My laptop is back! Bless! I've got it back on Tuesday and had been focusing on installing on my softwares. I didn't realize how much stuff I have to install to function everything. Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Flash, Microsoft Office, internet browsers (Mozilla and Google Chrome), Itunes, Antivirus, etc. Most of the softwares were free. Office and antivirus however, weren't. So I went onto microsoft website to look for a microsoft office suite. Apparently, the cheapest one (MS2010) was over a hundred dollars and it had word, powerpoint, excel, and onenote. However, it didn't have publisher. Now, as a college student, publisher is like one of the greatest and easiest feature to use while creating hardcopy projects like booklets and posters. The only suite that had publisher was the professional one and that was nearly five hundred dollars! Too much for me to afford. Luckily, I found a way for college student to buy microsoft software for a cheap price--through using the university. Apparently, if you attend a US university and have an email, you can buy and download Microsoft softwares at a cheaper price. How cheap? Take Microsoft Office 2010 suite that includes everything: world, ppt, excel, onenote, publisher, outlook, access. Regular retain is nearly five hundred bucks. Price with the university email account is around seventy five dollars. I also found that to upgrade your system to a Windows 7--it's only around thirty dollars. That, to a poor student, is about a bazillion times better than retail price.
Another perk for being a college student is the free antivirus software. Since the university implements a policy that all computers on campus has to have antivirus in order to get into the network, it provides students with antivirus software. What does that mean to me? I don't have to spend nearly sixty dollars on antivirus software! I think my tuition is going to some things that I do need =]
Corner Tip #19: Make sure your university has ways for you to get cheaper softwares before you hop on and buy the expensive retail price.
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