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Motherfuckers always make new editions. Why? So you can't buy the same exact thing used for 1/2 price. And gee wiz, since I have so much say so in which books I get, I'll go ahead and choose hard covers for all of them since I like paying 30 dollars extra for each. Thank you. |
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When I did my degree I read the entire reading list before I started, thinking that is what I had to do. When I went to my first lecture, it dawned on me that they were just regurgitating the stuff I had read. I spoke to my Tutor and he got me to write the end of year essay there and then and I did the whole contextual studies part of my course 35% of my total mark within the first two terms. Leaving me enough time to drink and womanise for the remaining two years!!! If you are about to start a degree I highly recomend this course of action. |
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Colleges are money making machines. I fucking hate them (for the most part) |
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well . . . be glad that we're progressing as a species and learning so much new shit that we have to teach new shit every year. or just say fuck it, drop out of college, because the knowledge gained this year will be pretty much obselete next year ah, you're right though, getting ripped off at the end of a schoolyear reselling my books made me absolutely livid . . .wanted to burn the bookstore down every time. |
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Yeah right, you were lucky. You found a very rare weakness, in the form of an understanding teacher, in the grand scam, I mean grand scheme of college. I really think college is a humongous scam, really fueled by propaganda that it is worthwhile to attend. I'm done writing about this. |
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...or you could just enroll in an obscure department (film studies, and comparative literature) like mine, where half the classes are too specific to have a textbook... this year my textbooks are costing me under 250$ canadian, because all i have to buy are a few coursepacks (a bunch of assorted photocopied readings from various journals), and a couple of small soft cover books... |
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...Or you could take a fine art course, where textbooks are irrelevant, and placing a tampon in your right nostril for 12 hours will guarantee you an Excellent mark. |
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yeah... that's my next degree... |
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Maybe try going to college for something that you are truly interested in. - That way you may actually feel like keeping the textbooks afterwards. |
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i love what i'm studying but i hate the textbooks -- bulky, overpriced and typically ugly and hardcover. i'm very glad to have an upperlevel courseload with few to no textbooks and almost all primary sources. |
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You saw my degree show? |
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Well, for some studies, even if you learned most everything from the books, and going back to them is a bore for the most part, they can still be be a good reference for later on. but, i'm in the same favourable boat. I have few unneeded books to lug around. |
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I have to get two of the same book (different editions) for a computer class...don't ask why because i have absolutely no idea |
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i agree with this thread. last year i spent €400 on books, and it's going to cost me more this year. fcukers. |
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lots of times a older edition is still fine even though their is a newer... and if you do buy the new edition, just sell it after... |
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Plenty of new editions SOLVE INCONSISTANCIES AND INCORRECT SOLUTIONS of previous editions. Note that most post-grad students workin on their masters are the ones who write the solutions for books, not the author him/herself. |
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Not that I don't disagree with you at all; my expenses are large as well...I'm just saying, there are reasons. |
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are you sure you said what you meant? |
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it's... DOUBLE NEGATIVE MAN! |
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sry |
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