Thanks for the info.

If you read a lot (i.e., non-medical books), be careful with the amount you bring with you. I have had to give some books away because my luggage was too heavy on the return trip. One option is to look into ebook/txt formats found at Online Book Catalog - Overview - Project Gutenberg and keep them on your laptop/pda. The selection isn't terribly contemporary, but it is good...and free.

Also, somewhere out there (costco?), there is a nice 14 book set of Shakespeare, where each book is the pocket size.

I did a search and couldn't find a definite answer. I know I gotta get an 802.11 a/b/g wireless adapter since my laptop doesn't already have one. The question is... OK I don't know where I got this notion from but I was under the impression that a wireless adapter card comes with our first term books. Is that true? If it is, how much do they charge us for that?

It does. However, I don't know how much they charge. Should be on your booklist I believe.

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It's not on the booklist. Neither is Microsoft Office listed on there... but I read on this forum that previously these things were included.

Oh and furthermore, when I called today to ask about the wireless adapter, the lady didn't say anything about it being on the booklist or anything as such. She did mention however, that I could buy it in when I get there, which is what I think I might do.

buy it in the US if you can, it will most likely be lot more expensive if you buy it down here

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Shhhhhh........

they have taken all the 'extras' off the required book list. so now the book list is just a book list. no more ms office, or norton, or usb key, or network adaptor etc. thats why the cost of books went down from previous years.

definitely buy the adapter from home. you'll get a better model for a lower price.

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Hmmn, good thing they removed those extras which most people would have already. The only thing that was really useful on there was the USB flash drive.

Norton's one of the worst AVs out there and pretty much everyone would have Office already. Oh, and since most students would have newer computers, they'd have network cards as well. Forcing those items on students was yet another rip-off IMO.

Well you could get them refunded but we shouldn't have to jump through hoops to do that.

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Bring Rohen, 4th or 5th ed. you'll be thankful...saw several direct pictures from it on both the midterm and anat final

if you want, i've an extra and will be willing to sell it to an incoming first termer, message me

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