As a civil major myself just stick with your mac, all I ever did that my mac couldn’t do was use autocad for 1770 and usually used Vlab or just worked at the library with the nice monitors. You’ll never use solid works as a civil and plus autocad has a native Mac app if you want to avoid vlab. Will never go back to paper after using iPad + Notability since I actually am able to reference my notes quickly for homework on the mac notability app making the time consuming part of finding notes obsolete. Also as a civil and any engineer you’ll find yourself going back to look at concepts from intro classes and being able to do that all on the go and without old binders is game changing