School supplies for Summer B

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<p>Which school supplies would you recommend to buy? I'll be a freshman starting Summer B, and I'll be taking 2 classes.
How many notebook,folders (2 I assume will be enough?), etc?</p>

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<p>Ah your question took me through memory lane back to my high school days when people still bought school supplies lol</p>

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<p>One per class will probably be fine. Or you could get a multi-subject spiral bound, which is what I prefer to do. I love the 5 subject Mead Five Star spiral bounds. </p>

<p>Like PrettyPeridot intimated, there isn’t any set list of stuff you have to have or will absolutely need (with certain exceptions, like needing a graphing calculator for some classes and things like that). Check the syllabi for your classes, that information will be there. You will figure out what works for you after a few semesters and should go with that.</p>

<p>However, I would suggest highlighters, index cards, a pen or two and #2 mechanical pencils (Please! Listening to people sharpen their pencils in class is really annoying and wastes class time. Make sure they are #2 so they will work with scantrons.) I would also invest in a stapler, your professors will almost certainly expect your papers to be stapled together, and will most likely not have a stapler that you can use.</p>

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<p>PrettyPeriod, you mean, these days people don’t buy them?
Well, I am so classical…what else can I say? ;)</p>

<p>And thanks, propwash.</p>

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<p>Its mostly a highschool/freshman thing. You’ll see as the years go by. As long as you have pencils and paper you’re good to go. This meme illustrates the [general] attitude towards supply shopping perfectly.</p>

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<p>I tried to order online from the uf bookstore, but they want to ship them to our home it looks like. I don’t think there is time since she starts summer b… Is there anyway to order and pay then just pick up at the bookstore? My son was able to do that at his college.</p>

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<p>is there a particular reason why you wan’t to buy at the uf bookstore? its likely cheaper elsewhere.</p>

<p>if you are going with the bookstore though, theres no reason to order it in advance. you’ll be able to buy it up there just as easily. i don’t remember if you can order online and pick up once summer b gets started.</p>

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<p>I just purchased the textbook I need for Summer B off of amazon for half the price UF is selling it for. And I also just finished ordering my Fall textbooks and spent 58 dollars. Don’t buy them from UF!</p>

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<p>Does Amazon sell the books that are “UF” packets? I figured that UF did that so you had to buy from them. I’ll take the ISBN numbers and try! Thanks.</p>

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<p>^^What do you mean by UF packets?</p>

<p>And yes, I agree. Buying from Amazon is so so much cheaper!</p>

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<p>what about checking them out at the Sante Fe or UF library? What if it is just one edition out of date - couldn’t be that much of a difference could it?</p>

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<p>Yes one edition is a big difference. In some books, a bigger difference than in others. The pages will be different, maybe the chapters are arranged differently, and maybe the newer edition has added chapters that the other one lacks.</p>

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<p>Email the teacher before buying an older edition book. Typically the teachers are willing to be accommodating, and won’t mind it at all. It really doesn’t matter that much, as long as there isn’t homework assigned out of the book (and even then, its not always a huge deal and the teachers may be willing to accommodate you). Just my experience this past year at UF.</p>

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<p>if you have daily/weekly homework from the book, don’t use and old textbook regardless of what your professor says. they haven’t checked old textbooks, and the questions are almost always different.</p>

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<p>From my daughter’s experience, generally tthe teachers will say in the syllabus if and which older editions are acceptable. They</p>

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<p>i was going to say they generally know of the changes because they have used the previous editions.</p>