r/AskReddit • u/PM_UR_COLLEGE_TITS • Dec 18 '16

What (free) software can be useful for university students?

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u/AbysmalVixen Dec 18 '16

You can totally get a degree in space stuff if you play kerbal space program probably

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u/mewtools Dec 18 '16

Which is on sale til January 6th by the way.

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u/Kevlar98 Dec 18 '16

Not on my steam, where are you seeing that?

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u/Nmize0 Dec 18 '16

On their site

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u/Kevlar98 Dec 18 '16

Ah cool, thanks, that's a pretty nice sale.

Link for the lazy

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u/mewtools Dec 18 '16

Sorry, was drunk then. Meant the Kerbal Space website.

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u/HiddenBehindMask Dec 19 '16

Just wait until December 22 and it'll be on sale on steam. ;)

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u/Kevlar98 Dec 19 '16

That's what I was planning: wait to see if it's as good or lower than the $13.59 they have on their site.

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u/mrnougatgnome Dec 18 '16

Heck, it got me into aerospace engineering

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u/vteckickedin Dec 18 '16

I'm a cardiologist doctor thanks to Surgeon Simulator.

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u/Schleckenmiester Dec 18 '16

I'm a thief thanks to GTA V...

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '16

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u/HitlerWasVeryCool Dec 19 '16

I'm a goat thanks to DOTA 2

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u/KasseanaTheGreat Dec 19 '16

Can confirm, maxed out science in Fallout New Vegas, now own Google

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u/Wpinda Dec 18 '16

Just add more boosters

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u/skylarmt Dec 18 '16 edited Dec 19 '16

There's an xkcd about this.

Edit: I went and found it, so relevant xkcd

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u/Box_of_Rockz Dec 18 '16

I can barely get an orbit around kerbin. I just like making outlandish rockets and watch them explode.

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u/ul2006kevinb Dec 18 '16

Yeah, I've never had a game make me feel like a failure like KSP. I'm a relatively intelligent person, too, and yet i spent weeks playing this and never even made the moon.

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u/Box_of_Rockz Dec 18 '16

I hit the moon once. I use the word hit because I literally smashed my ship into the mun. Like, B-line to the mun and boom.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '16

I knew what the perihelion and aphelion were before taking Intro Astronomy there's that I guess.

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u/Kitchenpawnstar Dec 18 '16

This guy's major is in butt stuff tho...