Really?

"Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95) 08/28/2015 at 14:12 • Filed to: None

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On top of paying for my class, then needing to buy books for my class, which will probably include an access code which means they’ll cost at least $120. I also need to put down a deposit to get into the classroom. Damn, I only have so much money.

FazeRacer > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/28/2015 at 14:14

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Welcome to college.... It only gets more expensive from here....

atrombs > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/28/2015 at 14:15

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That sucks. You definitely can’t get that from a torrent site.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/28/2015 at 14:15

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Nickel and dime ya

deprecated account > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/28/2015 at 14:15

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CIS?

Azrek > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/28/2015 at 14:16

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Seems normal...I started getting E-books in my last semester. Some actually have the search function so if you are doing Open Book tests it is criminal.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > deprecated account 08/28/2015 at 14:17

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Yeah, and since I’m an MIS major I get to skip over all the standard languages and learn one hyper specialized one.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > Azrek 08/28/2015 at 14:18

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I know some professors that wont let you get the online versions. They claim you cant learn anything from the online ones.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > FazeRacer 08/28/2015 at 14:20

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Hooray...

Yeah, I expected this, I made it out fairly well the last two years. It was only a matter of time before they started to fuck me over.

Azrek > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/28/2015 at 14:21

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“Print is Dead” - Doctor Egon Spengler

ttyymmnn > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/28/2015 at 14:23

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Damn, I only have so much money.

Not any more.

ceanderson920 > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/28/2015 at 14:29

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Putting a deposit down on the fucking classroom is the dumbest shit I have ever heard. Shouldn’t the students tuition cover that kind of stuff?

jariten1781 > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/28/2015 at 14:30

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What on earth is an access code for a book?

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > jariten1781 08/28/2015 at 14:33

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Lots of books have online homework, quizzes, and tests. Many professors are using this so they dont have to grade as much. To get access to the online material you need to buy the code which will come with the book. Minimum you will pay is $120, and the code is one time use, making the book mostly worthless once your done with it.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > ceanderson920 08/28/2015 at 14:35

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You’d think. But apparently not, cause fuck the students.

ceanderson920 > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/28/2015 at 14:38

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jeez well if you feel like sticking it to the man you can sign up for the tuna lawsuit and get $25 from starkist tuna for whatever you want.

For Sweden > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/28/2015 at 14:40

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A CIS course is a course on post-Soviet Eurasian history, right?

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > For Sweden 08/28/2015 at 14:42

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Of course. What else would it be?

Also, that sounds was more interesting than what it actually is...

Birddog > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/28/2015 at 14:44

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That reminds me of my High School/College days. The Instructors would insist that “you wont be able to use calculators all your life.”

Really now??

TractorPillow > ceanderson920 08/28/2015 at 14:45

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It’s some stupid new trend with colleges. Here is mine for just the semester...multiply this by 3 for the year (I took summer school). And its a local, public college. I don’t even know what half of these even mean.

ceanderson920 > TractorPillow 08/28/2015 at 14:46

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Thats nuts, I have only been out of college for 2 years and we didn’t have any of this shit.

TractorPillow > ceanderson920 08/28/2015 at 14:50

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Yep, pretty crazy. I graduated from my undergrad 5 years ago and this is for my master’s, but it’s the same for undergrad students. I can’t complain too much because my undergrad was completely free (minus the 5 year commitment to the Army)

LongbowMkII > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/28/2015 at 14:50

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werd.

I had to pay my school $20 to give them money. /murica

ceanderson920 > TractorPillow 08/28/2015 at 15:01

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They are raping everybody.

tylinol > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/28/2015 at 15:05

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I was pretty lucky that this worked for all of my classes since I went to a smaller university, but after my first semester I started pirating all of my textbooks, or walking into the bookstore and taking high-res photos of that week’s reading and questions. It helped that, being a CSC major, there was less of an expectation for physical textbooks. I saved over $5000 when it was all said and done.

jariten1781 > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/28/2015 at 15:29

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Man, the future sucks. Don’t really understand how that wouldn’t be baked into the tuition...it’s like a sub-fee for the paper to do your quizzes/tests on.

In my day you bought books from the bookstore...or if you were really lucky you knew a foreign student who could pick up next year’s books for you when he went home for the summer for about a tenth the cost (and they were smaller paperbacks so they were less obnoxious to haul around).

Do they have the codes auto installed at the library? We were always able to get any text in use at the school via our library fee so if you were cash strapped you’d just hang out there.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > jariten1781 08/28/2015 at 15:33

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Nope, the codes are linked to your professors account. One time use, your access expires at the end of the semester.

Its bullshit, and you cant do anything about it.

jariten1781 > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/28/2015 at 15:48

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What a bunch of nonsense...do they get kickbacks from it? Also, is this only in CS courses or is this a cross-disciplinary thing?

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > jariten1781 08/28/2015 at 15:52

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The online text books are something happening at just about every campus around the country, not all of them are like this. But I’d say half of the classes I’ve taken so far have had them.

jariten1781 > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/28/2015 at 16:02

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Self-destructing texts defeat the purpose of having a reference. The entire justification for having students purchase text books was that they were immutable and could be carried indefinitely beyond the students time at the institution if they chose. I can understand needing to raise costs to cover a proven, more effective online portion of a course, but everything tied solely to time at the school should be covered by tuition or fees, not cloaked in a book charge.

I wonder if this is a big institutional scheme to keep tuition/fees down to improve their rankings....hrmmm.

Sam > Birddog 08/29/2015 at 00:18

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What happens when your in the middle of the desert with no food, water, or calculator and you need to find the cube root of pi to the 18th power?

deprecated account > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 08/30/2015 at 13:39

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I wasn’t questioning your ability, I just don’t know what the hell CIS is.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > deprecated account 08/30/2015 at 13:44

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Oh...

Its Computer Information Systems.