Check the sign in forms for the Hotel, unless otherwise stated or a refund is issued, let them kick you out then join together in a class action law suit. Now tell me that wouldn't be hilarious.

A compusurve email address would be hilarious but I don't think I'd ever use it professionally, though I would most certainly give it out to all my "tech" friends if nothing else than to get reactions from them every time they had to use it. AOL email on the other hand hasn't quite reached that status (mainly because they're still in business). A yahoo address is acceptable, but I always question why they don't have a gmail account.

Ah so Maybe one day we can live in the Future of Robot Jox http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/

Every School I've been to that uses this also have an omission for Linux/Unix, so run that. There's never support or much need for scanning on Linux systems so its an easy way around their policy, but if you must use windows and a virtual box session won't cut it, you can setup firewall setting such that your computer appears to run Linux.

To be honest for a college level program I don't think it matters. I learned VHDL in school, but only use Verilog at work. Hasn't much impeded me. There's a mild learning curve but if you know one you know the concepts necessary to easily learn the other.