throughout my 3year undergraduate degree i found that the only real necessary use for a personal laptop was to.... watch..... stuff.... media.... like... uh, i'll stop there.
...ahem.
however for my postgraduate course it has become a whole lot more useful for me,now my parents have moved to live in england and they use the pc alot. i never had to do a dissertation for my undergraduate course - it was mostly exams - but my postgraduate course is a lot more coursework, and i will be making my first dissertation :'D i'll be using programmes like SPSS to do it, and will therefore need easy access to a computer.
and then when i finish my masters degree, i'll.... revert to using it main for........watching stuff.... on youtube....
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