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Contains locally sourced, organic wisdom. Shared by the student body, curated by USB.

How do I become an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant?

Get paid to help students during labs

How can I rent equipment?

Borrow equipment to tinker with for free

Transferring Files via SCP and FileZilla

Copy files to and from Purdue's servers

Getting a Lawson Key Fob

Access Lawson after hours

SSH Shortcut for Purdue Servers

Tired of typing data.cs.purdue.edu?

Connecting to Purdue's VPN

Access campus-only resources from anywhere!

Subscribing to the Purdue CS Calendar

Get notified of CS Department events on your calendar

Optimize your search on our wiki

Save yourself some time!

How to Join USB

Want to lead cool initiatives like this student wiki?

Contribute to the Wiki

Add or edit an article on the Student Wiki

Fun/Interesting Classes at Purdue

Take a break from your required classes!

Connecting to PAL3.0 on Linux

Access campus-only resources from anywhere!

Github Pages Guide

Create a personal website hosted and deployed by Github!

Terminal cheatsheet

Learn some important UNIX commands

Using Terminal

Learn how to efficiently use terminal

Cloning a Github Repository with Intellij

Learn how to use IntelliJ to clone a git repository and track your changes

Git Guide

Get good with the git guide

LaTeX Guide

Learn important LaTeX commands

Getting Started with LaTeX

Learn how to get started with LaTeX and Overleaf

It's Spring Semester – What do I do with my summer?

Looking last minute for a summer opportunity?

USB's Current Constitution

USB's Constitution

CS Course Reflections

Past students' feedback on CS courses at Purdue

Help Room Information

Extra help for CS 180, CS 182, CS 240

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