Transition from High school to University

Hello /sci/

I am about to transition from high school to university and would like some reading that would help me prepare for a first year engineering or general sciences course.

Preferably chemistry or physics since I am missing a few courses in those subjects but they will let me squeak by because of my marks.

Any suggestions welcome, just not SICP.
(If you were going to suggest that get back to /prog/)

>>6
>>7
What is this "SICP" and why might I want to watch/do/read it?

>>11
Putnam's not "required", strictly speaking, but if you want to get into a really good math grad school, it's definitely strongly recommended.  If you're not doing math, though, it's just a waste of time.

>>13
I thought the GRE was always required for grad school. ??

>>14
I have a TI-92 (the old version of a TI-89, a few less features, but has a qwerty keyboard and is much easier to type with), and I use it all the time.  It's not nearly as powerful as mathematica, but as long as it's powerful enough for what I'm doing, I prefer using a small calculator that's easy to handle physically over dragging out my laptop or walking over to a PC and waiting forever for mathematica to load up.  Its programming language is powerful enough to make it do just about anything I want it to, but on the other hand, it's just not very fast, and it's easy to write programs that take forever to run.  That's where the computer comes in, though.

>>15
Depends how dumb you are.