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that's from "Caddyshack""Well, the world needs ditch diggers too..." -- my dad, every time he saw my report card.
You can't buy from the official University Bookstore, even used. It's all about going to a third party seller for older editions. Which is still expensive.
Incidentally, one of the more pricey books I've purchased was a law book that was written by the professor himself and published by the University itself. It was a nice book and all, but you couldn't find it anywhere else or buy it cheaper in paperback; proving that even the schools aren't above raping you. Though I suppose law texts require a certain degree of formality.
that's from "Caddyshack""Well, the world needs ditch diggers too..." -- my dad, every time he saw my report card.
probably the worst scam I've ever seen, and I've only gone through 2 semesters of it (buying books)
-Mars
Actually I've heard of this one site that rents books www.chegg.com/ but I haven't tried them out yet.
I always get a kick out of the professors requiring students to buy the books they've authored or published.
u know whats lame about them books, when the fkn wanker cant even answer his own questions from the text book.......
This is why I liked my history classes.
We would just buy the actual historical books and I'd buy them all but the first one off Amazon used book store all the time.
ing professor's who wouldnt give the book list ahead of time!
text books. Such a bunch of bull .
i had a professor in grad school like that....
however he is the #1 authority on the subject so i guess it made sense and he didnt act high and mighty about it neither...
They didn't have ebay in 1992 when I had to by a $50, 210 page paperback book for my Meaning of Life philosophy class. (I loved this class. LOVED it!).
But get this, it didn't even tell you what it was.
They didn't have ebay in 1992 when I had to by a $50, 210 page paperback book for my Meaning of Life philosophy class. (I loved this class. LOVED it!).
But get this, it didn't even tell you what it was.
One of my best classes was by a professor from his own book. It worked very well because he was an excellent teacher.
I had a terrible teacher for my boundary layer class and one great book (An Introduction to Boundary Layer Meteorology ) was like $350! And they wonder why students have debts.
I think the book companies are definitely out to students and the schools don't make it any easier.
My first semester at UTSA which was this past fall...I spent well over 300 dollars worth of books. I sold them back to the book store and got $40 dollars! What a ing rip off. For 3 books..one of them they didn't even take back because they were going with a new edition.
Now that's a ing crock of . To me...the college book "business" is the s of the earth along with the oil industry, and the pharmeceutical/medical companies.
do what my friends do....they fkn photocopy the whole book for $5 lmao
sounds like he would have quite the underwear collection as well.I haven't dealt with text books in quite a while, but this thread made me smile. Especially the engineer-types! My dad is a PhD. Electrical Engineer and has such a text book fetish. I was fortunate that he paid for every one of my books, as well as my brother's and several cousins'. The only stipulation was that the books be returned to him upon course completion and he kept every single one. He has quite a library going!
do tell.
Actually, it's one of the oldest lines in the book. They just used it in Caddyshack. And my dad used it on me. DOH! (<---that's from "The Simpsons")
yeah I know it's an old line... I guess you think I'm 14 or something.
I'm probably way older than you...
was the publisher Monty Python?They didn't have ebay in 1992 when I had to by a $50, 210 page paperback book for my Meaning of Life philosophy class. (I loved this class. LOVED it!).
But get this, it didn't even tell you what it was.
On a sidenote, alway's resell your books on Amazon, you'll get more money then the Bookstores will give u
A nice do entary could be made on this scam
The road to getting filthy stinking rich as an academic is to teach a class at a major state school that everyone is required to take, and then write your own textbook. My American history prof did that...he taught 5 lectures per semester, 300-400 per lecture. His book was by far the most expensive book I ever had to buy in 4 years. He warned you on day one that he did not lecture from the book and you were required to know the book and his lecture topics and that you would fail if you did not buy the book.
Now that I am in charge of budgeting for subscription database access in a college library, I can also tell you that the pricing for those subscriptions is just as big a scam as college textbooks.
Everyone would win if profs would do what many of mine did in grad school (jebus bless them), which is to not require textbooks, but instead take chapters from books (in accordance with fair use) and post the PDFs on a course site, or require reading from the subscription databases, which encourages use of the latter and brings down the price per search.
glad i don't have to buy the damn things anymore. if i ever go back, it'll be on the company's dime.
best thing you can do is borrow books from friends, bootleg e-books if you can, and rent textbooks if you have to. sometimes you can get cheap online too depending on the book. international versions work great for a fraction of the cost, they're usually exactly the same minus the cover.
Girl who's going to UTSA had (had) to buy that book about mexicans crossing into the US. "The Devil's Highway". They have to sensitize these kids to the illegals being poor lost souls more worthy of our country than are we.
lol UTSA
that's ing pathetic.
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