Thanks so much for all the help!

This bike will be locked up on campus where lots of bikes are stolen so I'm trying to spend as cheap as possible. I would use my CAAD9 but there's no way in hell that's going to last all day without getting something stolen from it. Lol.

Thanks again for the help! Your responses definitely cleared up some hazy looks on how I was going to get that 1x7/8/9 set-up.