Ball State University students are beaming up the tech-savy ladder at a rapid pace, thanks to their new lockers.
University Computing Services recently added iLockers to its already extensive offerings, giving students the Web space they need to store and share class notes, research materials, assignments, projects in progress or even just photos of friends.
Students should take advantage of this convenient service and use it to its full potential, rather than let it join dozens of other Computing Services benefits — many of which have sometimes gone underappreciated and underused.
These two gigabytes of storage space will save library employees from the perennial task of consoling students after their disks crash and all the information for the research papers they’d been working on all semester gets lost. They will save the frantic student from pulling his hair out waiting for his e-mail account to send vital files to another e-mail account, just so he can print. They will save professors from tearful midnight phone calls about presentation scripts vanishing when a jump drive is lost. And they will save students who do not have computers at home from the hassle and aggravation of transporting entire bookbags full of disks or CDs to and from campus — not to mention save those students the cost of those disks.
The problems and realities of college life, especially the endless sprint between classes and due dates, necessitates an easy-to-use and secure system like the iLockers, and the university is making a grand stride toward meeting students’ technological needs with this service.
Seeing as all incoming freshmen received one-gigagbyte jump drives this year, it’s only fitting the rest of the university be given its fair share of the technological closet space — even if this feature is slightly cheaper than a portable USB drive.
We just hope this is one of many steps on the part of the university to increase all students’ technological capabilities. After all, it’s always nice to see those technology fees put to good use.
Now, it is up to the students to take advantage of the opportunity.
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