To: Lou L
associated costs every year I just paid $147 for a 400 page paperback textbook. Paperback. Couldn't believe it.
And of course it's the same text as last year (5th edition oooh), but with a different cover, but have to buy the new one, not the old used one.
RICO I tell you.
10 posted on
05/15/2010 8:38:27 PM PDT by
Domandred
(Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
To: Domandred
Oh, I sympathize. Been there, and done that. It is racketeering, the way "required reading lists" always contain textbooks written by the profs teaching the courses, or "fellow" faculty.
When I finished school, back in the mid-1990's, I paid off my modest student loans in about two years. Now, surely 10 years is the norm...maybe longer.
11 posted on
05/15/2010 8:42:00 PM PDT by
Lou L
(The Senate without a fillibuster is just a 100-member version of the House.)
To: Domandred
Profs get to chose the book list. They can chose their own books, or their friends' books. I can't even remember how many books I bought for classes that I never even opened, and that was at Annapolis.
My father hated that racket so much that he wrote his own book for the astronomy course he taught. It was a paperback and came with a matching workbook for $20.
Another scam universities use these days is they make it almost impossible schedule the classes needed to graduate in four years.
29 posted on
05/15/2010 9:48:19 PM PDT by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: Domandred
Yes, that is one thing my DIL had was a book scholarship, she paid for the rest herself and took as many classes as she could afford each year, it has taken her 8 years but she finished the academic portion this week and has 18 weeks of internship and she’ll be graduating in December with no debt.
30 posted on
05/15/2010 10:02:35 PM PDT by
tiki
(True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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