Check, check, check
Sep. 25th, 2006 19:35![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torquillOne of those checks is a physical item. :)
I think I got everything done at Davis today -- I picked up my (enormous) financial aid check, picked up my books, and dropped off my bike. Everything should be in order for Thursday.
Turns out that my first class is at 0900, not 0930. I'll get there just before 8, so it shouldn't matter much. Besides, I can navigate to Bainer hall in my sleep. The bike will be waiting for me at the Amtrak lot, buried in a host of other bicycles. Anonymity is nice.
I was going to order my textbooks online, but as I went around the stacks to figure out what I needed, the veteran student in me realized that I wasn't going to do much better. Three science books cost about $260, which I thought was a decent deal. The only downside was that I had to haul them home...
No lab books this year, unless the Plant Prop book is going to act as one. It turns out that the class I signed up for as "Structure of Functional Biomolecules" actually is biochemistry -- and here I thought I wasn't going to be taking that. I'm officially intimidated now. (The book, from a flip-through, looks like it's just an extension of OChem, so I'm not scared per se, but it's still intimidating.)
A stranger bought me a bottle of water shortly after I boarded on the way home -- just handed it to me with a smile. I thanked him again later, and he said I had looked tired, and my books were hard. I had been meaning to buy some water once I hit the station, and he beat me to it, so it was a very kind gesture indeed.
It looks like transportation is what's going to eat the most money. Five round-trip tickets cost $80-something... that's a cut from the $120 if they weren't discounted, but we're still talking a little less than two weeks per set. That should surpass the money for textbooks... though, thinking about it, it will still be less than $500 for train tickets for the whole quarter. Not bad at all.
Anyway, time to decompress a little more. Things are moving.
I think I got everything done at Davis today -- I picked up my (enormous) financial aid check, picked up my books, and dropped off my bike. Everything should be in order for Thursday.
Turns out that my first class is at 0900, not 0930. I'll get there just before 8, so it shouldn't matter much. Besides, I can navigate to Bainer hall in my sleep. The bike will be waiting for me at the Amtrak lot, buried in a host of other bicycles. Anonymity is nice.
I was going to order my textbooks online, but as I went around the stacks to figure out what I needed, the veteran student in me realized that I wasn't going to do much better. Three science books cost about $260, which I thought was a decent deal. The only downside was that I had to haul them home...
No lab books this year, unless the Plant Prop book is going to act as one. It turns out that the class I signed up for as "Structure of Functional Biomolecules" actually is biochemistry -- and here I thought I wasn't going to be taking that. I'm officially intimidated now. (The book, from a flip-through, looks like it's just an extension of OChem, so I'm not scared per se, but it's still intimidating.)
A stranger bought me a bottle of water shortly after I boarded on the way home -- just handed it to me with a smile. I thanked him again later, and he said I had looked tired, and my books were hard. I had been meaning to buy some water once I hit the station, and he beat me to it, so it was a very kind gesture indeed.
It looks like transportation is what's going to eat the most money. Five round-trip tickets cost $80-something... that's a cut from the $120 if they weren't discounted, but we're still talking a little less than two weeks per set. That should surpass the money for textbooks... though, thinking about it, it will still be less than $500 for train tickets for the whole quarter. Not bad at all.
Anyway, time to decompress a little more. Things are moving.
