Im at the Shelby campus also! I really think that its just first week jitters! It was a LONG week. Send me a message and we can sit together in class or something, hope your second week gets a LOT...
I looked up all the books through half.com and came up with about $400 for the 8 books (used and some were described as slight wear and a few highlighted pages, some had CDS and some did not), but...
I'm at thr Shelby campus too! I took the first two semesters of LPN before i stopped so I took fundamentals and I agree it was hard. You really gotta relearn how to study and how to take tests. Can't...