I have a lab group account as well as a personal account. 30 MBytes of storage space is not enough. Undergraduates are automatically assigned an account when they enter the department at the start of each term. Graduate Students need to apply for an account by filling out an application in the Undergraduate Office. Non-ME students taking a Mechanical Engineering course also need to fill out a special application form in the Undergraduate Office.
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Note however that this storage is temporary and all files will be deleted after you log off. It is your responsibility to save any files to your directory or a removable disk. For system administration purposes it is essential that all computers remain identical. There are frequent updates distributed over the network which would overwrite any locally installed software. For this reason it is not possible to allow users to install software.