I get the articles through school. But if I have too many to download at once I just go to campus to do it. If I have a few, I don't like making special trips to download stuff.
You can just download then at home while watching TV or studying. Should be no big deal.
I imagine at school, the easy thing would be to download the stuff to a thumb drive and to then take it home.
By the way, did you know may colleges are starting to broadcast high speed internet from towers on campus that are servicing at times up to 5 miles away.
The reason is to help students housed near by and perhaps something like that (which would be free to students) might be available to you.
A college by me is attempting to do this now and their students didn't have a clue.
Withing a few years, all campuses will be broadcasting like this I bet.
Good luck with school. I hope you've chosen a field that will give you massive joy and is lucrative.