Reading your “required text” on a budget BY: NAYOMI SANTOS, ASSISTANT CULTURE EDITOR Classes are well underway and those pesky required readings are creeping up each week. If you’re like me, you dread the amount of “required” textbooks that are…
Quick tips on how to save money as a college student BY AHMED FARID, STAFF WRITER As college students, there are many things that separate us. We have different majors, enjoy different hobbies and come from diverse backgrounds. Yet,…
New NOVA program aims to help students with tuition, housing and textbook costs BY ROGER HINCAPIE, STAFF WRITER NOVA Community College is focusing on an entirely new approach to what students know as student services. In a previous interview with…
Learn how to get the best deals on expensive textbooks BY ANGELIQUE ARINTOK, STAFF WRITER Textbooks and other required materials for class aren’t always easy on the wallet. Although there are many ways to achieve the best deal possible, here…
By Billy Ferguson
This story was originally published in the August 31 issue of Fourth Estate. Savannah Norton, Lifestyle Editor Incoming freshman Cody Pasielski recently joined the rep team for CampusWise, a new student-operated book exchange website that promises to make buying and selling…