Are textbooks really that expensive in US? Where I'm from all the books provided for free straight from university. I haven't even checked out a single one, since they are also available on the university webpage as pdfs.
yeah books in the US are awful. Thankfully, a lot of professors understand that we aren't made of money, so they let us buy the cheapest editions of the books. Most of my books this semester only cost about $10 each, so they weren't so bad.