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I had a physics prof for later courses that just handed out photocopies of his notes as a textbook. It was a good time.

If it was in my school the teacher would make us pay DOUBLE for the photocopied versions. (Btw double the expensive price)

Kristyn Dailey 👍

Lucky tho, for my course we had to buy 5 brand new books for a total of 650$.

What - you have a text book for English? I'm British and have never heard of anyone using a textbook for English at any point in the academic process, from elementary school to university level.

@@capitalb5889 bruh ive had english textooks my whole life, even in kindergarten as "phonics."

If you never used English textbooks then what did u carry around in your backpack all day?

@@greenstorm5568 - in my bag I had a folder and notepads. I can remember textbooks for French, history, science, geography etc. But never one for English. The teacher taught and we made notes in our books. For English what do you need a textbook for? I've studied a number of Shakespeare plays, a couple of Dickens, contemporary fiction and much more, but never had a textbook.

@@capitalb5889 Here are a few things you may find in textbooks for native speakers regardless of the language: advanced grammar and syntax rules, descriptions and rules surrounding of various types of texts/writing styles and important concepts in text analysis (such as figures of speech, punctuation, etc.). The textbook may also serve as study material for concepts seen in class, or be used mainly for assignements as they often contain premade exercises. Admittedly, I don't think they're necessary most of the time, but I definitely think they're helpful for students who prefer to review material on their own. They also serve a purpose in ensuring that the curriculum is standardized all across the board and that no students are set behind because of class material that is lacking in one way or another.

Michael Brook I want money backkk. 😫

*east asian student with the whole shelf filled with textbooks and practice books has entered the chat*

As a British graduate watching this, I am shocked by this racket. This is definitely an American thing.

@@capitalb5889 maybe it is idk how Brits have a different college experience

No shit. We students are the buyers, we feel forced to be victims of this con all the time. I am from a non English speaking country and my economics professor once forced us to buy an English economics book that we never used in class. It was useless.

Depends on the school, and the teacher. I teach an Anatomy & Physiology class and I utilize the internet in my classes, share related videos and articles with my students, and encourage them to explore on their own (so long as they don’t get ahead of where we are in class).

@@silvussol8966 not sure if this goes to r/woosh or somewhere else

In my high school we didn't use any textbooks, all the information either came from the teacher or the internet. And now in college we use the online library for free if we need textbooks. I'm glad to finally not have to carry those overpriced bricks.

I think its worth noting that a great deal of misinformation also exists on the internet. Much of of it deliberate and much accidental.

Mine told me to use only school sources. The teacher wasn’t happy when I had supporting info against their premise. School is about being a good student that stays inside the box and jumps through hoops. The compensation is about the persistency not the education.

Erik Arustamyan I just experienced this with my Health class, and I still passed with a B.

I always loved that feeling of getting through a class without buying the book. When I was in college, sometimes I would get the book from someone for free, or find enough information online similar to the subjects of the book, or just find text in the school library. Seriously though, words cannot describe how much I hate the current world education-system for being so archaic with their methods of teaching, philosophies on what is intelligence, status-quo work evaluation, and inefficient investments that just slow the progress in a school. We are wasting potential for both teachers and students with the education-system that exist today.

This is literally the worst thing about college. I also had a science class that made buying the book stupid. In the syllabus on the first day the professor provides a link to get the book for free. Would of been nice to know before the class started.

Erik Arustamyan YES RELATABLE

We had assignments that were designed to specifically make us use the book and cite not the author but the page number exactly to prove we used the book. The questions were still relevant to the course however I looked up the answers later online and there was no difference.

Maybe if you do an unmarketable degree like arts or lit. Most people shouldn't be at college or uni unless they can pay off their student loan ie medics, engineers, CS etc.

Brilliant

That’s deep

That's so incredibly accurate!

@@jamesquinn6662 James, engineering degrees are useless too. There are too many engineers, and not enough jobs for them. Just like with actors, lawyers, and pro athletes. College is only worth it for healthcare jobs.

And 50 k plus dept

I personally don't think it ever was

It's really a concentration camp glorified for societal acceptance. Think about how strict it is with no justifications when students are condemned for just about anything, at the end of every semester, nothing substantial were really provided.

When has it been ?

@@raincloud04 My school too, well, every school.

anonymous required, but no one checks to make sure you have it

@Night shade Indeed, multiple choice for crying out loud! What lazy bastard invented that? Showing possible answers makes an exercise way too easy... I'm sure it's just laziness, makes it easier to grade. But holy fuck, it is horrible for actually learning anything!

@@annekekramer3835 im not american, but do they really cost that much over there?

@@annekekramer3835 lol u have no clue what MCQ exams looks like in my school

@@fanzyGwen Back in 2003, I paid over $800 in books for a semester.

@JASON, I am late to this party but ROGER has a definite point!

None of them are parodies. Horton speaks pure facts.

Yup, we've been hustled

Bruh when I was in High School we had a shelf of textbooks and we never used them and i'm not joking in each class there were textbooks that were related to the subject History was the only exception (obviously)

Like Professor Lockhart from Harry Potter ?

Fuckin hell yeah

Wouldn't that be better? If the professor wrote the book you could read it and not go to any class or if you were to read it and go to class you could even ask the professor which is the author of the book enquiries about it.

Oh my gosh! I had a Psychology of Religon class. The professor wrote his own book on Zen or something, and we were required to purchase it from him, in class, with cash. Hated that class so much! The book had absolutely NOTHING to do with the course.

@@xyannail4678 If you like spending $400 on a book that only the professor can get you and then you literally use 0 times during the course but if you don't buy it they know you didn't and fail you before the semester is over so they can remove you from the class before you figure out that they scammed you out of $400.. Then yes by all means make sure you look for classes where the professor writes the books lol

Glad he didn’t make you buy the new edition. It was probably an extra $100 for that

Love that

Same here in Brazil, those poor US students hahaha

I am American and major in Biology. The majority of the professors at the university don’t write their own PowerPoints. They use ones that are pre-created by the textbook publishers. I have asked to see their notes or have them uploaded to the student portal, and they just simply won’t.

Same here in India too we are aloud to use secondhand books

Yeah... here in the US, educational institutions are about making money, not education. That's why most of the money that gets pumped into American universities goes to amenities, not the actual education departments or professors.

Same in the Netherlands. I have two masters, one in engineering, I think I bought in total 4 books? And those were actually useful books that you still use in your work. The rest were the professors own notes, so you only paid for the cost of copying.

Thanks!

Andrew Johnstone My favorite part of the University I attend is how often professors don't require the text if they know it's pointless. So far the only useless text I had to buy was written by the professor....

Andrew Johnstone *slow clap*

Actually written by the professor? Was it math, or some obscure sociopolitical "theory" they'd invented themself?

You sir are one of the good professors, Thank you for your contribution to society...

One of my favorite professors would frequently "accidentally trip and fall on the copy machine" while holding a textbook relevant to the course and somehow the machine printed out a bunch of copies of the chapter that would be relevant to our discussion... at that point, it'd be wasteful of school resources to NOT give the material to the students for free haha

German universities have agreements with all relevant publishers that let all associates (and yes, students are a part of that) copy any textbook they want.

My philosophy professor does the same thing.

I had a teacher who wrote a textbook once, and put it online for free for the student who took the class. Then we just had to print it out, which doesn't cost all that much.

not all heroes wear capes.

David Brigham That’s what happened in my technology and society class. It was just a collection of tech articles but somehow my professor is credited as the main author.

Not from the US, so I had a different experience, there were none mandatory textbooks for any class of my economics degree, except for one, and that was because the professor wrote the book... Needless to say I just used the one from the library.

Wouldn't it be worse if they didn't use their own text for the class? I TAed for a prof who used his own text, but tossed the money he made from his share of those purchases into a fund for snacks in labs. He liked his book, but didn't want to profit from assigning it.

@@bobbyfeet2240 If the professors really think it necessary, why not make copies available at the school library that way he/she is still published?

Bobby Feet It depends on the Professor. Some will sell their book for a ridiculous price, even if the quality isn’t that great compared to similar books. Luckily I haven’t encountered many of these professors, only one arguably but it was more about the quality of the book not being worth the price versus how expensive it is. Another professor I had was self published, his book was extremely cheap and the book was very interesting and unique.

Coming soon from the creators that brought you Denuvo for video games: Booknuvo for textbooks.

Exactly!!

You left out sci-hub and project Gutenberg

pdfdrive

Bump

yep!

Cracked *THE EARTH IS FLAT*

nope!

Every College Textbook I've purchased in a nutshell.

James Burgess this is why a ton of teachers are allowing older editions from Amazon, or switching to free ebooks. Fuck the system. (the only reason teachers were allowed to do this at my school was because half of them owned a local aerospace company. They worked at the school outta charity. And they had their fingers all over local government, and the property the college branch was on. It's kinda like if the bad guys in stranger​ things were also really cool substitute teachers.)

I think that very well could be the case. That didn't stop me though. When I was studying for my B.S. Degree I frequently used Wikipedia. Wikipedia and a thirty-two volume Encyclopaedia Britannica set I own, were the supporting columns of my high grades on examinations.

*money*

Actually Wikipedia can be a very good source, especially if the article is a "featured article" (Means Wikipedia's editors have verified the information and the article is up to date). Also if you notice, most Wikipedia pages include sources to where they got their info, so you can just use those sources instead.

The paper found that Wikipedia's entries had an overall accuracy rate of 80 percent, whereas the other encyclopedias had an accuracy rate of 95 to 96 percent. In July 2008, a 17-year-old student added an invented nickname to the Wikipedia article coati as a private joke, saying that coatis were also known as "Brazilian aardvarks". The false information lasted for six years in Wikipedia and came to be propagated by hundreds of websites, several newspapers (one of which was later cited as a source in Wikipedia), and even books published by a few university presses.[15][16] 😂😂😂 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia

@@maryamsharkey Wonderfully so, this sort of phenomenon has largely been stopped, much to the disappointment of trolls and meme-seeking attack helicopters. This page also helps prove how popular Wikipedia content is in making textbooks.

That's unfair.

Can’t he get in trouble for that??

I doubt it's technically illegal if he had the courtesy of mentioning all the references in the appendix. You can basically copy & paste anything for as long as you mention the references and don't infringe the copyright(s) in any additional way.

Nick Bright And that's why it's called "if school and college textbooks were honest" It's honest to a highly depressing degree :(

Nick Bright that's what makes it interesting. It's in the title, if ads were honest.

Ha ha ha

That's the joke?

Welcone to Roger Ruins Everthing

Otaku Mouse Belldandy!

Nice to see a fellow fan here.

Otaku Mouse *peers through comment window* ...............we're everywhere... *fades from view* XD

Otaku Mouse they lied to us all

I still make them cum louder.

The same. Factoring in the pell grant from fasfa, some semesters were only a few hundred dollars total.

That's the smart way to do it. Or take college classes in High School

I have friends who wanted the ‘college experience’ ie partying and drinking and went to college 4-5 years. I did my first 2 at a community college. I’m in the green with savings and no college debt. They’re all mostly still not working in their fields paying off loan debt.

I'm currently taking classes online from a respected online college and am also saving butloads. All our textbooks are online and there's no tuition

community college same thing

Mind-boggling!

The fundamentals of computer science change very little. Sure, it's silly to use what sounds like a 1970s operating systems book but, for example, a lot of the theory at the level that's taught in undergrad classes hasn't changed much since the 1970s.

@@debesys6306 Certainly the point about testing floppies vs 8-track tape is ridiculous. But most of what was in that book was probably still relevant today. Just like how physics is a science that is advancing hugely, but most of what you'll find in a general physics textbook has been known for 100+ years.

​​@@debesys6306t's not though. The core of computer science is the same as the 70s. The modern CPU is more complex and multilayered and has more registers and has far faster links to RAM and power off storage, but at its core it's still an 8 bit CPU dumping data onto an 8 track. The same physical problems and optimisation issues exist in modern computers as existed in old ones. A lot of CompSci is about understanding what computers are, and most of modern computing is about hiding that under abstraction. Under the abstraction, the 086 with tapes model still works perfectly fine. Further, in order to understand the advances since the 80s you need to understand what the 80s actually had in them. CompSci is understanding how computers came about and what they are and that is close to impossible to teach without starting at the basics - which necessitates study of fundamental computing.

It’s the old “C” book, isn’t it.

*around exam time all the books gone*

@@dutchik5107 the thing is, students kinda aren't allowed to borrow them plus they have powerpoint presentations they send in class group chats

@@brettshair3151 wait... what?

@@sinabrand5244 which part? The one where we are kinda not allowed to borrow the books? The educational ones, I mean. I don't know either.

@@brettshair3151 yeah, I was just thinking what the use of a library is, if you're not allowed to borrow the books.. I mean, isn't that the original use of a library?! 😅

Library+smartphone+photocopier.. Just in case 😂

Wisdom - for the Kings

Meanwhile libraries are being shut down or defunded. I wonder why...

@@royms2000 that's when you know you have a great professor

Congratulations you broke the law

These videos need more attention

Greed isn't a problem. Profit attracts competition in a real free market. You have to have referees calling fouls when they occur.

Makes you wonder how many death threats and blackmails they've accumulated over this Series.

@@stoiclefty just cause they dont show sources doesnt mean its not true or made up. a quick google search can easily show you that its real and alot of this show be already known too unless if keep yourself oblivious.......

@@stoiclefty Seriously, we don't need several revisions to Algebra 1 books. My junior high school had books that had to be updated THAT YEAR to a subject that literally hasn't changed since the 1930's when they were translated into modern American English. Worse yet, we have updated revisions on literature, literally books that are famous for being old, yet "modern" revisions are sold in college bookstores for $50.

College students are too self-indulgent, sheltered, and dependent on electronics to understand camaraderie anymore. The cutoff was ppl born after 1993. They have no social skills.

@@TheorizingWithBen THATS ME YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

Me Talking Yeah just apply a sweeping generalization to millions of people. As if your base internal image of the middle class, blue haired, starbucks coffee drinking millennial posting moral outrage on their iPhone actually captures what a college campus is like today. And for the record, I have never seen a culture so vane, infantilized and self-gratifying as the youth culture of the 90s. You guys grew up in a booming economy, we reached adolescence in one of the worst economic crashes in history. You're sheltered

+Ezra X Mullins Well you would certainly benefit from the NSA/CIA technology since evidently you didn't pass the fourth grade

Yeah what they charge for textbooks are insane.

However that lesson is false it isn't the amount of money any group has is the amount of power. Money isn't always power. I suggest you read the book Atlas Shrugged or at least watch the movies

Grant Armbruster ah, yes, read that book by the notoriously pretentious author that a video game called bioshock was able to make fun of for being full of shit

@@ineedmoresleep3728 a) I wasn't talking to you. B) not an argument.

Grant Armbruster a) you shouted into the internet void and b) don’t get salty just because the void answered

@@ineedmoresleep3728 I replied directly to one person's comment

NotoriousNoe That's messed up cuz they could have easily just told u to write down questions and answers for every assignment on a piece of paper.

Ouch, I know I’m only in Highschool and don’t have to pay for books, but my teachers just let me hand in a paper with the answers numbered, or a printed out version. Cause sometimes I leave my workbook in my locker.

NotoriousNoe why didn’t your class just photocopy the assignment page and staple the work to it? Make the copy look ripped if you want

Wow that's crazy smh

That's messed up

😂😂

@First Name Last Name My psych class was like that, and it was literally just a paperback book without a spine. So to "save me the cost" of 10¢ in glue I have to buy a binder...

Ah: DRM old skool style / built in obsolesce. So glad my University libraries had either 5p a sheet photocopying (old days) or 'Scan to multi-page Document' + email (recently).

@John Daedalus Warehouse Management is not easy on Paper

But they sell it for 10% more because "new eddition"

nice thing my school uses those books from 2000.....wait.....

Well, it's a skill that my students didn't have. I didn't expect any original thought but I was hoping they could at least edit out the parts from the text that was outside the scope of the essay. All I received was a downloaded text in its entirety and with original font. And all students used the same website because I told they can work together, i.e share ideas as long as each writes their text individually. 😂

Maybe add a picture or two

They can change a single word and legally call it a new edition. I used to work for one of the major college textbook chains and if there's a way to make a profit, they'll do it...ethical or not.

Reminds me of a class i had to buy a $150 dollar book for. They told us that we needed it to study and pass. But I didn’t buy it. Instead I looked up the information online and it was exactly the same. Only with minor changes so it wouldn’t be noticeable.

@@oakstrong1 I dont want to blame you but teachers like you are the reason why our children are getting dumber... For education there should be very little use of computers except in IT

Super late, but may I ask what the degree was?

Bran Coan 4rd year 5rd year... That shows how unnecessary textbooks really r!

*are

Mr. Parabola I know, I was being sarcastic...

Well I stole your face! (That is a reference to ASDF movie.)

Yup. Though thankfully it only took me an 18 month diploma to learn that lesson.

I had a professor like that but what was better he said no book required, ill just make copies of the shit you need.

I had a prof almost like that and he's fucking amazing

Charlie Maine those are the best. Or the ones that don’t use a textbook AT ALL! They create PDFs and assign work from materials they made.

Mine just had us use a website. It was such a relief not to pay for another $200-$400 textbook.

With you except on the late.

study law. They have made it worse on purpose.

Try studying maths with only ever getting the short explanation.

@@yosemite735 in law they just have to elaborate on every single little detail to avoid ambuguity and loop holes. Even then you still find loop holes and they get patched over time.

@@yosemite735 Truer words have not been spoken

@@klobiforpresident2254 Actual hell

Primary offender here, to my personal experience, is Pearson. The have an online "lab" available for every textbook they sell now. Even better the "lab" is the exact same set of tools that things like Blackboard and Aces, which the school pays for and the students have free accounts for. Pearson is basically charging students for a free service provided by the college while insisting that it'll improve the learning experience........ and schools back it up by making it mandatory to use the Pearson "labs".

The Wiggly Truth I know and it is bullshit

yeah and with these codes you never know before the class starts if they are going to be extremely important to class as in you do assignments in them or you end up not needing to use the online part at all and find that you could have bought that cheaper used book in the first place.

The Wiggly Truth I do use Pearson products including the labs. However, I use it for homework and I use the text every single class. Do I think they need to update the text every two years, absolutely not? Accounting has been the same for hundreds of years.

I hate-hate-hate these! And the professors who make me purchase these access keys and assign going through useless, dumb, degrading quizzes online only for 25% of the grade - I have no words for them.

Pretty sure thats illegal

@@seyamrahman1002 How is that illegal?

@@nogoodgod4915 that's illegal

@@nogoodgod4915 but you can do it (like me) if no one that will sue you comes to know about it

@@seyamrahman1002 it is illegal, but everyone who doesn't have the cash does it in my country. Heck my school even encourages it. There is even a recycle or borrow program. Return the book to the school and the next person can use it.

Coby Arts I know. I don't like that either. They could have just added us on blackboard online for that. smh

w*ley :D

@Rick O'Shay khajit expected nothing better than a tucker avatar named rick.

@Rick O'Shay Kjajit wonders if rick knows he is narcissistic or not, he also wonders if khajit are the only ones who can see subtitles for Lopez.

Except instead of providing a single source that’s probably wrong, this provides no sources at all.

Ee yeah they made me buy books I only ever opened twice I was so pissed off

No it isn't. Adam is a library who imposes his views. Yes, some of what he exposes is true. But the gender pay gap? Bs, it's non-existent anymore.

I had a teacher make us read a chunk of some literary criticism and theory book only to start the class with, "We're not going to go over this because this is not a class in badly translated German." God she thought she was clever. Half the class dropped out and she just thought it was an attendance problem.

Kayla Kemper *flips a burger* would you like some fries with that?

BadBoy_____17 more like working at companies and writing useless crap, but nice attempt...

Kayla Kemper whatever pays the bills Miss.. do you do something you are passionate about on the side?

BadBoy_____17 of course

Kayla Kemper may I ask what it is?

You should ask for the book up front before paying for it and take a picture of the code without buying the book.

and sometimes the code is put inside the book. What I've been doing is just purchasing access codes straight from the publishers website.

I spent $80 for a math code expired within a year

Yeah they're doing it because people are waking up to their scheme. It's how they get you.

Lone Wolf For all of my classes that required an online code (All of them were science classes) the codes were used to access the homework. Purchasing them was mandatory unless you wanted zeros on every assignment

Even in highly specialized field (mine is femtosecond laser) you can learn for free, google scholar is your friend. As of now completing my research, I don't even buy any books. Those books are like the diamond industry-- students are conditioned to think that they "have" to buy the crazy expensive books, otherwise how to you think the publishers make money? Normal folks have no use for them.

@733Rafael could you perhaps explain the msm academic joke?

Yes, but in books it's much better organized. You can't search for a particular study if you don't even know it exists. A coursebook however summarizes a lot of related information for you in one chapter. You can learn in a matter of several minutes what you would otherwise spend days/weeks looking for on your own when all you have is a name of the topic you want to study and no major researchers' names, no special terms, no data on studies, nothing. While the video is funny, it's rather untrue for a lot of coursebooks.

@733Rafael Pretty funny, nation wrecker.

Danny Sullivan even that is available on the internet. But, if you have to find it on the internet, you’re probably not right for those highly specialized fields.

Oh God, I'm sorry. I was a History teacher and I remember those craptastic books.

We stop evolving like crazy when RNA existed.

We r still evolving regardless, if u r talking about evolution from the biological perspective

Not really. It stopped when the government stopped doing the job it was assigned with. The government is the reason why you have student debt, not the corporations. If one corrupts, the other is corrupted. So stop blaming the businesses or even the corporations. They want to maximize their profits. That's their moral duty. The government has the power to put a stop to this insanity and it doesn't do it. That's where you should be mad at.

My professors just used power points and digital textbooks mainly for our assignments. It may be a messed up system but at least there are professors who understand.

At mine the profs just put the content online.... No text books!

lol

Wow

French Man Took me couple of years to learn English. No expenses. Little bit of theory putted into practice. But I know many people who spent around $500 and so to pay for classes and still can’t learn a shit.

@@nurkenrustem6044 Disclaimer: I'm assuming you'd like a native's minor input to help you improve your English a bit. If you don't, then please ignore this comment Your English is overall very good! Based on this brief comment, anyway. I see two mistakes that give you away, one that a less educated native might make and one that has a very foreign feel to it. The one that a native might make is saying "putted". As far as I know, that's never an actual form of put. It's the past tense of putt, but that's a golf term and is pronounced differently. The second would be "still can't learn shit." No "a" necessary As a bonus, "$500 and so" makes no sense, but most people reading that would automatically correct that in their heads to "$500 or so" and assume that it was autocorrect or a mistype. If you said it in speech, though... That would be another story I hope I didn't come off as a dick! Just tryin' to help. If you don't want it, fine. Like I said, please just ignore me

GubbaNubNubDooRahKah Oh, thanks. Very kind of you. Being isolated from native speakers like you, I make minor mistakes often. But what you did is very good and I appreciate it. In the Era of the internet people are ruining the culture of language. Sometimes they can’t even keep the simple basics of grammar. Peace, brother.

@@nurkenrustem6044 Oh, I forgot to mention that the correct form would simply be "put". I know it's confusing when the past tense is the same as present, especially when it's on a case by case basis with each word But I'm glad I could help and that you found it useful. I know I appreciate it when natives help me with my foreign language skills, so I thought I'd extend the same kindness to you. Take care!

they already found a loophole, Now instead of purchasing just the book, you also purchase the homework questions...and the book is of course included. Also, the homework is graded. So if you choose not to buy the book, you automatically lose on a % of your grade. Great stuff huh.

My dad was asked to write chapters for multiple books in his specialty. Books costed heck of a lot and he made almost nothing but publisher made money Good professors write shit not for money but to spread thier knowledge or name

Math teacher here - I know about that

@TheWingsofprey Holy cow! Especially if they taught you syntax!

Yeah in my school there was an "illegal business" of students selling *gasp* their second hand books. If you were caught with one on your desk, you were punished. It was a catholic school...

@@gadlicht4627 are you saying people are supposed to work for free and let others profit off of their hard work?

That's like so true though

Or use that 10% to make a cheaper textbook

I want purssanaly fhhhhhhhhh

Thank you

Or if u r in the subcontinent, get it photocopied and no one gives a damn

@Omar Monajed You're a real lifesaver!

We can learn anything on the internet for free. But we pay for the paper. "Diploma in science" example.

Yet its a scam to pay for a degree printed in Pakistan. Colleges are a scam where they get to screw you and you take it with a smile

Facts

The public education system in America in general is a scam. We're conditioned from a young age to be workers and employees, and if you try to do literally anything else in your life, you're basically excommunicated from everyone you know. "How dare you want to enjoy life and not struggle to pay off a lifetime or a lifetime and a half of financial debt, not have time for your family, and work for someone who treats you like you don't even exist for years on end just so you can retire and have nothing?" It's absolutely rediculous.

@@thedivalovesglitterandglam9428 Yeah, the strangest things are "too greedy". A month or so ago I was trying to network and I mentioned to someone I was talking to that I had a preference for telecommuting. He basically told me I was being a prima-donna. I'm a prima-donna for saying that I prefer to pay for my own office space, light, and heat. It's cheaper for them to have telecommuting workers, and the pandemic proved it's not all that hard to work while telecommuting. Plus, I have a couple disabilities that would make it so I'd be much more productive without wasting all my spoons (energy) on physically commuting. But yeah. Sure. I'm a prima-donna for making it cheaper for my employer and accommodating my disabilities. I really hate capitalism and all of the weird casual ableism that goes with it.

That's it? I paid $120. It was required for my class, but I really only used it to play games.

there's a text based Skyrim for graphing calculators out there

flashdrive, Go Block Dude, GO! But really there's no justification for the price of these calculators. RaspberryPis have better hardware, and even your cheapest smartphone can run a free emulator.

A physical device is good for simple computations and any graphing calculator for $20 will do that just fine. Beyond a certain point it becomes far more efficient to do it in Maple or Mathematica, both are free for students btw.

In 1973, as a college junior, I paid $162 for a calculator that did add, subtract, multiply, divide, square and square-root. It had no memory other than the accumulator. Yes, I'm that old. Now get off my lawn!

Take your revenge: scan it and put it online

Sue you're teacher and bookstore

Moral of the story... you talked too much. The textbook industry is like the mafia, you outed yourself mate.

Take it to that twat n slap her about the head n neck with it

You never wanna say too much.

American reading your post: European reading your post: Exactly! This video was a real eye-opener for me. I never used textbooks apart from a few in the first year and from then on it was either the library or a few academic books (the original work, not a textbook summary). However, I can't really talk for Europeans more widely because the British education system seems to be pretty unique in its early specialisation, but the US system seems infantile.

H Basinhe so in Europe they don’t have so many textbook scams?

@@owenbagwell8997 in europ you dont pay for books(they are books you must buy) but the most books you get from the school. this is so for school how it is for University i dont know. sorry for my bad english

@@owenbagwell8997 - no, there is no textbook scam industry - at least not yet. Some subjects do require textbooks, of course, such as medicine. But most topics, especially humanities, you can get the relevant books from the library. If you are a first year economics student, you would probably want to invest in a good foundation textbook such as Begg (£55 new, about half that second hand), but not much else. For a politics course (for example) I needed to buy (or could have borrowed) John Locke's 'Two Treatise on Government' - I can buy that for less than £4 on Kindle or even paperback. If I wanted additional commentary on it, I could borrow the books or journals from the university library - it currently stocks over 4m printed books. Textbooks are for high school. University students should use academic literature, not textbook summaries.

@@owenbagwell8997 Hey! I can only speak for Germany. In school we didn't buy our normal school books, but we had to give them back at the end of the school year. You only had to pay for them when they were dirty, destroyed or you want to have them. We had to buy some books for us in all the years, for example the "Tafelwerk" (that's a formulary used for maths, biology, physics, chemistry, astronomy from class 5 to12 or 13) or books we read in German. But there were really cheap editions from the publisher "Reclam", who costs mostly less than 5€. At university I studied economics. The only books everybody had to buy were statute books (state and economic laws, because there was often changing within the years, they had to be up to date). All other books were available in the library, often in huge numbers. We had one big book on basics of economics, who was recommended for us to buy. Several professors in several semesters used this book quite heavily, so it was a good investment (costs about 50€). All other books were for you to decide. In all the years at university I probably spent 120€ on books.

a lot of people learn best by practical examples, so this was just a method to ensure majority of students understand the concept of "buy low, sell high" properly (and seeing the results when they fail executing this strategy is a free by-lesson) ;)

Then they call it an investment😂

Uhm, I think you’re doing business wrong

@@bluepeng8895 He mean he is forced to buy a textbook for $400 then after that class he recycled it for $10

They did not mean get high lmao

Not with most of the books in my bookstore. They plastic wrap all of them and once the seal is broken it can not be returned.

Some stores will tell you no

Christina Flinn...then you borrow the textbook from a classmate and then give the textbook back.

HitomiNoRyu And that's why my school's bookstore doesn't allow returns once the book has been unwrapped

Once again, if your book store has that policy, borrow the textbook from a classmate.

Nathan Lee a lot of times you can buy the code separately and get the digital pdf on the internet

I'm not surprised sadly

😂😂😂😂 Only we Otakus can truly define it! 😂😂😂😂

I am a Otaku and seriously, you can just look it up on the Internet. There are plenty of definitions. That's so stupid.

Sociology is mandatory in many colleges for many majors. Its a useless class that many don't need but is forced to pay for and waste time in the class.

Oh crap you invoked the weebs );