<p>When are we supposed to buy textbooks? Can we buy them early, for the classes that we know for sure we will stick with? </p>
<p>Do you bring textbooks to your class every day? Like for chem lab, or calc class...</p>
<p>Do you bring a laptop to every lecture? </p>
<p>Thanks :)</p>
<p>Cornell generally doesn’t post the book list until a couple weeks before the semester starts, which makes buying online difficult. If you are looking to save on textbooks, Kraftees in C-town is pretty good. Also, Amazon Prime (which gives free 2-day shipping) is free for students. For the most part, you don’t need your textbooks until a couple weeks into the semester anyway. If you really need it right away, you can always buy it at the Cornell store after your first class.</p>
<p>No, you aren’t expected to bring textbooks to class. </p>
<p>Depends how much you end up using your laptop. I would say most students don’t use their laptop in class (maybe 30%), but it varies. For science a laptop isn’t as useful because of the type of notes you are taking. For more liberal arts classes where you aren’t taking notes of formulas, laptops are more common/useful. You’ll figure it out. I was an economics/government major so I never used my laptop for econ classes (since we were mostly copying formulas/charts), but in gov’t I almost always used a laptop since there were no formulas/charts to take notes on. Other classes it depended. In my German classes I never used it because the classes were so small that it was kinda rude to stare at a laptop screen while the teacher was lecturing.</p>
<p>Thanks for your response!
And oh I see…</p>
<p>i always bring at least my netbook with me to class. you never know when you are going to need it during the day. you definitely don’t need to be bringing your textbooks to class. don’t buy till the booklists are posted. you probably won’t need them till the second week of classes anyway.</p>