Books and Baggage

I'm presently smarting from the cost of purchasing my textbooks for this, my final semester. I stopped by the bookstore and picked up what I thought were my books, paying just over $220 for the privilege of reading someone else's uh, wisdom.

That was then.

I've now been back two more times to get the additional, required books that coincidentally were not on the shelves during my first visit.

Current total: $478.

I remember meeting this 3L during my first semester in law school and being confidently told that you never need to buy books after your first year. All you have to do is to check them out of the law library. Well Mr. Know-it-all, what do you do when you go to the law library the week before classes begin and find that the professor has put the only copy of the text book on RESERVE?

(Hint, this could be considered an ethical conundrum for all you aspiring lawyers out therel You know who you are.)

Well, I didn't check out the reserve now did I? Of course not. As Oscar Madison would say, "we'll bring our lunches and won't wash our socks for a week to make up the financial shortfall."

Of course, I hear there's one more book to go that has yet to arrive. List price $110.

You do the math.