WHY DO I NEED TEXTBOOKS?

[redbrunja]

I just dropped $150 for my text books for just ONE class and I still need to buy 2 more!!!!!!

I hate feeling like I'm paying for some snotty publisher's brat to go to some pretentious private school where he learns to suck the blood of innocent college students who've never done him any harm.

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[mzminola.livejournal.com]

Ouch. You have my sympathies.

Sidenote: what program does it take to run that disc you gave me?

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I know. when the little 'is this amount okay' popped up on the debit screen, I really wanted to say 'no'.

vlc player. It play a bunch of formats and you can download it for free and legally here:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

[wishforhome.livejournal.com]

The books for one of my classes are gonna cost me $230. Total estimated cost for all of my courses is $600. I feel your pain. I fucking hate textbook publishers. *pout* I need my money for alcohol and corsets and DVDs computer gadgets! Don't they realise this?!

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Do they think I'm made of money? And if I'm going to buy overpriced manga, shouldn't I buy manga I know I'm going to like? (For film + culture class; we're studying Japanese culture and anime.)

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

I recall spending over $100 on one textbook for a class. It was out-of-date less than two months into the term, and we had to go to the website for accurate information.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

What class was that for? What book?

(And did you burn the teacher at the stake?)

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

IT class. Something about routers. It was one of those classes where, if you just follow the instructions, you'll do well, but still have no idea what the actual point is.

No, no -- burning at the stake is reserved for the teacher who tried to claim I needed to learn to type all over again because I have a nasty habit of -gasp!- using the backspace key. And that I needed to buy a hundred-dollar typing textbook for her class, as I couldn't opt out. Even though I'd earned the credit the previous year. And technically opted out because I knew the stuff.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

WTF? Aren't you supposed to use the backspace key?

IT class sounds like the complete nadir of fun.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

No, no -- you need to get it perfectly right the first time. Use of the backspace key says you screwed up.

And even that was better than the time we got a worksheet for the previous version of the software. It confused the hell out of me when the settings on the computer were just off from what the worksheet said it would be. Or when it went through a process automatically.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Ah, so instead of learning how to use a computer, you're supposed to be a computer.

That class sounds insane and frusterating.