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tential

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lol yea so true. But i won't get corrupted XD. Going for engineering.


Edit: @frozentundra123456 getting it from a friend who barely used it and he heard i was looking for a Laptop so he offered it to me for a good deal

If it's from a friend just make a deal. Hell, ask to borrow it for a day or two and see if it's what you want. If he's not willing to or wants something in return just offer 10 dollars for a day test drive. If it's not what you want he keeps the 10 and gets the laptop. If it is, you just give him the other 160. Something like that.

And ya, my friends go for engineering. Lots of the girls I know are in engineering since I know the engineering sorority and for some reason my fraternity has tons of engineering kids when most fraternities are business for the most part. All depends on time management though. You learn that pretty quick in college. The less you just dick around the better. Get your work done when it's assigned, look up your syllabus and if you got classes that you can do assignments in and turn them in early do it. Some classes you can literally finish in the first 4 weeks (without working all day of course and just working when your free). If you make it a goal to do one homework assignment a day you'll be well ahead in most classes and have tons of free time. It's procrastination, then cramming, that makes it feel like people have no time in college. In reality though, although obviously engineering is a lot more time consuming than other majors, you have way too much time to get your work done in college.
 

blackened23

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I've seen lenovo gaming laptops on slickdeals for around the 600-800$ mark. These are laptops with quad core i7's and GTX GPUs - does your budget allow you to go a bit higher? I think you'd be much happier with a beefier gaming laptop.

Otherwise, the 129$ laptop you mention doesn't sound bad for the price. Although I wouldn't play much more than perhaps TF2, wow or games along those lines.
 

Durvelle27

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If it's from a friend just make a deal. Hell, ask to borrow it for a day or two and see if it's what you want. If he's not willing to or wants something in return just offer 10 dollars for a day test drive. If it's not what you want he keeps the 10 and gets the laptop. If it is, you just give him the other 160. Something like that.

And ya, my friends go for engineering. Lots of the girls I know are in engineering since I know the engineering sorority and for some reason my fraternity has tons of engineering kids when most fraternities are business for the most part. All depends on time management though. You learn that pretty quick in college. The less you just dick around the better. Get your work done when it's assigned, look up your syllabus and if you got classes that you can do assignments in and turn them in early do it. Some classes you can literally finish in the first 4 weeks (without working all day of course and just working when your free). If you make it a goal to do one homework assignment a day you'll be well ahead in most classes and have tons of free time. It's procrastination, then cramming, that makes it feel like people have no time in college. In reality though, although obviously engineering is a lot more time consuming than other majors, you have way too much time to get your work done in college.
Thx so much for all the helpful info. I don't plan to full around as i'm really not the party type or fool around
 

Durvelle27

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I've seen lenovo gaming laptops on slickdeals for around the 600-800$ mark. These are laptops with quad core i7's and GTX GPUs - does your budget allow you to go a bit higher? I think you'd be much happier with a beefier gaming laptop.

Otherwise, the 129$ laptop you mention doesn't sound bad for the price. Although I wouldn't play much more than perhaps TF2, wow or games along those lines.

That far exceeds my budget and i can beat it wouldn't be very portable