Everquest, IRC, etc blocked at hospital

[lethdar]

Hi pals, I spend about 10 hours a day in class / working at a hospital. Usually there's a lot of downtime between classes / tutoring sessions so I would love to be able to nerd it out on some eq / irc, however both seem to be blocked here.

Is there anything I can do to connect through this, a VPN? (i know nothing about VPNs, or if this is a silly thing to even suggest), different login ports, pray to lord emperor rogean?