When I was in school, I had a similar situation.

I setup a VPN at home and just logged in through the vpn and then used remote desktop/terminal services. Just like you're sitting in front of it.

We were unable to install any software and had VERY limited privledges... but I was unrestricted on my own box... so I just used them to connect home.

Don't know that much about one note. I have used a tiny bit of it... and I WISH it was around when I was taking classes. I'll have to remember it for next semester.