TI-83
This calculator of mine has seen four years of joy. I was gifted this calculator by the secretary of the office of the school I studied in Grade 10. Her name was Mrs. Hicks. She seemed very delighted about me, and one fine day, as we were talking casually, she pulled out a hundred dollar voucher from Staples and stuffed it in my hands. I didn't know what I'd buy at Staples for a hundred dollars, so I bought this calculator. I knew I would be needing it for many years.
I used the calculator and its superior graphing capabilities intensely for two good years while I was in IB. My math teacher stuck a sticker that read '7' on our calculators because she wanted all of us to get sevens on our IB final exam.
I entered university soon after. I found out, much to my dismay, that they don't let you use calculators during exams for the first two years of engineering. I used to walk into my calculus examination hall with as little equipment as an automatic pencil and a brand-new staedtler eraser. However, the calculator proved useful for statistics—one of my favorite subjects—to calculate the mean, variance, deviation, z-scores, chi-squared values, etc. of a given data-set when others were busy trying to look up values from an unreadable table.
Even after four years, the calculator is as perfect as new. Texas Instruments makes really superior-quality material, you have my word.
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