<p>I'm looking to get my text books early, but I'm having trouble finding out which ones to buy. Does anybody know where I can look up the text books for various courses, or happen to know the names and of editions of the books for:</p>
<p>09-217 organic chemistry
03-231 Biochemistry I
09-221 Laboratory I: introduction to chemical analysis
02-362 Cellular neuroscience</p>
<p>Thanks for the help.</p>
<p>First, anything you need at CMU-- the search box on the home page works really well.</p>
<p>Here’s the link to the campus bookstore</p>
<p><a href=“http://bookstore.web.cmu.edu/SelectTermDept.aspx[/url]”>http://bookstore.web.cmu.edu/SelectTermDept.aspx</a></p>
<p>DON’T buy the books there-- total rip off… buy them online-- search with the ISBN # (not title or author) in any search engine so you get the correct edition.</p>
<p>I’m partial to half.com – it has worked really well for my D and I just bought my S many of the Fall books he’ll need. I spend about $40-60 per book for those that cost new easily over a $100 - 150.</p>
<p>Students are also selling books through a discussion thread on FB-- you might find some there.</p>
<p>Make sure you get any books with CDs if that’s what the prof ordered-- b/c you may need to submit hw through an online portal.</p>
<p>When do Tepper students receive schedules? I want to attempt to buy my books before orientation.</p>
<p>No one has their official schedule yet in any of the schools…registration typically starts late July into first week of August for most students. I’m not familiar with Tepper-- but it seems that the curriculum is pretty straightforward allowing you make some inferences on your courses and buy some of the books in advance. Certainly your math book and computer class should be known at the minimum, along with econ. Your electives may be risky to buy yet…but the core classes-- go ahead and by those books.</p>
<p>Don’t wait till orientation -then you’re stuck with the CMU bookstore prices…total waste of money.</p>
<p>to be fair, it’s an even bigger waste of money to buy a textbook and then go to class the first day and find out that the professor doesnt require it. or if you decide to drop the class a week in. amazon is giving students free amazon prime accounts so you get free 2 day shipping on purchases, so that may be one route to take. i’ve been able to get 30-50% off bookstore prices by buying my textbooks off of the misc.market bboard on andrew webmail too.</p>
<p>In response to bco09, in my experience you can basically trust the bookstore website probably 90% of the time depending on the class. Math, science, engineering classes basically never change their text books except when new ones come out and the bookstore is informed (and if you have any doubt, you can look up the books and see when a new edition is coming out, and if you’re really not sure don’t hesitate to email the professor, if you’re going to be learning from this person for a full semester, they ought to be able to respond to a simple email about the book). </p>
<p>I’m betting it’s different in the humanities as a lot of the time professors don’t necessarily teach the same class year to year. I took 80-226, and before Professor Glymour (who does it now) had posted any book requirements to the bookstore website some people had gone out and bought the books that the previous professor had posted.</p>
<p>@cmu13</p>
<p>Ya think a prof would reply-- heck…I emailed flattery 3 weeks ago to see if the older version of the calc book for 259 was cool…he never replied! to be fair- i was sort of intimidated and didn’t use my cmu email- but my non-descript gmail acct…my bad perhaps…</p>
<p>The cmu bookstore lists required for the new 2010 edition (no used copies anywhere I’ve looked) and it says optional/either/or for the older copy-- of which there’s tons of copies floating around…</p>
<p>Anyone know if homework comes out of the book or not for that class…?</p>
<p>I didn’t buy the book</p>
<p>written homework comes from the book, and then you have a ton of webassign homework</p>
<p>Funny that, I hadn’t even checked to see if they had changed the requirement for that book. I have the 2007 version. What section are you in? I’m in section H. I have the old book from Calc I and II, I suppose I’ll email Flaherty myself, but I would wager that if it lists Either/Or that means that the current and old books are both acceptable. But don’t take my word for it.</p>
<p>Well my schedule isn’t approved yet by Jacob0…but hoping for the 12:30 lec and recitation for 259</p>
<p>I was planning to borrow the 259 book from a friend from HS who is finished 259/260 last year when a freshman…he offered me his book for 259, 127 and 15123…now there’s no more 123 but no book for the new 15122…and so so far, I’m golden with a zero cost for books for fall…just need a book for my fourth class-- if Jacob approves it…think I’m going to take Japanese or chinese…if not, i guess I’ll pick another ge.</p>
<p>Let me know what email response you get from flatery… I’m not going to buy another book if I can help it…as it’s $150 new and best price online used is 120 - but with the used ones you don’t get the cd/online access which i guess may be necessary for homework submission?</p>
<p>So has anyone figured out from the emails Jacobo is sending when exactly he wants us to send the scheduleman link to him…??</p>
<p>Hmmm, no response from Flaherty. Perhaps he’s away for the summer. I wouldn’t worry so much about it, worst case scenario is you lose quite a bit of cash buying a text book at the bookstore and you will get at least a little bit of that back at the buyback or on eBay.</p>
<p>CMU13</p>
<p>My mom called the bookstore during hours I’m at work…they couldn’t figure it out either.
I resent my email to flattery and got no response.</p>
<p>So I actually found a copy for $105 with the online access included…so I bought it…so far that’s all I’ve bought…not too bad for a semester of book costs. It hasn’t arrived yet.
I found it at amazon under “authorized seller”…</p>