Books

Don't buy books at the book store. Biggest rip off ever. Go to whatever the local private textbook seller is, check out used sellers on amazon, prowl the aggregators like abebooks.com, whatever. You will save a ton of money if you put in a little effort.

It's dead easy. Find the books you need _well in advance_ and write down the ISBN numbers. Go to interwebs and begin the hunt. Students sell used books on amazon because they are likely to get more for it than by selling it back to the book store. The aggregators have listings for gray market imports, like books in English sold in India that have been reimported at a fraction of the cost of the North American market books.

You can save yourself hundreds of dollars. A quarter.