College textbooks are gonna bankrupt me

[Urca]

ah so im getting my books thursday, then gonna go stake out where all my classes are... i wanted to badger the financial aid dept, but it wont get my paperwork in any faster

 

[medicalmaryjane]

well hypothetically speaking i work at a call center so i could get EI (canadian unemployment) if you get fired or quit from a call center its easy to get ei, i always put away 50$ into savings i mean it could be bad, but i live i enjoy my days off, i dont like being stuck at work allt he time but who does? and when im done college ill have a career!

hopefully. i graduated college and i had a career for a while, it was boring as well. now i work from home and i love it but i may start working again at some point.

 

[Urca]

so got an email from financial aid yesterday, and the only way they will let me do work experience for them is if i volunteer for an organization and have been at the organization for a few months by the time i apply. fuck that, i need money

 

[HellaBlunts]

some schools allow a 300-500 dollar loan through the school that you have to pay back by the end of the semester. i did that for 2 years lol, worked out, and in 2 years i spent over 2 grand on books because my school likes to stay updated on books

 

[Urca]

lol i guess mine are fairly cheap, at 370.05

 

[brandon.]

lol i guess mine are fairly cheap, at 370.05

Man that's expensive. When I was actually into the whole college thing my most expensive book was $150 and it was 1,350 pages.

 

[Urca]

ah so today, after my mom gets back from a meeting, she's taking me down to the bookstore at the school to get my books, then off to the art supllies store so i can pick up a canvas for the painting i commissioned from a friend

 

[dam612]

lol i guess mine are fairly cheap, at 370.05

one of my bio textbooks cost ~275.00 i think you made out just fine....all my text books average 150-250, even used.

 

[Urca]

well i did get kinda lucky by only taking elective courses, not staples like math, english. All those classes were full. I did end up with a history class, a language class, a science class, and a political science class. not too bad, and for most classes the books are fairly cheap. Its the geography class that is the budget drainer

 

[Urca]

FUCK MY LIFE! God damn it, they fucking tacked on 70 extra dollars in store, so instead of it being 370, it was 440. Now all i have left in disposable money is 9.57. Wtf man!

 

[brandon.]

FUCK MY LIFE! God damn it, they fucking tacked on 70 extra dollars in store, so instead of it being 370, it was 440. Now all i have left in disposable money is 9.57. Wtf man!

What was the 70 for?

 

[dam612]

What was the 70 for?

"college fees" probably haha i hate that crap, its all just a big scam, as if they dont have enough money

 

[woobystein]

Have you considered not going to college? There are other ways to learn.

 

[DelSlow]

What are you shooting for career-wise? Or are you just taking a bunch of random classes just because?

It's really easy to burn money if you take classes that mean nothing later on.

But you already know that

 

[brandon.]

"college fees" probably haha i hate that crap, its all just a big scam, as if they dont have enough money

Seriously. College is the biggest scam in this country.

 

[Urca]

idk how the 70 extra came into play, im guessing that the online price was different from the instore price

 

[brandon.]

idk how the 70 extra came into play, im guessing that the online price was different from the instore price

man that's some bullshit. What a fucking scam. It's like they put some sort of tax because you inconvenienced them by having their employee ring it up. I'd of smacked the dude ringing it up in the face with whatever you bought.

 

[ANC]

I believe amazon is starting to rent out text books... might want to look into that.