Our Students & Their Tech
Upon arrival, first year students participate in the Cooperative Institutional Research Program Freshment Survey (CIRP) each August. An IT supplement to the CIRP provides us a better picture of the technologies St. Lawrence students bring with them.
| Computer Information | 2006 | 2007 |
2008 |
| Did you bring a personal computer to campus? |
88% | 97% | 98% |
| What type of computer? |
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| -Laptop | 93% | 96% | 97% |
| -Desktop | 6% | 3% | 1% |
| What Operating System? | |||
| -Windows | 77% | 61% | 51% |
| -Mac | 22% | 38% | 49% |
| Did you buy the computer new? |
88% | 90% | 90% |
| Did you purchase the computer through the Bookstore? |
41% | 28% | 29% |
| Other Technologies | 2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
| iPod/MP3 player |
80% | 87% | 90% |
| Cell Phone |
93% | 93% | 88% |
| Printer | 57% | 55% | 54% |
| Digital still or Video Camera | 45% | 52% | 45% |
| Webcam | 25% | ||
| Videogame system |
20% | 17% | 16% |
| PDA | 2% | 1% | 15% |
| None of the above |
2% | 2% | 2% |