<p>Dickinson is/was coed by floor. They are ok, was not a party dorm when d lived there freshman year. George Reed was the winner of the honor that year. All dorms change year to year based on who is assigned if the majority party, well your in a party dorm. The RA assigned to Dickinson the year my D was there ran a tight ship, quiet hours after 8pm, and it was enforced Sunday night thru Thursday.</p>
<p>Best wishes to all the Freshman, hopefully they will love UD as much as my D does, and take advantage of all the wonderful opportunities you will be offered. We can’t believe the wonderful career guidance/intern opportunities our D has had and a published paper under her belt as an entering junior.</p>
<p>She is working with other kids from all over the US from other Engineering schools, and they are blown away at the facilities UD has versus their respective Universities. Truly a hidden gem.</p>
<p>I know we can order textbooks online, but how do we pay for them? Are they paid for out of the tuition? And, are they shipped to the student’s home address? How does this all work?
Thank you!!
Terry</p>
<p>Terry - When you order them online there is an option for them to be billed to tuition/the student account. You can have them shipped, or have them be picked up. The school’s bookstore is in Perkins, and usually for each semester they rent out a room in Perkins because there are hundreds of book orders, and there will be signs in the building that tell you where to go. You student just needs to have her student ID to pick them up. It saves on shipping charges 
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<p>Additionally, the rule is with the school bookstore that anything deemed a school supply can be purchased and billed to the student account. Typically when at the register the student can say “Im going to put this on my financial aid”, and the bookstore will add the charge that way. I had a scholarship one year that had a bit of excess and I used it to buy art supplies, which was really nice.</p>
<p>Thank you so much, Katy!!<br>
I thought that might be the case, but I didn’t see that option when I began to go through the checkout. Perhaps my son used a different site to order. Do you by any chance have the link handy for ordering the books online; where the tuition/student account comes up? Thank you again!!</p>
<p>Are you using this site?
[Welcome</a> to University of Delaware Bookstore](<a href=“http://udel.bncollege.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/BNCBHomePage?storeId=37554&catalogId=10001]Welcome”>http://udel.bncollege.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/BNCBHomePage?storeId=37554&catalogId=10001)</p>
<p>Just make sure to use the official bookstore, I’m not sure if the Book Exchange or Libermans allows the use of student aid. It might not come up until you get to the checkout page. I haven’t used it in a couple of years, but if you have any problems you can call the bookstore. I worked there for a semester and they really try to go out of their way to help you.</p>
<p>katy!! thank you so much!!!</p>
<p>Katy, if you’re still here, would you be kind enough to answer two questions for me?</p>
<p>First, where is the nearest supermarket to campus (I want to get a few things for D’s fridge).</p>
<p>Second, what is the thing to use to hang stuff on the wall?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Hi zoosermom. There are small school markets all over campus, kind of like one for each cluster of dorms that can be used to buy groceries with points. The two big supermarkets are Pathmark, which one would have to drive to. It’s in the college square shopping center on Library Ave/Route 72. There is a Superfresh on New London Rd thats really close to Laird campus, within walking distance.</p>
<p>The school markets, there is one by Harrington/Russel, there is one by Rodney, and there is a big new one built last year right under the Pencader dining hall on Laird campus. The school markets overprice certain items, like a box of Cheezits is like $5, but for a snack they aren’t bad, like a soda or a candy bar. The Laird one even has fresh produce and hot meals cooked daily and packaged for sale.</p>
<p>Things that I ended up really liking during the school year that were easy were yogurt, breakfast bars, string cheese, the small digorno pizzas that can be microwaved, apples, and lunch meats and cheese, bread, peanut butter, and crackers. Easy mac was also nice from time to time, though it doesn’t taste as good as regular mac and cheese, and if you have a microwave, you can make regular mac and cheese and store leftovers in the fridge.</p>
<p>The school allows a company to come on campus to rent microwaves/fridges, but I got a small fridge last year from Target for $60.</p>
<p>You are the best! Thanks so much.</p>
<p>You’re welcome :)</p>
<p>I’m getting kind of excited myself. I got my roommate assignment, and I’ll be living in Kent Hall, right next to Kent dining hall. I’m pretty happy about it. My friends make fun of me about how much I love school, but a great education is one of the best things in the world to have, and I love UD. It’s my last year!</p>
<p>Just an extra thought - pack her a can opener! One night DD was hungry after practice and went to the “Harry Mart” and bought a can of spaghettios that turned out to not have a pop top. She attacked it with a screwdriver and hammer that we had sent with her. Now a canopener is a standard grad gift from us!
The food choices and meal plans have gotten much better!</p>
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Since this is a larger university, have you ever had trouble getting into the classes that are required for your major? Or has anyone you know had that problem? I’d most likely be going into the sciences.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>There might be some classes early on that I can see that happening, but I can’t see it happening a lot. After your first semester, the school assigns people “registration appointments” to when they can register online for classes. The more credits you have, the earlier your registration appt, so junior/senior year you get first pick over the people below you, so you make sure you get everything you need to graduate.</p>
<p>Some classes are often restricted to major-only.</p>
<p>Actually my son (sophomore) had this problem registering for the fall semester. He couldn’t get the next required economics class in the sequence (that’s his major). He found something that would work towards his major, but not required, and then would have to get the other by spring. When registration re-opened on Aug 2, 1 spot became available and he grabbed it (dropping the other). If he had waited 1 more day, he may have lost the opportunity. He’s also interested in being a journalist minor, and the initial class requirement for that was also filled, so he’ll have to wait it out.</p>
<p>This has been the most frustrating aspect of the school. His major has lots of general requirements as well as for the major subject, and he has preferences of those choices but every semester, so far, he had to settle for some classes that weren’t on the top of his list, but filled a requirement.</p>