Hi. This is my first post on this thread, if it not allowed feel free to let me know of alternatives of how to get help. My boyfriend Noah is an Electrical Engineer Major at U of H Main Campus. While he is very passionate about his major and subjects/courses, expenses are getting in his way to continue. He has been telling me how he is desperately in need of one of these TI-Nspire CX 2 CAS Graphing calculators for his current enrollment Circuits Analysis class and future exams. As most may be, we are both broke college students and trying to stick it out in college with hopes and dreams that we will be able to pay back loans lol. With tuition as a feat of its own, a $200 calculator necessity to continue education I'd like to avoid defeat in. If there is an upper class student who is ready to part with their calculator it would be going to someone in need who believes in himself to push through his studies.
It sucks that monies is all that holds us back at times. Funny that we are always expected to pay one thing after the other out of pocket long past tuition just for the mandatory basics to succeed... We understand that apart of the "adult-ing" culture is to struggle but if there is a resource to make it less of a shit process, we are going to swallow our silly adult pride and use that resource. I hope others either in our generation or general situation take something from this. We don't have it all figured out but if we ask each other for help we could build a beautiful community of lifting each other up. The American Dream is less existent every day and I'm not really a fan of the "every man for themselves" mantra, soooo lets work together. Okay, I digress, my tangent is over!
All in all, we have researched alternatives like renting but CAS-enabled (Computer Algebra System) or TI-Nspire series calculators are not part of the standard free library checkout inventory on the main campus, nor at free public libraries. Renting wouldnt be an ideal solution though as he will need it for later courses. We are still in the process of scouring Facebook marketplace but I thought it may be productive to ask here too. I'd like to surprise him with a used one, and of course we would pay just hopefully at a discounted rate. Please let me know if you know anyone or if you yourself can help, or if there are solutions we havent thought of. Thank you for reading and considering. Next up will be posters littered about the campus on the hunt for this calculator.
If this post is not allowed as in "ISO" posts, please direct me where we can continue our search. Thanks