Why college sucks.

[Shari]

I just got done purchasing 400 dollars worth of books. FOUR HUNDRED. Thankfully it isn't really *me* who is paying for it, but can you imagine trying to tell your father you wrote out the check he gave you for that much on a bunch of bound pieces of paper!?!

Anyway, I have the luck of hauling around 13 different books for my 18 credit hours of class. YUCK.

I spent 100 bucks on t-shirts for a deployment I just found out yesterday I shouldn't be doing, but my chain of command is abunch of chickenshit motherfuckers who don't have the balls to stand up to a Specialist and instead do backhanded shit like little kids . No, I'm not mad. not at all

[Nakiro]

www.bigwords.com will save you a lot of money on college books.

Never buy books on campus.

[Shari]

Yeah, I found out today that my 84 dollar art history book could be purchased online for around 30 dollars. Unfortunately since I unwrapped the plastic cellophane around it I can't sell it back for full price so it wouldn't even be worth the trouble to order it.

Next semester will be different. I'll be graduating after that (hopefully!) and it wont matter after that. All my previous semesters were composed of mostly studio classes so you were spending almost that much in art supplies.

Nice thing about that is I end up using all of those eventually.

[Sean]

I don't buy books for my classes. I learned that lesson in my 1st year.

[Shari]

I have 3 art history courses, and 2 regular history courses. I don't think I'd pass without at least a few of those books.

[Brimz]

Smirk,

16 books one thing of ethernet line, can't exactly steal the one from home...

597.77..... all used...

Meh....


Southern Sucks!

[Hips]

Originally posted by Brimz
Southern Sucks!

Told you soooo. :P

[Soulpieced]

I paid 700 my last semester, so quit your bitching. Thankfully I won a 200 dollar gift certificate to the bookstore.

[Meos]

you gotta go on amazon to buy your books. They cost about half there what they do in the school bookstores.

[Valthissa]

When I was in junior in college (back in the dark ages 1977-1978) I assited with a solution manual for a calculus textbook.

I was paid around $100 which worked out a little under a $1 hour.

I think that covered the cost of my text books for the entire year.

I seem to recall that the royalties for the authors was under $1 per textbook (which they had to share). I'm not sure who is making the money on textbooks, but I don't think it's the people writing them.

C/Valth

[Edaarin]

Money and Banking (ECON 341) - $280

ONE fucking class.

[Scott]

I never bought books. With most classes it was pointless to buy the book, so I never bothered getting them. I learned the first year when I spent a ton on books, only to realize I didn't really need most of them. So from then on I would go to the first couple of classes, and then see if the book was actually needed or not.

[Sean]

I'll spend probably like 100 bucks on books. I wait until classes start figure out which books I'll actually need and then those I'll usually split with a roommate or good friend in the class. Makes life easier

[DeV]

Classes start in 3 weeks and I haven't bought any school gear yet. :( Majorly procrastinating.

[Parkbandit]

My 2nd year we used to share books around the dorm.

Total cost for books that year - $40

The only time it was inconvenient was during finals.. but even then it wasn't so bad.

$40 < $500

[Latrinsorm]

Originally posted by DarkelfVold
Classes start in 3 weeks and I haven't bought any school gear yet. :( Majorly procrastinating. 3 weeks? Jeez, where do you go, Northwestern?

[DeV]

Originally posted by Latrinsorm

Originally posted by DarkelfVold
Classes start in 3 weeks and I haven't bought any school gear yet. :( Majorly procrastinating. 3 weeks? Jeez, where do you go, Northwestern? Sept. 13th so I actually only have 2 weeks to start. It's a private University downtown Chicago.

[Brimz]

I got screwed in the transfer deal

I apparently lost all of my english credits somehow...

now I gotta take like 5 english classes..

can we say clep time...

anyway...

Mich in october remind me to go to finanical aid and get a shitload of ships

[Stunseed]

My 1st year I spent $411 on books.

2nd & half of my third year -- $0 , due to the palace of roommates, letting me borrow/steal books from em.

Why college sucked for me is they charged a dime a copy, including computer lab paper. I learned quickly to do my work....at my work, Office Depot isn't going to miss a few < thousand > sheets of paper.

[DeV]

Originally posted by Brimz
I got screwed in the transfer deal

I apparently lost all of my english credits somehow...

now I gotta take like 5 english classes..
Ouch... that sucks hardcore.

[Souzy]

lolz sucks for you. It sucks when you try to get rid of them and get like...a penny for them! I never sold any of my books, they're collecting dust in my parents basement.

[Brimz]

heh if I don't get like atleast a good deal...

forget that I'm keeping the book and selling it to someone that needs it...

book sells at full price, they buy it back 25 percent of the price and sell it for 50 percent...

or something like that...

my 199.95 accounting 1 and 2 book was gonna sell for like 37.00 heh sold it to someone that wanted one for like 45.00 <grin>

not much but hey better than 37!

[Brimz]

so anyone in the new haven area??

you all should check out my crypt err dorm hehe

west campus complex #328

we all get our own little room... awesome awesome!

we all have central air and cable in our room!

<drool>

only good part about southern.... granted next year I'll get shipped to one of the older dorms <mutter>

What school in DT chicago?

[DeV]

Originally posted by RangerD1
What school in DT chicago? Roosevelt University.

It's not exactly downtown, however, its pretty damn close.

I know people who go there.

[DeV]

They made a good choice. I think it's a great school.

Heh, In fact I was at a house party wit em when I Was home on leave. Some funny shit happened, ahhh chi town

[DeV]

No other town like it. Everytime I go out of town I miss Chicago. Well... except in Vegas.

Vegas ruxor

[DeV]

No doubt. Just the amount of ass running through that place. Vegas gets two thumbs up.

tru

This will by far be my best year in college.

[Soulpieced]

This will by far be my best year in college.

.

Attention incoming freshmen, stay away from anyone you meet named Stanley. That is all.

bwahaha.

I need to turn 21 quicker, and faster :drunk: :bouncing:

[Edited on 8-28-2004 by Stanley Burrell]

[Latrinsorm]

For unsuspecting college girls, a rhyme:

Red-fronted head, stay out of bed.
Bathroom iguana, you're already a goner.

bah stalker

[Edaarin]

Management Communication - $51.35
Strategy & Systems - $169.85
Intermediate Accounting - $163.00
Readings and Cases - $54.15
Cases for Comm - $17.65
Corporate Finance - $128.95
Business strategies - $52.95
Team Building Workbook - $11.35
Marketing Principles - $127.35

Total: $776.60

[Warriorbird]

Pff. Being a History major was scarier. I had like 28 books for one class.

Management Communication - $51.35
Strategy & Systems - $169.85
Intermediate Accounting - $163.00
Readings and Cases - $54.15
Cases for Comm - $17.65
Corporate Finance - $128.95
Business strategies - $52.95
Team Building Workbook - $11.35
Marketing Principles - $127.35

Total: $776.60

getting dissed by girls on a regular basis: Priceless

[Sean]

Total spent on books this year - $0

[Jazuela]

Welcome to Westville Brimz! If you have a car or don't mind using public transportation (which SUCKS in Connecticut)...

Check out the beach in West Haven. If you're driving, go past SCSU to Whalley. Take a right. Where the road splits so you can go straight or bear left, bear left. Go up the hill to a funky intersection with a stoplight, take a left. That's Forest Road.

Follow Forest to the next funky road split, bear left. You'll be in University of New Haven territory there - follow that all the way down to the beach. It's maybe a 10 minute drive if you're not trying during rush hour.

If you wanna go shopping, bear right at University of New Haven area instead of left. That's the Boston Post Road and it's strip-mall heaven (or hell) all the way into Stratford. The Boston Post Mall is there too - it's a Westfield now I think, not bad, decent food court.

If you wanna stay in walking distance, go to the end of SCSU to Whalley and take a right to Westville Village. Not much there, but some neat antique shops and a few decent places to eat, and a couple of local bars as well.

Taking a left on Whalley will get you downtown New Haven, and Yale University but you have to pass through some "questionable" neighborhoods on the way so you're better off driving or taking the bus.

Avoid Dixwell Avenue or Goffe Street on foot - you're near one of the less pleasant neighborhoods there.

Down in the Chapel Street shopping area, don't miss Mamoun's Falafel Palace on Howe Street. It's open early, stays open late, and only closes one day a year. Best damned homemade Syrian food in the world, and it's near the Group W Bench, a hippie store that's been around since the 60's.

For culture, there's zillions of museums and art galeries; the Peabody Museum of Natural Science on Whitney Avenue.. and on Chapel Street there's Yale's museum of Architecture, another for fine art, another for british art, and a lot of local artists' galeries on Audobon Street and in the Ninth Square district.

Good luck and have a blast - maybe I'll see ya at Claire's Cornercopia some day!

Hehehehehe... :shrug:

I counted them.

9, yes 9 wasp nests outside my dorm room. My roommate is also allergic to them. There are some dead ones I killed with my shoe decaying on the radiator.

There are also strange looking spiders and lady-bugs up the wazzoo everywhere too. My room is like the fucking jungle. :rant:

[Percocet]

College rocks. Our Adventure Sports club goes sky-diving, snow boarding, rock climbing, mountain biking, hiking .. etc.

I love Nevada.

[Percocet]

Also, on the topic of books - My mother runs a college book store in her basement, where she's got a massive amount of college books stacked on rows and rows of shelves. She sells them on e-bay and amazon.

I just flip open the cell, press 2 for speed dial, then list off the books and she ships them here.

So I generally pay $0 for books! :cool2:

[Latrinsorm]

Originally posted by Stanley Burrell
Hehehehehe... :shrug:Ladybugs are ok, so long as you don't have a naked bulb or something, because they'll clack off that all night. One wasp's nest is about all it'd take for me to be gone, though. Forget that. One of my friends from last year is in a building with wasps and these centipedes (I swear to God I'm not exaggerating) as long as my finger, with legs just as long shooting off in every direction. :axe:

Attn: Team Spider
There are no pictures in this thread. There is no need to have any pictures in this thread. C'mon, I just ate over here.

[Bobmuhthol]

<<Ladybugs are ok, so long as you don't have a naked bulb or something, because they'll clack off that all night.>>

At least 15 ladybugs died because they chilled out in my light until they burned to death.