Reducing costs is something that can be done numerous ways throughout your study at university. A popular and previously discussed way to do this would be to do just pirate media to avoid paying for it, textbooks, subscription services and one time fees can rack up considerable cost throughout your potentially four year or longer stay at university.
Other ways center around avoiding unneccessary costs, for example, printing at the university library is a massive waste, the Calgary Public Library can give you a library card for free and that card has five dollars worth of printing on it every month for free, which is fifty pages of print.