<p>Do all current students use their DukeCard for all purchases (books, laundry, food, miscellaneous things), or do some of you have bank accounts in which you withdraw money to purchase. I am thinking about opening with Wachovia, but I don’t know if I need to if I have my DukeCard for everything.
Also, I wanted to know how to find out what books I will need for my classes so that I could buy them cheaply on Amazon instead of using the Duke service. How can I find out? </p>
<p>CHEM 21L and L9
COMP METH EGR + LAB + RECITATION
ACADEMIC WRITING: CHILDHOOD IN VIC. LIT.
MATH 103
Thanks!</p>
<p>I can tell you for EGR 53:</p>
<p>Applied Numerical Methods with MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists
Steven C. Chapra
0-07-239265-7
Pub: McGraw Hill, Edition: 1st
Year: 2005, Next Ed:
Status: REQUIRED</p>
<p>GUIDE TO LATEX
KOPKA
0-321-17385-6
Pub: PEARSON, Edition:
Year: , Next Ed:
Status: OPTIONAL</p>
<p>INTRO TO MATLAB 7 FOR ENGINEERS
PALM
0-07-292242-7
Pub: MCGRAW, Edition:
Year: , Next Ed:
Status: REQUIRED</p>
<p>Wow, why 3 books! That’s over $250. Sigh. There goes my summer earnings.</p>
<p>get used to it 
chem is worse from what i hear</p>
<p>Welcome to college. Your chem books will be in the same price range. Luckily, you’ll most likely be using your chem book again second semester.</p>
<p>As for banking, I would definitely say that you want to have a bank account at Duke. You’ll find yourself going off-campus from time to time (or more frequently… it’ll depend on you and your activities/friends), and you won’t be able to use your DukeCard. I opened a Wachovia account, and I think that that’s the best choice because there is a Wachovia ATM underneath the Marketplace, as well as one in the Bryan Center, so you have access to your money on both campuses without getting surcharges.</p>
<p>So how should I distribute my money; half to FLEX, half to Wachovia?</p>
<p>I normally just kept 50 on FLEX, but that was because I normally would only use it for laundry.</p>
<p>It depends on how much random shopping you anticipate having to do. I kept a little more on flex for things like, weekly migraines after 3 hour chem lab followed by math class. AND I’m a girl so I got really addicted to the magazine section of the east campus store. All things you can use debit for, but it’s nice to have mom and dad pay:)</p>
<p>So can FLEX be used to buy books when we come on campus + laundry + pre-paid food + what else?
And one more thing: is there a Wachovia branch (not just ATM) where I can deposit my work-study earnings?</p>
<p>Yeah, there’s one right on the corner of Ninth Street. The ATM on West Campus can also handle making deposits. I never actually visited the bank itself to make a deposit… just went over to West and made my deposits there.</p>
<p>quick random question: is lunch at the Marketplace a pick-up bag lunch or a buffet like breakfast?</p>
<p>about the textbooks above (because i’d like them cheaper too) in the Blue Devil delivery booklet, is it $350 to simply reserve the textbooks? or is it $350 towards the purchase of the textbooks?</p>
<p>lunch at the MP is a la carte, so you have to just pay for everything individually. You can either eat there, but many people just take it to go. They have a variety of stuff too, and it’s actually generally pretty good.</p>