Best time to buy books

Dnerd
Wed, 06 Jul 2011 06:00:37 +0000

Don’t feel like you need to be one of “those” kids who has to absolutely be prepared for the first week of school. All you need to have for the first week of class is a computer, paper, and pencil/pen along with whatever else the syllabus shows (if it’s up by then). The first day of class is when you should find out if you absolutely need to buy a certain edition of a book (or if you need one at all) from the professor him/herself. They aren’t [all] a-holes and will usually wait until the majority of people have access to their books before requiring anything to be done from the text. That’s been the case for 10/12 of my classes so far, and the other 2 didn’t need books.

Oh and some syllabi are uploaded way before class starts while others take a week or just aren’t uploaded at all.