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I want to get a jump start on my college...

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Acanthus

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Title says it all, i want to independantly study material over the summer to get an advantage on the courses i will be taking in the future.

Im planning on transferring to the Kate Gleason Institute of Technology at RIT next year for Microelectronics Engineering. I want to get ahead on math and physics courses that i will be taking a local university and hopefully test out of the lower math courses.

The math courses are described as:

College Algebra
Precalculus
Analytic Geometry and Calculus 1
Analytic Geometry and Calculus 2
Mathematical Propability and statistics
Linear Algebra
Discrete Math 1
Discrete Math 2
 
Originally posted by: upsciLLion
Try the local bookstores to see if they have old editions that they would give to you.
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The problem is none of the local colleges will actually tell you what books are required unless you have a schedule with the professor and go to the book store with it.
 
Originally posted by: Acanthus
Originally posted by: upsciLLion
Try the local bookstores to see if they have old editions that they would give to you.
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The problem is none of the local colleges will actually tell you what books are required unless you have a schedule with the professor and go to the book store with it.
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they dont want to be bothered on the phone, go in person and they will tell you. if they dont, they are retarded.
 
<Billy Maddison Voice>Don't you ever say that, stay as long as you can</Billy Maddison>
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If you are looking to find books cheap check Here you can search the ISBN# or title and should be able to find a good price.

good luck
 
When I attended RIT, IIRC we used this book for the Calc series. I don't remember what the Discrete, Prob & Stat, or Linear Algebra text was.

You can try some of the online textbook places that students frequent - sometimes they set them up for specific schools, so they can cut out the bookstore middleman in reselling books. They should have a course list available with associated texts for the previous quarter.

Good luck w/ MicroE. I was CS, '05.
 
Originally posted by: Acanthus
Originally posted by: upsciLLion
Try the local bookstores to see if they have old editions that they would give to you.
Click to expand...

The problem is none of the local colleges will actually tell you what books are required unless you have a schedule with the professor and go to the book store with it.
Click to expand...

...

That's because they don't know what a specific professor requires.

Get on college website, determine cirriculum including exact classes (History 101, Math 210... whatever.)
edit: http://www.rit.edu/~932www/ugrad_bulletin/courses/course_number_index.html

and

http://www.rit.edu/~932www/ugrad_bulletin/courses/cast/mathsci.html

Go to the on-campus college bookstore and books are sorted by class, not by name or anything. They order them by that class name mentioned above.

Find out what books are required. Don't buy them.

Go home, get on amazon.com/ebay/whatever, search for said books.
 
Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz
When I attended RIT, IIRC we used this book for the Calc series. I don't remember what the Discrete, Prob & Stat, or Linear Algebra text was.

You can try some of the online textbook places that students frequent - sometimes they set them up for specific schools, so they can cut out the bookstore middleman in reselling books. They should have a course list available with associated texts for the previous quarter.

Good luck w/ MicroE. I was CS, '05.
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Stewart is the most godly calc book out there...
 
Physics for Scientists and Engineers 6th ed. - Serway Jewett
Single Variable Calculus 5th ed. - Stewart
Multivariable Calc - Stewart
Chemistry 6th ed. - Zumdhal
 
Originally posted by: Injury
Originally posted by: Acanthus
Originally posted by: upsciLLion
Try the local bookstores to see if they have old editions that they would give to you.
Click to expand...

The problem is none of the local colleges will actually tell you what books are required unless you have a schedule with the professor and go to the book store with it.
Click to expand...

...

That's because they don't know what a specific professor requires.

Get on college website, determine cirriculum including exact classes (History 101, Math 210... whatever.)
edit: http://www.rit.edu/~932www/ugrad_bulletin/courses/course_number_index.html

and

http://www.rit.edu/~932www/ugrad_bulletin/courses/cast/mathsci.html

Go to the on-campus college bookstore and books are sorted by class, not by name or anything. They order them by that class name mentioned above.

Find out what books are required. Don't buy them.

Go home, get on amazon.com/ebay/whatever, search for said books.
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Good info 🙂 only thing right now is im about 220 miles from campus 🙁
 
Those type of books cover basically all the same things so just pick and choose a text. I would suggest an older edition you can find off half.com for a few bucks.
 
Originally posted by: Crazyfool
Originally posted by: Acanthus
Originally posted by: JS80
Have you considered attending a real college?
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Did you even read the OP?
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I think you should aim a little higher... like DeVry. :laugh:
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Are you saying RIT is a bad school? because its in the top 10 schools in the country for MicroE.

Dare i ask what you attend that has a working Fab in house, internships at fortune 100 companies, a graduate and doctorate program?

RITs co-op clients include Intel, AMD, NASA, US Navy research, The CIA, Lockheed martin, Boeing, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Lucent, Micron, Motorola, Xerox... more...

Owned? Or should we get into their staff, placement rating, and how hard it is to even get in?
 
Originally posted by: vegetation
Those type of books cover basically all the same things so just pick and choose a text. I would suggest an older edition you can find off half.com for a few bucks.
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Yeah thats what i was hoping to find, its not like algebra and physics have dramatically changed in the last 5 years.
 
I found a few things at half.com, and i found some other material at RITs online bookstore, thanks for the suggestions guys!
 
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