Surviving College With Gear And Sanity Intact?

Mshift2x writes "Like many others, I'm shipping off to college for the first time in a few days. I'm excited, nervous, and a whole array of emotions at the same time. I'm sure many slashdotters have gone through this already, and I'd appreciate any wisdom, suggestions, or thoughts the community could provide." More specifically, phrogeeb writes "Per our earlier Slashdot article on laptop lock insecurity, I've been looking around recently for other options as far as keeping track of my laptop and other semi-expensive and certainly valuable (for a college student) stuff in a dorm room setting. Any ideas? I'm looking for both laptop-specific and comprehensive solutions. Locks? Alarms? Video cameras? Trip wire? (A few serious suggestions would be appreciated.)"

Comments

Advice

[Anonymous Coward]

just tell all the chicks you meet that you had a front page post on slashdot. They love that.

Re:Advice

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, you're thinking of highschool.

Re:Advice

[Sponge Bath]

...or become someone's bitch.

I thought he was an undergrad, not a Phd candidate.

Solution:

[LrdZombie]

Just kick someone's ass your first day. They'll leave your stuff alone.

Advice

[NicerGuy]

Either kick the crap out of someone the first day or become someone's bitch. Then nobody will mess with you. ... Wait, that's something different.

Re:ruff!

[garreth]

Treat your dorm room like a server room

Except with more beer and porn.

Times have changed.

[merdaccia]

Locks? Alarms? Video cameras? Trip wire?

You could just ask her out ...

My solution

[hopemafia]

Behave like a psychopath, start your own murder for hire business and post information about it on your door, make it known you plan to take over the world, and then develop a reputation of divinity...

Worked for me!

Protection.

[ThousandStars]

Treat your dorm room like a server room, always lock it up.

Treat your penis the same way, lest you contract malware that even Norton Anti-Virus won't clean up.

Re:Protection.

[Dr Reducto]

Funny story....my roomates friend hooked up with Robert Norton's daughter over the weekend. He was telling us, and said "It would be pretty ironic if she gave me a virus." I was laughin for like 5 minutes solid.

Re:ruff!

[bloo9298]

You should upgrade your server room!

You've *Got* To Get Out More

[meehawl]

Sex. Women do all their freaky stuff in college

Obviously you've never met 30- and 40-somethings at Burning Man or similar...

A new age of Slashdot

[Chmcginn]

We've transcended the dupe story. Even the dupe post. We now present to you, for the first time ever, the intra-duped post.

(Scratches head)

Regualr guy VS Geek

[ayjay29]

Regualr guy:
"Great! I'm off to collage, need some tips on the best places to party, the best clubs, and where all the hot chicks hang out."

Geek:
"I've been looking around recently for other options as far as keeping track of my laptop and other semi-expensive and certainly valuable (for a college student) stuff in a dorm room setting. Any ideas? I'm looking for both laptop-specific and comprehensive solutions. Locks? Alarms? Video cameras? Trip wire?"