the computer would do to me... I guess those thick-ass bifocals look kinda sexy on some people. lol

 

[dentstd]

If you want to keep the "textbooks" for your entire life, create an image of your Hard drive. Then, keep setting the BIOS back a year. That'll make it so that you can use the software for life.