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Ask HN: What do you wish you had purchased when you still had student discounts?
I suspect I could be taking much better advantage of being a student. For example, I want to get into FPGA development eventually. I don't have time at the moment (because I'm a student), but I've heard there are some excellent discounts for boards. What products, services, conferences, etc offer a really good deal for students?
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- DrNuke 10y agoCAD and CAE packages like SolidWorks, Ansys and so on, maybe?
- anderspitman 10y agoUnfortunately I believe SolidWorks is only available for certain engineering majors, not CS students. But I just found out yesterday that apparently I have access to the entire Autodesk suite.
- BorisMelnik 10y agoMS Office edit: and Adobe stuff like Photoshop and Illustrator
- patrics123 10y ago+1 on MS Office - also check if your university has some contracts in place to allow you to use certain licenses for free. You can enable those just before you are graduating.
- anderspitman 10y agoYeah this has definitely been nice.
- madamelic 10y agoGet the GitHub Student Pack, if you haven't already. It isn't a lot but free is free. https://education.github.com/pack https://education.github.com/pack
- anderspitman 10y agoI have; good stuff
- iSloth 10y agoDoesn't really count as I did get one, but Apple used to give a decent discount and the three year warranty was also heavily discounted.
- mattbgates 10y agoIf anything, I wish I had refinanced my student loans. I remember paying 6% or 7% for them in interest every month. It took me 2 years and I was sending both of my paychecks towards them every month, living on very little money. Plenty of companies will happily buy your debt and give you below 5% rate if you have decent credit. I certainly did take advantage of an Apple discount though, at the time, it was way better than it is today. It was 2009 when I bought a Macbook. They gave me a printer, an iPod Touch, and $100 in Apple credit which I applied towards the computer. I think I also opened a credit account with them which took off 10% more from the total price. Sold the printer for $100, sold the iPod for $250. So a $1500 laptop ended up costing me $1200ish with tax. I think they have since changed all that and give you a $100 discount.
- SamReidHughes 10y agoOnce you graduate and get a job, the marginal value of a dollar will be a lot less. Having missed out on some piddly student discount won't matter to you.