yep could of had a nice new guitar, but instead 5 books. egh

hey look on the bright side, at the end of the semester you'll get $60 to buy a new vitya game when you trade the books in.

another reason why school is for fools

that's even without trying your damnedest to find them online?

oh i know, happened two me three years ago when i went to return a $300 USED math book...
dude gave me $30 for it.

I don't know which was worst about college...the fortune I spent on books, or waking up at 5am to register for classes.

Online you can find them for 1/3 of the price, but the catch to that is they may take a month to arrive, and sometimes the teachers rarely or never use it in class. I usually got poor Asian country paperback versions of my CS and math books, when I found out that the class actually used them.

one of my literature classes required 17 books.

Unless your teacher specifies the Edition number of the book, there is no excuse for paying anything more than $60 for a book.

End of story.

burn?

lol wut.

my teachers used to always make us buy books we'd never end up using. i'd buy them cheap and used on amazon.

r u offended by his joke "wut"? Do you resent being called a fool?

They all cost $60. You've just got to consider the $75 markup on them all because of a goofy ass CD Rom it comes with that you will never even open the wrapping on.

The best is when you spent $80 on a book, goto class the first day, and realize that the douchebag on the book's jacket with a turtleneck, sports jacket, horseshoe pattern baldness, and smug look on his face is the motherfucker teaching the class. P.S. That book will not re-sell anywhere.

This too. Editions are obvious scams by publishers, sometimes changing nothing but page numbers.

That would get me peeved.

I spent about $500 this semester. gay.

half.com or nothing.
people that spend these hundreds of dollars that aren't at ivy league schools that demand the newest highest quality are fucktarded

learned pretty quickly and started buying books online, so much cheaper! fuck books and fuck school book stores.

Say Hi. I spent $50 on this guy's book for his class. 2 years later I found a palette sized bin of them on sale for a dollar at Buck a Book.

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=1712

Interesting take on it all.

i used to have a professor who gave us bootlegged copies of all the classwork for free. that was one of several reasons why jerry schaufeld is a king among men. best class, best teacher.

oh yeah, he also took part of our tuition that was supposed to be paid to him and got everyone in class a subscription to the new york times.

academia is first and foremost BIG business. if you think it's crazy that your spending foolish amounts of money on books....wait till you have spent 4-5 years tuition and you cant find a job to save your life. overqualified is REAL when no one can pay you....

i hate this semester, i bought one of those international editions same thing, but the professor was up in arms but me using a book 'not legal' in the usa, next semester im going to buy a high powered scanner, and just scan all of them save them in pdf, and then print them, returning them before the return date... which believe it or not has already past, even the books i bought today.

www.half.com

i only bought all my books the furst year, the other 4 years, i bought probably 20% of the books.

i bought maybe three books in college and made it through just fine. then again my school was like a summer camp in reality. 800 dollars on 5 books? holy fucking shit!