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Oh yeah, I didn't think of the lockdown browser. I'm in Sweden, so I should only hope our education has come so far that I'll be able to borrow a spare Windows computer.
If my American university has a system in place for students that don't own Windows, I would not be surprised if yours has a better one :)
If computer has a removable drive you could just get a second drive and run windows on that if you really need to for some reason