Is 4gb of ram enough for my uses?

Hi everyone, just a little question which has popped up in the past, although I just wanted too get an answer from other people myself.
I'm a college student, 17 years old, starting higher education of my college course in september, which is a 2 year course. I'm wanting to buy a MacBook Pro 13" with Retina Display, but I'm just wondering whether I need 4gb or 8gb of ram? And how fast it shall perform when I'm using it?
I shall be using my MacBook Pro for the following:
• Office for Mac (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Safari (Revision / Web Browsing)
• videos (Youtube)
• Itunes (For my iPhone & iPad)
• FaceTime
• Mail
• Notes
etc...
Will my MacBook Pro 13" with Retina Display still run fast and like like normal after using these program's on a daily basis? Thank you.

It may right now, but who knows what the future will bring. You can't upgrade it later so buy it with 8GB now.

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