the awesome 4-cpu computers in the computer lab at my school are protected by the university's privacy policy, which is good. they boot off an image and wipe everything when they shutdown, so you know your files can't be stolen or read by anyone. but when you're working on a project, be sure to save early save often to a usb key, because if it freezes (and it will at the most inopportune time, after you do an hour of tedious work) you will have no way of getting that data back.
