Leaving us all with the option that many before me have advocated : keep your books. Build a library and impress the shit out of your friends and visitors by how smart you seem. Because of course it is scientifically proven that the more books you have the smarter people think you are. At the very least, you will eventually be assigned the same book in other classes (especially with our Cold War obsessed PoliSci,History and IAFF departments) meaning that you really need to buy Strategies of Containment by Gaddis and Global Cold War by Westad just once your freshmen year, using at least once a semester for the rest of your time at GW, like I have.
Books: keep or sell?
Its a question we've all asked ourselves. At first, when I was a freshmen I sold all my books back, because back then it was all about the paper. Now, while I'm still all about collecting the gouda, my stance on book selling has changed significantly. Knowing it at first but slowly coming to terms with it later, the GW bookstore is a fucking scam operation. They sell you books at inflated prices and then "buy" them back from you (and most of the time they don't even do that) at extremely deflated values, only to resell them next semester for more than they bought them back for and at about 70% of their original price. In other words, they are making a killing off these books. Now, there are of course the other vendors that tend to pop up on H st around this time of year, but they are looking to rip you off as much as the bookstore.
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