As a student, you can get heavily discounted rates to most journals. * For ~300$/year, I receive by mail many journals and transactions from ACM. * Fo

As a student, you can get heavily discounted rates to most journals. * For ~300$/year, I receive by mail many journals and transactions from ACM. * For ~40$/year, I have access to some of IEEE Xplore. By far, I find that ACM's papers are more interesting and I'm glad for the 300$ to get the papers in dead tree form. I'm mostly reading about Computer Systems and Artificial Intelligence. For Xplore, I read the Software magazine, it's ok. Now I'm an undergrad and I don't understand 50% of what's written in those. There's the 50% I can understand which gives me new ideas, new tools or better understanding. For the 50% I don't grok, I know planting the seeds in my brain will eventually lead to analogies and eventual understanding. Surely it can't be bad to read more than less.