WHO'S FEELIN' IT?
$250 for 1 textbook and 2 mandatory manuals for just today and I'm only takin' the piss with an English major. Don't want to think about what if I picked up CS as a minor next semester depending on how I do.
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$250 for 1 textbook and 2 mandatory manuals for just today and I'm only takin' the piss with an English major. Don't want to think about what if I picked up CS as a minor next semester depending on how I do.
$250 for 1 textbook and 2 mandatory manuals for just today and I'm only takin' the piss with an English major. Don't want to think about what if I picked up CS as a minor next semester depending on how I do.
Always download textbooks.
First semester of Freshman year, spent ~$500 on textbooks.
Fall of Junior year, I plan on spending nothing.
Sucks if you can't find your textbooks online, but you can probably buy a shitty used copy for like $20.
Always download textbooks.
First semester of Freshman year, spent ~$500 on textbooks.
Fall of Junior year, I plan on spending nothing.
Sucks if you can't find your textbooks online, but you can probably buy a shitty used copy for like $20.
First semester of Freshman year, spent ~$500 on textbooks.
Fall of Junior year, I plan on spending nothing.
Sucks if you can't find your textbooks online, but you can probably buy a shitty used copy for like $20.
My German professor requires that we all have physical copies of the book.
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doesn't matter because my high school buys all of our books for our college classes
My German professor requires that we all have physical copies of the book.
[spoiler]doesn't matter because my high school buys all of our books for our college classes[/spoiler]
[spoiler]doesn't matter because my high school buys all of our books for our college classes[/spoiler]
SnowyAlways download textbooks.
Believe me, it's the first place I go to. Almost all of the material has linked online components or the books are professor written, making them mandatory. Meanwhile my friends in CS haven't had to spend much at all on their books. At least I don't have to spend money on literature - although I think that one Shakespeare guide is gonna be mandatory.
[quote=Snowy]Always download textbooks.[/quote]
Believe me, it's the first place I go to. Almost all of the material has linked online components or the books are professor written, making them mandatory. Meanwhile my friends in CS haven't had to spend much at all on their books. At least I don't have to spend money on literature - although I think that one Shakespeare guide is gonna be mandatory.
Believe me, it's the first place I go to. Almost all of the material has linked online components or the books are professor written, making them mandatory. Meanwhile my friends in CS haven't had to spend much at all on their books. At least I don't have to spend money on literature - although I think that one Shakespeare guide is gonna be mandatory.
if you need a physical copy, i would check out half.com - i found most of my schoolbooks there for a fraction of the price that my college sells them for.
if you need a physical copy, i would check out half.com - i found most of my schoolbooks there for a fraction of the price that my college sells them for.
Here is are a few special secrets about text books.
1. Editions typically don't vary greatly. (DONT OBEY THIS WITH MATH STUFF - they always mess with question orders so if your homework is do questions 30-40 or whatever you're fucked). If it's not a hard science BUY THE OLD EDITION.
2. Generally, teacher's editions of text books are sent out en masse to profs prior to the semester - there are TONS of these floating around on ebay and abebooks - these are the go to option especially if they're the right edition + they help fund the livelihood of your TA ;) AND have all the answer in them.
3. Check if the textbook is in your library, see if they allow you to check it out or not. If they don't you're golden, no need to buy text book unless you *have* to bring it to class + the library is the single best place to pick up decent guys/gals (whatever your flavor). If it turns out somebody else is looking at it, use your powers of investigation to find whoever is using it - meet new people + profit.
I only bought 4 text books my entire college career - and that was because they were books I *wanted* to own. I also got the best dates from people I met in the library.
Here is are a few special secrets about text books.
1. Editions typically don't vary greatly. (DONT OBEY THIS WITH MATH STUFF - they always mess with question orders so if your homework is do questions 30-40 or whatever you're fucked). If it's not a hard science BUY THE OLD EDITION.
2. Generally, teacher's editions of text books are sent out en masse to profs prior to the semester - there are TONS of these floating around on ebay and abebooks - these are the go to option especially if they're the right edition + they help fund the livelihood of your TA ;) AND have all the answer in them.
3. Check if the textbook is in your library, see if they allow you to check it out or not. If they don't you're golden, no need to buy text book unless you *have* to bring it to class + the library is the single best place to pick up decent guys/gals (whatever your flavor). If it turns out somebody else is looking at it, use your powers of investigation to find whoever is using it - meet new people + profit.
I only bought 4 text books my entire college career - and that was because they were books I *wanted* to own. I also got the best dates from people I met in the library.
1. Editions typically don't vary greatly. (DONT OBEY THIS WITH MATH STUFF - they always mess with question orders so if your homework is do questions 30-40 or whatever you're fucked). If it's not a hard science BUY THE OLD EDITION.
2. Generally, teacher's editions of text books are sent out en masse to profs prior to the semester - there are TONS of these floating around on ebay and abebooks - these are the go to option especially if they're the right edition + they help fund the livelihood of your TA ;) AND have all the answer in them.
3. Check if the textbook is in your library, see if they allow you to check it out or not. If they don't you're golden, no need to buy text book unless you *have* to bring it to class + the library is the single best place to pick up decent guys/gals (whatever your flavor). If it turns out somebody else is looking at it, use your powers of investigation to find whoever is using it - meet new people + profit.
I only bought 4 text books my entire college career - and that was because they were books I *wanted* to own. I also got the best dates from people I met in the library.
I'm sorta lucky in that my texts are either so old they're public domain, or they're cheap paperback novels on account of the author being very very dead.
And then it gets offset by the fact that I need to buy like twenty of them and I absolutely hate reading from a computer screen for extended periods of time.
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Weird as heck but unrelated, the last English major I spoke to said she had a minor in CS, so I asked her what programming languages she'd learned. She looked puzzled for a second and explained that CS was Classical Studies.
I'm sorta lucky in that my texts are either so old they're public domain, or they're cheap paperback novels on account of the author being very very dead.
And then it gets offset by the fact that I need to buy like twenty of them and I absolutely hate reading from a computer screen for extended periods of time.
[spoiler]Weird as heck but unrelated, the last English major I spoke to said she had a minor in CS, so I asked her what programming languages she'd learned. She looked puzzled for a second and explained that CS was Classical Studies.[/spoiler]
And then it gets offset by the fact that I need to buy like twenty of them and I absolutely hate reading from a computer screen for extended periods of time.
[spoiler]Weird as heck but unrelated, the last English major I spoke to said she had a minor in CS, so I asked her what programming languages she'd learned. She looked puzzled for a second and explained that CS was Classical Studies.[/spoiler]
If you need physical copies, just print them out.
If your school provides free printing, awesome. Mine doesn't, but my local community college does, so I go there. I figure I'm allowed a little leeway given the thousands of dollars I dump there every summer.
If you need physical copies, just print them out.
If your school provides free printing, awesome. Mine doesn't, but my local community college does, so I go there. I figure I'm allowed a little leeway given the thousands of dollars I dump there every summer.
If your school provides free printing, awesome. Mine doesn't, but my local community college does, so I go there. I figure I'm allowed a little leeway given the thousands of dollars I dump there every summer.
As an english major, my best advice for you would be to keep your momentum running and head straight into grad school. There's not much we can do with these humanities degrees nowadays. It's just not practical anymore.
Best of luck
As an english major, my best advice for you would be to keep your momentum running and head straight into grad school. There's not much we can do with these humanities degrees nowadays. It's just not practical anymore.
Best of luck
Best of luck
you would think with the exorbitant amount of money you pay your private college/university or even your community college, it would cover a few books
people in countries besides america/canada don't usually have to do this and I think it's kind of ridiculous tbh
you would think with the exorbitant amount of money you pay your private college/university or even your community college, it would cover a few books
people in countries besides america/canada don't usually have to do this and I think it's kind of ridiculous tbh
people in countries besides america/canada don't usually have to do this and I think it's kind of ridiculous tbh
It gets better when you start getting into higher level classes, like 300+ (until grad school) Usually when you start getting into higher level classes there is only 10-15 students per class and the profs generally understand how insane text books are. A lot of your later "books" will come from places like JSTOR, which is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. The good part is that is it paid via the university, but the bad part is that you have a lot of shit to print.
Edit- I guess this was from like 10 years ago before there was e-book readers that don't skull fuck you, so I guess you don't HAVE to print stuff out but it's still nice to easily be able to highlight information for when you have 80 papers to write.
It gets better when you start getting into higher level classes, like 300+ (until grad school) Usually when you start getting into higher level classes there is only 10-15 students per class and the profs generally understand how insane text books are. A lot of your later "books" will come from places like JSTOR, which is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. The good part is that is it paid via the university, but the bad part is that you have a lot of shit to print.
Edit- I guess this was from like 10 years ago before there was e-book readers that don't skull fuck you, so I guess you don't HAVE to print stuff out but it's still nice to easily be able to highlight information for when you have 80 papers to write.
Edit- I guess this was from like 10 years ago before there was e-book readers that don't skull fuck you, so I guess you don't HAVE to print stuff out but it's still nice to easily be able to highlight information for when you have 80 papers to write.
Seeing increasing trend of online text book course thingies that I have to pay
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like a hundo bucks
for because profs put our graded assignments and shit on em. Such a fucking scam. Had to buy two this semester. Hope my profs enjoy the dolla fifty they get from each sale.
Seeing increasing trend of online text book course thingies that I have to pay [spoiler]like a hundo bucks[/spoiler] for because profs put our graded assignments and shit on em. Such a fucking scam. Had to buy two this semester. Hope my profs enjoy the dolla fifty they get from each sale.
If they wrote the textbook, tell them to fuck off.
That's my one absolute pet peeve from college. Odds are, it's a corner case book that does little to nothing for your education. My religion professor wrote a book about the crusades, a well documented and well researched topic that added FUCKING NOTHING to the curriculum of this course. I promptly told him I'm not buying it because it does nothing for the course. He was mad.
I aced that course (one of like 3 before i dropped out)
If they wrote the textbook, tell them to fuck off.
That's my one absolute pet peeve from college. Odds are, it's a corner case book that does little to nothing for your education. My religion professor wrote a book about the crusades, a well documented and well researched topic that added FUCKING NOTHING to the curriculum of this course. I promptly told him I'm not buying it because it does nothing for the course. He was mad.
I aced that course (one of like 3 before i dropped out)
That's my one absolute pet peeve from college. Odds are, it's a corner case book that does little to nothing for your education. My religion professor wrote a book about the crusades, a well documented and well researched topic that added FUCKING NOTHING to the curriculum of this course. I promptly told him I'm not buying it because it does nothing for the course. He was mad.
I aced that course (one of like 3 before i dropped out)
required 4 text books, all them had to be physical copies due to items that came bundled with the books (required software, access key for mymathlab, etc)
blew a grand total of ~$550 on top of the 1.3k I dropped for tuition, rip my pell grant
required 4 text books, all them had to be physical copies due to items that came bundled with the books (required software, access key for mymathlab, etc)
blew a grand total of ~$550 on top of the 1.3k I dropped for tuition, rip my pell grant
blew a grand total of ~$550 on top of the 1.3k I dropped for tuition, rip my pell grant
I'm poor so I was able to freely do all of my classes and get my textbooks fully paid; however I just pirated textbooks instead. Got about $300 extra for each class I took so I would get anywhere from $300-$1200 in financial aid refunds each semester to spend on absolutely whatever I wanted to. A nice computer, a 144Hz monitor, a 3DS, a nice phone, nice food, etc. for about two years.
One thing I hated though was when there were textbooks that came in an edition exclusive to my college that couldn't be bought elsewhere and online subscription items.
I'm poor so I was able to freely do all of my classes and get my textbooks fully paid; however I just pirated textbooks instead. Got about $300 extra for each class I took so I would get anywhere from $300-$1200 in financial aid refunds each semester to spend on absolutely whatever I wanted to. A nice computer, a 144Hz monitor, a 3DS, a nice phone, nice food, etc. for about two years.
One thing I hated though was when there were textbooks that came in an edition exclusive to my college that couldn't be bought elsewhere and online subscription items.
One thing I hated though was when there were textbooks that came in an edition exclusive to my college that couldn't be bought elsewhere and online subscription items.
saving 250 bucks right here.
http://i.imgur.com/xSIymy8.jpg
i once had a chemistry teacher who required us to pay $60 to use a website to turn in homework. the homework came from the textbook too. fuck that. dropped that shit and added to another class.
saving 250 bucks right here.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/xSIymy8.jpg[/img]
i once had a chemistry teacher who required us to pay $60 to use a website to turn in homework. the homework came from the textbook too. fuck that. dropped that shit and added to another class.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/xSIymy8.jpg[/img]
i once had a chemistry teacher who required us to pay $60 to use a website to turn in homework. the homework came from the textbook too. fuck that. dropped that shit and added to another class.
Professor gave all of us all the textbooks in PDF forms
He said that textbook companies can go fuck themselves
Professor gave all of us all the textbooks in PDF forms
He said that textbook companies can go fuck themselves
He said that textbook companies can go fuck themselves
RawrSpoonProfessor gave all of us all the textbooks in PDF forms
He said that textbook companies can go fuck themselves
one of my teachers printed her fuckin syllabus as a booklet and made us buy it at the bookstore. fuck her.
[quote=RawrSpoon]Professor gave all of us all the textbooks in PDF forms
He said that textbook companies can go fuck themselves[/quote]
one of my teachers printed her fuckin syllabus as a booklet and made us buy it at the bookstore. fuck her.
He said that textbook companies can go fuck themselves[/quote]
one of my teachers printed her fuckin syllabus as a booklet and made us buy it at the bookstore. fuck her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS9-rYbQjEw
you might be able to save money by purchasing used books from this site. Canada and US only afaik.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS9-rYbQjEw
www.slugbooks.com
you might be able to save money by purchasing used books from this site. Canada and US only afaik.
www.slugbooks.com
you might be able to save money by purchasing used books from this site. Canada and US only afaik.
If you live on campus and have a quality library, and you have the discipline to do your studying, then you can use the books (on reference in the library).
If you live on campus and have a quality library, and you have the discipline to do your studying, then you can use the books (on reference in the library).
Holy shit vile - I'd have immediately walked out and dropped that shit or asked for a transfer to a different hour lol. That's just.... amazing.
Holy shit vile - I'd have immediately walked out and dropped that shit or asked for a transfer to a different hour lol. That's just.... amazing.
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