*flips out calculator*

Anticipated Book Cost According to the School Bookstore:
$518.65

The result of combining the awesome powers of Half.com and Amazon.com:
$194.33 (this also includes three cd's and two books that have nothing to do with the cirriculum)

Oh, so sue me.. I splurged.

The Difference for the math impaired (mostly me so I can glorify my victory over 'The Man'):
$324.32

HAHA!

Take that!

Shelley: 1

The Man: 2,678,546,345,223,042

I'm catching up I tell you. I am catching up.

Moral of the Story:
If you are a student don't put up with these terrible prices. You need to get the ten digit ISBN number, the author of the book, and get familiar with the cover of the text. For the ISBN number, put that into www.google.com and it will automatically bring up the links to Amazon.com. Don't worry about it not being the right edition, that ISBN number is assigned to each specific title and edition. If you are familiar with the author and the text cover, go to half.com and research the title and author (they are not so fabulous on being able to look up the book by ISBN, hence why I mentioned Amazon.com first). That way you can compare the prices and get the best offer for your money.

It's not like a certain someone is going to make it any easier on us in regards to costs of attendance and tuition. *cough*Bush*cough*