College is scaryFollow

Welcome to college, the #1 Welfare State. I hope you brought your ramen and Domino's Pizza coupons. You're gonna need 'em.

Yeah, Glitter. At my school you can sell the books back...sometimes.
Buy a $150 book, sell it back for $10. They are a bunch of pimps.
Parking decals were $24 last semester...now they are $50.
I think I need to call SE so they can nerf those prices...

HAHAHA You guys have it cheap.

Tuition: HALF = $1223.10
Books: Will cost me a good 300+
Not having to buy notebooks: Priceless
I have a laptop ^_^

Belmont Tuition is 26k a semester ;_;

and this is why I'm proud to go to a community college (none of the degrees I'm seeking are at the main university -.-;;).
(New Mexico State University)
50 dollars a credit hr, they have a set price for 12-18 credits: 600 dollars. Only had 1 book this semester at it was 59.99 (literally, no tax since i'm a student)
My math book, however, was ~80-90 bucks. Same with my business text. Bought for ~80, sold back for ~60. not too bad.
<.<

Premed / med books are always uber expensive anyway lol


my degrees:

Certificate in Networking
Associates in Information Technology
Associates in 3D Computer Animation

Also, ebay has an offshoot store for textbooks:

Half.com
I think. Something like that <.<
check it out, you might grab some good deals. ^_^

I feel a bit sorry for American students specifically.

I work as a technician and a part-time lecturer at a university in the UK. The books that I suggest are firstly in the library and secondly don't necessarily need to be purchased (christ knows most students don't even read them if they buy them anyway).

American university seems an exceptionally expensive priviledge, in the UK its heading that way more and more. I think that a university education is a really positive thing, but the most important thing is freedom of thought and comittment to learning (and awful spelling in the middle of the night). I'm sure that if things are too tough (financially or otherwise) you can have a word with your lecturers and if they can tell you care they'll help you out.

Good luck with it all.

By the way, my specialism is videogames!

http://www.videogamestudies.com


OHHHHHHH

Just looked at http://www.half.com

Thanks for the pointer, why isnt there a UK version. :(

Edited, Thu Aug 25 17:36:21 2005 by loxforddoughboy

never sell your old textbooks...my ap physics teacher told me that, and that lady is a damned genius. i will take her advice when i go up to pomona in september as a mechanical engineer :)

This just in: Beer Kills Braincells

{/comfort}

Dorm internet rocks. I used to be the unofficial PC tech for my dorm and people were always knocking down my door asking for help with this and that and something going wrong. Most people would float me a sixer and a small bottle of liquor, at the least a beer and $5 for the really poor students. I didnt mind, I was really out to do a service, but some ******** would ask me to help again and again with something and never offer me any compensation and in fact talk **** on me after I left.

So one particular case had me fixing his computer up to run this adware program that paid him $25 a month to leave it on while he was asleep and while he was gone in class I opened his write access up to me and when I returned to my room I started downloading gay **** pictures and storing them in his main share folder with awesome titles like "mynameisjondurbin.jpg" and "callme39537##.jpg" and my favorite "thisismybrotherandmeandhisfriendsonourlastcampingtrip.jpg"

Another person was out of his room in the bathroom when he had two very luscious female guests and I inconspicously entered his room, tossed some popcorn in the microwave, carried on smalltalk with the girls for about 20 seconds then vacated never to be seen or heard from again by the ladies. 7 minutes later he was running up and down the hall screaming about how someone severely burnt popcorn in his microwave and he and his guests couldn't even sit in his room or within 20 feet of it in the hallway. The girls left and spent the next 3 hours trying to get all the fans he could to blow the smell out the window.

Burnt popcorn smell is the worst.

Be nice to people who help you.

College isn't really what I thought it would be. I'm bored most of the time since my classes are all pretty easy, for the moment, though I do like the "cafeteria" which is actually more like a
fine dining resturaunt/mall food court.

Also have a lot of JP students straight from Japan. They're all cool, but a bit odd...saw one carrying a katana to his history class, probably to share its background...but it was a huge katana. O_O