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My high school was actually really bad, we had like 6 alumni from my class arrested for murder in the last three years. I also got 90's by just showing up, I don't think I ever studied once for anything, and I always did homework in homeroom.

I actually had early dismissal senior year, so I got to leave at 10:30 am because that was a senior perk if you set your schedule right, I can't believe no one took advantage of it, they discontinued it after I graduated. My computer broke so I couldn't play WoW for 15 hours a day anymore, so I decided to go to the library and just chill on the computers there because my mom said I either have to get a job or go to the library.

At the time I didn't really know what I wanted to do in life, I really liked chemistry and biology, but my HS teacher was a real asshole and wouldn't let me take AP Chemistry. I looked through some of the books after I got bored of flash games and I found a book called "Gifted Hands" by Dr. Ben Carson. I read the back cover and was pretty intrigued so I thought I'd give it a read. I was pretty blown away and I finished it in a couple hours, I never read before so me reading a book was a pretty big deal. His story kind of motivated me too because I thought that I wasn't smart enough to become a doctor, which is something I thought about when I was younger (I know that's so unoriginal, but my mom used to let me play with scalpels like at age six to give stuffed animals surgery.)

After that I sort of spent all my time learning "how to learn." I found Cal Newport's Blog his stuff was good, but my favorite read would have to be "What Smart Students Know." Cal's books are pretty good, but get them from a library, they're not worth a buy to be honest. His blog is much better.

It takes a lot of effort and it sucks but the results do happen. I had a couple bad semesters because of a death in the family, but I have been pretty on top of things since. The book I linked is pretty hardcore, and it teaches you that basically you have to teach yourself everything from the textbook or multiple textbooks. I actually talked about it with two professors, and one surgeon that I know that were Caltech, MIT, and Harvard educated graduates and they confirmed that they did similar things, reading and deep understanding of the concepts in the text. I try to stay like a chapter or two ahead of class to be in the safe zone, and importantly I study everyday, typically from 7 or 8 am until 5 or 6 pm. I don't really go to class if it is recorded, I just watch the lectures at 1.5 speed to get the main idea and read the book to solidify. Also, I do as many practice problems as I can. Also, go to office hours to clarify things, I actually got extra credit in one class because I was the only student to show up to office hours when it wasn't exam week. Professors are actually really bored because no one shows up, so you can talk about their research if you're interested in it, they'll talk about that for hours.

Check out /r/getstudying also, it's pretty good. Hmm, that's all I can think of for now.

Someone PM'ed me asking about how hard the tests are and I thought other people might be curious.. so I decided to post my reply here.

The tests are not really that difficult. It's just a way that the OCC ensures that applicants have a basic understanding of accounting principles, can write reasonably well, and summarize complex information.

The knowledge test is 75 multiple choice questions and you’re given 90 minutes. It focuses on fundamental accounting principles, financial statements (and ratios), and the time value of money. I stalked your reddit history and saw that you’re in the accounting program.. so I don’t think you will have any trouble. I would brush up on the topics listed in the link below. I torrented the Schaum's Outline of Financial Accounting to get a high level overview of accounting principles. I also think the sample questions on that page are a good representation of the actual test. If you still have your MGA201 book that would work too. I finished the test in a half hour or so. It tells you if you passed immediately, but it doesn’t tell you how many you got wrong. Many of the questions were incredibly simple. I remember being shocked when the question came up: is cash a current asset or liability? Like really OCC?

I thought the written test was even easier than the knowledge test. You are given ten documents and need to reach a conclusion about the bank and support it. The test is used to assess how well you can organize a lot of information and convey your ideas. It’s not used to assess your knowledge of banking or anything else. I thought the test was easy because they give you all of the information that you need. The documents have a lot of cross references, one of them will say something like see document six. You have to be able to follow the references, and pull information from the various documents to support your conclusion. I don’t think there is anything that you can really study for this test.

I would suggest that you book an appointment to take the tests as soon as you can. I applied on the second to last day of the hiring period, and had to go to Rochester to take the test. You should be able to get a location in Buffalo though.

http://www.occ.gov/about/who-we-are/careers/knowledge-test-entry-bank-examiner.html

http://www.amazon.com/Schaums-Outline-Financial-Accounting-Edition/dp/0071762507

Neurobiology with Dr. Xu-Friedman was probably my favorite class, and he is probably my favorite professor. It can be a challenging class, but it's worth it if you enjoy neuroscience.

When I took it, we used Purves - Neuroscience 5th Edition .

The book is definitely needed, as it really helps to reinforce what they lecture on. If you're looking to get ahead before the semester begins, I think he follows the first few chapters tightly. If I recall correctly, he starts with some basic neuroanatomy, and then jumps into electrophysiology (similar to what you did in Bio 213 physiology lab, except in more detail) and receptor kinetics.

If Dr. Medler is also teaching it, she can be somewhat abrasive and difficult, but you can still do well if you go to lecture and pay attention.

Might be a little more of a learning curve for someone without no experience but if you stick too it it's very doable.

I would recommend doing the code academy java tutorials as a good basic introduction.

If you prefer textbooks there is a great book here that my highschool students are using for learning Java.

This might be something to do for you over the summer in your spare time.

If you want to go the Baofeng route, there's a $40 one that could work. It's not very fast for scanning random frequencies, but if you program it with the software it will scan the memory quite well. I've got the software with all the local frequencies saved and could program it for you if you wanted. It can also listen to the NOAA radio as well as broadcast FM.

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Will I have success with the 60 dollar ones or will I end up returning it to get a more expensive one?

To me 60 bucks isn't all that bad when you are used to seeing 200-400 for them.

I was thinking something like this Amazon

Make sure you have a very solid understanding of algebra, that is the preparation you need. Every other concept you need will be taught and mostly straight forward to apply if you aren't struggling with the algebra. Even a "dummies" series type book like algebra for the clueless can be worked through in a couple of weeks. https://www.amazon.com/Bob-Millers-Algebra-Clueless/dp/0071473661. I've recommended that book to a few students struggling with calculus. After that, go to your professor or TA's office hours ANY time you struggle with homework. Most students will do very well this way. Your TA will often also be your grader, getting to know them helps.

Source: went to grad school at UB for Math and and taught or TA'd most of the calc offerings up to partial differential equations.

Hello,

Previous UB'er here. RAMS was the renamed Amateur Radio Club, they changed the name in 2000. The Website was last updated somewhere around 2001.

The Amateur Radio Club has a tenuous history. It was disbanded last in 2006. But has existed in a semi-permanent state since the '70's. The equipment was discarded by SA back in 2008-2009. In the fall 2012 school year, Me and a few other people went and got our Licenses and set ourselves on the track to recreating the club. Mack (K2MGG) was the head of the operation while I (KD2DYC) Drafted up a constitution and set out to be the treasurer. We contacted SA and they gave us club forums and told us to collect membership signatures. We went around and convinced some other people to join the club. By summer time, we Had a Constitution and we had a member base with active licenses. I bought an HF rig, and everyone had FM handhelds to communicate on campus. We were going to set up an FM repeater with echo link on top of Furnas Hall. The Janitorial staff had given us the green light to go up as soon as we were an official club. After checking some records, we found that the Ham Shack circa 2000 was 305 Jarvis Hall. This makes sense since it was an engineering building. However, Furnas Hall is the ideal location since that's where the antenna would be located (it's the tallest building on campus after all) The Shack was located there at one point in the club history, but getting back there now would be exceedingly difficult.

To Cut a story short, Summer of 2013 came and went, and I was academically dismissed from the school. The club more or less disbanded as Mack focused more on his studies. I donated a Fully refurbished Yaesu FT101-E HF rig for the club and a slinky Dipole antenna. The last I heard Andrew (KD2ENR) Was in possession of it. It shouldn't be hard to track him down and get it for the club if you want to start it back up.

SA doesn't own Wings, so UBIT won't let you touch the site until SA approves you as a club. However, I would suggest becoming an engineering club rather than an SA Club. It'll give you better budgeting, and there is less regulations as opposed to an SA club. Also, you don't have to deal with being inside Student Union. The RF reception in there is terrible!

EDIT: UBIT owns Wings, not SA

Not sure if there's a test coming up, but just for studying, this book is a godsend and covers virtually all the content in both Chem101 and Chem102, with the exception of the final ligens chapter in 102.

Subway has deals where you load up a gift card and they give you a bonus on it. You can use it at any location.

Subway: Oven roasted chicken + bacon add on can also be less than the chicken/bacon ranch, depending on the exact pricing. Spicy italian + add 6inch portion of ham is more meat than a BMT and usually less. Load up on veggies but for the love of god don't be the guy that asks for every sauce on their sub.

Getting an arizona tea from CVS is cheaper than pretty much every soft drink on campus.

You can get queso on the side at Moe's when you order nachos and use that with your own tortilla chips (Moe's get gross after a few hours) as a snack or meal. But you have to eat nachos without queso.

If that salad place in Ellicott still sells make your own salads by the pound, use your own dressing. Dressing weighs a lot. You can get a bottle from wegmans for $2. If you don't want to be known as the weirdo with the salad dressing bottle in their backpack, you can be known as the weirdo that brings salad dressing packets with them.

You can buy bulk bagels at Tim Hortons with your meal plan and use them as breakfasts/snacks.

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The one I'm using currently has a swivel touchscreen that converts to a tablet that makes it easy to write notes in class.

Amazon.

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Here is the mobile version of your link

EE 336 Power Systems Analysis

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> 383 - Communication Systems I

Probably Hakin's Communication Systems unless it's changed in the last year or so.

Hi, I'm trying to buy this textbook for MTH141, the professor said to buy Single Variable Calculus 8th UB edition.
https://www.amazon.com/Single-Variable-Calculus-Early-Transcendentals/dp/1305270339
Is this what he's talking about or should I just walk over to the bookstore and purchase the book there?