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Typically November according to this data:

https://weatherspark.com/h/s/1286/2019/2/Historical-Weather-Fall-2019-in-San-Luis-Obispo-California-United-States#Figures-Rainfall

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Oddly enough, I don't think I remember any rainy days on campus when I was here in 2019 though... I do remember some rainy nights though.

here's the steps:

1. Buy a decently cheap router on amazon, spend anywhere between $50-100. Link below
2. Go to spectrum in slo and sign up with them. It's the best wifi in SLO and is month to month so if you move or leave you're not in a contract. Tell them you have your own router so you only need the modem.
3. Have them (spectrum) set it up for you if you're not great with tech, they do well enough. They can show you how to access the router waygate from your computer, this should also be in the little booklet that comes with the router.

Router link: (https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-R6700-Nighthawk-Gigabit-Ethernet/dp/B00R2AZLD2/ref=sxin_3_ac_d_rm?ac_md=1-1-bmV0Z2VhciByb3V0ZXI%3D-ac_d_rm&cv_ct_cx=router&dchild=1&keywords=router&pd_rd_i=B00R2AZLD2&pd_rd_r=0b8cdfb7-7851-4e3f-b173-7cd7844ca22d&pd_rd_w=zuSV2&pd_rd_wg=8iIGC&pf_rd_p=fe2d64f9-a0d4-4c62-b195-55e240bc5b7e&pf_rd_r=8XS5W3KC8T3VSMCF55JH&psc=1&qid=1600033340&sr=1-2-12d4272d-8adb-4121-8624-135149aa9081)

More info might help. What major are you? Which classes did you pass? Was this your first quarter? If you decide to continue, Khan Academy will definitely help your math and physics courses (as well as many other subjects).

Make sure you have a good understanding of the basic concepts you are learning. CS builds on itself and if you don't have the fundamentals down pat you will struggle.

As far as 357 goes, watch all the lectures and do the in lecture questions. Stay on top of your LMQ's (lab mini-quizzes) and ask the TA's for help if you are stuck. They all went through the same types of problems in the class and are trained to guide you to the correct answer by asking the right questions. Also you might want to consider dropping down to 12 units the quarter you take 357; I did this and it helped me to focus my efforts on getting a good grade in the class.

Some of the projects in 453 (I had Dr. Nico) take lots of time to work through, so sit down with your project partner and work through all of the problem you need to solve before writing any code. This might take one night or several nights depending on the project. I found the threading project to be the most difficult to understand conceptually whereas the kernel driver takes a lot of wading through source code to understand how the driver interface actually works.

Also man pages and "The C Programming Language" are vital in terms of reference material.

Basically just understand that programming isn't just about sitting down and typing on a keyboard; there is lots of mind-stretching and reasoning that needs to happen in order to write quality code.

/rant

Oh, every friday in building eight there is a club called Game Theory Club from 5-10pm. Basically we show up and play games for five hours. There's some rpg groups and board games and miniature battles and Magic and other card games.

It's all kinds of fun.

Edit: There's also PolyCon this Saturday, it'll be in the UU basically all day and have all kinds of awesome.

How about a Django webapp? Learning about technologies that power the web is invaluable (especially for careers later on).

Things you'll learn just by creating a simple Django webapp:

• Relational databases
• ORMs
• HTML
• HTTP
• URL routing
• Templating

And lots of other fancy things. If you don't know what anything on that list is yet, don't worry, the Django tutorial moves at a comfortable pace (IMHO)

Open house is fun, but not necessary. You get to hear a general presentation, then you get to go to a presentation by your major (electrical engineering). Also there's a robotics competition that I love to promote (cause I'll be in it). Link to the rules if you're curious

SOAR over the summer is good, it teaches you more of an academic orientation. They teach you how to register, explain classes, etc. Its pretty fun, you end up splitting up with your majors again, and this time its with all students who are accepted and going to cal poly.

WOW is awesome, and ridiculously fun. You'll end up in a group of ~10 people with two leaders, and you get to go to tons of fun stuff, the leaders take you around town and will have tons of events planned for the group. I've been a WOW leader three times because its so fun.

As for computer, if you're ever in a programming class, as an EE student, you'll get access to the CSL's (computer science lab's) servers, which you can SSH into and work on, so its not exactly necessary to have somewhere else to SSH into.

There isn't really much programming in the EE major though, only... CPE 101 (intro to programming), CPE 129,229,329 (embedded systems). If you want to do programming and EE, then Computer Engineering is the better major for you, its half Computer Science and half EE. Its super easy to switch from EE to CPE.

You could probably last 4 years on a netbook, but IMO you'll want a bigger screen/keyboard to work with. And it can be kinda painful programming on a netbook, but if you're comfortable with it, it can work. There's nothing really performance heavy that you'd do as an EE.

If you've got any more questions, ask away.

If you already have a product key, then you can enter it here for a download it.

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But I'm not sure if DreamSpark provides you with a product key. I remember having to use some special account login when I tried to use Visual Studios.

My understanding of this issue is this.

Cal Poly does not monitor the sites that you visit. Cal Poly however may monitor the ports that you use to connect to the internet. If they detect that you are downloading gbs of data through a port commonly used by torrents, they may slow your connection, to allow more bandwidth for other users.

The main issue is with copyright holders. If an owner of content is monitoring a torrent, they can easily see what IP addresses are downloading their content. When they see that the offender is connected to the Cal Poly network, they can contact call Poly. Then I believe you would get an email from the University telling you to stop pirating content. Additionally, pirating content on a University Network is riskier than on a home connection, because Cal Poly is more likely to give up your identity to copyright holders than your ISP.

Remember, torrenting is not illegal. Copyright infringement is illegal. Without a complaint from a copyright holder, Cal Poly would have to detect that you are using a torrent protocol, and then identify the content you are downloading. I doubt the university is interested in wasting its resources just to protect copyright holders.

I've heard of plenty of people torrenting unprotected on Resnet with no trouble. I've heard of others getting emails to stop. I believe if you are caught multiple times, the University may revoke your internet privileges.

Regardless of what legal, morally upstanding things I assume you use the internet for, I would recommend using a VPN(Virtual Private Network), which hides who you connect to and what you download from your ISP(Cal Poly), and your identity from those you connect to, such as websites, and Copyright trolls. Of course, these days, another benefit is keeping the Federal Government's creeping eyes off of you. I recommend Private Internet Access.

I'm sorry this doesn't quite answer your question, but in case you don't already know, Khan Academy has some <em>great</em> videos that surely helped me pass a few Physics classes

Cool stuff dude, I dig Tay Pay. There's a lot of local EDM coming up lately, tonight at Creekside is Submerge (mostly house, tech, deep, prog etc) there's also a parallel event going on over at Cielo Cantina (electro-pop more trendy style over there) I'll be back and forth between both tonight. PM me if you wanna meet up.

I grew up in the area and recommend Big Falls out near Lopez Lake, after a good rainy season. Also this book is great for exploring all the paths around the county. You can find it at Barnes & Noble and look through it for some ideas.

The pomegranates are fine to eat but they're pretty much just decorative shrubs, the fruit will be really tart and probably no good. The rosemary is great for cooking, there's also a lot of sage on campus, especially around poly canyon.

The secret bush no one knows about is the guava - I learned about it in botany from Matt Ritter and I can't tell you what the scientific name is for it, but it's juicy and delicious. They're not the typical pink guava you see on juice containers, they're smaller and olive green all the way through. I think the tree's probably not in season until spring - there are others I'm sure but the one I know is in the corner of the courtyard here.

There are lots I don't know and they can be hard to find, but if you're willing to explore we have a ton of open space around us. The top of the Cuesta grade could be good, but I wouldn't take the Focus on that road. I'd say somewhere off Pozo Road might be your best bet, you can see a few minor roads around it and I'm sure there are others, there's gotta be somewhere out there to shoot. Do some google map exploring and then see what you can find!

I'm not a bow law expert here, but I'd say go beyond Poly Canyon and there are tons of perfectly safe places where I would think you wouldn't get in trouble. The trail that goes from the canyon up to the train tracks and then up the cuesta grade has tons of open space and very few people hiking through. Out here is where I'm thinking, you just follow the road that goes between the houses on the right at the end of Poly Canyon. You'll have to go through a few gates but you're allowed to do that, just close them behind you. It's really beautiful and I feel like there's just way too much open space out there to get in trouble with anyone but I could be wrong.

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/b177qt7xcmyz2/Textbooks

Here ya go.

Books for:

CPE/CSC 103

EE 306 (book is for non-Braun 307 classes, too)

PHYS 211 (with solns)

CPE/CSC 453

STAT 350

COMS 101

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/wxnjee32dkkd3/CP_Textbooks

This is all of the textbooks I have.

I used the MATH 141 textbook in Math 141 so you can be sure this is the correct version (it is NOT Early Transcendentals)

Same for CHEM 127

P.S. I'm sorry for posting multiple times. I had to upload everything to mediafire.

Edit: You have PHYS 141

You don't need to send the APC ones in. You just take out the battery, recycle it (lol), and put the new one that you ordered from APC in (or amazon... like here: https://www.amazon.com/APC-Back-UPS-550VA-Replacement-Battery/dp/B001NIFI28)

Source: Worked as a linux server admin for a couple years and had to replace a ton of them.

This probably isn't much help but someone was offering personalized workout plans on /r/favors the other day. Here's the link, apparently you just fill out the form.

I noticed that of the required courses for MS in CSC, exactly five of them have prerequisites that already covered in the CPE curriculum. I plan on taking these five classes (I wrote them down but I don't remember where i put them!). I have put together this flowchart in google docs.

Thanks! I ordered one from Amazon just now.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S0WZZNW?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp&amp;th=1

There's a form you can fill out on the housing portal to cancel housing for each quarter. You have to cancel housing and dining separately. Dining: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=2wING578lUSVNx03nMoq53rLjRFZwnhIhlz1NLJZ3q5UOEVHSFoyMVpYMTY4NlFBTlM2SVFTREtEQS4u

Cisco Clean Access Agent has a (rather out of date) white list of anti virus applications. It would not surprise me to hear that AVG is not on the whitelist (neither is Nod32, which is my favorite). Either way, if you're tired of this Cisco b.s., just change your browsers's user agent to Linux and you don't need Cisco to log in.

I'm a bit late but if you have a hard time finding books, you can always search for them on Libgen. It's a website which has access to almost all the books that you will ever need for all your undergraduate classes.

Just a heads up, buy the international version assuming you still use the fourth edition next quarter. It's the exact same except it's a paperback and has no color pictures. Questions and reading are all the same though.

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=12700716644&amp;currency=USA&amp;destinationcountry=USA&amp;isbn=9780073401331&amp;n=200000237&amp;clickid=Q4-WLmSkVT1nyB7wRA0QlyITUkSzn71jSz%3AOVU0&amp;cm_mmc=aff-_-ir-_-30847-_-77798&amp;ref=impra...

To actually reball it, you need a mask for the specific ball pattern of the GPU. Once you've got that (and the right sized solder balls) it's not too bad.

If you just want to reflow it, I recommend the technique in our PS3 YLOD repair.

Ok so apparently they have a temporary workaround that you can get by having them come over. You can schedule an appointment here https://calendly.com/resnetservicedesk

Mind taking a minute to fill out my survey regarding this? I'm collecting student opinions about the app for a class project, and I will pass on the data to admin if I get enough responses. Thanks!

https://forms.office.com/Pages/AnalysisPage.aspx?AnalyzerToken=0ltaLkQlmujg39MiVKLTBn0INrWowoWB&amp;id=2wING578lUSVNx03nMoq57kDaqlLpbtIu5n99zdcnapUMUZVNDhIVjJaMzFUS1M0WVAwQUU5WUk0MS4u

This isn’t a specific Slack Color Theme but it help generate color schemes. Once you’ve found one you like then go to edit and take the HEX number

Adobe Color is the website name

Get something with a dedicated graphics card that is either on this list or has good reviews specifically about running solidworks. 16GB RAM, SSD, and a high single-core clock speed, 3.3GHz or higher is good for Solidworks 2019-2021.

It was a lot of fun, at least for me and my classmates. This is kind of the ultimate level of control. If I want every third pixel to be pure white, that's a simple task to accomplish.

If you want a taste of things, try going to places like codeAcademy, or https://www.hackerrank.com A lot of the stuff is pretty basic, but it gives you a good idea of what's going to be covered in your early classes.

I don't know how I missed this but I support the fuck out of it. I'm in the cal poly flashmob group which could be notified. 613 people in it right now, which means I'm sure we could get four or five people to come.

So start a CalPoly GoFundMe with a list of approved locations! Sharp has a good easy to use industrial one that is perfect for reheats. https://www.amazon.com/Sharp-R-21LCFS-Medium-Duty-Commercial-1000-Watts/dp/B074RCGYLB

The trick with a large flat panel TV is to get a floor TV stand that will fit behind your desk. This one worked out well as it could get the TV above the desk, but without taking up precious desk space (or risk of falling over). https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08948MPPT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1

If you bring an x-box bring an ethernet cable as getting it or the TV on the WiFi network is impossible.

I would recommend getting a super comfortable office/game chair. Stop by Costco or Amazon it. You'll have to throw your CalPoly supplied chair into the living room (or see if housing will take it back) but your butt will thank you for it.

A white board in the living room would be cool, but it definitely won't fit in the bedroom.

If you really wanna steam ahead and you already have the basics down and know python, definitely start learning C so you can go into 357 with a head start. This book is really helpful.

If the prof uses Zoom cloud record, it will create a transcript. They are sometimes wonky, especially with technical terms, but it can usually be understood because it is typically phonetically correct or close.

If you have a pixel phone (not sure what android phones are supported), Google's Recorder app does live transcript that works well. The transcript is also linked to the audio to allow you to quickly skip to sections to listen to. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.recorder

Let me tell you, I am the god damn king of getting rid of ants. I've been dealing with a recurring ant issue in my house for over a year. Inclement weather draws them into the house for shelter, so you need to strategically set up traps based on where they're coming in. Buy these traps and set a few along the trail of ants. Be sure not to set any too close to anything you want protected, because once the ants take the bait they SWARM like crazy.

Your life is going to be absolute hell for the next 24-48 hours, but you want to encourage them to keep taking the bait. After a day or two, the borax solution in the traps completely proliferates through the ant population, killing every man, woman, and child in the colony. Your ant issue will be solved, but you must then live with the guilt of knowing you committed insect genocide. But such is the price we pay.

So I followed the Reddit post's suggestion of adding Satisfactory to my white-list on the firewall, and I used ProtonVPN. After several connection fails and game snafus, I was able to play with my friend (albeit severely lagged.)

I recommend Private Internet access. You're mostly looking for strong encryption, and a company that you trust. I like Private Internet Access's position on Privacy.

Whether or not you have to check if your VPN connection is active depends on the software that you use. For example Ubuntu, my operating system has built in VPN. Private Internet access provides their own proprietary software, or you can use other software such as OpenVPN. I just always used Private Internet Access's software. Their software has a setting to autoconnect. It even has an option to disable the computer's connection to the internet if the VPN is not connected.

For no-compromise active noise cancelling headphones, the Bose QuietComfort 35 are unmatched. They don't block out all sounds, but they block out all ambient noise. I find it a lot easier to study with these on.

https://www.amazon.com/Bose-QuietComfort-Wireless-Headphones-Black/dp/B01E3SNO1G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1472692691&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=quietcomfort

I use this keyboard, and a wrist pad have had it for like, 6-7 years now, still going strong. Just to promote something that isn't a mechanical keyboard. I can still type plenty fast, and I never really liked how clicky mechanicals are.

I got one from Amazon about a year ago for my mattress at home. It's memory foam and Twin XL and was only about $60.

http://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Innovations-2-Inch-Memory-Mattress/dp/B002NEG15E/ref=sr_1_3?s=home-garden&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1439164650&amp;sr=1-3&amp;keywords=memory+foam+mattress+topper

I bought a Kryptonite New York U Lock for my frame mostly and then I have a Kryptonite Keeper that I run through both wheels (take front off and put next to rear) and frame (sometimes post if there's room).

The Nspire or TI-89 are great both calculators to have for the classes that will allow it. Definitely get one or the other of those.

For everything else, I definitely recommend the Casio FX-115ES Plus. It has a lot of built in functions, it's easy to use, and (if/when you eventually get there) it is approved for the FE and PE exams.

Depends what you actually want to do with it. Personally I use mine as more of a desktop than a laptop (I rarely take it to class). I also do a lot of gaming, and a bit of video stuff sometimes, so I bought this one. However, if you're not looking for something with a lot of computation power, and you're gonna take it to class, you'll definitely want something more compact.

As for brands, ASUS is pretty solid from my experience - I've got a sweet monitor as well as the linked laptop, which got delivered kind of broken, sent it in, and they fixed it right up for only the shipping charges.

For those actually interested in this subject, the most approachable book with the latest research is probably Why Aren't More Women In Science? Top Researchers Debate the Evidence.

It covers the best data and arguments that researchers in the field have for why women aren't in STEM fields (the book isn't just about the S part of STEM.)

I highly suggest it to anyone interested in the research.