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Hello. I am a mechanical engineering student that will start their first term thos up coming fall. I saw online that the recommended amount is 32 gb of ram but could I survive with 16 gb? I really want a thin laptop, and was thinking about the zephyrus g16 16 gb ram model.

So I have the option to pick from CS 225 or math 231 elements of discrete math as I live near OSU. Any recommendations on which to pick?

This is my first Reddit post so please bear with me if i've done this wrong. First of all i'm a high school student going into senior year. I have four years of English credits and can graduate high school with no issue. However I was looking at my dream university's website recently (Oregon State University) and the website says four years of English classes. I took English 9 & 10 at St. Mary's Academy and took Writing 121 & 122 (a college class) at my new high school. The college classes are legit (with a college my small school partnered with) and are the reason I have four high school credits ahead of time. However i'm unsure how much this type of thing will effect college admissions. I wanted to ask for help before I start my senior year and cant add a English class in my schedule (i'm taking two science classes instead since thats the field I would like to join). Any advice is greatly appreciated and thank you ahead of time. :)

My daughter will be an in coming freshman. She plans to study electrical & computer engineering. What computer do upper classmates recommend we should get her? She currently has a Mac Air I believe current year. Can she survive her first year with this one or should I get her a non Mac computer? Oh yea the Mac she currently has was a gift from a computer science/coding foundation she got into. She was enjoyed coding in high school and is taking this 6 month program. She gets to keep the Mac after completing the program. Just not sure if it will work for her. If I recall someone mention it during launch that a Mac wasn’t the best option.

Hello, I’m currently looking into getting a bachelors in CompSci. I noticed there’s a program that allows someone to take the first 2 years of schooling at Chemeketa and then transferring to OSU for the last 2 years. This method is way cheaper than doing 4 years at OSU.

I was curious if anyone here has tried that, and if so, how did it go? How is Chemeketa’s program? How did you like it?

I am signed up for MTH 311 this fall and plan on taking 312 in the winter. All I've heard about this series is that both classes are hard and proof-heavy. If anyone's taken either of these before, I'd like an insight on your experience in these classes, what homework/tests looked like, etc.

Also, I'm considering taking MTH 351 in the winter. I satisfy the course prereqs for 351, but the course recommends programming experience beforehand. If anyone's taken 351 before, do I actually need to know how to code before taking this class? Also, how hard was 351?

In early 2025, the Trump administration implemented a near-total freeze on U.S. foreign aid, followed by the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). By July 1, 2025, 83% of USAID programs were canceled, and 94% of its staff were laid off, with remaining programs absorbed into the U.S. State Department Wikipedia+1. The cuts affected over 130 countries, including Ukraine, Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, and Myanmar oxfamamerica.org+1. USAID had previously disbursed roughly $40 billion annually, funding lifesaving programs in health, nutrition, education, and disaster relief Forbes.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the House Foreign Affairs Committee in May that “no one has died because of USAID cuts … No children are dying on my watch.”

“Beyond creating a globe-spanning NGO industrial complex at taxpayer expense,” said Rubio in a statement for the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, “USAID has little to show since the end of the Cold War. Development objectives have rarely been met, instability has often worsened, and anti-American sentiment has only grown.”

Many people applauded the cuts to U.S. foreign aid and the dismantling of USAID saying that its programs were not in the interest of the U.S. or developing countries.

Arikana Chihombori-Quao, former African Union ambassador to the U.S., told Al Jazeera in an interview that USAID had significant negative effects on political stability and economic growth within Africa.

“When you look at it on paper,” Chihombori-Quao said, “it all looks really good, but they’re actually wolves in sheep’s clothing. They’re using that open access … to constantly destabilize governments.”

“I can tell you right now that the majority of African leaders and not just African leaders, but leaders in the developing world, are celebrating the exit of USAID.”

“The American taxpayer needs to know that [of the] billions of dollars that have been given to USAID, a fraction is making it to the people,” she continued.

Chihombori-Quao said that the solution for African prosperity was for Africa to take control of its natural resources and prevent developed countries from exploiting them. She also said that the average African government can afford to provide health care and education for their populations and should not rely on foreign handouts.

What’s happened in the year since USAID was dismantled? – Deseret News

I know questions about backpacks get asked every year but I haven’t found any about sizing. What‘s a good size backpack/ how many books and or notebooks are you carrying around? For reference I am a MechE student.

i’m trying to sign up for this class in the fall and I have some questions for those who have taken it or are going to take it in the fall.

I was not aware it was a capstone project class, and this class a requirement for my bachelor of science marine studies, conservation management degree, whereas a capstone is not.

can I still take this without a project or do I just have to go in and make up a project? im not sure if this makes sense, it’s hard for me to understand what I need right now lol. any advice helps!!

Where do people put the micro fridge combo in Wilson? That back wall shelf seems to block anything from going back there. Any thoughts.

I just finished my Summer classes this last week and don't know if they end up getting distributed faster, slower or about the same time as any other term as Summer 2026 is my first term at OSU.

Thanks

Hello, HELP!
After living for 6 months we left the apartment. The property management changed after 3 months.
Now the new management deducted from our 1.5K deposit for random reason like refrigerator replacement, stove replacement which were old already and we also faced few issues from the very beginning. They deducted the whole security deposit by showing these along cleaning which looks like scamming.
Is there any way we can take some legal action against them? Help/ Suggestions?

26 F, I need advice. So my situation is I used to be a full time pet care provider, buisness was good but I decided to get my degree & change course. Conveniently, I tore my ACL a week before class started. My life turned upside down, and I got surgery. Although I went in-person, I missed a significant amount of class due to my injury, but I still came out with a 4.0 and (subtle flex) I didn't use a lick of AI.

More than just my ACL tearing, I lost a lot of close friends and important clients, among other significant things since the injury. I do not live near any schools I want to go to, ie way too elite for me or not ABET-accredited/not a good education imo. I also have been feeling like I need a big change, so I have been thinking heavily about moving my things to my parent's house and becoming a traveling dog sitter/traveling around, while going to OSU online. I know an engineering degree is obviously very difficult and online will likely add another element of complication. However, I can plan my schedule accordingly and it's always an option to stay with my parents for a couple months if I need to lock in.

Yes I'm sad to miss out on the in-person college experience, but I did that when I was 18 until covid and I'm really having a lot of racing thoughts about going into my 30s with regret. I hope to one day be married & start a family, and obviously hope to have a ME job, so it feels like if I want to explore the U.S. the time really is now.

Does anyone have any insight into how their experience was and what their take away was? Did the online degree impede your ability to get jobs? Was there ways to get internships? I don't want to work super hard only to get f**ked over, but I really want to do this. I also heard you can take CC classes in conjunction with the ecampus?

I heard someone say the other day that when you make a big decision that you should consider which option will leave you with regret that you can live with. I technically don't have a tight time frame of when to make this decision, but every day of indecision feels like torture, especially after having 8 months of being bedridden or having very limited mobility.

So I'm dual enrolled with a community college and OSU. I'm doing my first year at the CC starting fall 26' and then going to OSU for the last 3 years. My problem is I thought I wanted to major in ECE but realized I want to not work with ai, and want to be more involved in the environment, helping animals, field work, chemistry, and biology.

So far, I've found wildlife biology, wildlife conservation, and oceanography interesting, but I keep seeing that jobs in conservation and wildlife bio are very competitive, low paying, and unstable. I believe I want to get a PhD but I'm not quite sure. Plus I prefer chemistry over biology, so is there a lot of chemistry classes in the major?

Oceanography seems really cool, and if I were to get a PhD in it I would do chemical oceanography, but I'm not quite sure what it fully entails. Will I be on boats or submarines a lot? If you're a oceanographer please let me know, and I'm really new to ocean studies so I'm a bit afraid tbh. Were you afraid in the beginning?

This is a lot of questions, so I apologize, but if you know anything please comment! Thank you :)

What is the best option for leaving a bicycle for 2 weeks (between summer session and fall term) on or near campus?

Can bikes be left for that long in campus bike lockers or is there other paid storage anywhere?

If not, what, in y’all’s opinion, is the best/safest bike rack to leave a bike locked up for the first two weeks of September where it won’t likely be removed by campus security or stolen? Thanks Beavs!

I’ve been having a really hard time focusing lately. I’ll sit down with the intention of studying, but my phone, social media, and random thoughts keep distracting me. By the time I realize it, I’ve wasted hours. What actually works for you?