YO U M AY N OT
NEED ALL O F YOUR
TEXT
BOOKS
borrow books and rent a conference room at the library. You also need it to get the student discount price at the movie theaters. Now for your last stop. Bring all of your technology—phones, tablets, laptops —to the Computer Lab. If you?re walking past the library in the direction of the English and HSS buildings, it?s the building right after the library. Ring the doorbell to the of?ce, hand over your technology and student ID, and get connected to the network.
to keep up with assignments, not procrastinate, work out, blah blah blah. In all the excitement, you?re tempted to rush to the bookstore and gather everything you need—including all of the textbooks listed on your syllabi. Think again. The sad truth is too many professors don?t actually use the textbooks they list on the syllabus. Spend a week or two feeling out the course. Share a book with a classmate for the ?rst couple of weeks. If you feel like you?re starting to be
When you’re spending thousands of dollars a year,,
being too cool for school
is not an option.
THE CASHIER IS NOT WHERE YOU’D THINK.
You get billed at the Admissions and Records of?ce, but you pay at the cashier?s of?ce across campus. The cashier is located in the one-story building between the School of Business and the Fine Arts building. For your convenience, the cashier?s of?ce has forms for transcript requests, which saves you a trip to the admissions of?ce. If you followed my ?rst guideline, this is also where you would pick up your loan refund check between the hours of 9:00 AM and 3:30 PM, Monday through Friday. the annoying classmate who never has a book, that means you actually need the book. Go and buy it. If you ?nd yourself hardly ever sharing, and if the quizzes you?ve taken so far are based on lecture notes, you probably don?t need one.
NEVER ASSUME THINGS ARE GETTING DONE.
Always check up on the forms that you?ve turned in. Don?t assume that because you?ve done your part, the administration is doing theirs. Forms get lost all the time. Things move slowly. Call. Check on the status of a form. Always, always, always ask for the name of the person you talked to. The information you get from them will probably be denied later, and the name of a speci?c person will really help your case.
YOU DON’T NEED ALL YOUR TEXTBOOKS.
We?re all pumped up at the start of the school year. “This year will be different,” we say. We?re going