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Featured Desk: Luke’s Swedish Modern Workspace

Featured Desk: Luke’s Swedish Modern Workspace

When you stare into the screens, the screens stare back.Today's featured desk space comes from none othe than our own Luke Turcotte. The desk itself, unlike the last few we've featured, isn't dorm-issue--instead, it's an Ikea Expedit desk and, to the left, a bookshelf for storage. Luke's laptop is,

Featured Desk: Newly-Minted Mac Fan’s Study Powerhouse

Featured Desk: Newly-Minted Mac Fan’s Study Powerhouse

Welcome to Thomas's death star command center. There are enough iDevices in this photo to make even Linux users drool. This week's featured desk came to us with a complete description from its owner, Thomas Frank, which we'll be republishing here--it's always good to see people talk about their desk

Featured Desk: Graphic Designer’s Paradise

Featured Desk: Graphic Designer’s Paradise

When in doubt, build up. Japheth’s desk makes use of vertical space to open up the chance to fit in a Wacom tablet for graphic designing. Japheth Crawfod, a graphic design student at the Pennsylvania College of Technology, sent us this week’s featured desk. He’s made use of generic school-provided furniture and build up, allowing ...

Featured Desk: OpenStudy’s Yellow Jacket Nest

Featured Desk: OpenStudy’s Yellow Jacket Nest

Sometimes what a startup needs is fuel: specifically, pizza and O'Reilly.This week's featured desk space comes not from a single reader, but from a group of them in the form of startup company OpenStudy. The company, based out of Georgia Tech and Emory University in Atlanta, views "the world as one

Featured Desk: Shep’s Productivity Nook

Featured Desk: Shep’s Productivity Nook

Shep's desk makes him a lean, mean productivity-blogging machine.If there's any piece of furniture that college students are tied to, it's the desk. Where else can we convince ourselves to power through that 12-page final paper instead of taking a much-desired nap? With that in mind, we're introduci

Featured Desk Space: Kelly’s Desk

Featured Desk Space: Kelly’s Desk

My desk space is… kind of cluttered and uneventful. Well, I figured it’s about time I put my own desk up here. The world wants to know. My desk may be quite the let-down for anyone expecting some crazy, avant-garde ultraproductive setup. It’s pretty plain without anything special to it. (Maybe the fact that I ...

Mojaam’s Jammin’ Room

Mojaam’s Jammin’ Room

Mojaam’s pad Sorry for the cheesy title. I couldn’t resist. Today’s Featured Desk Space submission comes from Mojaam, a current information systems student at UMBC in Baltimore. Mojaam, along with just about every other HackCollege reader it seems, has the dual monitor setup. Mojaam wouldn’t want to study too hard, so he’s got his Toshiba ...

Featured Desk Space: Orian’s Bedroom

Featured Desk Space: Orian’s Bedroom

Orian makes the best use out of a narrow on-campus room. Today’s featured desk space comes from Orian, an aeronautical engineering major at Rensselaer in Troy, NY. He’s living in an on-campus apartment what houses 3 other dudes. It seems that the HackCollege readers are ultra-productive and have the two monitors to prove it. Orian’s ...

Featured Desk Space: Simple Serenity

Featured Desk Space: Simple Serenity

Today’s featured desk space comes from Jared Catapano, an intern over at the Ology on Campus! blog. Jared’s setup seems focuses around serenity and simplicity. His 1968 Multisonic receiver powers the speakers in his room, while he’s rocking the 15″ Powerbook G4. He’s picked up an iMage webcam to mimick the iSight of the recent ...

Featured Desk Space: Cost-Efficient Customization

Featured Desk Space: Cost-Efficient Customization

HackCollege approves of Ben’s choice in Web sites. Today’s featured desk space comes from Ben Torell, a junior computer science major at Wheaton College in Illinois. He just finished putting together his workspace and sent it in to show off on HackCollege. Being a computer science student, Ben said his second monitor is “unbelievably useful.” ...

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