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So people who had wood floors were avoiding a sea of shit?
I'm an English Lit. major like you so what textbooks are you buying for 200 bucks? Most of my teachers either require cheap novels or the Norton Anthologies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kurosawa Fan
I've never paid more than 50 bucks for a textbook. I never sell my books anyway. I have a closet full of textbooks. I rather keep them in case friends need them.
My advice to people still in school is this. Photocopy short textbooks/binded info when you can or use the copies they keep in the library. If you absolutely need the textbook buy it used and resell it immediately after you're done the course. You tell yourself you might need it later but believe me you'll never look at it again and if you wait too long the edition will become worthless and you can't unload it.
I still have all my textbooks and they are an utter waste of space.
If it's novels you're reading though by them used because you will look at them again.
Go a see what an Accounting text book or Chemistry text book runs for....Quote:
Originally Posted by Watashi
i actually just rented the textbook i needed for philosophy class. it was either rent for $55 on bookrenter, or buy it for $110ish somewhere used and get $65ish back when i go to resell it. i'd rather take the smaller hit up front.
it doesn't help that four of my five classes are using books that were published in 2012. the used copies aren't much cheaper than the new ones. at least my psych book will be cheap. and yeah, i can tell i'll never touch any of these books again after december.
I generally avoided textbooks. They're outrageously expensive (especially in Canada), and for science and math courses, usually lectures contained everything necessary. People tend to think they're needed more than they really are.
For philosophy courses the texts were more useful, and I was actually interested in reading them, but in that case they were always either ordinary books (i.e., not 'textbooks') or ring-bound collections assembled by the professor, both of which were fairly cheap.
This.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kurosawa Fan
Plus Amazon sells "international softcover editions" that are a quarter of the cost.
That $200 was combined for all of my classes, not just one. It usually comes to around $200 for all classes by using half.com and Amazon Marketplace.Quote:
Originally Posted by Watashi
As for not selling your books, that's crazy talk. I've kept my lit anthologies because I want to be a professor and, especially with grad school coming up, it'll be helpful to still have all of that material at my fingertips, but everything else has been sold immediately after my classes finish.
I agree with K-Fan. I'm over ten years out of college and I have a few school books I still use on occasion, and another book - my calc book - that I keep around as a reminder of how much that class fucking sucked and how glad I am to never have to take a class like it again.
Right now it's in the boiler room, propping up the corner of a metal shelf. Right next to it is the litter box, so it has a nice film of kitty dust on it. Fitting.
I still have and use my literature textbooks as well as, like, my Usage dictionary, etc.
I kept a lot of books for a long time but have culled over the years as I realized I wasn't going to go back and do things (apply theatrical make-up, teach, etc.)
By the way, my theatrical make-up class might be the single most fun class I took in college. It was awesome.
I kept some film, language, and poetry/lit texts. Everything else got the resell treatment.
Ah, New York.
http://i.imgur.com/UCfmD.jpg
It's sad to admit, but I feel scornful towards overly romantic, sentimental people.
Even I find that note charming.
if i was ever on the receiving end of a note like that (i wouldn't be, but bear with me) i think i would be really weirded out. it just seems like something rather personal to be plastering all over the city. especially if i only met you once on a bus. it sucks that you lost the number, but geez. *calls number, pretends to be sofia*
and yeah, i'm trying to avoid buying textbooks as often as possible, but there is a lot of reading in my philosophy class and we have graded assignments that are in the book. also, my math class requires purchasing an $84 e-textbook to have access to the site where he posts the homework.
Days when I'm interested in killing time on Match Cut are most frequently days when there's not a lot of action on Match Cut.
Let's discuss Sylvester Stallone's mom and Breaking Bad's narrative faults. Those two subjects seem to get people talking. :P
I've stayed out of the Breaking Bad thread because I've only seen the first three episodes and am on the fence about continuing. Apparently it suffers faults. Good to keep my expectations in check. Everyone I know IRL loves it. Everyone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irish
I have only ever met one person who dislikes Breaking Bad. He was a crazy drunk.
I feel like texting subway guy and asking if he found her.
I'm through two seasons of Breaking Bad and I'm not sure I care much for it. The end of season two was ridiculously groan-inducing. I find the show as a whole equal parts exciting and dull, and think there are too frequently character inconsistencies, or perhaps better stated, absences of logic in characters who seemed to be very logical (pretty much limited to Skylar and Walt). I'm not sure I'm going to continue with the show.
Sorry to clutter this thread, but I've been staying away from the show's thread in the fear of being spoiled.
There's faults in Breaking Bad?
There are elements to the third season that are very good (mostly around Jesse). If you see the third, you're gonna want to see the fourth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kurosawa Fan
The stuff you're noticing never really goes away, but there's enough good moments and interesting choices to carry you through.
Of course. It's certainly no CougarTown or Home Improvement.Quote:
Originally Posted by Watashi
Good to know. Pretty sure my wife wants to continue, so I'll likely stick around for season three. Unlike Mad Men, which after two failed attempts to complete season one, I've officially given up on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irish