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You'll find 251 much closer to 127 than 112/122, but I'd hesitate to make comparisons between those courses. Just very different material overall. I think typical CS first-years will spend about three to four days per week outside of class on 251, but part of that is not knowing how to study and not making good use of office hours.

Might describe it as taking two 127's simultaneously, or three on a particularly bad week, but that's my opinion.

If you're the type that's inclined to read ahead, Sipser is available in the library and prepares you fairly well.

https://www.airbnb.com/

Get a one month for pittsburgh. Probably be way overpriced, but no way you'll find a one month lease otherwise. And yeah prowl around CMU facebook groups, you'll probably find someone subletting around that time.

I've motorcycled down to -15C, and had vodka freeze when I'm camping.

(To be fair, I would avoid either of those given the chance to do it again.)

If your fingers are cold, and you're already wearing relatively good windproof gloves, there's one of two problems. 1. You don't have enough layers on your torso. 2. You don't have enough calories for your body to make heat.

If your legs are cold, you generally don't have enough layers, or don't have a windproof layer. It's likely worthwhile to buy a set of long underwear bottoms; it'd be overkill for someone from a cold climate, but you're not from a cold climate! Alternatively, assuming you're a size that fits women's tights, those work A-OK under a pair of jeans.

If your toes are cold but your hands are fine, upgrade socks or boots. My wife hits this a lot, and found that Danner Raptors - a $150ish boot - kept her feet warm all winter.

Finally, find a windproof hat. A knit beanie is nice and all, but if your head is cold - or wind goes through the hat! - you'll never otherwise be warm. I have this hat, which is fiercely fucking ugly, but works, as it's both warm and windproof and covers my ears. https://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Hardwear-Unisex-Dome-Perignon/dp/B01AVC5HD6

TLDR: gearing up helps quite a bit with the cold. It's still unfortunately cold, and from time to time, I wish my friends lived somewhere warmer. ;-)

You can try it a couple times without buying membership by asking a Costco member to get you a Costco cash card (give them cash to charge it):

http://www.costco.com/Costco-Cash-Card.product.10024438.html

One of the advertised use cases is:

"A means to provide students with money for food, gas, or school and dormitory necessities, while being able to limit their spending"

This would let you see if membership is actually worth it for you over multiple visits without spending the $55 on membership.

Hi! I'm a current student at CMU - a rising Junior Vocal Performance Major, and I am moving into a new apartment May 1, so I have to give up all of my Twin XL sized things. I spent originally over $400 on my college bedding and I have loved it so much these past 2 years (I had a spine injury in my past, so I need lots of pillows and cushioning) but I'm selling it for much less. I live here over the summer, so if you want to buy what I have for your upcoming student - I'll be able to store it for you over the summer.

Let me know what you are looking for, and I may have something you need that you don't have to worry about storing or transporting up here.

Here is a link to my facebook marketplace post. I can provide more pictures if desired.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2055534821379510

CMU's design program was just ranked #1 in terms of getting jobs after graduation. I work for a mobile app design firm in North Carolina and we're heading up to CMU to recruit for UI designers. Here's the LinkedIn article ranking CMU as #1. There should be a link about how the rankings were determined somewhere in there, too.

Dusquene Light's electricity rates for houses heated electrically is very low. I had a larger apartment than you, and would pay less than $100/month in electricity (On average, one particularly cold month where it was about -20C was worse) during the winter for heating PLUS running 5 or so computers and appliances. In the summer, the bill was as low as $30. I would recommend covering your windows in the winter to minimize heat loss and thus cost, this 3M product worked wonderfully at keeping costs low.

I can't speak to water, because the apartment I rented included it. (Most apartments do). I can't see it being more than $20 per month though assuming normal usage.

I have an Android so I can't test yours, but I think there is already an app that shows this information:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutritionaddition.nutrition_cmu

There is also the CMU dining website that lists the hours and nutrition information for each of the restaurants on campus:

https://apps.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/dining/conceptinfo/?page=listConcepts

not sure about the solution but u can find many air fryers that are 700 watts and below

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here's one I found already on amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Maxi-Matic-Elite-Gourmet-Temperature-700-Watts/dp/B087TNBWTV?th=1

I'm the [PAT Track](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rectangledbmi.com.pittsburghrealtimetracker&hl=en\_US&gl=US) developer. Yes, I'm now a CMU student!

I'm very skeptical of the long term viability of React Native. You might want to reconsider using something else, ex. Flutter. I can give you tips. I'll email you.

For sleeping, if you don't already have a specific kind of earplug in mind, I can recommend silicone putty earplugs, which you can get on amazon or pretty much any common drugstore. They might not block quite as much sound as some of the heavy duty ones, but I find them more comfortable for long term wear than any other kind I've tried. I have small ears so I break one in half to use, and you can reuse for a few nights in a row to make them last longer (until they get dirty).

Background

It was called Coalesce. I'm not a programmer but managed to have a resource online for ~2 years, which I achieved through the help of freelancers and a program called Bubble.

The base of the platform was a database of university research labs with concise profiles, website links, professor emails, and the ability to save labs or send the professor an application through the platform. Internal group workspaces were also a feature I implemented.

The mission was to grow the "digital infrastructure/presence" of researchers while helping students explore and find labs (which, unless you are MIT, are rarely organized well).

I got as far as pitching to investors and exploring two possible routes of monetization but the venture ultimately came to close when I got busy with other projects and never found the technical cofounder I needed.

Present Day

Now, after graduating and a year of work, I'm heading to CMU for a PhD in Materials Science. Over the years since Coalesce, I've had people ask me about it and describe how they wish something like it existed and, frankly, I feel a bit guilty for ever taking it down.

IF any CMU CS student(s) would like to revitalize this site (or DM me with more questions etc.), I will help them do so and cover the hosting/domain costs.

Whether as a company or a free resource, I just think it could be an asset to students/professors and if someone technical would like to pursue the baby I couldn't raise...I'd like to give them the opportunity.

P.S. If anyone wants to send me the link to a CMU CS student discord or something (or post a link to this post themselves over there), by all means.

Related: I recently discovered that physical therapy exists, can't recommend it enough. I have some problems with my neck. NovaCare (Craig St) is good.

Otherwise I'm not sure that there's an 'optimal posture' as seems to be the premise of your post, except maybe buying a laptop stand or an external monitor.

In case it's helpful, it was cheaper in the long run to just make my own with this small, easy-to-use travel bottle, a cheap grinder, and beans*. It was especially handy when the lines were long or when I was a little late to class. No worries if you're trying to spend DineX, just figured I'd suggest an ultimately faster and cheaper alternative!

*First from Giant Eagle before I discovered Prestogeorge in the Strip and went full coffee-snob for a bit. Since cold brew beans don't have to be the freshest, I only went around once a month in undergrad.

This is the tablet I used: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07S1RR3FR/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_3GDGM48CQ85MGS8NGEY2

It doesn't have a screen so you'd need to look at your computer-- there's a tiny bit of a learning curve but I found it pretty easy to use and reliable for school.

This is probably sufficient for a one person apartment
https://www.amazon.com/Verizon-FiOS-Router-Updated-2019/dp/B087Y1CJYR/ref=sr\_1\_3?crid=3KQLCMO8XKNRM&dchild=1&keywords=fios+gateway+router&qid=1628763626&s=electronics&sprefix=fios+gatewa%2Celectronics%2C188&sr=1-3

Who seeds with an Android device anyway? I have some free but good torrent-friendly VPN and may get a more reliable one (probably ProtonVPN) if I get into this summer course in the first place. I do not download huge gigabytes at a time of pirate stuff. The only time I actually went crazy torrenting was when I used my PC to download ~23GB of legal torrents in under 2 hours, but I have no chance of doing that on a mobile device. Anyway, thanks for all the advice and I will be looking forward to possibly getting into the course successfully.

I live in an apartment near campus. I read the Pittsburgh water report when I moved in and immediately bought one of the water filters that goes on your sink faucet. The free lead test from Pittsburgh would have taken several weeks and sounded really inconvenient - they drop off bottles outside your building, you have to get them and fill them and leave them to get picked up - I wasn't sure how that would work in an apartment building. The other option for testing is buying your own test kit, but a quality test kit is more expensive than a quality filter, and, based on reviews, a lot of them aren't all that accurate. (although also consider that the filter will need to be replaced periodically - in the long run, it is more expensive than a test kit)

For anyone who doesn't want to read the report, Pittsburgh (14.8 µg/L in 2015) is just under the level at which a city is supposed take action for lead (15 µg/L). So, not technically awful, but kinda scary. Hence my filter :) I got this one. It was $20 and well-reviewed by Consumer Reports.

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We are using Mathematical Thinking: Problem Solving & Proofs 2nd Edition. We get lectures notes because the text book is difficult to understand, but they dont really help..

EDIT: I realize now its the same book! Great! Any help?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AGOSQI8/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00AGOSQI8&linkCode=as2&tag=todmedblo-20

Super easy to fly and tons of fun!

I have this one I'm looking to sell closer to graduation.