<p>I'm halfway through summer and beginning to shop for the stuff I'll need when college starts. aside from the necessities, is there anything that I should need?
Also, school supply-wise, what do you recommend that we bring (aside from paper, pencil, etc). Are we still going to need a binder with dividers for every class?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that unlike high school teachers, professors don't give a crap about what you do. Just buy whatever you think you need.</p>
<p>bring whatever you want, but most of the time you will just need a few notebooks (or paper in a 1/2 inch binder if you prefer) and pencil/pen. For labs or some math classes graph paper could be useful. highlighters if you like to highlight while reading a text. You might need to get a lab booklet from the bookstore (depending on the class of course). Can't really think of anything else, you don't really need all of that crap thats on most supplies lists for primary and secondary school.</p>
<p>lol, yeah, profs won't care what you bring at all unless its a lab book to a lab class, then they expect you to have it</p>
<p>Bring Crayons</p>
<p>Do most people bring laptops to take notes? For me personally, I type really fast so I think I might do that</p>
<p>buy neon pink/yellow sparkled gel pens. that will definitely **** off your teacher when it comes to grading.</p>
<p>yea laptops are great especially during math, chemistry and physics lectures</p>
<p>btw next week i go to ucsd and start school ... you still have 7 weeks left ;O</p>
<p>lolloloollolol</p>
<p>How would a laptop be good for math, physics, and other science classes? No one uses laptops during science lectures....If they do they are surfing the web, or on AIM. Done Deal</p>
<p>wow you need to get a sarcasm detector there bud</p>
<p>isn't handdrawn graphs and tables faster than using excel for maths and science classes? it's only typing that's faster than writing.</p>
<p>yeah thats true, but i can do that in paint too...</p>
<p>i brought binders but found that i only used them as storage, meaning after a course, I would stick all my tests, hw, papers in it and put it on my shelf. </p>
<p>For class you usually just use notebooks for notes (i dont get how ppl use laptops for science/math esp when we have to draw and label things on complicated molecular structures or things that involve lots of arrows on the paper etc). </p>
<p>I also keep one folder in my backpack for handouts and just binder paper. bring lots of number2 pencils (for future exams), a pencil sharpener (a cheap manual one), good erasers, a few pens (black, blue, red), HIGHLIGHTERS (i highlighted my books when i read and also my lecture notes). thats all i can think of right now..</p>
<p>I see......I still prefer my notebook baby baby</p>
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<p>Not sure what's so great about that. I can't wait for my last few weeks of summer school to end and for me to go home. Summer became all too short for me.</p>
<p>Anyways, back on topic, I've tried legal pads, laptops, notebooks, folders with paper, binders with paper, and for me in the end, notebook won. I like the fact that I don't lose papers unless I intentionally rip 'em out. On days when I don't feel like listening in class, I lug my laptop too and facebook when the professor goes on a tangent or sprouts stuff I don't need to hear again.</p>
<p>So my point was, unless you already know you have a preference, you can experiment.</p>
<p>In high school, with those binders that teachers grade for orderliness and what not, it was all to teach you ways to organize yourself. </p>
<p>You should try to figure out what's best for you during your first couple quarters at UCSD. </p>
<p>I found out I like one pocket folder for each class to store handouts, and a spiral notebook for lecture notes. I just look back at that once notebook for my notes when I need to study, and I don't need to really put anything in a binder, so a pocket folder works for me. It's all kinda simplistic and not too "neat", but it works for me. </p>
<p>Some classes will ask for specific things, but they'll let you know the first day of class, and the bookstore has a office/stationary section better than any Target. </p>
<p>Maybe you should wait and get all your stuff here so you won't have to carry anything. You can get a nifty UCSD notebook! ^_^</p>
<p>^Haha.</p>
<p>When I went to UCSD for admit day, some coordinator lady was standing outside the bookstore and she told me that the bookstore loves to rip us off.</p>
<p>The bookstore does! They stick UCSD on a notebook and then double the price... Unless you want a complete set of UCSD supplies, I suggest you buy stuff at home.</p>
<p>Eh, not all notebooks are UCSD notebooks, tough. They're just the more visible ones.</p>