Engineering student wanting a macbook pro! HELP!!!

Ok, so my heart has been set on a macbook pro for a WHILE now.
But lately a lot of people have scared me into shock and are making me think twice about buying it...
I am a computer engineering student at the University of Florida. I have yet to use any specific engineering programs or software but I've heard that many of the programs I will need to use during the next few years will only run on Windows...
And I knoooow about bootcamp and parallels but I've also been told that using those programs makes windows run suppperrrr slooowwwwww and almost impossible to work with..
My plan was to buy the 15" MacBook Pro @ 2.4 ghz and up the memory to 4 gb...
pleeassseee!!! i need some more advice!!
i mean, im spending a good two grand on this laptop... i dont wanna make a mistake!!!
oh and btw, i also have a desktop pc running windows vista that ill have with me at my apt... but clearly its not portable lol... do u think ill be able to get by using those programs only at home? im thinking im gonna need them during classes... idk...
lastly, can someone gimme a list of the programs im gonna need??

Please relax.
*"I've also been told that using those programs makes windows run suppperrrr slooowwwwww and almost impossible to work with.."*
You were told wrong.
Macs are PCs just like everything else on the market. Therefore running Windows on them is no different than running it on any other PC.
*"lastly, can someone gimme a list of the programs im gonna need??"*
I'm sure the computer engineering department at your school has the definitive list of what you'll need.

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