SWEET ZOMBIE JESUS!!!!

[chaotic_nipple]

$370 for 5 classes worth of textbooks?!? And that's for used copies, if I'd bought them new it would have been $110 more. Highway robbery, it is. :-P

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[cmorley.livejournal.com]

You got off light. Trust me.

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

"That horrible gaping wound only required stiches? You're lucky you didn't need surgery!" :-P

[cmorley.livejournal.com]

I know, small consolation. I really wish teachers and the school administrators who pick these books would wake up and realize what they're offering is just too damn expensive. Sooner or later there's going to be a tipping point where it's not worth it to go to college. I will laugh on that day, and laugh mightily.

In the meantime, I have a box of used books I paid well over a thousand dollars for collecting dust in storage.

[tssandwich.livejournal.com]

Actually not too bad. My second year of law school, I took a class in Accounting that used a textbook from the ordinary Accounting class taught at the undergraduate level. $150. And they "updated" it every year so you couldn't buy last year's edition used. That was, oh, 7 years ago. (Law school books tended to run me $200-$300 a semester) Same book is probably $220 now. Math, Science, and Computer Science are especially egregious. If you have a list, it's worth checking the 'net-- sometimes you can get a great deal at half.com or ebay.

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'll definitely do that next semester.

[entropy156.livejournal.com]

Oh....you haven't yet seen the punchline. That happens when you go to sell them back to the bookstore and those $370 worth of books turns into not enough money to buy lunch.

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

I believe it. I usually keep my textbooks though. I'm a packrat by nature, and the more something cost me, the more loathe I am to give it up again, even if I know it'll never be of any use to me.

[entropy156.livejournal.com]

I fell into the trap exactly one time before I just started keeping them all. However, if my girl's recent experience any indicator, the Web has pretty much changed everything in the used text market. Now you actually stand a good chance of getting your money back out of them if you sell them yourself.

[kakiphony.livejournal.com]

That's about what my books ran every semester at the Rock. In law school it was between $500 and $600 a semester

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

Well, you lawyers make it up again by robbing others, right? ;-)

[kakiphony.livejournal.com]

Umm...No. I made 28,000 last year.

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

HAh! next thing you'll be telling me is that law school was nothing like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2HYJgM0gZw).

books

[mathdoc-keeper.livejournal.com]

what's your math book? i may have a review copy that i could give you.

love,
patty

Re: books

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

"College Algebra", fifth edition, by David Cohen.

[blue-chicory.livejournal.com]

Doesn't GI cover books? Voc Rehab does...

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

With GI Bill, you just get a check every month, regardless of what your actual expenses were.

[http://users.livejournal.com/little_e_/]

I've paid about as much for a single class's worth of books...