DO NOT get "gaming" laptops for college classes. It takes special kind of stupid or evil to recommend that for you. You'd be lucky to get 2 hours battery life out of those msi. Then you have to strangle yourself with the cord for rest of the day in classes. Unless gaming is more important to you than comfortably working on it..
DO get: Dell XPS, MS Surface Pro, HP Probook, Macbook Air/Pro, Thinkpad X1 Carbon, Lenovo T460, Lenovo X260. None of them have discrete gpu and are pretty bad at graphic intensive games... but new Intel GPUs aren't that bad as they used to be. I can comfortably play Diablo 3, HOTS, Starcraft 2, PoE, Grim Dawn, Civilization 6 to name a few. If you just play some older game you might not even need "gaming" notebook for it to be perfectly usable.
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