B-School Laptop

On BW forums, LBSgrad had an idea that is so simple, yet brilliant. Go buy a USB hard drive and use it to back up data on your laptop everyday. All you have to do is buy a drive that's near the size of the installed drive on your laptop and save your critical stuff. (Why do you not need the same size? - the operating system files aren't helpful to back up, they'll need to be reinstalled if anything catastrophic happens).

LinuxGhost reiterated this suggestion, and I must say that every b-school student should do this. If you can't afford one of these drives, you can't afford b-school. Or - don't go out to the bars two nights, and buy a drive. I recommend doing your hard drive shopping on Pricewatch. I have built entire computers using only this portal - so I actually recommend buying pretty much any computer item there.

Once in a while, though rarely, my slightly-dated computer engineering background actually comes in handy!