Finshed all my University enrollment !!
 

OK..

So i went to orientation week today, and i found out how much my fucking textbooks are going to cost for the first semester.

$450 fucking dollars.. And next semester is even worse. And thats just for the compulsary reading. There are a tonne of other little books i need to either buy or borrow from the library.

I wish i had of had 4 weeks warning as to how much they were gunna cost.. I was thinking like $200 max, but boy was i WRONG !!

hehe

Just thought i'd vent in a public forum !!


Big Nath

If you get new ones that they will still use next semester, you can usually sell them back for a decent price at the end of the semester.

Well yeh man, they're like $80 a pop.

Yeah.. I figured that..

I think thats the way im gunna have to travel.

Yeah these ones are like $125, $125, $104.95 and $99.95

GRRR

hehe

don't buy the books, you'll never end up reading any of it, just go to class and take good notes

Nah im gunna ace the course.. I need the books !!

I wanna just go in swinging and nail all the exams/pracs/assignments

So im gunna need em.

Maybe i should beg for the money on gfy hehe


Big Nath

What are you studying?

thank god I am done.

looking for some donations? lol

take a look at amazon, you can find the majority of books most US universities and colleges use (not sure about australia). I remember i paid $130 for a damn math book and amazon had it for almost 1/3rd of the price.

Another popular alternative is to buy 'em from some other student that just finished the same course.

That's exactly what I was thinking!

Dude, you should start up a good book buying, trading and selling racket near campus. Pay a buck or two more for books than the stores are buying them back at, and then sell them for a couple bucks less then they would resell them at. It's still huge money.

So then the University would lose out on it's textbook profits and raise tuition...

Everyone else is, ask for a fuckin boob job at the same time too!

welcome to college :thumbsup

pay 500 dollars for books, sell them back for $75-125 at the end of the semester..

someone else then buys them next semester for $450.

get used to being ass raped.

then one day you'll realize a lot of your books you don't even use, because the professor is friends with the guy who wrote it, or gets some sort of kickback for making you buy it :)

A lot of campus book stores aren't owned by the university, there is usually a private bookstore or two that kills students with textbook prices. The school and the private bookstores aren't the losers here, the students are.

try picking some used copies of the books off amazon, half, ect...that's what I used to do...save some major change:2 cents: