I HATE buying textbooks...

[bicentennial_baby]

:cry: $500-600....18 books. :cry:

Thank Jeebus for lots of excess Financial Aid... :)

It pays to get the grades, 'cause then they give you da $$$... :)

[ceile]

1. The worst part of every semester

I hated it. But I was a history major so I never had to buy any of those huge science books that cost an arm and a leg. At the same time though, I couldn't ever sell any of them back.

[GirlinContempt]

2. Can't you get them second hand?

[bicentennial_baby]

6. Only some of them...

A bunch are brand new $60-100 books...Stupid History classes...

But, i don't have to buy a new copy of the Communist Manifesto, hehe... :D

[GirlinContempt]

10. Lame-o

But good-o!

[LeftyMom]

3. I have to go get two more today

Luckily they won't set me back that much.

[bicentennial_baby]

7. I'm just glad I have the aid $$

or else, I have no idea what I would do...

[LeftyMom]

9. My tuition was waived

So I can't really complain too much about the cost of the books. It's a lot of money though, at least to me.

[bicentennial_baby]

12. Oh I know the feeling

Right now i'm wrestling with FinAid about getting my Tuition Discount, which I am supposed to get for my GPA...1/3rd off at University...sigh.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

4. $600 for 9 books for me

:cry:

[bicentennial_baby]

8. Ouch baby!!

:hug:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

11. at least you got twice the load

:evilgrin:

[bicentennial_baby]

13. True dat....but now I have to carry them all home on the T

x(

[Katina]

5. I hated reading text books!

:boring:

[zero_blue]

14. textbook tips from a real cheapskate......

email your professor and ask if its ok to get an old edition, you can save hundreds. (amazon.com, half price books)

or ask your indian friends and get an "international" edition, which is usually paperback and way less expensive (got my campbell biology current edition for $9.95 this way, regular over $100)

or go to your school library and check out the ones you need (got at least 1 book per semester at my college library this way, you have to do it early though, before semester starts usually)

last but not least, if you have access to a free copier and some time, borrow or "rent" a textbook and copy it, put it in a spiral notebook.

[catmandu57]

15. Textbook coops

Get together with a few other people taking the same class, let the person who reads best have it first to highlite the relevant passages, then pass it around.