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It's rediculous. My friends and I buy one book, and make copies of whatever we need. Luckily I worked at Pearson last semester, and it just so happened all my books I needed were made by Prentice Hall. I was able to get all of them for 60% off through my work, yet still ended up paying over $200.

And most of the time when you return them at the school store for cash, they either say they dont accept it anymore due to a new edition coming out, or they will give you about 1/8 of what you paid.

Just sold back a 60$ book for a whopping 4 dollars...yes $4.00......they said the book was no longer being used. . . Love getting raped by bookstores so fun.

You're paying (tens of) thousands of dollars for a piece of paper that says you graduated. Is that any more of a bargain? So these $100-200 dollar books look cheap in comparison.

No, I am paying tens of thousands of dollars to get an education.

Think of the piece of paper as... the receipt!

that blows

maybe it was on sale, then went back to original price lol

Umm...an education? Not really, you're going to college to be able to get a good job. But you can't get that job unless you graduate with the degree. So even if you complete 99% of your education, without that final piece of paper, all that "education" isn't worth jack in the real world. But if you somehow to actually learn anything from college (and retain it), kudos to you. I view my time in college as a huge waste.



This post has been edited by CAMAricer: Jan 29, 2009 - 1:42 AM

I'm taking 18cr this semester... my books cost $600

18 credits.... good lord !
You must have a bunch of easy classes in there.

I usually spend close to a grand a semester for books. This semester was only $880

All of my books were included in tuition, so I never had to front any money for books/software

I sware some of the dumbest people I've meet work at collages, I bet the pricing system was just typoed or tossed to gether with no real baseis.
I compleatly view my 2 years in collage a total waste, It got me no where. non of the companies I have worked for care at all, everything is exsperiance based, collage forget that bs. (my .02)

This post has been edited by creis: Feb 2, 2009 - 10:39 PM

Lol, I counted 13 grammatical/spelling/punctuation mistakes in your post (which obviously was a joke ).

Can anyone else spot more than 13?

Ive spent upwards of $500 a semester on books before and have learned to never purchase from the bookstore unless you absolutely have to. I do all of my textbook shopping on Amazon, where i got a science textbook normally $140 for roughly $40 this past semester. There are ways around the bookstore, just takes some future planning for shipping etc.

This is the fewest credit hours I've ever taken.... My semesters have went 21, 20, 21, 19, 21, 18
I wish they were easy classes...... School is literally my life

I don't think he was joking...

One thing about college, don't bother going if you don't know what you want to do with your life. All of the people who go for 2yrs and major in liberal arts are just wasting their time and money.

This post has been edited by lagos: Feb 4, 2009 - 10:01 PM

*sniffle* I work at a college. Where's the love?

PS: I have no part in the setting of book prices, the bookstore does that.

PPS: In the 4 years of post secondary I have done, 3 of those years I was taking 18 credits per semester. The amount of homework I had for the first 3 years was roughly 70-80 hours per week.

This post has been edited by Sinyk: Feb 4, 2009 - 6:38 PM