Rug Burn Junky on 13/5/2010 at 02:38
While I know that you're overly proud of your college education, I was referring to real law books, not whatever entry level text you would have used.
CCCToad on 13/5/2010 at 04:42
Sold them or saved them....
It depends mostly on whether I consider them relevant to future use. For example, my German textbook got ditched immediately: In the future, any language studies I do will be through my free access to Rosetta Stone, and not with the (ineffective) textbook approach American schools use.
On the other hand, I've kept quite a few of my government textbooks. I also plan on keeping my legal research books (they'll come in handy if/when I decide to go for JAG) and all but one of the books we read for Seminar. The exception is Thomas Friedman's book: Why anyone takes the writings of a man who forms his opinions by reading bumper stickers seriously is something I can't figure out.
@Enchantermon: I have to ask to make sure I read that correctly. They're seriously charging you full price to rent the books for the semester?
Enchantermon on 13/5/2010 at 22:48
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Wait, what? You buy the book and then they want it back?
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@Enchantermon: I have to ask to make sure I read that correctly. They're seriously charging you full price to rent the books for the semester?
That's what it seems like. This was me observing people picking up books, not getting one myself, so it's possible that the tuition for those students was adjusted to compensate (since book prices are included in tuition), but by the offhand remarks the students were making to one another, that doesn't seem to be the case.
Also, if it was possible, I would have most assuredly opted out of the college buying my books and would have instead gotten them from eBay or Amazon, which would have certainly been cheaper, but that's not an option, presumably because you need to have your books as soon as the term starts, and the track record of students from other colleges and universities being responsible enough to take care of that themselves ahead of time isn't stellar (at least from what I've observed).
Thief13x on 13/5/2010 at 23:56
I ditched pretty much all of my textbooks (sold em my last semester and made a couple hundred bucks off the ones still worth something) except for the software development stuff like C++, operating systems, etc. Alot of that stuff has actually become quite useful post college.
Quote Posted by Rug Burn Junky
While I know that you're overly proud of your college education, I was referring to real law books, not whatever entry level text you would have used.
I wasn't talking to you
Rug Burn Junky on 14/5/2010 at 04:03
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I wasn't talking to you
You can't be stupid enough to expect people to believe that, can you? I'd ask for a refund on that degree.
Aja on 14/5/2010 at 04:14
RBJ's right, the audience just isn't buying what Thief13x is peddling. But we're riveted nonetheless.
Anyway, here's an anecdote: I sold my engineering textbooks...
AND DROPPED OUT OF ENGINEERING
