School starts Monday, and despite my earlier solliloquy on being a re-entry student, I'm actually really psyched. I'm registered in all my classes but one, and I should be able to get in to it anyhow. Grad School application deadlines are only a few months away, and the way everything happens so fast I'm sure they'll sneak up on me quickly.

Anyhow, I'm about to venture into the mass that is Berkeley and try to buy my textbooks.

Actually, on that subject, do people sell textbooks back for the money, because they don't have room for them in their home, or because they don't have room for them in their head, moving out last semesters knowledge to make room for this semester? Personally, I acknowledge that a good deal of what I learn in a class doesn't stay in the forefront of my mind after the class is over. I can't bear to sell a textbook back because when I do finally need to access that knowledge, the textbook is the key to remembering it.

That, and it just seems inhuman to sell a book back at a 50% loss so the bookstore can turn around and sell it again at a 50% gain.