<p>I am still waiting to get into courses so I'm wondering if i need to buy books for courses before August 22?</p>
<p>Do you usually need books the first day of class?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Not the very first day, no.</p>
<p>Most teachers don’t expect you to buy your books until they hand you a syllabus with the required book list on it. Now, they might expect you have it relatively quickly, but if you order a book on Wednesday (first day of classes) and ship it USPS, you should get it the next week at some time.</p>
<p>I have never bought books before attending a class, especially as a freshman. It’s better to wait to find out of you really need the book for the class because as you’ll find, sometimes you don’t.</p>
<p>If you’re taking a really basic class that everyone in your major must take first semester, you’d probably want to get the book beforehand though. For example, the calculus book used by M408K, L, M, C, and D (because that’s a LOT of people who need it) and the book for BIO 311C (I waited til the first day to order it and didn’t get it til the 3rd week. That happened for a lot of people and since the class is reading intensive, it wasn’t the best situation.) But for most other classes, just wait to see what the professor says.</p>
<p>No, you don’t have to buy the book by the first day of class. the calculus books and biology books are on reserve at the libraries.</p>