Calculator, etc...

Ryno23 said:
are you serious!?!?! calc would be so much easier this year with that thing!!! i wished i would have known about it!! add that to the tab lol
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Dead serious. It's a dream machine. And a great investment!
 
Pretty sure the Logging In Book tells you that either the TI-84 or TI-89 is the one recommended. I have been told some of the professors make sure you clear out the memory before mid-terms and/or finals. As noted, in general most of the Prof's at KP make you memorize the formulae in your head, as they conjecture it helps prepare you for the USCG License exams where you need to do that for some of the parts of the exam... As for bringing it and running with "both" that shouldn't be a concern as I'm pretty sure you won't be required to run with both of them "during indoc" though after indoc if life is still as it used to be, if you don't have at least 4 Plebe Candidates and or Plebes that can march to class together you do get to jog with your stuff to class.

Nothing like sitting in Calculus, all sweaty on a Humid Long Island Summer Day in August and/or September to help get "the learning synapses" energized, going, and focused on "Given a function ƒ of a real variable x and an interval [a, b] of the real line..." yep, "the good ole' days...."
 
cmakin said:
While I did learn to use a slide rule during high school, they were already out of date by the time I got to KP. Here is what I used for all four years.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Texas_Instruments_TI-30_electronic_calculator.JPG

Just had to remember to bring extra 9 volt batteries with me for exams. I had a battery die one year during a Thermo test; either mid term or final. I did LOTS of writing and cipherin' that day, I can tell you.
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were the dinosaurs around then. Just Kidding!

Thanks for the help everyone!
 
cmakin said:
While I did learn to use a slide rule during high school, they were already out of date by the time I got to KP. Here is what I used for all four years.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Texas_Instruments_TI-30_electronic_calculator.JPG

Just had to remember to bring extra 9 volt batteries with me for exams. I had a battery die one year during a Thermo test; either mid term or final. I did LOTS of writing and cipherin' that day, I can tell you.
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The TI-30. That brings back memories. I brought that one to college and got yelled at by my statics professor. I picked up a used TI-59C with the magnetic strip reader. The thing was awesome for statics, strength of materials and any other course requiring a knowledge of linear algebra. I will admit the TI 89 is far more useful but I sort of miss the motors that wound up and whistled as they pulled the magnetic strip through the calculator's innards.
 
I thought that my first calculator was the greatest it did square roots and 4 operations all for $100. I was soooooo excited and now feel so old!!
 
Can you recommend a spider knife?

Lynpar said:
Got the kiddo a Spyder Co knife for Xmas. That was a first! Would it be something I bring on parents weekend? Obviously kiddo can't fly with it to indoc. Shipped separately through the mail?
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Hi. Thanks for the info on the knife... can you recommend one? I see on the Colorado website there are a number of different models... Harpy, Tasman Salt, Rescue Assistant, Atlantic Salt, Rescue 93 mm. Ds will be on dingy & offshore sailing teams if that helps...
 
I cannot recommend. Someone with actual experience can comment there. DS got the Talsman salt. Why? I dunno.Is is Tasman? See, no credible info here.
 
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