I joined sh.itjustworks because of the fact that it's powered by renewable energy and it's bilingual with French and English. As someone who wants to stop climate change and someone who is learning French, it made the most sense for me to join this instance. I have no alts, but if I were to make one it would probably be on lemmy.world, blajah.zone, or dbzer0.
Firefox, Libreoffice, and Bitwarden (I would include Zotero, but idk if it's open source)
Create a schedule and adhere to it.
Make friends, join clubs, and have fun.
Attend your lectures. I found that even if I was doing work for another class or playing on my iPad, I still gained something from attending lectures.
Go to office hours and build a relationship with your professors.
Create a four year plan of all of your classes. Your advisor may not be a good one and can fuck you over.
Take some summer classes at your local community college (check to make sure they transfer over).
Don't overly stress yourself out with grades. C's get degrees (unless you're trying to go to grad school or professional school, then you're going to have to try harder than a C)
Will I get jumped if I say MacOS?
I'm just kidding, but I do like MacOS. I just find it more aesthetically pleasing than Windows and I find it easier to use and longer lasting than Windows. Like, I had to use my 2014 MacBook Air with 4GB of RAM for a week because I needed to repair my main Mac. Yes, it was slow, I couldn't have too many apps running at the same time, and I couldn't have my customary 20 tabs open, but it was certainly usable and not too frustrating.
I didn't know that reddit was open source. How the times have changed
I use EyeBuyDirect. The only thing I don't like about them is that it's kinda hard to get a refund from them
I know you asked for one, but I'm going to list a whole bunch of websites that I use/used during school. Bolded are my favorites from each category.
General Websites
Math/Science
http://www.foundalis.com/lan/hw/grkhandw.htm Gives instructions on how to write Greek letters. Idk if this is useful for anyone else, but for some reason I have a hard time writing some Greek letters without this.
http://tug.ctan.org/info/undergradmath/undergradmath.pdf LaTeX math symbols
LaTeX online editor. I use this when my LaTeX isn't working, or if I'm using a new operators I haven't used before
https://guides.nyu.edu/LaTeX/creating-document Guide by NYU for creating LaTeX documents
https://math.berkeley.edu/%7Eehallman/math1B/ Worksheet/Quizzes from a UC Berkeley calc 2 class
Paul's Online Notes. This link is specifically for calc 2, but he has notes from algebra all the way to diff eq.
https://www.youtube.com/@patrickjmt/featured Great channel for math
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessorLeonard Another great channel for math. He's a professor who uploads his lectures from pre-calc up to diff eq I believe. Videos are long, but well worth it. He's the one of only reasons why I passed calc 1 and why (fingers crossed) I'll pass calc 2 this summer.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheOrganicChemistryTutor Great channel for math, chemistry, and physics. I use him more for examples rather than learning.
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/periodic-table/ Periodic table from PubChem. This is also a stand in for the websites of PubChem and PubHealth
French
I'm learning French currently and I have a few resources other than YouTube that is helpful
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/French This is the French IPA. Very useful to learn
https://www.ipachart.com/ How various IPA letters sounds like, not specific to French. They don't have all of the French letters, but useful regardless
phraseFantasic Resource for French language learning. Lots of info on here and while specific for French, can be useful for getting ideas on what/how to learn for other languages
https://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/gr/index.html French grammar from the University of Texas
https://www.wordreference.com/ French-English dictionary (not only has more languages than just French and English). Gives context, has conjugations, and has a forum so if your specific usage of the word isn't in the dictionary, you can ask/search the forum.
deepl.com Translator
That's it! There are some websites/extensions that I use for school that I didn't mention here because it's too specific, but here is (mostly) everything that I use regularly during high school and college
Same. There's a lot of subreddits that aren't here yet that I need and that there aren't many active forums for.
For example, I play a not uncommon instrument and I use the instrument's subreddit occasionally. It's a really good source for auditions, techniques, and resources. Unfortunately, there isn't a community here and most of the forums on that instrument are dead/closed. I could go on Facebook and join groups on there, but is that really better than Reddit
Yeah unfortunately. There are some subs that haven't migrated over yet and some subs that are active that have really useful info for me (school, language learning, etc.)
Someone I know almost didn't graduate this semester because his advisor gave him all of his easy classes in the fall semester and made him take 18 credits of hard engineering classes this spring. My advisor didn't allow me to request a time override despite them only having a conflict of one hour on one day. I need both of those classes to graduate and I couldn't take the other section because it was during the same time of my other major class. Luckily, it was a blessing in disguise and I was able to take that class this summer at a community college which was way easier than taking it at my home institution
Mic The Snare is a great channel talking about music. He uploads "Deep Discog Dives" where he goes into the discography of artists and does commentary talking about hot topics in music. His most DDD is Prince which is nearly 2 hours long (don't worry, most of his DDDs are less than 40 minutes long) and it was amazing.
At my high school, we basically had no enforcement of the dress code except for one incident. For context, everyone wore hats, crop tops, shorts, and stuff kinda like Euphoria. Certain teachers and administrators would ask you to take off your hat, but I haven't heard anyone get dress coded until senior year.
My school had a small trend where the senior guys would wear crop tops which lasted a few days until we heard that they banned guys wearing crop tops to school and dress coded one of the guys wearing them. Keep in mind, the girls could and did wear crop tops and no one dress coded them. Kinda ironic considering that the majority of dress code enforcement is towards girls, but the only time someone got dress coded (to my knowledge) in my four years of high school, it was a guy.