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Textbooks... this is a racket. The book is written by the guy teaching the class, costs $130, and is chock-full of research done by last year's class, who weren't paid anything for their contribution. And don't you go tryin to buy anything less than the most current edition, because they're all full of errors. What kinda shit is that? You're allowed to fuck up your book so much that it takes 8 subsequent versions to get it all sorted out, but I screw up one thing on calculating return on net operating assets, and it's a meltdown...


I haven't a ipod yet, but I've figured out how to get around it. The pc's here have itunes on them. I bought a 256meg flash drive, loaded a few albums onto it at home, and then I plug it in here and drop the songs into itunes. Then I just use the same pc everytime, and it saves my settings... knows where those songs were last time, and I don't move them. Plug in some headphones, and bada bing.


Anyone know alot about 10k statements? Balance sheets? Financial statement mumbo jumbo? God this shit is foreign to me.


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The textbook thing pissed me off too.

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I openly am not buying anything I can get away with not owning. I refuse to help float the bloated textbook market.

It's funny, though - on ebay, there are chinese knock-offs for like 1/4 the price, in paperback format, cheap quality paper, etc. God bless global capitolism.

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one of my professors tried to pull this but his book went out of print so he just gave it to us as pdfs.


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My classes met for the first time yesterday.

I didn't manage to strike up a conversation with anyone except a gorgeous eurobabe from Luxembourg who's parents are obviously massively wealthy.

So basically I don't really need/want anyone else to talk to me now when I'm brunching with Miss Schlesser.

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so do you just, like, hang out at grainger all day? i would come stalk you, but i'm afraid of business students.


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My classes met for the first time yesterday.

I didn't manage to strike up a conversation with anyone except a gorgeous eurobabe from Luxembourg who's parents are obviously massively wealthy.

So basically I don't really need/want anyone else to talk to me now when I'm brunching with Miss Schlesser.


Cue up some Pulp, Darin.

"She came from Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge, she studied sculpture at St. Martin's College, that;s where I...caught her eye"

Hang in there Cap'n when you get out of there you will be ready to be a Master of the Universe. Big Shoulder Padded Double Breasted Suits, and Shoe Lifts, here you come.

(Anyone who know Ky find it damn near hilarious that this dude is gonna be some kind of Fortune 500 rat racer?!?)

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I feel like Matthew McConohay(sp/) in Dazed and Confused.... "That's what I love bout dem college girls....I get older; they stay the same age....heh heh heh"


beat me to it....


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Gosh, I remember the good old days, when textbooks were a ripoff at only 30, 45 or 55 dollars...

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I keep flirting with the notion of writing a thesis and going for my PhD. My girlfriend would probably dump me, since I already owe 40K for my previous two academic degrees.
I have to walk by UNL campus everyday to work and home. It was quite disturbing when they Greek Rush and all the girls from my girlfriends house stopped me so they could talk to me. It really freaks me out that their new recruits are a decade younger than me, but that is what happens when you date someone seven years younger than you.


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fickerson Wrote:
so do you just, like, hang out at grainger all day? i would come stalk you, but i'm afraid of business students.


I live here. And you should be scared of it... I am. I hide way up in my center's private lounge all day, mostly doing massive amounts of homework. Downstairs gets downright...crowded. I went to nuke yesterday's leftover Chipotle at 12:20, and there was a line of 10 people waiting for it, so I gave up and ate cold burrito. Blech.

I have turned into some sort of cranky old codger. I now fear / detest undergrads. They talk too loud, they look too young, and they're all taller than me. They're also so damn perky. Tone it down, dammit.


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so do you just, like, hang out at grainger all day? i would come stalk you, but i'm afraid of business students.


I have turned into some sort of cranky old codger. I now fear / detest undergrads. They talk too loud, they look too young, and they're all taller than me. They're also so damn perky. Tone it down, dammit.


agreed. i'm pretty sure i'm none of those things, which is why, as a 24 year old super super senior, i no longer consider myself an undergrad. it's more like i'm in some state of academic limbo/purgatory.


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so do you just, like, hang out at grainger all day? i would come stalk you, but i'm afraid of business students.


I have turned into some sort of cranky old codger. I now fear / detest undergrads. They talk too loud, they look too young, and they're all taller than me. They're also so damn perky. Tone it down, dammit.


agreed. i'm pretty sure i'm none of those things, which is why, as a 24 year old super super senior, i no longer consider myself an undergrad. it's more like i'm in some state of academic limbo/purgatory.


When that day comes for you, as it must indeed come for 'bout all of us, where you look at the moving throng of 19-yr-olds on campus sidewalks and something within you shrieks and begs you to run away and get a beer somewhere dark and quiet, you've gotten "old." Something just changes. They used to be "us," and now they're 'them."


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That day came for me 10 months after I graduated. I've been back twice since.


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actually i think that day came for me about two years ago, and now i'm just trying to get my degree and the hell out.


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actually i think that day came for me about two years ago, and now i'm just trying to get my degree and the hell out.


on the same boat. however with working f/t, it's taking me forever. i'm 25, and seeing all these little 18-19 yr. olds, ugh. makes me feel old.

oh, and i don't even want to get start on textbooks. i haven't bought mine yet. i'm so horrible, it's already like the 3rd-4th week of school. oops.

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I worked at the University Bookstore for a while after I got my MA. It was pretty fun to watch kids whine and plead with you when you told them all you could give them back for their $120 Chemistry or Calculus book was like $40 of even better was when they chose not to buy back the Spanish 100 bundles that sold for like $85 to $100.

I stopped buying textbooks from school bookstores after my first semester of grad school. I took two core seminars the following semester that required me to read a book a week, and wasn't about to spend a minimum of $30 a book for something like 32 books. Half.com saved me a ton.


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i didn't buy the textbook for a few classes and think i ended up with a B in each. and i never liked when professors used their own textbook, but you can imagine my surprise when i discovered that my father had written the study and teacher's guides to one of my textbooks. he then sent me a copy with his notes all over it.


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I worked at the University Bookstore for a while after I got my MA. It was pretty fun to watch kids whine and plead with you when you told them all you could give them back for their $120 Chemistry or Calculus book was like $40 of even better was when they chose not to buy back the Spanish 100 bundles that sold for like $85 to $100.

I stopped buying textbooks from school bookstores after my first semester of grad school. I took two core seminars the following semester that required me to read a book a week, and wasn't about to spend a minimum of $30 a book for something like 32 books. Half.com saved me a ton.


This sounds like a complete scam. My most expensive book (I've not got my Archaeology book list yet) was £15.99 (about $30) and I managed to pick up about half my books in 2nd hand book stores. I'm Arts though, I'll have to check out some of the science textbooks when I'm next in the bookshop.

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I worked at the University Bookstore for a while after I got my MA. It was pretty fun to watch kids whine and plead with you when you told them all you could give them back for their $120 Chemistry or Calculus book was like $40 of even better was when they chose not to buy back the Spanish 100 bundles that sold for like $85 to $100.

I stopped buying textbooks from school bookstores after my first semester of grad school. I took two core seminars the following semester that required me to read a book a week, and wasn't about to spend a minimum of $30 a book for something like 32 books. Half.com saved me a ton.


This sounds like a complete scam. My most expensive book (I've not got my Archaeology book list yet) was £15.99 (about $30) and I managed to pick up about half my books in 2nd hand book stores. I'm Arts though, I'll have to check out some of the science textbooks when I'm next in the bookshop.


yeah science are a bit more expensive. I paid $180 (~$150 US) for one of my physiology text books


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I know some of the book requirements for my music classes got a bit rediculous because not only did we need a theory (or whatever) book, but we also had to buy a specific book of study scores for analysis purposes. And music ain't cheap.
And about getting that 'us vs. them' feeling... I got that around my sophomore year, if only because I was tired of listening to all these upper-middle-class kids whine because their parents weren't giving them enough money to pay rent AND party on, meanwhile, I was working to just pay for food/rent/school/everything. All my friends used to give me crap about not going out with them constantly, because they just didn't get it. I managed to graduate in 5 years because though I was working full-time, I worked at night (11pm-7am), leaving the daytime open for classes. However, I didn't sleep much then...

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