Are there any Duke University Freshman in the lounge?
Since I like stories about people and their new iPods, I was wondering if there were any receivers of the free iPods at Duke University, for this years incoming Freshman Class?
I must say I'm a bit jealous of these kids but I'd still like to hear from them, and hear about their experience starting a new school, and their feelings about their iPods. Are they kept by most students, or are there cheap iPods to be found on campus? Please give us the scoop.:cool:
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jwc110869] at [2007-11-10 0:26:56]
# 1 Re: Are there any Duke University Freshman in the lounge?
Yes do tell... So i can hunt you down and kill you for getting free iPods while I had to work during my summer for mine...
# 2 Re: Are there any Duke University Freshman in the lounge?
lol those lucky ducks...
# 3 Re: Are there any Duke University Freshman in the lounge?
Please please.......
Don't scare them away. They are nervous freshman you know.
# 4 Re: Are there any Duke University Freshman in the lounge?
Looks like you have already...
# 5 Re: Are there any Duke University Freshman in the lounge?
I don't see how it's free, though it might be free in a sense i'm sure the freshman had an increase in tutition that covered the cost of those units.
# 6 Re: Are there any Duke University Freshman in the lounge?
Originally posted by FlyOrDie
Yes do tell... So i can hunt you down and kill you for getting free iPods while I had to work during my summer for mine...
Ah yes, while they spend their summers and at leas 2 years paying off tuition loans?
# 7 Re: Are there any Duke University Freshman in the lounge?
if a kid can afford to go to duke in the first place an ipod probably isnt that big of a deal.
# 8 Re: Are there any Duke University Freshman in the lounge?
I was really expecting some students to find their way to iPodlounge. Maybe their all pawning them or keeping just 2 CDs on them.
# 9 Re: Are there any Duke University Freshman in the lounge?
it seems to me that duke students/any other ipod user who has an ipod simply handed to them aren't the type to join the ipodlounge and look into the ipod past its condition as a status symbol.
# 10 Re: Are there any Duke University Freshman in the lounge?
The Chronicle online (http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/28/42230159a01ba)
"Critics ask: Have students used them for educational purposes? Did teachers find innovative ways to integrate this technology into their curricula? Was it worth the $500,000?"
Interesting reading....
Bob at 2007-11-15 15:21:39 >
# 11 Re: Are there any Duke University Freshman in the lounge?
Originally posted by MadPict
The Chronicle online (http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/28/42230159a01ba)
"Critics ask: Have students used them for educational purposes? Did teachers find innovative ways to integrate this technology into their curricula? Was it worth the $500,000?"
Interesting reading....
Having a portable 20gig HD could be a plus for students.. even if they don't listen to music on them..
# 12 Re: Are there any Duke University Freshman in the lounge?
Why would they not open them? I wish I got a free iPod to record classes with. It would make revision very easy.
# 13 Re: Are there any Duke University Freshman in the lounge?
iPod would not even be best for all these purposes though would it? I mean. from what I gather recording capabilities are not leading (Compared to iRiver), and you need 3rd party product.
# 14 Re: Are there any Duke University Freshman in the lounge?
Be honest with yourselves, how many students, if given a free iPod, would actually use it for their studies.
Honestly. Really. Any hands? No? Right you are.
# 15 Re: Are there any Duke University Freshman in the lounge?
i wonder how many pawned them
# 16 Re: Are there any Duke University Freshman in the lounge?
I would have liked to have one for the language courses... never really liked to relisten to lectures; we taped some of our larger pre-med lectures and streamed them online which was great for everyone who took those classes. I think that having them will encourage a lot of students to use them well, and if they don't well their loss. they're paying for them one way or other.
-t
# 17 Re: Are there any Duke University Freshman in the lounge?
Originally posted by enjoilax
Ah yes, while they spend their summers and at leas 2 years paying off tuition loans?
at least 2 years? jeez, i wish i had a chance of paying off my student loans in only 2. i didn't even take any out for my undergrad degree, but this graduate degree is going to take forever to pay off. but then again, i'm only going to be a professor at the end of it all... not some well paying job like a typical Duke grad would get...
djte at 2007-11-15 15:28:42 >
