(Part 2) Top products from r/college
We found 21 product mentions on r/college. We ranked the 466 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. The Norton Field Guide to Writing with 2016 MLA Update: with Readings (Fourth Edition)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
22. How to Make Friends in College and Afterwards
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
23. Discrete Mathematics: Elementary and Beyond (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Springer
25. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
Little Brown and Company
26. Crash Course for the ACT, 4th Edition (College Test Preparation)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
27. Unix and Linux: Visual QuickStart Guide (Visual QuickStart Guides)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
28. Chemistry: The Central Science (13th Edition)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
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29. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Spark The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
30. 1,296 ACT Practice Questions, 3rd Edition (College Test Preparation)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
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31. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
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32. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Wusthof
33. The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 1: Fundamental Algorithms, 3rd Edition
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
34. Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
Penguin Books
35. The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Penguin Books
38. College Algebra DeMYSTiFieD, 2nd Edition
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
McGraw-Hill Professional
This is going to be a pretty long-winded post because most of the sentiments you are feeling right now are phases I went through are college (I am currently a senior, and though my situation has improved since the beginning of college, I am still facing some of the lingering effects of depression).
In my belief, recovering from depression has to be practical, personal, and environmental. Practical in the sense that you need to take care of yourself and the environment around you (i.e. cleaning your room (btw, I'm no Jordan Peterson fan; cleaning my room is just an easy way for me to get the day started and feel good about myself), working out, eating healthy, practicing hygiene, meditation, etc). Though it may seem like it might not have a direct effect on you, organizing yourself and your environment does give a sense of self-control and does create a better image of yourself.
As for personal, depression does not simply come from genetics (yes, I know there are cases where this is true, but in my personal belief, depression can also be defined by your past experiences and the environment you are currently in). For me, depression really came from the conflicts I had with my parents and my unpreparedness of going to college. My mom was so desperate for me to get into a good college that she ended up doing my entire art portfolio and I had to write fake comments about what those art pieces meant. Thus, when I got to a college that is well-ranked, I felt like a total sham; I felt like the education that I was receiving was not of my own, but my mother's. I was only able to really figure this out by attending four years of therapy, and even now, I'm still going through some personal struggles. The personal aspects of your life takes time to figure out, but at the same time, is also a great source of clarity.
Finally, the final aspect of recovering from depression is environmental. Without having friends and families nearby, it can worsen the effects of depression because it makes you feel isolated and feel as if you're the only crazy individual out of seemingly-normal people. For me, it's hard to interact with my family because we just did not talk to each other that often in the first place. As for friends, I did have one friend in the beginning of college, but I have felt ambivalent about it because I felt like the activities we were doing together wasn't really improving my well-being (going to bars, playing games, etc). I do appreciate the fact that I had a friend, but looking back, I wish I also had another friend who had my academic well-being in mind as well. Also, I realized that I cannot have a single friend in which I can depend on for all my needs (academic, partying, hobbies, personal introspection, etc). I realized that I need to have some friends (not a lot) that meets my different needs, and that perspective change did open up my field of view as to which friends I can make. I have some friends in which I smoke weed with, make games with, study with, and they're all not necessarily in the same group.
But that leads to the question, what if I don't have friends and family members to lean on in the first place? And that's the catch-22 aspect depression. Without friends and families to connect to, we further isolate ourselves into our rooms, breaking down the practical and personal improvements we have built for ourself. This, in turn, makes it harder to reach out to others in the first place because we're not at our best selves and we don't want to perpetuate this negative image of being depressed and not-in-control to others. Personally, I think depression is cyclical in nature, but there is a way to stop it as well. Otherwise, we would never hear stories about how people were able to recover from depression.
So then, here are some of the steps that I found useful when recovering from depression:
Here are some resources that I found helpful:
Good luck!
If you know what you are interested in, look for schools that offer that major. Talk with a teacher or coach who you're close to, or your guidance counselor. They can give you some specific options because they know you and your academic record better.
There are plenty of guidebooks out there. My school is in this one. All the schools in there are great and you might find something that clicks. Your guidance counselor or library will probably have a bunch of books like these for you to browse.
Think about what kind of school you want: big/small, urban/rural, east/west/midwest, strong on-campus community/most people live off-campus. Is cost a concern? Try going to a community college first.
What kind of clubs are available to join? Sports? Greek life? Does overall student support seem nice?
Have the dorms been recently renovated or do most people live off-campus? Is it in a safe area?
How easy is it to declare/change a major and minor?
Do students have good relationships with professors? Is there a career center, a tutoring and learning disability center? Are there people that can help you find internships and funding, set up job-shadowing?
Are you ok with Teaching Assistants running most of your classes? Does being in a room with 200 students terrify you? How about a room with 4 students?
Make a list of your likes and dislikes of the colleges you've already visited. Did school A have too much of a "party" atmosphere for you? Was B too big or too small? Was school C too far away or too close? Find what you like, and look for colleges that have a few or more of those qualities. Not everyone has an "a-ha!" moment when they find the perfect college for them. You might have to transfer to find a good place for you. Good luck!
I've never taken micro or tried this book but I LOVE this series for chem and calculus...so maybe look into it? It won't make the topic suddenly clear but these books are usually full of practice questions with all steps shown which I've found to be extremely helpful.
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0071755454/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=1977604502&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0070170533&pf_rd_m=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&pf_rd_r=H42HEST4SJ0JS91V73NK
Discrete mathematics and any proof based math in general is what college based math should be like- if you continue to take upper level math and CS courses, you will undoubtedly face this style of math again. Plug and chug (which is what a lot of calculus is) will no longer be the norm.
There is often a very large learning curve for students who are not used to seeing this type of math- so don't stress out too much about it. Eventually, you'll break a point where everything will make (sort of) sense. I went through the exact same thing when I took discrete for the first time, and I felt like I was getting destroyed on everything (I still suck at some topics) until I suddenly hit a point of clarity where I could see how most topics were tied in together. Mathematics, and especially an introductory discrete course, is cruel in that way- that every topic you learn is inherently related to each other, so if you already fall behind just a little, the mountain to catch up just becomes incredibly massive incredibly fast- and it's hard to even pinpoint a place to even start to catch up.
You may be lost in learning elementary proof techniques, or number theory, and then the next topic (say it's graph theory) utilizes a bunch concepts and previous proofs from number theory, and then the next topic might use something proved in graph theory and number theory, and so on. All of a sudden, nothing makes sense, and to learn topic ___, you need to know graph theory, but to know graph theory, you need to know number theory, but you don't know number theory that well, and some topics in number theory can perhaps be explained by another topic in graph theory (or any topic for that matter) The chain is all interlinked and it may difficult to even see where to start- but it is for this reason that once you cross this steep barrier, most things will suddenly become clear to you.
So I'd advise you to just continue visiting professor office hours, asking more questions, asking for other students' help, doing more and more practice. It may seem like you're getting nowhere, but you're essentially learning a new language right now, so it'll obviously take sometime until you feel as if you know what you're doing. Figuring out where people get the intuition to suggest seemingly random functions or a set of numbers or some assumption will come to you slowly, and slowly you'll break more and more of this chain.
https://www.amazon.com/Discrete-Mathematics-Laszlo-Lovasz/dp/0387955852 is another book my professor enjoyed using as a supplmenet.
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Have you taken any practice tests for the SAT/ACT yet? I wouldn't worry about them now but those tests are very important for college admission.
What AP exams are you thinking of studying? I am rather "old" but in my time crash courses are fantastic book for AP self-studying--I am only 21, am I old :?
This is also a great book that I used for the AP European History exam (score 4, shy of 5 >:(
http://www.amazon.com/Modern-European-History-Birdsall-Viault/dp/0070674531/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419553771&sr=1-12&keywords=ap+european+history
Whoops, link wasn't posted :(
I'd recommend this book
It's short and has easy to understand tips for getting a higher score.
Available for free on Amazon. - here
I couldn't find the first two anywhere on the web. The other two are only available in previous edition. Thanks!
https://www.amazon.com/Anthropology-14th-Carol-R-Ember/dp/0205957188/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Physiology-Michael-OLoughlin-McKinely-ebook/dp/B015RSR6GK/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=
https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Moral-Philosophy-James-Rachels-ebook/dp/B00VF6258S/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=
https://www.amazon.com/Unix-Linux-Visual-QuickStart-Guide/dp/0321997549
Yeah studies have shown exercise improves learning ability and retention. On my phone right now but just google it, it’s a big thing now.
edit: https://www.amazon.com/Spark-Revolutionary-Science-Exercise-Brain/dp/0316113514
this book and this book should help you with your algebra.
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This is more of a reference book and not a book you read for pleasure, but "Elements of Style" by Strunk & White lays out some writing guidelines to make your writing more concise.
https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fourth-William-Strunk/dp/020530902X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473537772&sr=8-1&keywords=elements+of+style
Why don't you rent it from amazon?
https://www.amazon.com/Chemistry-Central-Science-Theodore-Brown/dp/0321910419
There's this book by Princeton review called 1,296 ACT Practice Questions.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0307945707?cache=c445cb79744e1c3089145c2c51961abb&pi=SY200_QL40&qid=1408489500&sr=8-1#ref=mp_s_a_1_1
It just has ton of practice sections for each part of the ACT.
What about this book? https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0078020328/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504024509&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=microsoft+office+2016+in+practice&dpPl=1&dpID=51S2cKS%2BRDL&ref=plSrch
This book? The last two digits of the code are off but it has the same title, and edition, by the same author.
https://www.amazon.com/Norton-Field-Guide-Writing-Update/dp/0393617378/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?adgrpid=59692389727&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhrqAhuqh5AIVjrbICh1UggstEAAYASAAEgIwHfD_BwE&hvadid=274732220533&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=1015254&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=8481392062927441484&hvtargid=kwd-303052873898&hydadcr=29259_10734808&keywords=richard+bullock&qid=1566866899&s=books&sr=1-3
Exactly. There's a low market for course books in India, so the prices are really low (as with all international editions). Almost all of my friends haven't heard of any books like TAOCP, and SICP. Everything's so cheap! They're missing out on so much!
Your questions would be valid... if you actually watched the video (or better yet read the book the video is an excerpt from). His argument is against ranking schools. He argues that the ranking of schools is essentially irrelevant because statistically through a series of correlations I won't get into in a Reddit comment, every college falls into the same uneven distribution. The "enforced" version of this is, in fact, grade deflation.
The name given by psychologists is "relative deprivation theory" and it basically means you judge yourself based on your peers, not by the system as a whole. This means that a "top tier" bottom percenter, even though they may have SAT scores higher than the top percentile of an average college, will have significantly less confidence, are much more likely to drop out, and are less likely to show quantifiable measures of success, than the top percentile of an average, or even less than average college.
Grade deflation essentially forces relative deprivation on students by saying that even if you would have gotten an 100% at community college, you have a B- in this class, and falls right into the "Disorder" part of Gladwell's coined "Elite Institution Cognitive Disorder."
If you want more examples and the studies to back them up I'd suggest his book, David and Goliath, but if you couldn't even watch the 20 minute summary then just know his arguments of uneven distribution transcend ranking, meaning you're arguing a different question. I think the argument of defining tiers in the current system is a valid one and one to be had, but outside of the scope of what this argument is about. In this case the language of "top tier" is only a qualifier when comparing statistics and pulling out samples for comparison.