is this a good configuration for college?

i’m a college student looking to buy a mac air and mostly just gonna use it for assignments and mild stuff that doesnt require anything crazy but i often have ran into storage problems with my previous computers and am trying to avoid that, heard getting the m3 chip isn’t that worth it and one should try to get at least 16gb of unified memory cause you can’t purchase that later on i just want something reliable, any suggestions ?