<p>Haha I am so glad I don’t have to do that again.</p>
<p>@Preamble1776 For the textbook situation definitely email the professor because they usually want to help unless if they are just jerks all around. Sometimes the school bookstore forces professors to post required text or require they advertise the newest edition. For my upcoming physics class, the bookstore says I need ninth edition which is $200 (online), but the professor’s syllabus (For my upcoming class not a previous one) online says seventh edition which is only $7. This goes towards my next suggestion which would be to wait until syllabus are handed out on first day and the professor will usually tell you what is necessary for the course and what is not. Emailing the professor the week before classes start is usually okay with them and some expect it and send out the syllabus in an email to their prospective students. </p>
<p>Yeah, I was thinking of buying my textbooks early to feel more college-y, but then I saw the price tags and decided that it could wait. </p>
<p>The college I’m going to didnt take the Common App either and for that school I wrote such a bad essay because I had no clue what to write.</p>
<p>@jimmyboy23 I did the same thing for most of my books… except for this one book which is being printed and distributed later this month… </p>
<p>It’ll be the first book I buy new, but I’m pretty sure I saved 50-95% on every other book. </p>
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<p>My professor said it was okay to use the earlier edition. Woot! </p>
<p>Woo! I got into a math class I really wanted to take! Many people have suggested that we wait until after Day 1 to see what the professor says. I don’t know if you guys will need your textbooks right away, but I figure I can just order them with like 1 day shipping if I need to.</p>
<p>I start class on the 2nd but get to campus on the 23rd of August for a four day pre-orientation river rafting trip.</p>
<p>So far I know all of my housing info but don’t figure out my classes until the 1st (with the exception of an honors intro government course I was invited to enroll in). </p>
<p>Got a 15" MBP. 16 GB RAM, quad core i7, Iris graphics, 9 hours of battery life, glorious retina display. “The Beast”</p>
<p>Anybody rushing? I might.</p>
<p>@teenbodybuilder Nice, I got the 13" one on sale, didn’t wanna spend that much for 15"</p>
<p>@teenbodybuilder </p>
<p>please tell me you got the one with dedicated gpu</p>
<p>@foolish </p>
<p>Nope wasn’t worth another $400. The MBP with integrated Iris benchmarks to my satisfaction as the best integrated chip on the market. It’s also a peach with battery life compared to the Nvidia-chipped MBP which has just over 3 hours of real world battery life.</p>
<p>It’ll play the new Civ gloriously which is about the extent of how I’ll use it for gaming. I built my dad a gaming PC so I’ll use it for hardcore gaming.</p>
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13", 16 GB, 2.8 GHz dual core i5, Iris, 9 hrs, rMBP checking in. Delivers either Monday or Tuesday and I move in Wednesday. </p>
<p>Mine’ll chug out Minecraft on lower settings with minimum problems. </p>
<p>Anxiously awaiting mine to get here. 2 days left to hang out with my friends and I’m stuck waiting to sign for a laptop…</p>
<p>Wow, never really looked at the iris pro before. It’s actually very close to the dedicated 750 or 755 :o</p>
<p>@Vctory </p>
<p>the days when $2000 computers can chug out minecraft on lowest settings</p>
<p>Can confirm Iris is good. Runs Civ V at high texture and low shaders nicely.</p>
<p>It’s moving in weekend and my college class fb page is blowing up with posts. </p>
<p>Computer came in a day early and I’m loving this thing. Just downloaded Steam.</p>
<p>are you guys switching from pc to mac for college? or have you always been on mac?</p>