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ToDo’s for class of 2025 based on what I heard from DD, class of 2024, who just finished her plebe year.
1. Learn how to unfreeze and clear the cache on a TI-36 pro calculator. You will be using that a lot down there. Google how to fix general issues — hold the [ON] button down while pressing the [CLEAR] button twice.
2. Learn how to use Excel to manipulate data, general Stat, and create plots and graphs. You will use it in Chemistry plebe year.
3. If you feel really energetic, learn DataFrames in R or Python. Then you can impress your friends .... you know, things like data and rocket science and machine learning, regression and classification, objective and cost functions, parametric and non-parametric solutions, basis vectors and decision boundaries .... and on and on .... This will make you appreciate Linear and Non-Linear algebra and so on and such.
[2] and [3] you can do on your standard PC.
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