The Coolest UW Website EVER

So in my week here at the University Of Waterloo I've made a few trips to the school's book store -- or as they call it a "bookstore."
Shopping for university books is nothing to write home about. Well, except in this case. It's totally worth it, believe me.
University books are incredibly expensive thanks to royalties and mere heft. They are unnecessarily large and cumbersome -- sagging shelves and weighing down backs. University books are usually only referenced six times -- but you're expected to know it cover to cover for the exam -- some teachers don't even bother cracking theirs. Shopping for the wretched things is worse than buying tube socks on boxing day. There is a line that spills out the doors and across the south campus -- it moves fast, but it's awfully intimidating. Once inside, don't bother trying to find the book yourself. Especially if it's a novel. For some reason, they are pilled on their side, pages out. Impossible to pick out without reading the SKU tags. You might need to bring a team of friends both to help pick out, and carry your books. If you're going solo, you've got to track down the swift moving anti-social employee who will get your books for you (against his/her will of course.) Then you've got to pay. That's another zig-zagging line sprinkled with other school essentials that you feel so inclined to buy, just as a souvenir of the experience. At this point, your humerus and scapula start to detach (thank you Physical Anthropology and Archaeology Third Edition) at least it feels that way. Finally you get to the high speed checkout and you see your funds deplete as that "Little Brown Book" just cost you 56 dollars. Lastly but not leastly you're thrown back into the real world with only a vague memory -- a blur if you will of what life was like before you lost $430 dollars in the mysterious land of books.

All of this leads to one thing. One thing only. Remember the title? "The Coolest UW Website EVER" Yeah, well I found this website particularly important to blog about because it can be a lifesaver, seriously.
Check out http://www.bookstore.uwaterloo.ca/linelook.html and see for yourself what I've just described.
Oh, and if it gets any less compacted, give me a shout, I still need to pick up two more $120 books.

-ev