The start of the fall semester is quickly approaching for college students across the world, and with going back to college comes numerous expenses, such as tuition, rent, and purchasing college textbooks. I'll be completely honest and say that I'm the type of girl that tries to wait until a week or two into the semester to see if I really need to purchase a textbook for the class because the cost of textbooks is just absolutely crazy.

You could pay up to $200 for a textbook that you'll only open one time over the course of the entire semester. Buying textbooks can be stressful, take a lot of energy, and really make you question why you're taking the classes you are. Who better than Joey Tribbiani from "Friends" to tell the stages of buying textbooks?

1. Registering for fall classes has you so excited to see what the new semester has in store.

2. When summer is about to end, so you log into your university's student page and you see that all your professors added up the textbook list you'll need for their classes.

3. Three books for one class? What?!

4. $100 for a book? Do you think it's really necessary to pass the class?

5. Chegg and Amazon become your two best friends because no one buys textbooks at the bookstore.

6. But then Chegg and Amazon don't have the book you're looking for...

7. Do you think I'm really going to need these books? Asking for a friend...

8. My total is $350?! That's like a whole two weeks of work...for books!

9. You get your package of books in the mail, but then you open it and you're reminded of the hell that is college-learning that is about to start again.

10. But then you remember that all costs aside, going back to school means seeing your BFFs again, so it all makes it worth it in the end.

11. Until you realize that you never needed to buy that $150 textbook, so half the money you spent was a waste.

All college students know, buying textbooks sucks. So much money is spent on something you could only open or use a handful of times in the semester. Then by the time December rolls around, you have to send back all of the books you got and start the process all over again for the next semester.

But, thank god for websites like Amazon and Chegg for making the process a little bit easier (and cheaper) for us broke college kids. Get to cracking open those books, friends, school will be here before we know it.