oh! I remembered one more! Depending on the type of school you're going to, you may need to request tons of papers from other schools. I went to a tiny liberal arts college, we didn't get much in the way of science journals so I had to spend hours requesting them through the library. REMEMBER that it can take -2- weeks to get this stuff. There's a reason I started researching my term paper at the beginning of the semester - I had all my articles while other students were sitting around waiting for theirs to come in.

If you're going to a large university that probably isn't such a big deal but when your library only gets Science, Nature, and Cell it makes you sad pandas.