I need money for a computer/books

hsmomstef
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:56:12 +0000

I was in a similiar situation a couple of years ago – I started back to school at a community college that offered a transition program for non-traditional students. They were able to lend me textbooks for a few classes (and lend me a graphing calculator needed for math). I used the school computer – which worked out well. I had morning and afternoon classes, and spent the time in-between at the library studying and could use the computer then.

Other possibilities for getting textbooks – see if they can be checked out from the library, ask the professor if they have copies that you can borrow, look for textbooks cheap on the internet (email and get the isbn# early), ask the professor if an older edition can be used for class, ask the professor (and other students that have taken the class) if the textbook is essential to the class (I have spent over $100 on a textbook – only to find out we never even opened it).

If you are a science or math major, the books are much more expensive. you might wait a semester or two to take a class with expensive books.