So I'm not yet starting with studies. I'm in my third year of middle school. But I'm wondering if you need specific laptops or or tablets. Like does the school itself pay for that or do you need to pay for it yourself?

You unfortunately don't get any funding for your laptop. We recommend getting something that can run current AAA games with a decent quality. So think of about 8-16GB of RAM, decent graphics card, 8 core processors, and a decent amount of storage. As for a tablet for drawing, anything works. I recommend any huion tablet. Especially the Kamvas 13 if you wanna have a graphics tablet (you'll only need a USB-C cable)

Hope this helps!