Only a crazy person gets up at 5 a.m. to sit in line at the campus bookstore. Yet there I sat with a handful of other crazies, waiting three hours for the store to open, just to gain the advantage of being first in line. What would you think motivates people like us to do such a thing? I can say that I saved around $150 by getting used textbooks instead of new ones, but I also became very upset with myself over it the next day when I saw the same healthy stack of used books sitting on the shelf. Continue reading →