Oh higher education...
Jan. 22nd, 2010 07:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athenaltenaWell, the final cost of my textbooks this semester is around $200. To put it in perspective, that's a full week's pay for me at my internship, down the drain in the few minutes it took me to order them.
*twitch*
And that was after I combed the internet for the lowest prices available and fished around for codes to take a few dollars off. But I have all of them ordered now (no way I'm going through the campus bookstore due to the vast difference in price, shipping price and time be damned) so I don't have to think about it anymore until they show up.
I know pretty much anyone who has gone through higher education has probably said some variation of this string of curse words when it comes to textbook costs, but really, really, what in the Sam Hill goddamn freaking fucked up shit is with it?! I love books and education is important, blah blah blah, but it's just ridiculous.
Feels like I just got mugged, and at the end of the semester I'll just get screwed again when they'll rip me off on the buyback price. *headdesk*
*twitch*
And that was after I combed the internet for the lowest prices available and fished around for codes to take a few dollars off. But I have all of them ordered now (no way I'm going through the campus bookstore due to the vast difference in price, shipping price and time be damned) so I don't have to think about it anymore until they show up.
I know pretty much anyone who has gone through higher education has probably said some variation of this string of curse words when it comes to textbook costs, but really, really, what in the Sam Hill goddamn freaking fucked up shit is with it?! I love books and education is important, blah blah blah, but it's just ridiculous.
Feels like I just got mugged, and at the end of the semester I'll just get screwed again when they'll rip me off on the buyback price. *headdesk*
