How do I put some songs on my iPhone from a different iTunes library?

I want to be able to put some songs from my computer at home onto my iphone, however my iphone is usually synced with my laptop that I use for school, is it possible to sync some songs without erasing everything?

Bull.
By design, an iPhone will sync or manually manage iTunes content with ONE computer/iTunes library at a time. Been this way since the first iPhone was introduced. Any attempt to sync or manually manage iTunes content with a second computer/iTunes library will result in ALL iTunes content being first erased from your phone, to be replaced with the content from the second computer/iTunes library.

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