<p>Hi everyone, i was just wondering: When are book lists made available for fall classes, and where do you go when they are available? On BlackBoard? Thanks for all the help.</p>
<p>Another quick question: How many of you buy your books off of Amazon to save money? This is what i planned on doing, but didn't know if the book lists were going to come out the day classes start or a month before they start. Would you recommend buying books off the internet?</p>
<p>Would people recommend going to class the first day before buying books?</p>
<p>I don’t know if this a rumor or not, but I hear that some classes, you can survive without a book because in those classes, the book is mostly used if you need clarification on the subject? Please do correct me if this is false.</p>
<p>it’s true. that happened in my philosophy class. for classes you know you’ll be needing the textbook (bio, chem, etc), then buy the book online. for the other classes, i usually wait til the first day of classes.</p>
<p>I made the mistake of buying them before I went to class. So don’t do the same and go to class first before buying them. Sometimes you may find out you only need to read a chapter out of a whole book and then you can simply go to the library or photocopy it.</p>
<p>But for science and math classes, I would just buy the books before. You pretty much need them for studying, problem sets, clarification, etc.</p>
<p>Would you recommend emailing the professor before school starts (like now) to ask him/her which books are needed, etc?</p>
<p>And if what War Chant says happens, where you don’t need the whole book, are all textbooks/books that the classes use available in the USC libraries to check out? Or in the reference section or something?</p>