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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
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URfavHO
United States514 Posts
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Flying_Llama
Canada419 Posts
I will probably bring my laptop to school more often than not because most of my courses recommend using laptops in class ( im in commerce btw) and will constantly refer to articles sent to each of the students email and such. Also, as a commuting student with long breaks, i'll need stuff to kill some time with. with microsoft office, is there a preference to which edition? I'm a cheap student to i'll most likely be torrenting it. also, i'm assuming you must access the internet in order to use google calender so is there an offline alternative? | ||
thedeadhaji
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I guess it's worth checking if your school has such a software library | ||
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EpiK
Korea (South)5757 Posts
On September 13 2010 15:35 semantics wrote: If you going to school and still don't want to shell out 30 bucks for MS office student discount is so nice, congratulations you are one cheap mofo, but if i see you buying a 7 dollar drink imma bitch slap you! Getting used to Open office is quite a task, sense the newer ribbon layout the difference is quite large. Things like SumatraPDF is nice, really lightweight and good enough for viewing PDF doc and printing them which frankly is mostly what you do. really? I prefer the open office interface over the new version of word. It's also a lot faster for me too. If word were free and open office cost money, I would definitely buy open office any day. | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17696 Posts
FoxitReader OpenOffice You're good. | ||
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vek
Australia936 Posts
I'm not sure if you have similar deals like that in Canada but it is worth taking a look at because you save a heap of money if you HAVE to use Office. | ||
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HwangjaeTerran
Finland5967 Posts
Web browser | ||
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lu_cid
United States428 Posts
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Scorch
Austria3371 Posts
Thunderbird + Lightning + Provider for Google Calendar - Access your mail and calender from your PC. LaTeX - A typesetting language. You'll have to learn this sooner or later if you want to create beautiful papers, presentations and theses. PDF XChange Viewer - A PDF viewer which works at least as well as Adobe, but also lets you add annotations and notes. If you get lecture notes and scripts as PDFs, that'll come in very handy. OpenOffice.org - Why pay for Microsoft Office if you can have an equally good package for free? edit: You'll probably have Wi-Fi available on campus, so don't worry too much about stuff having to work offline. Apart from software, I recommend getting a second monitor for at home. Productivity does increase a lot if you have dual screens. | ||
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EpiK
Korea (South)5757 Posts
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Lexpar
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inkblot
United States1250 Posts
As an EE student Matlab and a SPICE (I use LTSPICE) are the major programs used in classes. Octave is a free matlab clone but if you are actually going to make much use of Matlab, the student version is well worth the price. | ||
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nayumi
Australia6499 Posts
Music during class = win  | ||
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Emon_
3925 Posts
Our teachers stopped giving out handouts to save paper, which is good. A little harder to follow during lecture, I used to put down all my notes on the paper and then rewrite when I come home. Download the slides and turn off the wifi on your computer until the lecture is finished. Make sure your wpm is ~60 so you can type fast. Also, make sure not to type every word your hear. If the subject is new, you will be temped to do it. Make sure you come prepared before the lecture, read about the subject, download the handouts, so that when you have to take notes you can filter some of the unnecessary things out. Imagine if you were on a Starcraft seminar and you could focus on the 1 gate robotics opening, instead of taking notes on what building makes what unit. Oh yeah, Course literature is expensive as hell, as well as very unnecessary. I took a chemistry class my first year and got a 800page book that cost 60$. The parts that were essential were basically 2-3pages per chapter (often times the summary), the rest is filler to get more money (they get payed per word they write). Later on the books become smaller and more specific, though they are still expensive. You can easily get an older edition and still be fine if you take notes as well during the lecture. | ||
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Fly[DCT]
Canada38 Posts
On September 13 2010 19:51 Emon_ wrote: A lot of people are recommending Google Calender, though I'm a bit paranoid about giving such a big company information about my whereabouts and plans, so I'm staying clear of that one. MS Outlook 2007 works great for scheduling. You can even use your mobile phone as a calender and sync it up with outlook once a day. Planning is rough because you'll have some stuff in the phone, some thoughts are in the notebook, some thoughts are on the computer etc. Whatever you choose, aim to have all your ideas in one place so you can keep track of your progress. Our teachers stopped giving out handouts to save paper, which is good. A little harder to follow during lecture, I used to put down all my notes on the paper and then rewrite when I come home. Download the slides and turn off the wifi on your computer until the lecture is finished. Make sure your wpm is ~60 so you can type fast. Also, make sure not to type every word your hear. If the subject is new, you will be temped to do it. Make sure you come prepared before the lecture, read about the subject, download the handouts, so that when you have to take notes you can filter some of the unnecessary things out. Imagine if you were on a Starcraft seminar and you could focus on the 1 gate robotics opening, instead of taking notes on what building makes what unit. Oh yeah, Course literature is expensive as hell, as well as very unnecessary. I took a chemistry class my first year and got a 800page book that cost 60$. The parts that were essential were basically 2-3pages per chapter (often times the summary), the rest is filler to get more money (they get payed per word they write). Later on the books become smaller and more specific, though they are still expensive. You can easily get an older edition and still be fine if you take notes as well during the lecture. SOOOOOO CHEAP. Let me show you some books: http://www.amazon.com/Complex-Analysis-Lars-Ahlfors/dp/0070006571/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1284382959&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Topology-2nd-James-Munkres/dp/0131816292/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_c | ||
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skronch
United States2717 Posts
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jamesr12
United States1549 Posts
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