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Today I've decided that there are reasons why Houghton should give students cross country skis instead of laptops. Here are the top 10....
1. They would be more useful. Houghton laptops typically crash once a month. Cross country skis can be useful 7 out of the 9 months we're here.
2. They don't plow. While the laptop may be useful for an occasional sit down ride down a hill, the cross country skis will help you to get from your place of residence to your classes. (especially helpful if you are in the Flats or Townhouses)
3. They are never in need of upgrading. Generally your footsize does not grow while you are in college. This will ensure proper fit of cross country skis all 4 years. Laptops change before they even get into your possession. DVD what?
4. Built in excercise. While I do enjoy typing in a frenzy, and working up an intellectual sweat, let's face it, cross country skis are way better for exercise than a laptop.
5. Less anxiety. Cross country skis will never lose your senior seminar paper that you've worked on for months. Laptops, well, they can never be trusted.
6. More style. The general black plastic is a bit blah to look at for hours. Cross country skis come in a variety of colors, and you can put stickers on them without worrying about having to pay millions of dollars if you need to repair them.
7.No reimaging. Need I say more?
8. No "helpdesk." Have you noticed that the helpdesk is only conveniently open during the week. What about the weekend huh? Oh that's right, we're good little students and never have to use our laptops on the weekends. Especially on Sunday. With cross country skis, you may have to wax them everyonce in a while, but you could even do that yourself.
9.Poles that double as prodders. Ever get stuck behind someone really slow? If we had cross country skis, we could just use the poles to push them out of the way. It really would take no effort at all. Other than turning your laptop cord into a lasso, I do not see how it could help in this matter.
10. Plateau people could effectively be eliminated. With all this use of cross country skis, we would need to have storage space. The plateau and lower would be changed to accomodate ski lockers. It's really brilliant. And let's face it, if you give the plateau people more laptops, it could result in sheer anarchy.
Cross-country skis.... I love you.
1. They would be more useful. Houghton laptops typically crash once a month. Cross country skis can be useful 7 out of the 9 months we're here.
2. They don't plow. While the laptop may be useful for an occasional sit down ride down a hill, the cross country skis will help you to get from your place of residence to your classes. (especially helpful if you are in the Flats or Townhouses)
3. They are never in need of upgrading. Generally your footsize does not grow while you are in college. This will ensure proper fit of cross country skis all 4 years. Laptops change before they even get into your possession. DVD what?
4. Built in excercise. While I do enjoy typing in a frenzy, and working up an intellectual sweat, let's face it, cross country skis are way better for exercise than a laptop.
5. Less anxiety. Cross country skis will never lose your senior seminar paper that you've worked on for months. Laptops, well, they can never be trusted.
6. More style. The general black plastic is a bit blah to look at for hours. Cross country skis come in a variety of colors, and you can put stickers on them without worrying about having to pay millions of dollars if you need to repair them.
7.No reimaging. Need I say more?
8. No "helpdesk." Have you noticed that the helpdesk is only conveniently open during the week. What about the weekend huh? Oh that's right, we're good little students and never have to use our laptops on the weekends. Especially on Sunday. With cross country skis, you may have to wax them everyonce in a while, but you could even do that yourself.
9.Poles that double as prodders. Ever get stuck behind someone really slow? If we had cross country skis, we could just use the poles to push them out of the way. It really would take no effort at all. Other than turning your laptop cord into a lasso, I do not see how it could help in this matter.
10. Plateau people could effectively be eliminated. With all this use of cross country skis, we would need to have storage space. The plateau and lower would be changed to accomodate ski lockers. It's really brilliant. And let's face it, if you give the plateau people more laptops, it could result in sheer anarchy.
Cross-country skis.... I love you.