Can I use an iPad completely independent of another computer?

My daughter is heading to college, and she wants to buy an iPad instead of a laptop. However, college is four hours away, and she will not have access to our "home" iMac for syncing, charging, etc. In fact, if she doesn't have a friendly roommate, she might very well have no access to a computer for syncing, charging etc. Does it make sense for her to buy an iPad if she has NO access to a "real" computer?

A second vote for the laptop-plus-free-iPod touch. As a professor, I would strongly recommend AGAINST any student trying to do college with just an iPad and not a laptop.
One example--I sometimes require students to turn in papers using footnotes. Pages for iPad does not support them, I don't know if the other Word equivalents do. Keynote is limited in various ways. A lot of humanities professors assign PDFs as electronic photocopies of chapters, etc, which the iPad could be good for, but my sense is that very few actual textbooks are available for the iPad.
In addition, because so many students these days have laptops, colleges are rolling back on computer labs in favor of investing in wireless networks and printing stations, so she might have a tough time getting a free machine to use for heavier college work that the iPad can't handle.
Even if she were to get a friendly roommate, half that time that roommate is going to be carrying around her laptop, so it's not like that would be easy to share.
Here's a student running into a problem:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2460685
Indeed, I also demand all assignments be submitted electronically in Word format, and I don't think the iPad can handle that.
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