As a student, I find it very useful. If I ever get my usb keyboard working on it, it'll be more useful. I plan on word processing. It needs a local dictionary program, which is being worked on. Right now I connect to the internet to use reference works. Since I deal with a lot of classic texts(literature, religion, and philosophy) that are available from the gutenberg project, it's really useful as an ebook reader. So it depends what you study. If you do computer science, I'm sure you can find great stuff to do with it. If you do art, maybe not so much.