It's not compulsory, but many students have, or choose to buy, a computer during their time here. Chapter 8 provides some advice about buying a computer. Appendix A contains information specifically for post-graduate students. Appendix B provides information specifically for students who are not based at the Parkville camps. We do use some jargon and some acronyms, but we hope that the Glossary will help if we've overdone it.
Some questions seem to come up again and again.
We've included some of these, with answers, in the Frequently Asked Questions . Information technology changes all the time, and we don't continually print updated copies of the handbook. For information about access to this and millions of other online resources through the web, see Chapter 6 . We wish you every success as a student in the University of Melbourne, and we hope that information technology, and this booklet, will help you achieve that.