<p>Are you planning to transfer to a regular university? How will you deal with going back to your car when your classes will be a mile away from it…plus most likely you’ll be taking a bus all over campus because there is limited parking spaces.
whats the big deal about rolling backbacks?? personally idk. is it to be cool that you dont like them? you are in college not high school anymore…</p>
<p>Thanks darts180 I am female, so a tote would probably work out better.</p>
<p>Thanks to everybody who answered. Unfortunately my campus is big, but oh well I’m going to walk back and forth to my car if I need to.</p>
<p>AnyaAres, I understand your opinion, but with all respect you haven’t been to my campus. If I had a rolling backpack not only would I be kicked, but i would be the end of the world. Students at my campus can be so judgmental and rude. It IS quite like high school. There’s no way I’m using a “rolly” backpack.</p>
<p>Cut the bindings off your books so that they are collections of loose pages. Then only bring the pages you’ll need to work with on a given day.</p>
<p>Once the semester is over, put a comb binding on, so that you can keep the pages together or you can resell your book. (Or get the comb binding done at the outset, and then just take the comb out while you are in the process of getting new pages and putting old pages back.) Highlight the comb binding as a positive attribute: the book will lie flat, making it easier to move between multiple texts and notes as the next owner studies.</p>
<p>Kinko’s or a similar place ought to be able to help you with this. If they say they can’t or won’t cut the bindings off (or punch the holes for comb bindings through the covers), go check out the Disability Services office on your campus: odds are that they are chopping the bindings off of books so they can scan them more quickly in the conversion to alternate formats and then reassembling the books with comb bindings so that the students who bought the books can resell them at the end of the semester, and they should be able to tell you who does it for them.</p>
<p>I have really liked swiss gear backpacks. They can support tons of weight and many have shock absorbers to take on a hefty load. </p>
<p>I find them everywhere nowadays, especially in Staples, but that could be only my region…</p>