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The Cranford Building (Jeff's Pizza building) will turn 100 in 2022.

(Shameless personal plug: I wrote a book on Campustown's history.)

My roommate keep playing PUBG non-stop every single day or night, chatting and laughing extremely loud. I warned him like thousand times but still no improvements.

I am looking for a new roommate or a new place to stay for the next year now.

Real story.

Edit: also can you imagine I bought 200 pairs of earplugs just for him? I had to wear them every time when I am trying to sleep.

3M E-A-R Classic Uncorded Earplugs, Hearing Conservation 312-1201 in Poly Bag, 200 pairs https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008MCU0N0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_3fQ1AbTTKF8PV

Nilsen-Hamilton is without a doubt the worst professor that I've ever had. Not only is she a terrible professor that most of what's on the exam isn't taught in class, but she's also rude to students that ask "dumb" questions. She even has a 1.1 rating on ratemyprofessor from the previous years that she's taught the course. I'm amazed that they allow her to teach with how bad she is at it.

I just graduated 6 months ago, and I completely agree with the separate freezer door. I used my sister's old mini fridge since she had just graduated when I started, and it was perfect. I'll link below to a similar one I found on Google. It's a 3.1 cubic foot fridge.

https://www.amazon.com/Emerson-2-Door-Compact-Fridge-Freezer/dp/B00RNGJW58

Here's a kit without a charger for $50, and a charger for under $7

I took it last fall. Pretty easy class, ended up with an A- despite not really attending class. As long as you understand the concepts and do the homework well, you should be good.

Topics covered are:

1. What Is AI?
2. Agents, Environments, Rationality
3. Searching via Uninformed Search and Informed (Heuristic) Search, Heuristic Functions
4. Local Search and Optimization, Nondeterministic Actions, Partial Observations, Unknown Environments
5. Adversarial Search through Games, MiniMax, Alpha-Beta Pruning, Imperfect Real-Time Decisions, Stochastic Games, Partially Observable Games
6. Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs), Backtracking
7. Logical Agents, Knowledge-Based Agents, Propositional Logic
8. First-Order Logic, Unification, Forward Chaining, Backward Chaining, Resolution
9. Uncertainty, Bayes' Rule, Distributions
10. Bayesian Networks, Markov Models
11. Machine Learning, Supervised Learning, Decision Trees, Regression and Classification with Linear Models, Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, Nonparametric Models

There may be more topics I'm forgetting. There are a handful of labs that are worth easy points. Often, there are extra credit portions that aren't too hard to complete. For example, one was implementing the informed search algorithms to scrape web data to search for a page that contained information on a certain topic. Exams are a little more difficult, but if you ace the homework and do all the extra credit and get all of the labs done, you'll still pass with at least a B. There is a group project that you must present on at the end as well as a report. You have a choice for the topic, and you must implement and analyze the results. Some groups, for example, implemented and studied Chess AI.

The book used was Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach 3rd Edition.

Avoid the Bongers at all costs. Take Astro with Chimenti and controls with Sherman.
311 with Rothmayer if he is teaching it, otherwise Ward is fine.
Become really good friends with your lab parters in 344, how well your group works together has a huge effect on your reports and your final grade.
361 and 362 are both a huge mess right now so just slog through and pray for a healthy curve.
I highly suggest taking 321 with Bastawros.

Yeah. None of the classes I consider difficult have SI :/.

...well, except for last year's ECON 101 b/c the prof was terrible. The SI leader was incredibly surprised when literally an entire lecture showed up - we filled the entire room, with people lining the walls and more spilling out both doors.

Edit: the prof in question

Yeah, I didn't really mind him too much at all. Lot's of people in class complained about him because he was really rude. He could be kinda condescending if you didn't know the answer to a question he asked. Overall though, I thought he did fine in teaching the material.

http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=229664

You can get a MacBook air with education pricing for $899. Also, I found a discounted Surface Laptop for $799: https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Surface-Laptop-Touch-Screen-Alcantara/dp/B07YNK3R68/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=windows+surface+laptop&qid=1598474695&s=electronics&sr=1-3

Joining the Greek Community was one of the best decisions I made. I absolutely loved it and loved my fraternity. I met so many great people and had the chance to take part in a lot of really fun events that I otherwise wouldn't have had the chance to do. I was also still able to have a life outside of my fraternity as well. I was still able to be heavily involved with on-campus activities. I made so many great friends that I still talk with every single day. Not just from my fraternity but also from other fraternities and sororities. I get very excited every time I get the chance to go back and visit. That's how much I loved it and miss it.

I would say check this out and check this guide out. Read about the different fraternities, figure out which one sounds like something you would enjoy, and then contact them and let them know you're interested. Fraternity recruitment is super relaxed and non-formal.

Anyone can post here and tell you how this feel about this fraternity or that fraternity, but what it really comes down to is which fraternity is the one you personally enjoy the most. Not the one that everyone thinks is "so great"

Hope this helped you out some! Best of luck and enjoy your adventure!

Try use website like https://www.overleaf.com/ to generate PDF from LaTeX. Given someone said that you have 36 hours to submit the exam, you should able to type everything in a nicely formatted document.

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Also if you're a CS major or similar field. Learn LaTeX, there's no excuse for not knowing how to use it.

Sam didn't get great ratings on RMP, but I think I've heard a couple people that liked her. I assume not a marketing major? This class is a generally easy class. Missed probably 40+% with an easy B. Hit the major due dates and tests and you're good to go.

888 should

Also, you'd have to call for delivery, but I think schezuan will

Also those are the only two Chinese places (to my knowledge) that deliver

Acer Swift or Acer Aspire (with the Ryzen processor) is a solid and safe bet.

https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Display-Graphics-Keyboard-A515-43-R6DE/dp/B07Z11X58J/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=Acer+Swift+ryzen&qid=1598473063&s=pc&sr=1-4

I have one similar to this. When winter rolls around you can normally pick something like this up at Walmart for $5ish. It is long enough you can easily get the middle of your windshield. I also tend to keep a cheap spray bottle with diluted rubbing alcohol in my car to spray on the ice on my windows so it comes off easier.

I had Anker Soundcore Spirit X for almost 2 years before one ear went out, they are $29.99 on Amazon. They were great and have incredible battery life, about 12 hours on a charge. I would maybe charge them once a week. For 30 bucks, can't go wrong.

Now I use Sony WI-XB400 which are like $59.99 on Amazon, they have been perfect so far but are really bad if you want to use them to workout.

I took 311 with a different professor so my experience may be different. Read CLRS and The Algorithm Design Manual. CLRS has everything, the Algorithm Design Manual has really fun anecdotes that help you remember the concepts. The Algorithm Design Manual is written really well and you can breeze through it pretty fast. I agree with looking over the assignments early. In the course I took it was preferable to wait a few days until typos and errors were fixed. Not at the fault of the Graduate TAs, only one had a general idea about the assignment. Again lots of errors in the given code so preferable to sit on that as well. The Graduate TAs are overworked, budget cuts, growing class sizes etc, so maybe the undergrads (FateStayGeas) will be more helpful. Be careful with induction vs loop invariant.

They don't datamine core services in educational domains: https://workspace.google.com/terms/education_privacy.html

(you may have noticed there were no ads in CyMail)

Just a hot minute ago, there was a data breach where 700,000 emails’ info was breached, including Microsoft, gmail, and yahoo.

Use this link: https://haveibeenpwned.com/

To see if your email was ~snatched~

https://www.wunderground.com/history/monthly/us/ia/ames/KAMW/date/2018-1

Around this time last year, we were around -22 degrees and windy (I remember weather apps and channels reporting -35 to -40 degrees with wind chill, it was brutal.

There are a couple of places around Main Street, but they can be expensive.

EDIT: examples

If you have dropbox do it! Also, just a note that this free space does expire in two years.

Also if you don't have dropbox yet and want a referral https://www.dropbox.com/spacerace?r=NTExNzQ1NDY5 That should get both me and you an extra 500mb (permanent)

In the realm of text editors, I think VS Code is a bit better than Atom (and seems to be the general opinion of anyone who has done a side-by-side comparison). VS Code with the Python linter feels like a full featured IDE rather than just a text editor IMO.

I know brail has a skateboard kit that comes with everything you need to get started, it’s a little over your budget at 77 dollars, but it’s a great buy (also has free shipping). Here’s an Amazon link if you wanna check it out!

www.amazon.com/dp/B08S7R8WZG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_HHYV3RA86PJA1CD39HKV

Agreed. There’s no reason to go overboard with the calculator. I bought a Casio for the SATs and it’s worked well for me in college.

This is the exact one I use: Casio fx-9860GII Graphing Calculator, Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0023I9QCU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_RZAR1EQ3BXF50XGXGCWJ

This is what I used to wire my dash cam into the fuse box. It should work so long as your dash cam uses mini usb

Dash Cam Hardwire Kit, Mini USB Hard Wire Kit Fuse for Dashcam, Plozoe 12V-24V to 5V Car Dash Camera Charger Power Cord, Gift 4 Fuse Tap Cable and Installation Tool（11.5ft https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07FXJD8W1/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_AF6MGPFPQ0N7SWC852GE

I have a 2015 MBP that I got as a high school graduation gift. I really like it. MacOS is unix based which means that a lot of the knowledge about macOS is directly applicable to *-nix operating systems. Build quality is great. Battery life is still really good after 3 years of daily use.

That being said, if I needed to get a new laptop I would not get a mac because they are so expensive. I would buy a cheap laptop and install linux.

If money is no object, then go for the mac (especially if you're all ready in the Apple ecosystem. Apple is really good at making their products gel together).

But probably you should save your money. I would even say that the surface is probably too expensive at 1000 base price. But amazon has a surface laptop 1 for 50% off, that seems like a much better deal.

Last fall, I read Command and Control and Midnight in Chernobyl back to back. The former covers the general lack of safety in the American nuclear weapons program during the Cold War, with a deep dive into a major incident at a Titan II missile silo in Arkansas in 1980. The latter is on the eponymous incident at the then-Soviet (now in Ukraine) nuclear power station. Both books present some fairly cringeworthy examples of politics dominating engineering safety, and illustrate just how fortunate we as a species were to survive the Cold War.

I linked to Amazon for the summaries but Ames Public Library has copies of both.

I highly recommend this book. It takes a lot of key concepts on 228 and 311 a d dumbs it down into pictures with psuedocode. I would definitely use this along with the help room if you can.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1617292230/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apa_i_6KATDbSJF44PD

My mom got me a pair of these to help deal with the snow in normal shoes and I find them pretty useful.

The wireless part won't work, you'll need to connect to it with one of these. I recommend getting a long cable, depending on where you keep your printer.

I didn't realize the activation fee was $50 for in-room Ethernet. I got one of these at the bookstore for $10 and see how that works.

Are you on Wifi? If you can, get yourself something like this and plug into the wall jack.