9 Reasons to Buy Your Own Computer and 1 Reason Not To
  1. You can get a lot of work done from the comfort of your home.
  2. You can work at strange hours of the day and night.
  3. You won't have to compete with all of the other students for a computer to use at the lab.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.