That's half of it. The other half of it depends what your circumstances were in college. I never could have afforded a huge house back then. I lived in a noisy street-level apartment with 4-5 other people, one bathroom and a serious mouse problem. When I wasn't in class or working on projects for my classes, I was generally at work at a shitty, low-paying job. Not that I didn't have fun, I did, but it usually was just a party at someone's apartment. I rarely had money to go out anywhere or do anything. Once I got out in the "real world" I mostly lived by myself in a small apartment that I loved, worked 40 hours a week, the rest was free time to do whatever I wanted, had plenty of money for "entertainment enhancers", could afford to go out to clubs and concerts, could afford to take trips, and I met many more interesting people from more walks of life than the narrow little slice of humanity that was my school.

hahah start off a fresh life in college bro!

I'm officially moved in!

My roommate is a really cool dude and it's been fun exploring campus with my girlfriend. I'm pretty excited to really get settled in, I think I'm going to love this life!

You will! Don't get too caught up in the social life though.

This will be the hardest part. I don't want to fall in that trap where I'm skipping classes and whatnot.

Plan them late, and keep the schedule you have. 5 days off, its hard not to attend 2.

Question for someone who knows about textbooks:

Textbooks are going to cost me more than my tuition this semester unless I can shop around online. The problem is that the booklist doesn't provide ISBNs for all of the texts, nor complete author names, and the titles are all in shorthand.

Would I be ****ing myself over if I purchased books regardless of edition? If the 2nd edition is required and the cheapest/easiest to find is the 7th, will I find myself completely lost? Is there a place to find ISBNs of my required texts, where I can search by edition?

It depends on the class. If it's a math book you're pretty much screwed, you need to buy the exact book the school is demanding you buy. Science and history books you can get away with older editions. If you know who your professors are already, track down their email address and send them a note asking if you can buy an older edition, that's what I did for my history classes and a few of my criminal justice classes and they were fine with it.

Do you get visual examples of the book you're suppose to buy? If so try and go off that from places like Amazon and half.com, hell sometimes you can even rent textbooks from online stores and just send it back at the end of the semester, that's what I did for my Substance Abuse class last year and I saved 70 bucks.

Unfortunately, the books I have the most trouble hunting down are the ones with no covers uploaded to the site. I also have no problem finding new editions of the books; but they seem to be requiring older ones. I've asked my professors for the ISBNs (those I could email). I'll ask if I can use a more recent edition if they can't come back to me with those.

I can rent some of them, but not for less than it would be to get them used on Amazon (for the most part).

Wait so you need an old edition of the book as well as the new one? What the hell kind of crazy logic is that?