@epicschwinn -let me drop this on you. never buy textbooks. reasons. 1. you can generally borrow them from a library. 2. if you really need it for an assignment, ask a girl. study date. boom. 3. huggggge rip off. 4. wait until two weeks into classes. feel out which professors are assigning a lot of work from the textbooks, then if you HAVE to; buy it. my freshman year, i bought ALL the required books and maybe opened two of them.

in the 4.5 years of college i did, i probably spent $1000 total. (mostly english literature that i enjoyed and still own)